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Question: What are shrinkage-compensating expansive cement and concrete?
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Question: Determining the cause of a crack
Question: Heat of hydration and the importance of controlling it
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Question: What is mass concrete?
Question: Using core strength to calculate compressive strength of an existing structure
Question: Maximum temperature limits for hot-weather concreting
Question: Does additional curing improve the properties of concrete in other ways than in strength?
Question: What is curing?
Question: Water Curing Mass Concrete Structures
Question: How can the effectiveness of curing be measured?
Question: How is the shrinkage of concrete determined?
Question: The effect of joints on the durability of concrete structures
Question: What steps are taken in the repair of concrete structures?
Question: Is chiseled concrete a common technique for facades
Question: Strength of concrete
Question: The importance of proper drainage
Question: Are any temperature limitations necessary in curing concrete in hot weather?
Question: What fibers are used in concrete?
Question: Reinforced concrete vs. prestressed concrete
Question: Protecting against excessive expansion due to alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR)
Question: Do we always need to repair cracked concrete?
Question: What is D-cracking?
Question: Specialty admixtures
Question: Can the heat liberated by the hydrating cement be relied on to give protection during cold weather?
Question: Pozzolans in mass concrete
Question: The effect of pozzolans on shrinkage
Question: Characteristics of aggregate affecting concrete strength
Question: Minimum Dimension of a Structure
Question: Definition of “hot cement”
Question: Is there any measure of the completeness or adequacy of curing?
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Question: Temperature limits for mass concrete
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