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  1. #373

    Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Quote Originally Posted by Frenchie35 View Post
    For HelmutVII..........The cement is 27,000 PSI....whatever that is.
    Not trying to be an a**hole, but it is concrete, not "cement". Portland cement is a constituent of concrete. Also, concrete is placed, not "poured". Most people use the terminology that you have used and I have done so many times in the past. Just a little info for you.

    Thanks for all of your efforts on bringing us up to date on the construction at Cajun Field!

  2. Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Quote Originally Posted by stpacronym View Post
    Not trying to be an a**hole, but it is concrete, not "cement". Portland cement is a constituent of concrete. Also, concrete is placed, not "poured". Most people use the terminology that you have used and I have done so many times in the past. Just a little info for you.

    Thanks for all of your efforts on bringing us up to date on the construction at Cajun Field!
    ---Being Correct means something!!!

  3. Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Quote Originally Posted by stpacronym View Post
    Not trying to be an a**hole, but it is concrete, not "cement". Portland cement is a constituent of concrete. Also, concrete is placed, not "poured". Most people use the terminology that you have used and I have done so many times in the past. Just a little info for you.

    Thanks for all of your efforts on bringing us up to date on the construction at Cajun Field!
    Learn something every day I thought it was pourtland cement

  4. #376

    Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Shouldn't we be able to find out cement locally? Portland seems so far away.


  5. #377

    Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Quote Originally Posted by stpacronym View Post
    Not trying to be an a**hole, but it is concrete, not "cement". Portland cement is a constituent of concrete. Also, concrete is placed, not "poured". Most people use the terminology that you have used and I have done so many times in the past. Just a little info for you.

    Thanks for all of your efforts on bringing us up to date on the construction at Cajun Field!
    No problem. I stand corrected. But please help me here. Were they not pouring the concrete?

  6. Ragin' Cajuns Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    It certainly flowed. I doubt you could lift it and place it without it being in a container.


  7. Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Quote Originally Posted by CajunEXPRESS View Post
    It certainly flowed. I doubt you could lift it and place it without it being in a container.
    This is like "runs aren't points" in baseball.

  8. #380

    Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Quote Originally Posted by Frenchie35 View Post
    No problem. I stand corrected. But please help me here. Were they not pouring the concrete?
    I get what you are saying and I am not saying you are technically incorrect. Civil Engineers refer to it as "placing" concrete.

  9. #381

    Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Correct terminology is "Concrete Placement" I think you will find that through out my previous posts that is the term that I used. Frenchie - I think you may have misunderstood the foreman, I'm thinking it's 3700 psi not 37,000 psi concrete. 3,700 is out of the ordinary but it can happen. (most common is 3,000, 3, 500, 3,800 and 4,000 psi concrete)

    Cement is indeed the glue that holds the sand, gravel matrix together. It was first discovered by the ancient Romans (see http://www.romanconcrete.com/romanconcrete.htm) The first cement was a mixture of materials one of which was a Pozzolan ash that they discovered would hold together after it got wet. The proportions of the mixture were lost after the fall of the Roman Empire. It was rediscovered after work done by an Englishman near the Village of Portland England and it has been known, ever since, as Portland Cement. (the above is an abbreviated Cliff Notes version). Anything that aids in the cementing process using Portland Cement (like fly ash, or silica fume) is called a Pozzalith.

    Anything that holds individual pieces together is a cement. An asphalt road is held together with asphaltic cement. The sand and gravel are the same its just held together with asphalt instead of Portland cement. Asphaltic Concrete was discovered by a Scotsman named MacAdam. That's where the term "Tar Mac" came from.


  10. Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Love it.


  11. #383

    Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Those ancient Romans ... ya gotta love em.


  12. #384

    Default Re: Construction video 5/13/2014 @ 4:30 PM

    Quote Originally Posted by HelmutVII View Post
    Correct terminology is "Concrete Placement" I think you will find that through out my previous posts that is the term that I used. Frenchie - I think you may have misunderstood the foreman, I'm thinking it's 3700 psi not 37,000 psi concrete. 3,700 is out of the ordinary but it can happen. (most common is 3,000, 3, 500, 3,800 and 4,000 psi concrete)

    Cement is indeed the glue that holds the sand, gravel matrix together. It was first discovered by the ancient Romans (see http://www.romanconcrete.com/romanconcrete.htm) The first cement was a mixture of materials one of which was a Pozzolan ash that they discovered would hold together after it got wet. The proportions of the mixture were lost after the fall of the Roman Empire. It was rediscovered after work done by an Englishman near the Village of Portland England and it has been known, ever since, as Portland Cement. (the above is an abbreviated Cliff Notes version). Anything that aids in the cementing process using Portland Cement (like fly ash, or silica fume) is called a Pozzalith.

    Anything that holds individual pieces together is a cement. An asphalt road is held together with asphaltic cement. The sand and gravel are the same its just held together with asphalt instead of Portland cement. Asphaltic Concrete was discovered by a Scotsman named MacAdam. That's where the term "Tar Mac" came from.
    You wouldn't happen to teach in the civil department at UL?

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