ROTORAMA: A 'BLINDING' SUCCESS IN UK?

The Italian built Worthington Rotorama pump is a mobile concrete pump which by means of a rotary valve does not segregate the mix by imposing too severe a pressure gradient on it. Thus because passage through the pump is smooth it can accept an inherently poorer and cheaper concrete. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institution of Civil Engineers

  One Great George Street, Westminster
  London,   United Kingdom  SW1P 3AA
• Authors:
  • Parkinson, J
• Publication Date: 1976-1-29

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 20-21
• Serial:
  • NEW CIVIL ENGINEER
  • Issue Number: 178
  • Publisher: EMAP CONSTRUCT LIMITED
  • ISSN: 0307-7683

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Admixtures; Atmospheric pressure; Cement; Concrete; Concrete mixers; Concrete mixing water; Construction; Equipment; Machine valves; Maintenance equipment; Mechanical analysis; Portable equipment; Pumped concrete; Pumps; Rotation; Sand
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mobile equipment
• Old TRIS Terms: Pressure gradient
• ITRD Terms: 4758: Cement; 4755: Concrete; 3674: Equipment; 4715: Mixing water (concrete); 9060: Portable; 3833: Pumping; 4105: Sand
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00134397
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 16 1976 12:00AM