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  2. Water–cement ratio - Wikipedia

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    Often, the concept also refers to the ratio of water to cementitious materials, w/cm. Cementitious materials include cement and supplementary cementitious materials such as ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBFS), fly ash (FA), silica fume (SF), rice husk ash (RHA), metakaolin (MK), and natural pozzolans. Most of supplementary cementitious ...

  3. Asphalt concrete - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt batch mix plant A machine laying asphalt concrete, fed from a dump truck. Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, [1] blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. [2]

  4. Types of concrete - Wikipedia

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    The variable density is normally described in kg per m 3, where regular concrete is 2400 kg/m 3. Variable density can be as low as 300 kg/m 3 , [ 18 ] although at this density it would have no structural integrity at all and would function as a filler or insulation use only.

  5. Concrete - Wikipedia

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    Several tons of bagged cement, about two minutes of output from a 10,000 ton per day cement kiln Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general usage. It is a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar , and many plasters . [ 43 ]

  6. Impervious surface - Wikipedia

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    Parking lots are highly impervious.. Impervious surfaces are mainly artificial structures—such as pavements (roads, sidewalks, driveways and parking lots, as well as industrial areas such as airports, ports and logistics and distribution centres, all of which use considerable paved areas) that are covered by water-resistant materials such as asphalt, concrete, brick, stone—and rooftops.

  7. Gypsum concrete - Wikipedia

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    Gypsum concrete is lightweight and fire-resistant. A 1.5-inch slab of gypsum concrete weighs 13 pounds per square foot versus 18 pounds per square foot for regular concrete. [10] Even though gypsum concrete weighs less, it still has the same compressive strength as regular concrete, based on its application as underlayment or top coat flooring ...

  8. Mortar (masonry) - Wikipedia

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    Mortar holding weathered bricks. Mortar is a workable paste which hardens to bind building blocks such as stones, bricks, and concrete masonry units, to fill and seal the irregular gaps between them, spread the weight of them evenly, and sometimes to add decorative colours or patterns to masonry walls.

  9. Road surface - Wikipedia

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    During the summer this part of the road will be hot and combined with a bus’s high ground pressure will compress and deform part of the road. Due to the lower elevation from the driveway, a large portion of the buses weight leans on one wheel causing damage to the road. Despite the repairs, you can see the patch is already damaged.