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ACI 211.1: Concrete Proportioning Guide

This standard practice describes methods for selecting proportions for normal, heavyweight, and mass concrete mixtures. It covers concrete made with or without supplementary cementitious materials and chemical admixtures. The methods provide initial proportion designs to be verified through laboratory or field testing, with adjustments made as needed to achieve desired concrete properties. Appendices include guidance on metric units, example problems, and referenced test methods.

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ACI 211.1: Concrete Proportioning Guide

This standard practice describes methods for selecting proportions for normal, heavyweight, and mass concrete mixtures. It covers concrete made with or without supplementary cementitious materials and chemical admixtures. The methods provide initial proportion designs to be verified through laboratory or field testing, with adjustments made as needed to achieve desired concrete properties. Appendices include guidance on metric units, example problems, and referenced test methods.

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ACI 211.

1: Standard Practice for Selecting Proportions for Normal, Heavyweight, and Mass Concrete
Publication Date: Jan 1, 1991 SDO: ACI: American Concrete Institute DOD Adopted ANSI Approved Approved

This Standard Practice describes methods for selecting proportions for hydraulic cement concrete made with and without other cementitious materials and chemical admixtures. This concrete consists of normal and/or highdensity aggregates (as distinguished from lightweight aggregates) with a workability suitable for usual cast-in-place construction (as distinguished from special mixtures for concrete products manufacture). Also included is a description of methods used for selecting proportions for mass concrete. Hydraulic cements referred to in this Standard Practice are portland cement (ASTM C 150) and blended cement (ASTM C 595). The Standard does not include proportioning with condensed silica fume. The methods provide a first approximation of proportions intended to be checked by trial batches in the laboratory or field and adjusted, as necessary, to produce the desired characteristics of the concrete. U.S. customary units are used in the main body of the text. Adaption for the metric system is provided in Appendix 1 and demonstrated in an example problem in Appendix 2. Test methods mentioned in the text are listed in Appendix 3. absorption admixtures aggregates blast-furnace slag cementitious materials concrete durability concretes consistency durability exposure fine aggregates fly ash heavyweight aggregates heavyweight concretes mass concrete mix proportioning pozzolans quality control radiation shielding silica fume slump tests

volume water-cement ratio water-cementitious ratio workability

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