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Question: What nominal maximum sizes of aggregate are recommended?
Question: What is involved in the process of mixture proportioning?
Question: The ultimate objective in proportioning concrete
Question: The basic approach used in the ACI mixture proportioning method
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Question: Are the proportions of ingredients inter-related to produce concrete of a given workability?
Question: Aggregate blending
Question: What range in slump is recommended for various types of construction?
Question: Increasing the load capacity of a slab-on-ground using an overlay
Question: Air content common limits
Question: The effect of aggregate shape on concrete strength
Question: The effect of aggregate grading on concrete strength
Question: Why is the workability of concrete important?
Question: How is workability measured and specified?
Question: What correction should be made for absorbed water and surface water carried by the aggregates?
Question: Mixture design and strength submittals
Question: Placement of welded wire reinforcement (WWR) in a slab-on-ground
Question: Pozzolans in mass concrete
Question: What water-cementitious material ratio should be used for a particular job when strength require...
Question: If time is not available for preliminary tests, how can the desired strengths be ensured?
Question: What allowance should be made for strengths where air-entrained concrete is to be used?
Question: What is the basis of proportioning to ensure concrete of the desired weather resistance?
Question: What is the purpose of finishing and texturing concrete surfaces?
Question: When can the finishing procedure be started?
Question: What is curing?
Question: What is meant by properly cured concrete?
Question: Is there any measure of the completeness or adequacy of curing?
Question: What methods are commonly used to ensure sufficient moisture for curing concrete?
Question: How does the temperature influence curing?
Question: When is steam curing used?
Question: How can the effectiveness of curing be measured?
Question: What is the importance of curing on strength?
Question: When does the slump test provide a useful indication of workability?
Question: What test is available to evaluate the behavior of no-slump concrete as it is vibrated?
Question: The effect of joints on the durability of concrete structures
Question: The effect of pozzolans on water demand
Question: Can you use any source of water as mixing water?
Question: Why is combined aggregate grading used?
Question: Protecting against excessive expansion due to alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR)
Question: How is the water-cementitious material ratio (w/cm) expressed?
Question: Do we always need to repair cracked concrete?
Question: What tests are necessary or desirable in making a series of trial mixtures to arrive at a suitab...
Question: Can trial mixtures be made with full-size batches at the start of a job?
Question: Air tests for non-air-entrained concrete
Question: Size of test cylinder
Question: Definition of concrete, hydraulic cement, mortar, and grout
Question: The importance of proper drainage
Question: What is a pozzolan?
Question: What does a pozzolan do in the concrete?
Question: Using and handling pozzolans
Question: Importance of using pozzolans in hydraulic and environmental structures
Question: Are pozzolans all alike?
Question: The effect of pozzolans on shrinkage
Question: The effect of pozzolans on freezing and thawing resistance
Question: What is a natural pozzolan?
Question: What are blended cements?
Question: Improving the abrasion resistance of concrete
Question: Is storing the specimens on the structure always a satisfactory procedure for estimating in-plac...
Question: How is the resistance to alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR) determined?
Question: How is the shrinkage of concrete determined?
Question: Curling, shrinkage, and w/cm
Question: Popouts or popoffs?
Question: Vapor barriers
Question: Curing and curling of concrete slabs over vapor retarders
Question: Acceptable concrete cracking
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