What is Super-hydrophobic Cement? Super-hydrophobic cement, which is also known as luminescent cement, is produced by modifying the structure of cement. It absorbs and reflects lights which makes it an environmentally friendly material and an alternative to street lighting. Super-hydrophobic ...
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Hydrogel- How it Works, Applications, and Advantages
Rosiak and Yoshii define hydrogel as a crosslinked three-dimensional polymeric network structure, which can absorb and retain considerable amounts of water. Hydrogel has the ability to cool a room down and that is why it is placed between wall panels. ...
Low Carbon Concrete and Its Advantages
Low carbon concrete has attracted significant attention due to the amount of CO2 that traditional concrete emits. It is demonstrated that, cement have biggest contribution in CO2 emission by 75% of total CO2 emits by concrete, and aggregate is the ...
Concrete Homes Design Ideas and Benefits
Concrete homes are obviously constructed from concrete, but it is also possible to use other materials in combination with concrete such as steel, fibre, plastic, glass, wood and other improved materials. Today, concrete is being widely used for the construction ...
Chain Survey – Procedure, Applicability, Survey Stations and Their Selection
Chain surveying is considered to be the simplest method of surveying in which measurements are taken in the field and other supplementary works like plotting calculations are carried out in office. The measurements in chain surveying are linear- angular measurements ...
15 TV Shows Every Civil Engineer Should Watch
If you are a budding Civil Engineer or a construction enthusiast and you have the urge to really understand what you are getting into, and visual representations of complicated and sophisticated information serve better to your brain cells, this article ...
Frost Heave – How It Works, Effects, and Prevention
Frost heave is an upward swelling of soil due to the formation of ice during freezing conditions. It usually occurs when the freezing temperature penetrates the soil and turns the present moisture into ice thereby generating an upward movement in ...
Swirl Finish Concrete – Construction, Practical Considerations and Applications
Swirl finish is one of the most exceptional types of concrete finish that is generated by smearing the concrete surface in a uniformly overlapping circular pattern. It provides an aesthetically pleasing appearance to the concrete surface and complements a structure ...
Burnished Concrete – Types, Uses and Benefits
Burnished concrete is conventional concrete trowelled more than twice to make the concrete surface hard-wearing with a durable finish and a great surface lustre. It is majorly used in residential and commercial buildings. In this article, we discuss the work ...
Experimental Verification of Bernoulli’s Theorem
The procedure of Laboratory experiment to verify Bernoulli’s theorem, required apparatus and calculations to be done are explained in this article. Bernoulli’s theorem states – For a continuous, steady and frictionless flow the total head (which is the sum of ...