{"id":1617,"date":"2020-07-16T18:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2020-07-16T18:16:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:16:33","slug":"what-is-shrinkage-and-how-to-be-overcome-bleeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/what-is-shrinkage-and-how-to-be-overcome-bleeding\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Shrinkage and How to be overcome \u2018BLEEDING\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The change in volume of concrete due to loss of moisture at different stages due to different reasons is known as <strong>shrinkage<\/strong> of concrete. It depends on W\/C ratio, temperature, humidity etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shrinkage can be reduced\nby using<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(1) Low water cement\nratio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(2) Saturating aggregates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;(3) Designing the concrete mix properly <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(4) Tight and\nnon-absorbent formworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(5) Reducing the height of fall of concrete during placing operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Explain-to-Shrinkage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Explain-to-Shrinkage-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Explain-to-Shrinkage-1-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The following steps should be taken to overcome BLEEDING&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(a) The mix should be designed properly and\ncarefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(b) Richer concrete should be used and W\/C\nratio should be kept constant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(c) Fine sand should be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(d) The air entraining agents should be\nused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change in volume of concrete due to loss of moisture at different stages due to different reasons is known as shrinkage of concrete. It depends on W\/C ratio, temperature, humidity etc. Shrinkage can be reduced by using (1) Low water cement ratio. (2) Saturating aggregates &nbsp;(3) Designing the concrete mix properly (4) Tight and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-engineering","tag-shrinkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zillionsbuyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}