MANILA, Philippines - There is more to proficiency testing for cement than merely establishing the integrity and reliability of the construction material through laboratory processes, the Cement ...

Payment for additional testing is often a point of contention on many jobsites, even though the ASCC-NRMCA "Checklist for the Concrete Pre-Construction Conference" includes the following questions ...

In January 2002, the American Concrete Institute (ACI) issued a new standard, ACI355.2-01, which prescribed a comprehensive testing program to ascertain design parameters for post-installed adhesive ...

It's hard to imagine a more anticlimactic ending to BP's Gulf of Mexico well disaster than this: watching cement dry. But that's exactly what BP crews were doing Friday as they monitored whether ...

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Accreditation Office (PAO) has welcomed the move by the Cement Manufacturers Association of the Philippine (CeMAP) to set up a proficiency test (PT) program where ...

In this interview, AZoM speaks to Paul Haigh, Product Manager at CARBOLITE, about the QA of raw materials process testing within the cement industry. Can you start by giving our readers an overview of ...

In the summer of 1981 a friend called me to ask if I would be interested in moonlighting to help him install floor sealer for a company in California. Even though I worked 18 hours that day, I decided ...

Over the last two decades, new water-soluble monocyclic aromatic (MA) polymers have been developed: sulfonated phenol–formaldehyde polymer (SPF), aminosulfonate–phenol–formaldehyde polymer (AS) and ...

Segments of printed concrete, made up of cement, sand, and water, were subjected to stress tests under the weight of large, 1 ...