Light Weight Concrete
Light Weight Concrete (LWC)
Lightweight Concrete, an innovative construction material, is crafted to yield a hardened product with a lower unit weight compared to traditional concrete. This is achieved by incorporating low-density aggregates or employing a foamed concrete mixture, resulting in densities ranging from 600 to 1800 Kgs/CuM. The utilization of lightweight concrete offers a range of benefits and applications in the construction industry.
Key Benefits
- Reduction in Dead Loads.
- Thermal and Sound Insulation
- Improved Fire Resistance.
Applications
- Sunk Slabs
- Roof Grading
- Non-Structural Partitions
Fiber Reinforced Concrete
Fiber Reinforced Concrete is a unique product with inherently enhanced resistance against tensile stresses which leads to shrinkage cracks at the initial and later stages of hardening of concrete. This is achieved by the introduction of polypropylene and polyester fibers. These fibers compensate for the lack of tensile strength of the concrete by taking the tensile stress themselves and preventing cracks.
Special Features
- Very high resistance to shrinkage cracks.
- Robust homogeneous mix.
Advantages
- Control plastic and drying shrinkage cracks.
- Control settlement cracks and micro-cracks.
- Improves durability of the structure.
- Better resistance against spalling during a fire.
- Increased abrasion, fatigue and impact resistance of surface.
- Better resistance against freeze and thaw.
- Improves cohesion and other fresh concrete properties.
Applications
- In regular slabs, slabs with lean sections and rooftops.
- Concrete has high cement content, it is more prone to shrink.
- Screeds, parking lot, CC roads, and walkways.
Self Compacting Concrete
At Trucon Ready Mix Concrete (RMC), we take pride in introducing our advanced self-compacting concrete, a specialized material designed with self-flowing, self-levelling, and self-consolidating properties. This innovative concrete formulation has been developed to streamline the construction process, making it not only easy but also significantly faster and more efficient.
It is one of the solutions for the noise-free placement of concrete with the challenging task of placing concrete in heavily reinforced structure sections & for the night concreting in the residential areas to reduce/eliminate the noise of vibrators.
Advantages
- Self-levelling and consolidating.
- Reduce man hours required for placement and finishing.
- No vibration of concrete required.
- Reduces noise by eliminating vibrators.
- Easy placement of concrete.
- Better surface finish.
Applications
- Deep columns and shear walls.
- Suitable for aluminium form shuttering.
- Suitable for aluminium form shuttering.
- Densely reinforced and lean sections.
- Raft and deep foundations.
- Complicated and intricate structures.