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CE-803 Concrete Materials and Technology
Campus MCE
Programs PG
Session Fall Semester 2016
Course Title Concrete Materials and Technology
Course Code CE-803
Credit Hours 3-0
Pre-Requisutes None
Course Objectives The objective of the course is to introduce latest concepts in techniques applied in the modern concrete engineering. The course address very useful issues necessary for placements of HPC/SSC and their durability
Detail Content
  • Introduction to cement phases
  • Different between Conventional concrete and Modern Concrete, Systems
  • Chemical and Mineral Admixtures
  • Powder particle characterization and surface morphology
  • Hydration Kinetics, Dormant Period, Study of Hydration Kinetics/Products
  • Electrical Resistivity, Pulse Velocity and Vicat as hydration indicators
  • Deleterious Mechanism of Concrete
  • Flow, Strength, Durability and Microstructure studies of Modern Concrete
  • Stability of Concrete, Dimensional Stability
  • Shrinkage Compensating Concrete
  • High Early Strength Grout Systems
  • Setting and Hardening Phases of Concrete
Text/Ref Books
  • Brittle matrix Composites by A.M.Brandt, Materials, Mechanical properties and performance, 2nd ed.
  • ACI Committee reports/Rilem Committee reports & workshop proceedings.
  • ACI materials Journal ACI Manual of Concrete Practice 2005.
  • US Elsevier Journals dealing with cement based systems
  • High performance Mortars & Concretes using Secondary Raw Materials, PhD Thesis by Syed Ali Rizwan of Technical University Freiberg Germany.
  • L ea’s Chemistry of Chemistry of Cements and Concretes ACI 318-08
Time Schedule Fall 2015
Faculty/Resource Person Lt Col Dr Muhammad Maqbool Sadiq PhD in Structural Engineering