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    C2-Consistency Cement Paste

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    This document describes a procedure to determine the standard consistency of cement paste. A cement paste is said to have standard consistency when a Vicat apparatus plunger penetrates the paste 6mm from the base. The procedure involves mixing cement and varying amounts of water, then using the Vicat apparatus to measure penetration. Testing found that 29.0% water content produced standard consistency, indicated by a penetration of 6mm. The experiment showed penetration increased with more water, but the fifth test was ignored due to abnormal results.

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    This document describes a procedure to determine the standard consistency of cement paste. A cement paste is said to have standard consistency when a Vicat apparatus plunger penetrates the paste 6mm from the base. The procedure involves mixing cement and varying amounts of water, then using the Vicat apparatus to measure penetration. Testing found that 29.0% water content produced standard consistency, indicated by a penetration of 6mm. The experiment showed penetration increased with more water, but the fifth test was ignored due to abnormal results.

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    This document describes a procedure to determine the standard consistency of cement paste. A cement paste is said to have standard consistency when a Vicat apparatus plunger penetrates the paste 6mm from the base. The procedure involves mixing cement and varying amounts of water, then using the Vicat apparatus to measure penetration. Testing found that 29.0% water content produced standard consistency, indicated by a penetration of 6mm. The experiment showed penetration increased with more water, but the fifth test was ignored due to abnormal results.

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    SAM 4062 CONCRETE LABORATORY

    C6- NORMAL CONSISTENCY CEMENT PASTE

    INTRODUCTION
    The manufacture of cement requires stringent control and a number of test are performed to
    ensure the cement is of the desired quality. One of the tests of the properties is the setting time.
    This test is done on a neat cement paste of a standard consistency. A standard consistency is the
    water content of the paste that will produce the desired consistency of any given cement. The
    water content of the standard paste is expressed as a percentage by mass of the dry cement, the
    usual range of values being between 26 and 33 percent. A cement paste is said to have a standard
    consistency when a plunger of the Vicat’s apparatus penetrates the paste to a point 6 ± 1mm
    from the base of the mould.

    OBJECTIVE
    To determine the water content to produce standard consistency of cement paste.

    APPARATUS
    1) Balance
    2) 200ml glass graduated measuring cylinder
    3) Vicat Apparatus

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    PROCEDURE
    1) About 500gm of dry cement is weighted.
    2) 100g of water is added to the cement (20% by weight of cement)
    3) The cement and water are mixed thoroughly to produce a ball-like shape by tossing from
    one hand to another.
    4) The spherical mass is placed in the cylindrical mould and shakes it forward and backward
    until the paste has filled up the mould. The excess paste are sliced off at the top of the
    mould by single oblique stroke of a sharp edged trowel and the top is smoothed, if
    necessary with a few light touches of the pointed end trowel. During the operation of
    cutting and smoothing, take care not to compress the paste.
    5) The mould is placed on the base of the Vicat’s Apparatus, in such a way the plunger is
    above the center of the mould.
    6) The above sequence should be within 2 minutes from the moment the water was added.
    Bring the plunger in contact with the surface of the cement paste and release it.
    7) The reading of the scale of the Vicat’s Appratus is recorded 30 second after the plunger
    being released.
    8) The entire procedure repeated four to five times, each using new dry cement and
    increasing amount of water.
    9) The graph the percentage of water against the distance from the base is plotted.

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    DATA

    Percentage
    Distance
    Number of Volume of of Penetration
    from base
    test water (ml) water/cement (mm)
    (mm)
    content (%)
    1 135 27 2 38
    2 145 29 8 32
    3 155 31 10 30
    4 165 33 17 23
    5 175 35 22 18

    RESULT
    1. Water content for 5 mm penetration = 37.96 %
    2. Water content for 7 mm penetration = 37.21 %
    3. Water content for standard cement consistency = 29.0%

    QUESTION
    1.) Why the cement paste becomes warm when water was added?
    When water was added to the cement paste, we may notice that cement paste becomes
    warm which the temperature of mixing increases. It is because when cement is adding
    water, the chemical process is called exothermic which heat is produce due to water
    adding to cement paste. So that’s why we feel the cement paste become warm when
    water is added to it.
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    SAM 4062 CONCRETE LABORATORY

    CONCLUSION AND COMMENTS


    During the experiment is carrying, we find that the volume of water will effect the
    penetration of plunger into the cement paste. The more water we added to cement paste the more
    penetration of plunger into the cement paste. So we may conclude that volume of water is
    proportional with penetration. But unfortunately when we come to the fifth value where the
    volume of water increase to 170ml, the penetration reading we get is only 1mm. We wait for a
    while but it still don’t have any changes. After we discuss with the technician, we decided to
    ignore the last reading where I personally don’t include it into the percentage of water versus
    distance from base graph because it will effect a lot to my straight line.

    REFERENCE:
    Herubin, Charles A.: BASIC CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS (Third Edition). New Jersey:
    Prentice Hall Inc., 1987.

    R.C. Smith, C.K. Andres: MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION (Fourth Edition). New York:
    McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1988.

    Spencer, Albert: MATERIALS FOR CONSTRUCTION. Virginia: Reston Publishing Company


    Inc., 1982.

    D.F. Orchard: CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY (Third Edition). London: Applied Science


    Publishers Ltd., 1973.

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