Assessment of Cement Handling Behaviour For Selected Construction Sites of Bhatbhateni Supermarket
Journal Title: JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH IN CONSTRUCTION AND URBAN ARCHITECTURE - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Cement is one of the most expensive and highly used construction materials. Overall objective of this study is to assess the cement handling behavior of brands available for ongoing construction projects of Bhatbhateni Supermarket at Bhaktapur, Butwal and Biratnagar. Sagarmatha, Shivam and Maruti brands of cements were found to be used in these projects for concreting works.. The average mean of compressive strength of concretes casted at field of Bhaktapur, Biratnagar and Butwal sites for M20 and M25 were 23.74 N/mm2 , 23.20 N/mm2 & 24.50 N/mm2 and 28.34 N/mm2 , 27.33 N/mm2 & 29.29 N/mm2 respectively which was found to be greater than the expected 28 days compressive strength at field conditions in both cases. Therefore, design mix made for M20 and M25 concretes at laboratory under study was found to achieve the strength required by concretes at all sites under case study. It was found that cement sacks have no manufacture date but the analysis of cement handling behavior at sites showed that cements were being consumed at sites within 1 month after arrival from the manufacturer. There was no wastage of cement due to satisfactory storing conditions at warehouse but, the curing methods of concrete were found to be upgraded by applying ponding and wet burlap techniques. Inspection of cement in terms of quality should be done so that cement manufacturers could be compelled to maintain their quality.
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Anjay Kumar Mishra
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