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Description: Fundamental review of cementitious grouts and grouting practices. Discusses ingredients, properties, proportioning, mixing, testing, and placing of grouts for more than 25 applications. Grouting applications include masonry walls, grout clean-down, ceramic tile, toppings, underlayments, bonding and repair grout, flowable fill, post-tensioning ducts, column baseplates, machine bases, ground anchors, preplaced and post-placed aggregate concrete, stone masonry restoration, foundation jacking, rock and soil grouting, slurry trenches, railroad track stabilization, demolition grouting, oil well grouting, slabjacking, and subsealing.
Discusses grout consistency, workability and working time, bleeding, setting and hardening, strength, volume change, temperature rise, durability, and permeability and the tests used to measure these properties. Also covers specific equipment and methods for many of the applications described.
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