What Is Plinth? A plinth is a base or platform that supports a plinth, column, or structure. Structurally, the plinth distributes weight and pressure down evenly across a column across a wider space. You can also elevate structures above the […]
BOD and COD: Measures of Water Pollution and Oxygen Demand
What Is BOD? BOD Full Name/ Full Form: Biochemical Oxygen Demand, This measures the amount of dissolved oxygen (DO) required by aerobic organisms to decompose the organic material present in a given water sample at a specified temperature and specified […]
Concrete Admixtures: Types, Applications, Advantages, and Disadvantages
What Is Admixture? Admixture is artificial or natural materials added to concrete, in addition to cement, water, and aggregates, to improve certain properties of concrete during casting, laying, or the service stage. To improve the properties of the concrete needed. […]
Plum Concrete: Composition, Methodology, and Applications
What is Plum Concrete? In mass concrete foundations, boulders of say 150 mm size up to 30% of the total quantity of concrete, are mixed in the wet concrete. This adds to economics and saves heat generation. Such concretes are […]
Prestressed Concrete: Methods and Applications
What Is Prestressed? In ordinary reinforced concrete, tensile stresses by steel alone and compressive stresses are taken up by concrete. This concrete below the neutral axis is ignored since it is weak in tension. Although steel takes up to the […]
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