Lightweight Concrete
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Lightweight Concrete
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Lightweight Concrete:
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Light weight concrete is made with a lightweight coarse aggregate and sometime a portion or entire fine aggregate may be lightweight instead of normal aggregates.
Light weight concrete has unit weight of 14.4-18.4 kN/m3 while normal concrete has unit weight of 22.5-24kN/m3.
light weight aggregate used in light weight concrete are typically expanded shale clay or shale materials that have been fired in rotary kiln to develop porous structure Air cooled blast furnace Slag are also used as light weight aggregate.
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