6 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Building materials > Concrete
Concrete
Referring to an artificial, stonelike material used for various structural purposes, that is made from the drying and hardening of cement.
Industry: Building materials
Add a new termContributors in Concrete
Concrete
mass concrete
Building materials; Concrete
Any large volume of concrete cast in place intended to resist applied loads by virtue of mass. Generally a monolithic structure incorporating a low cement factor with a high proportion of large ...
lift-slab construction
Building materials; Concrete
A building method for multi-story site-cast concrete buildings that casts all the slabs in a stack on the ground and then lifts them up the columns and welds them into place.
marl
Building materials; Concrete
A calcareous clay, containing approximately 30 to 65 percent calcium carbonate (05003), found normally in extinct fresh wafer basins, swamps, or bottoms of shallow lakes.
low-lift grouting
Building materials; Concrete
The common and simple method of unifying concrete masonry, in which the wall sections are built to a height of not more than 4" before the cells of the masonry units are filled with grout.
long float
Building materials; Concrete
A concrete finishing float designed to be handled by two men.
lateral force
Building materials; Concrete
A force acting in a generally horizontal direction, such as wind, earthquake, or soil pressure against a foundation wall.
