ONE MANS DEFINITION OF CONCRETE

CONCRETE IS A HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM OF SOLID, DISCRETE, GRADIENTLY SIZED, INORGANIC MINERAL AGGREGATES, USUALLY PLUTONIC (FELDSPATHO-SILICACEOUS OR FERRO-MAGNESIAN) OR SEDIMENTARY-CALCAREOUS IN ORIGINS, EMBEDDED IN A MATRIX COMPOUNDED OF SYNTHESIZED POLY-BASIC ALKALINE AND ALKALOIDAL SILICATES HELD IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION AND CO-PRECIPITATE DISPERSION WITH OTHER AMPHOTERIC OXIDES, THIS MATRIC BEING ORIGINALLY CAPABLE OF PROGRESSIVE DISSOLUTION, HYDRATION, REPRECIPITATION, GELATIN AND SOLIDIFICATION THROUGH A CONTINUOUS AND COEXISTENT SERIES OF CRYSTALLINE, AMORPHOUS, COLLOIDAL AND CRYPTO-CRYSTALLINE STATES AND ULTIMATELY SUBJECT TO THERMOALLOTRIOMORPHIC ALTERATION, THE SYSTEM WHEN FIRST CONJOINED BEING TRANSIENTLY PLASTIC DURING WHICH STAGE IT IS IMPRESSED TO A PREDETERMINED FORM INTO WHICH IT FINALLY CONSOLIDATES, THUS PROVIDING A STRUCTURE RELATIVELY IMPERMEABLE AND WITH USEFUL CAPACITY TO TRANSMIT TENSILE, COMPRESSIVE AND SHEAR STRESSES. THIS DEFINITION WAS CONTRIBUTED BY JOE V. WILLIAMS OF TORONTO, DISTRICT ENGINEER OF THE PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 78, No 8, P 23
• Publication Date: 1966-8

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Engineering and Contract Record
  • Publisher: Southam Business Publications

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete; Definitions
• Subject Areas: Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00212335
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 2 1994 12:00AM