DR VITO CORLEONE COSENTINO MAKES CONCRETE FLOAT Mafia
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DR. “VITO CORLEONE" COSENTINO MAKES CONCRETE FLOAT Mafia Not Happy !!
Floating Concrete? Is Someone Swimming with Da Fishes? ? Sir your Concrete Canoe Floats Full of Water? ?
No Way How Can Italians DO Such A Thing? I know!! No one ever believes these float full of water!!
There is a Student Competition that Requires This The American Society of Civil Engineers: National Concrete Canoe Competition Over 300 Universities Compete in 20 regions A National Champion is Crowned Each Year
National Concrete Canoe Champions during 22 year history U C Berkeley Michigan State Alabama Huntsville South Dakota School of Mines Clemson University Wisconsin The Florida Institute of Technology
Enough with the Fluff Concrete or Cement is the Glue Is Type 1 for you? ? Or Maybe Types 2 3, 4 or 5? Concrete contains Rocks (Aggregates of various sizes) Now Your Talkin’ that’s how we maka da shoes http: //www. nextag. com/concrete-shoes/search-html
Mixing For your Shoes A One and a Two and a Three One shovel of Cement Two a Shovel of da Sand Three a Shovel of the Gravel And just the right amount of Water Would this be a Volume Based Mix or a Weight Based Mix? Remember the saying “The whole 9 yards!!”
Mixing for Our Canoes Cement Plus Other binders Fly Ash from the coal power plants Slag from the steel making process Light Weight Aggregates Sand Size Like Making Popcorn!! Cook Regular Rocks at over 2000 o. F and they Pop Livelight Perlite used in potting soil And the right amount of water Plus special Chemical Admixtures That make it easier to work with Slow the chemical reaction and increase strength And you get CONCRETE not cement or as they say here in the South “Sea”ment!!
The Bottom Line is we have fun
Testing Concrete Compression Tension Bending
Construction Specifications Ultimate Compressive Strength Units Force divided by area Pounds per square inch psi Kilonewtons per square meter k. N/m 2 or kilopascals k. Pa. What area is used?
Typical Concrete Strengths Sidewalk = 3000 psi = 21, 000 k. Pa Interstate Highway = 5000 psi = 35, 000 k. Pa High-rise Buildings = 10, 000 psi = 70, 000 k. Pa
Notes: Concrete Densities Average 150 pcf = 23. 5 k. N/m 3 Water is 62. 4 pcf or 1 Mg/m 3 Saltwater is 64. 2 pcf or 1. 03 Mg/m 3 Today’s Ready Mix Trucks Carry 10 cubic yards
