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?
No one ever believes
these float full of water!!
I know!!
There is a Student Competition that Requires This
The American Society of Civil Engineers: National Concrete Canoe Competition
Over 250 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
University of NevadaReno
The Florida Institute of Technology
Enough with the Fluff
Concrete or CementCement 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
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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 bindersFly Ash from the coal power plantsSlag from the steel making process
Light Weight Aggregates Sand Size Like Making Popcorn!!Cook Regular Rocks at over 2000 oF and they PopLivelightPerlite used in potting soil
And the right amount of waterPlus special Chemical Admixtures
That make it easier to work withSlow the chemical reaction and increase strength
And you get CONCRETE not cement or as they say here in the South Seament!!
The Bottom Line is we have fun
Notes:Concrete Densities Average 150 pcf = 23.5 kN/m3
Water is 62.4 pcf or 1 Mg/m3
Saltwater is 64.2 pcf or 1.03 Mg/m3
Today’s Ready Mix Trucks Carry 10 cubic yards