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Placement of Concrete in Hot Weather
Eleuterio Fuentes, P.E.
Overview
This
course will briefly discuss the challenges of placing concrete in hot, dry, and
windy weather. The placement of durable, quality concrete is a task that
requires experience and a commitment to quality. Hot weather imposes additional
obstacles that must be understood and addressed. Once the negative impact of
hot weather on concrete is understood, procedures can be implemented to
neutralize the effect of these difficult conditions. The discussion in this
course will focus on the problems caused by hot weather, the preparation
necessary for a successful placement, the placement procedures, and the
different types of curing methods that can be used successfully.
This
course is useful to architects, engineers, Quality Control personnel, Government
Quality Assurance representatives, representatives of the owner and other
parties interested in the placement of quality concrete.
The student must take a
multiple-choice quiz consisting of ten (10) questions at the end of this course
to earn PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and
skills:
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Effect of hot
weather on concrete
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Preparation for
placement of concrete in hot weather and placement procedures to ensure
quality concrete
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Types of curing methods and their strengths and weaknesses
Course
Click on the following PDF attachment to review
the course Placement of Concrete in Hot Weather
prior to taking a quiz for credit.
Placement of Concrete in Hot Weather (76 KB)
Click on the link below to access Figure 13-8*
"Effect of concrete and air temperatures, relative humidity, and wind velocity
on rate of evaporation of surface moisture from concrete" from the publication
Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures, 14th Edition published by the
Portland Cement Association. This figure is referenced in the course text.
Figure 13-8 may be accessed and viewed on your computer screen, but security
settings within the file prevent editing or printing of the file.
Figure 13-8 (99 KB)
*Copyright, 2002, Portland Concrete
Association ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Design and Control of Concrete
Mixtures, 14th Edition is a copyrighted work owned by the Portland Concrete
Association Without advanced written permission from the copyright owner,
no part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form
or by any means, including, without limitation, electronic, optical or
mechanical means (by way of example, and not limitation, photocopying, or
recording by or in an information storage retrieval system). For
information on permission to copy material exceeding fair use, please contact
the Portland Concrete Association.
Figure 13-8 from the
Design and Control of Concrete
Mixtures, 14th Edition is reproduced and made available on this website by
permission of the Portland Concrete Association.
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