Course description:
The course is designed to provide an in depth understanding of Production, types, properties and uses of cementitious materials and aggregate. Fresh and hardened concrete properties, concrete testing, effects of admixtures, and destructive and non-destructive testing of existing concrete structures. Concrete production, transport, casting, compacting, and curing concrete, Design of concrete mixes, durability of concrete, creep and shrinkage of concrete. The laboratory is used for the testing of the aggregates and concrete specimens in accordance with ASTM standards and the ACI code.