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Dr.S.Girish
Professor, Dept of Civil Engg, BMSCE.
OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION
WORKABILITY OF CONCRETE
RHEOLOGY OF CONCRETE
RHEOMETERS
CONCLUDING REMARKS
REFERENCES
WORKABILITY
Empirical Tests
WORKABILITY-DRAW BACKS
Widely used test is Slump test. Which is directly related to
workability and is an empirical test.
Two concrete with same Slump may flow differently & have different
workability.
Concrete rheology is science which deals with fresh properties of concrete and
concrete it consider as fluid.
Two parameters are namely; yield stress and plastic viscosity are needed to
describe flow properties.
The Bingham model is most commonly used to represent concrete flow due to it simplicity
and its ability to represent the majority of concrete mixtures.
RHEOLOGY MEASUREMENT
To determine the Bingham parameters, there are two possibilities:
The fresh concrete is sheared at high rate before the Rheological test. Then, the
shear rate is decreased gradually and the stress is measured. The relationship
between the stress and shear rate is plotted and the intercept at zero-shear
rate is the yield stress, while the slope is the plastic viscosity.
The stress applied to the material is increased slowly and the shear rate is
measured. When the stress is high enough the concrete will start flowing. The
point at which the materials flow is the yield stress and the slope of the curve
above this stress is the plastic viscosity.
FACTORS INFLUENCING
CONCRETE RHEOLOGY
RHEOMETERS
To measure the liquid, suspension or slurry flows in response to applied
forces is measuring by a devices called as Rheometer.
Tattersall for the first time carried out systematic investigations in this field in
1973 and he suggested the use of a 'Two-point test.
BML
BTRHEOM
CEMAGREF-IMG
IBB
THE TWO-POINT RHEOMETER
FIGURE(A) SHOWS THE CONTEC BML (B) INNER AND OUTER CYLINDER
Software program, ADRHEO, operates the device, records data, and computes
the rheological parameters.
THE IBB RHEOMETER