Glossary of Terms


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Admixtures_I

Admixtures_II

Aggregates

Aggregate surface area

Aggregate surface area for fine particles

Air Entrainment

Angularity and surface texture of aggregates

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- B -

Ball bearing effect-end

Ball bearing effect-start

Bleeding

Bleeding and its control

Bond failure

Bouge Equations -Oxide analysis

Bouge Equations -Oxide analysis

Bouge Equations-Oxide analysis

Bouge Equations-Oxide analysis

Boundary conditions

Bragg’s Law

Bulk Modulus

 

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Calorimetry Study to evaluate the Hydration of Portland Cement

Causes of Plastic Shrinkage Cracking

Cement Hydration key topics-I

Cement Hydration key topics-II

Characteristics of Hydration of the Cement Compounds-I

Characteristics of Hydration of the Cement Compounds-II

Chemical reactions-I

Chemical reactions-II

Chemical reactions-III

Chemical reactions-IV

Chemical reactions-V

Chemical reactions-VII

Chemical reactions-VIII

Chemical reactions-IIX

Chemical reactions of calcium aluminates

Chemical reactions of calcium aluminates

Closed loop Control test Machine

Closed loop Digital Controlled testing

Closed Loop Tension Test

Closed Loop Test

Composite Materials Approach

Composition of X-ray waves: case 1

Composition of X-ray waves: case2

Compression Test

Compression Test

Compressive Stress Strain

Consequences of creep

Cement constituents

Corrosion Protection

Crack Coalescence

Creep in Concrete

Creep in Concrete

CSH Production

CSH Production

Curing

Curing and Strength Development

Curing and Strength Development

Curing tips

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Diffraction methods

Ductile vs. Brittle

Durability

Durability-Cracking

Durability-internal problems

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- E -

Economy

Effect of Admixtures

Effect of Admixtures

Effect of aggregate size

Effect of aggregate size

Effect of Curing Temperature

Effect of Curing Temperature

Elastic Strain Energy

Example of powder XRD diagram (copper slag).

Examples of planes in cubic system:

Exponential form

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Factors Affecting Concrete Strength

Factors affecting slump

Factors affecting slump

Factors affecting slump-
paste content

Factors Affecting Slump-
Water Content

Factors affecting slump-paste content

Factors Affecting Strength

Failure Modes - important features

Feret's Law, Abram's Law

Flexural Test

Flexural test

Flexural Test

Free Shrinkage

 
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- H -

Hardened Concrete Properties

Heat Of Hydration

Heat Of Hydration

Hooke's Law for Stress Strain Relationship
How to measure Cement Compound Compositions?

Hydration Aspects

Hydration Aspects

Hydration of C3A

Hydration of C3A

Hydration of C3S

Hydration of C3S

Hydration of Cement Phases

Hydration of Cement Phases

Hydration of the Aluminates

Hydration of the Aluminates

Hydration Products

Hydration Products

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- I -

Indirect Tension Test

Instrument description

Interaction between bleeding and evaporation

Internal voids

Interpretation of analytical data

Intrusion-Extrusion Curve

Intrusion-Extrusion Curves
Indirect means of obtaining post peak response from a stiffened frame test
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- K -

Kelvin Model, Series Model, Iso-stress Model

Kelvin Model, Series Model, Iso-stress Model

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Larger particles, less surface area, thicker coating, easy sliding of particles

Laue method

Load Induced Volume Changes

Load Induced Volume Changes

 
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- M -

Macroscopic View of Setting of Portland Cement

Macroscopic View of Setting of Portland Cement

Major constituents of portland cement

Major constituents of portland cement

Materials-Mechanics-Structures Interaction

Maximum Strain Theory 2-D case

Maximum Stress Theory 1-D case

Maximum Stress Theory 2-D case

Mechanical Properties

Mechanism of corrosion

Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP)

Mohr-Coulomb Theory

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Nature of CSH

Nature of CSH

Nature of Water in HCP

Nature of Water in HCP

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Octahedral Shear Theory

Open Loop vs. Closed Loop System

Other Models of Porosity vs. Strength (empty)
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Plane Strain Assumption

Plane Stress Assumption

Plastic Shrinkage Cracking-Remedies

Pore size Distribution

Pore Size Distribution

Pore Structure

Pore Structure

Pore Structure by Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP)

Pore System

Pore System

Porosity and strength

Portland Cement

Post peak response

Powder method

Powder method, model.

Powers’ Model

Powers’ Model

Pre-peak response

Presentation of data for known components

Principal stress

Principal Stresses

Principal stresses

Problem

Properties of fresh concrete

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Qualitative analysis

Qualitative analysis: conclusion

Quantitative XRD

 
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- R -

Rate of heat evolution

Rate of heat evolution

Rate of Hydration of Various Phases

Rate of Hydration of Various Phases

Rebar corrosion

Reducing the friction results in a more uniform state of stress

Resistance to freezing and thawing-Major factors

Restrained shrinkage cracking

Restrained Shrinkage- creates stresses, which may cause cracking

Review

Role of Gypsum in Hydration

Role of Gypsum in Hydration

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Schematic view of setting

Schematic view of setting

Schematics of closed loop tests

Shear Test

Side diagram of surface contraction

Size Effect

Slump Test

Slump Test

Slump test

Slump test results

Smaller particles, more surface area, thinner coating, interlocking of particles

Strength and Curing

Strength development

Strength development

Strength Empirical approach

Stress Strain Curves for Uniaxial Compression

Surface Area

Surface Area & Pore Structure by Gas Adsorption

Surface Tension

 
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Temperature

Temperature effects on curing

Temperature effects on curing

Testing Parameters, End Effect

The Strain Tensor

The stress tensor

Thermogravimetry analysis

Thermogravimetry analysis

Too much evaporation leads to surface cracking

Tresca Theory Max Shear stress Theory

Two parameter models

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- U -

Uniaxial Tension Stress Strain

Uniaxial Test

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- V -

Voigt Model- Parallel Model Iso strain model

Voigt Model- Parallel Model Iso strain model

Volume Dilatation

Von-Mises Theory

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Water

Water accumulation on surface

water cement ratio

Wetting angle less than 90,

Work done in moving up the layer by surface tension is:

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X-Ray Diffraction

X-Ray Diffraction

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 2-D Principal Stresses

2-D stress Transformation

3-D stress transformation

 
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Revised: June 07, 1999.
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