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Concrete Advice 61 Cold joints

Publication Year

2017

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Examines how cold joints are formed and looks at their issues. Also shows the differences between cold joints and pour lines. Covers: lines at the formed surface, delay between placing batches, coping with a cold joint, investigating potential cold joints, structural considerations, design codes and water seepage.

Document History

See also: Concrete Advice 62 Pour lines and shadow marks (CS, 2017).

Author

Day, R.

Publisher Information

Concrete Society

For more than 30 years, The Concrete Society has been publishing technical reports and advice notes to serve the needs of clients, architects, engineers, specifiers, suppliers, contractors and users of concrete.

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