Page 6 - CONCRETE MATERIALS AND MIXTURE

1.1.1 What is Cement?

• Cement usually gray.

• It is the product which is obtained by burning and

crushing to powder a well proportioned mixture of

calcareous (limestone) and argillaceous materials

(clay).

• A material with adhesive and cohesive properties

which make it capable bonding material fragments

into a compact whole.

• Cement + water + fine agg. + coarse agg. = concrete

• Cement + water + fine agg. = cement slurry/plaster

• Cement + lime + water + fine agg. = mortar