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and Decorative Concrete: This section highlights design possibilities
and discusses considerations for selecting color and texture for
architectural and decorative concrete.
Autoclaved Cellular Concrete,
or ACC was invented in Sweden in the early 1900s. The lightweight,
high-strength building material now used on every continent.
Concrete Masonry has undergone
significant change within the last decade, becoming a more cost-effective,
energy-efficient building product than ever.
Controlled Low-Strength
Material is a cement-based product often used as a backfill
High-Strength Concrete:
In the last two decades concrete has gotten stronger and better
for high-rise construction.
Insulating Concrete Forms:
These builder-friendly wall systems have recently made a mark on
the housing industry of North America.
Concrete Pavement:
This section describes the four types of concrete pavements and
details the preparation, placement, and curing of concrete pavements.
Concrete Pipe provides
water for people and farmlands or carries away sewage and drains
land.
Precast Concrete
became more common after World War II.
Prestressed Concrete:
Patented in San Francisco in 1886, prestressed concrete made its
impact on the United States construction industry almost 75 years
later.
Ready-Mixed Concrete
accounts for nearly three-fourths of all concrete used annually.
Roller-Compacted Concrete:
Initially developed for use by the forestry industry in Canada,
roller-compacted concrete is a durable paving and dam material that
is placed using asphalt construction equipment.
Shotcrete is a mortar or
concrete that is dispensed from a hose onto a surface at a high
velocity.
Soil-Cement: Developed
in 1935, this product is often used as a paving base, mixing cement
with compacted soil.
Tilt-Up Concrete
is a construction method where walls are cast in a horizontal position
and then tilted into a vertical position and moved into place with
a mobile crane.
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