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18 Documents associated with: concrete tests
  1 Analysis of the NLK Project EA 2860 EcoSmart Concrete Project Metakaolin Pre-Feasibility Study
    Document Type: Technical Report
    Publication Date: December 2, 2002
Author(s): Jean Pera
    This report is an appendix to the EcoSmart Concrete Project's Metakaolin Study. The report presents INSA's technical, economical, and environmental analysis of the report prepared for EcoSmart by NLK consultants.

The report concludes that NLK's arguments are acceptable but have to be verified by a pilot-scale production of metakaolin in a mul...[more]
    See Also: concrete tests, costs, metakaolin
  2 Appendix A: Sample Concrete Test Results [Courtyard on Bear and Cave Avenue Housing Projects]
    Document Type: Case Study Report
    Publication Date: February 2005
Author(s): McIntosh Lalani Engineering Ltd.
    Sample concrete test reports for the Courtyard on Bear and Cave Avenue Housing projects, Banff, AB....[more]
    See Also: concrete tests
  3 C94/C94M-04 Standard Specification for Ready-Mixed Concrete
    Document Type: Website
    Publication Date:
    This specification covers ready-mixed concrete manufactured and delivered to a purchaser in a freshly mixed and unhardened state as hereinafter specified. Requirements for quality of concrete shall be either as hereinafter specified or as specified by the purchaser. In any case where the requirements of the purchaser differ from these in this speci...[more]
    See Also: blended cement, concrete tests, hydraulic cement, ready-mixed concrete, standards
  4 Courtyard on Bear and Cave Avenue Housing - Banff, AB Case Study: End of Construction Follow-up Report
    Document Type: Case Study Report
    Publication Date: February 2005
Author(s): Kristy Neish, E.I.T., Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd
    This follow up study documents the concrete test results for the Courtyard on Bear project, Banff, AB. The study should be read in conjunction with the original project report for the Courtyard on Bear and Cave Avenue Housing Project, completed in March 2004.

Although similar testing was done on both the Courtyard on Bear and the Cave Avenue...[more]
    See Also: concrete tests, strength development, stripping time
  5 Development of High Volume Flyash Concrete Mixtures for Whistler Conference Centre Renovation
    Document Type: Case Study Report
    Publication Date: November 20, 2003
Author(s): Metro Materials Testing and Engineering Services
    Metro Testing Laboratories Ltd. (MTL) was asked by Task Construction Management to carry out a series of high flyash replacement concrete mixture designs for use on the Whistler Convention Centre. The owners of the building wanted the project to qualify as a "green" project. To this end, MTL carried out tests to determine the compressive strengt...[more]
    See Also: accelerating admixtures, air-entrained concrete, concrete tests, fly ash
  6 Evaluation of GVRD Municipal Incinerator Ash as a Supplementary Cementing Material in Concrete
    Document Type: Technical Report
    Publication Date: March 15, 2004
    AMEC Earth and Environment was contracted to determine the feasibility of GVRD municipal incinerator ash (MIA) as an SCM. The study involves three phases. The first phase provides an independent critical review of publicly available information; the next two phases involve a laboratory program designed to determine the pozzolanic potential of MIA f...[more]
    See Also: concrete tests, incinerator ash, leaching, strength development
  7 Evaluation of the Potential Use of the Superplasticizer ALPHALITH FT30LV with Canadian Cements
    Document Type: Technical Report
    Publication Date: September 2003
Author(s): Benoit Fournier, Pierre-Claver Nkinamubanzi, CANMET Energy Technology Centre, Natural Resources Canada
    ECTechnology, Vancouver, via EcoSmart, provided ICON CANMET with a new superplasticizer produced by Rhein Chemotechnik GmbH, Breitscheid Germany, the ALPHALITH FT30LV, which meets the European standards and certifications for analyzing and testing of its suitability for the Canadian market. The superplasticizer belongs to the family of naphthalene...[more]
    See Also: air content, concrete tests, setting time, superplasticizers
  8 Fly Ash Concrete Trials, Government of Canada Building, Yellowknife NT
    Document Type: Case Study Report
    Publication Date: March 31, 2004
Author(s): EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.
    In the Spring of 2004, Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) will be constructing a new low-rise office building in Yellowknife, NT. EBA Engineering Consultants (EBA) was retained to review the concrete specifications for the project and to complete the laboratory trials to assist in confirming the feasibility of using fly ash to repl...[more]
    See Also: aggregates, availability, concrete tests, setting time, strength development
  9 High Volume Fly Ash Concrete Usage for Skytrain Stations
    Document Type: Case Study Report
    Publication Date: April 2000
Author(s): Robert Schmidt, P.Eng., Paul Fast, P.Eng., Fast + Epp
    This study investigates the implications of using high volume fly ash (hvfa) concrete in skytrain station components, particularly in Brentwood and Gilmour stations in Burnaby. The study provides a strategy to optimize the percentage of fly ash in the concrete without affecting the construction schedule, recommends using a minimum of 50% fly ash in...[more]
    See Also: concrete tests, fly ash, precast concrete, specifications
  10 High Volume Fly Ash System: The Concrete Solution for Sustainable Development
    Document Type: Technical Report
    Publication Date: September 1998
Author(s): Alain Bilodeau, V.M. Malhotra, CANMET Energy Technology Centre, Natural Resources Canada
    Bilodeau and Malhotra presented this paper at the CANMET/ACI International Symposium on Sustainable Development of the Cement and Concrete Industry, Ottawa, Canada, October 21-23, 1998. This paper, partly based on a CANMET publication issued in 1993, gives an overview of the properties of high volume fly ash (hvfa) concrete, including slump, air co...[more]
    See Also: concrete tests, durability, mixture proportioning, strength development, superplasticizers, sustainability
   
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