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      <title>AGGREGATE TRUCK ON-BOARD WEIGHING EXPERIMENT</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Aggregate carriers are concerned that it is difficult to load trucks close to their allowable gross weight while not exceeding the allowable axle weights.  A limited experiment was designed to assess whether a fifth wheel on-board scale could assist the driver of an aggregate truck to determine whether the truck's axle weights conformed to provincial axle weight lae.  The experiment would provide on-board scale system costs, installation and calibration time and accuracy.  The time allowed for the experiment was insufficient to establish long-term reliability of maintenance costs of the scales and no aggregate producer or carrier was prepared to consider redistribution of load in the case where the truck was found to be out of compliance with provincial axle weight law.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 1992 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FIELD CONTROL OF CONCRETE MAKING-A STUDY OF LATE PRACTICE</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[SOME CASES ARE REVIEWED IN WHICH THE ACTUAL CONCRETING OPERATION WAS CAREFULLY CONTROLLED ACCORDING TO SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES. FOUR PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CONCRETE FOR WHICH CONTROL IS NEEDED ARE: STRENGTH, UNIFORMITY, DURABILITY, AND ECONOMY OF MIXTURE. THESE CHARACTERISTICS ARE BRIEFLY REVIEWED AND DISCUSSED. THE FIELD PRACTICES OF SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS IN CHARGE OF CONCRETE WORK OF GREAT MAGNITUDE TAKE FULL COGNIZANCE OF THE EFFECTS OF THE WATER-CEMENT RATIO UPON THE STRENGTH OF CONCRETE AND OF THE SIZE AND GRADING OF PARTICLES ON ECONOMICAL DESIGN. FOR MAXIMUM UNIFORMITY EACH BATCH SHOULD CONTAIN THE SAME ABSOLUTE VOLUMES OF WATER, CEMENT AND AGGREGATES OF UNIFORM GRADING. THE ADVANTAGES OF MEASURING GRANULAR MATERIALS BY WEIGHT ARE BECOMING EXTENSIVELY RECOGNIZED AND THE INUNDATION METHOD FOR MEASURING SAND IS BEING USED. THE METHODS EMPLOYED BY SEVERAL LARGE ORGANIZATIONS ARE REVIEWED. THE COMMITTEE ON ROAD MATERIALS IS OF THE OPINION THAT METHODS OF DESIGN TO YIELD CONCRETE OF DEFINITE STRENGTH SHOULD BE USED. THEY RECOMMEND: (1) MEASUREMENT OF AGGREGATES BY DIRECT WEIGHT, OR INUNDATION WHERE APPLICABLE, (2) REQUIRED ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF WATER, (3) REQUIRED USE OF A DEFINITE AMOUNT OF WATER PER SACK OF CEMENT, AND (4) REQUIRED USE OF AGGREGATES OF CONSTANT GRADING AS PREDETERMINED.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 1971 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CONTROL OF MATERIALS AND MIXTURES FOR CONCRETE FOR PAVEMENTS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[THE METHODS USED BY THE IOWA HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO CONSTRUCT 700 MILES OF CONCRETE PAVEMENT IN 1928 TO INSURE CONCRETE OF UNIFORM QUALITY CONTAINING A QUANTITY OF CEMENT WITHIN ONE PERCENT OF THAT ESTIMATED IN THE SPECIFICATIONS ARE DESCRIBED. METHODS FOR FIELD DETERMINATION OF THE FACTORS NEEDED FOR MAINTANING ACCURATE MEASUREMENT OF MATERIALS, SUCH AS SPECIFIC GRAVITY, CONTAINED MOISTURE, AND ABSORPTION OF AGGREGATES, ARE GIVEN. METHODS AND APPLIANCES FOR WEIGHING AGGREGATES AND MEASURING WATER ARE DISCUSSED. RESULTS ARE EVALUATED BY MEANS OF TRANSVERSE TESTS MADE IN THE FIELD, COMPRESSIVE TESTS OF CYLINDERS AND CORES AND DAILY RECORDS OF QUANTITIES OF MATERIALS USED. THE AVERAGE OVER-RUN IN CEMENT USED FOR ALL JOBS WAS 1.2 PERCENT AND 52 PERCENT OF THE ENTIRE MILEAGE WAS WITHIN 1.0 PERCENT OF THE ESTIMATED QUANTITY OF CEMENT. AS THESE FIGURES INCLUDE THE OVER-RUNS DUE TO EXTRA DEPTH OF SLAB, THE OBJECTIVE WAS SUBSTANTIALLY ATTAINED. THE STRENGTH TESTS SHOW MARKED IMPROVEMENT IN UNIFORMITY. RANGE IN AVERAGE STRENGTH OF JOBS-COMPRESSION AGE 28 DAYS - MAXIMUM 5,404, AVERAGE 4,538, MINIMUM 3,732 LBS PER SQUARE INCH; TRANSVERSE AGE 10 DAYS, MAXIMUM 725, AVERAGE 600, MINIMUM 454 LBS. PER SQUARE INCH. THE MEAN VARIATION FROM THE AVERAGE OF STRENGTHS OF INDIVIDUAL SPECIMENS FOR THE VARIOUS JOBS RANGED FROM 4.6 PERCENT TO 17.8 PERCENT FOR TRANSVERSE AND FROM 4.7 PERCENT TO 17.2 PERCENT FOR COMPRESSION TESTS. THESE FIGURES ARE  SHOWN IN COMPARISON WITH CORRESPONDING DATA FROM EARLIER TESTS UNDER MUCH LESS COMPLETE METHODS OF CONTROL. EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS AND KINDS OF AGGREGATE, AND RELATIONS BETWEEN TRANSVERSE AND CRUSHING STRENGTHS, AS INDICATED BY THESE DATA, ARE DISCUSSED.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 1971 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A NEW METHOD FOR MEASURING THE UNIT WEIGHT OF AGGREGATES</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[THE NEW MEASURING METHOD DEVELOPED AT THE STATE INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL RESEARCH IN FINLAND IS DESCRIBED. THE MEASUREMENT IS CARRIED OUT BY MEANS OF A DEVICE CONSISTING OF TWO VESSELS FILLED WITH SAMPLE AGGREGATE, WHICH ARE DROPPED A GIVEN NUMBER OF TIMES FROM A HEIGHT OF 3 CM. ON TO A HARD BASE TO COMPACT THE AGGREGATE. THE HEIGHT OF THE AGGREGATE IN THE VESSEL IS THEN ASSESSED BY A MEASURING PIN LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF THE VESSEL. AS THE VESSEL DIMENSIONS ARE CONSTANT THE VOLUME OF THE SAMPLE AND ITS UNIT WEIGHT CAN THEN BE CALCULATED. /RRL/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 1970 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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