http://concretepixels.com A worldwide web journal of a concrete bug Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:03:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Most of the construction projects big or small are estimating the in-place compressive strength of the newly cast structures using the cubes or cylinder specimens taken at the time of casting. It is "widely believed" that the specimens taken on the same casting have the same strength as the structure ... http://concretepixels.com/2008/12/03/estimating-the-in-place-compressive-strength-of-concrete/ I was in Sweden last weekend and my day there was spoiled by the winter's wrath. On the day I traveled through an overnight cruise accross the Baltic sea there was a forecast of snowstorm with up to 30+ m/s wind. Due to the urgency of my mission there I ... http://concretepixels.com/2008/11/30/the-winters-wrath-spoiled-my-day-in-stockholm/ Finally I got the real golf cup "the Areva 2008 Golf Cup " held at Rauma Golf Club, Finland on September 22-26, 2008. It's still fresh in our minds the famous slogan of Obama "YES WE CAN" after which "YES WE DID" was added after he won the US presidential ... http://concretepixels.com/2008/11/22/yes-i-can-and-i-did-it-areva-golf-champion-2008/ The long, cold, dark & wet winter has once again come to our place, Finland. It's long as this will last until March next year. Cold as expected but we still have not experienced though the real winter in this place at minus 30+. Last year was only about minus ... http://concretepixels.com/2008/11/20/its-winter-time/ Concrete when produced requires a certain measure of what we call workability. Until today I doubt if there is really a general agreement on the definition of workability. This is the reason why there are so many methods in measuring it like the slump, flow, vebee, compaction index, etc. Despite ... http://concretepixels.com/2008/11/18/a-high-tech-concrete-workability-measurement/ I've been grounded for almost a month now at home due to an appendix operation. Three days before the operation I feel an abdominal discomfort that leads me to take at first medicine for diarrhea. The next day, it does not get any better and I thought perhaps my gastric ... http://concretepixels.com/2008/11/05/im-out-and-grounded/ 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 ... http://concretepixels.com/2008/10/30/the-splitting-tensile-strength-of-concrete/ [caption id="attachment_284" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Areva NP OL3 Concrete Experts"][/caption] 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 ... http://concretepixels.com/2008/10/20/the-anp-ol3-concrete-experts/ 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. ... http://concretepixels.com/2008/10/06/concrete-production-cosmetics/ 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 ... http://concretepixels.com/2008/10/03/dancing-island-of-nias/