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  2. Shotcrete - Wikipedia

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    Shotcrete machines are available which control the complete process and make it very fast and easy. Manual and mechanical methods are used for the wet spraying process but wet sprayed concrete is traditionally applied by machine. The high spray outputs and large cross-sections require the work to be mechanised.

  3. Gunite - Wikipedia

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    Gunite may refer to: Shotcrete#Shotcrete vs. gunite, concrete or mortar conveyed through a hose; Gunite (horse), an American Thoroughbred race horse

  4. Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility - Wikipedia

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    Concrete was poured continually and workers had to remove wooden shoring as concrete filled. They injected pressurized grout to pre-stress the concrete by filling void space between the concrete and the gunite. When finished, the tanks were tested by slowly filling them with water while laborers in boats inspected the entire surface area of the ...

  5. Oregon City Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The narrow width causes problems for large vehicles that cross it, often requiring traffic going in the other direction to stop. TriMet buses ceased using the bridge in 2009. This bridge is the only Oregon bridge to be encased in gunite, which protects it from corrosive sulfur dioxide emissions from paper mills south of the bridge.

  6. Gunite (horse) - Wikipedia

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    Gunite is a dark bay or brown colt that was bred in Kentucky by his owner Winchell Thoroughbreds.Gunite is the progeny of Three Chimneys Farm's freshman sire Gun Runner, the 2017 American Horse of the Year and six-time Grade 1 winner, who was trained by Steven M. Asmussen for Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys.

  7. Cross-reference - Wikipedia

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    The term cross-reference (abbreviation: xref) can refer to either: . An instance within a document which refers to related information elsewhere in the same document. In both printed and online dictionaries cross-references are important because they form a network structure of relations existing between different parts of data, dictionary-internal as well as dictionary external.

  8. William Jolly Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The steelwork was encased in gunite, a sprayed dry mix concrete, the process of which was based on an invention in the United States at turn of century to spray plaster of paris in the reconstruction of skeletons of prehistoric animals. Between 1904 and 1909 this method was modified to spray sand and cement using a machine known as a Cement- Gun.

  9. Portland cement - Wikipedia

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    Bags of portland cement wrapped and stacked on a pallet. Blue Circle Southern Cement works near Berrima, New South Wales, Australia.. Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout.