Concrete Pixels

As I am involved in the splitting tensile strength of concrete in our project, the construction of OL3 Nuclear Power Plant, I have made some research on this subject. There have been so many studies/models made to date inorder to estimate the splitting tensile strength of normal weight concrete from higly respected institutes like ACI,CEB-FIP [...]

I’m so glad to be a part of this international concrete expert team for the pioneering generation III+ nuclear power plant project in Olkiluoto, Finland known as the OL3 Project. It is called OL3 being the 3rd Nuclear Power Plant in this island (Olkiluoto). Our team is composed of Dr. Bernd Schnuetgen from Germany. He [...]

Construction nowadays uses different types of “cosmetics” in producing concrete inorder to achieve concrete properties that the situation demands. These cosmetics that I am refering to are commonly called admixtures. Admixtures are actually materials other than cement or aggregate or water that are added during the production of concrete i.e. before or after mixing. Though [...]

I served as a Consultant with one of the development projects of UNOPS-United Nations Office for Project Services in Indonesia early last year (2007). The project is the reconstruction of hundreds of schools devastated by the 2004 notorious tsunami in Banda Aceh and neighboring areas and the high magnitude earthquake that struck the island of [...]