Answer / uday tank

Mix design is the process of determining the ratio of
cement, sand, aggregate and water for any given concert
work

Answer / babar vikram

mix design is the determining the ratio of cement sand
aggregates for getting specified strength

Answer / biswapriya mazumder

mix design unlike nominal mix is the method of fixing the
proportion of the cement,sand, coarse aggregates by certain
equations based on trial and error to get the desired fck
value,where fck value is that value where not less than 5%
of the test results are expected to fall.i have seen this
method being used at a L&T site quality control department.

Answer / k.indumathi

mix design: The choice and proportioning of aggregate,
cement and water to produce a concrete with the required
properties, the essential elements of which are usually
durability and strength.

Answer / santosh

mix design is comonly adopted std. procedure of finding the
mix ratio requred for max. strength of concrete at min.
quantity of material which locally available such as
cement, sand, aggregate & water.

Answer / rk

Concrete mix design is the science of deciding relative
proportion of ingredients of concrete, to achieve the
desired properties/ strength in most economical way.

Answer / harekrishna mishra

Mix design of concrete is the method suggested By IS to
design the proportion of different ingradients of concrete
in order to have desired strength of CC with MINIMUM use of
cement and use of LOcally available materials(fine and
coarse aggregate).

IS code suggests use of mix design for concrete mix more
than M20 grade.

Answer / ae

mixing ratio of cement, sand,water is determine

Answer / sushant s das

Determine Cement quantity required for any required grade
of concret in present working condition that is Quality of
sand, aggregate & weather conditon.
OR
Depending on the condition of weather, quality of sand,
aggregate, water & etc Cement required for required grade
of concret is called Design Mix.

Answer / mohammed jamshil

mix design is the process of determining the relative proportion of concrete ingredients with an objective to attain the minimum required strength and durability as economically as possible.

Why do we not deduct steel volume to find actual volume of concrete in practical as we have studied that,,, actual volume of concrete = volume of column- volume of steel pls explain with reference of IS code?????

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What is specific gravity???

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4 Answers   CDS, HCC, PPL,

What is IS ?

4 Answers  

why does only water ads in concrete?

5 Answers   L&T,

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1 Answers  

Describe the various methods of concrete curing?

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Why nautical mile is different from statute mile?

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what is the lap length for pile reinforcement cage in water piling

2 Answers