I have been using Super P concrete for years, all the time, and have experienced no detrimental effects at all. The contractors like it becuase it's so easy to pump and work with, and I like it because now I'm not always fighting them adding water to improve workability. We typically have a...
The building I'm talking about is a 13-story building with very tall ceilings. It has the height (and hence the wind pressure area) of a 17-story, but only the self-weight of a 13. It's in a hurricane-prone area so the wind is very significant. That's why I have so much bending. I thought...
I just found out that I blew the reinforcing steel budget for a project, and it's because I have very heavy bending reinforcing at the ends of my shearwalls. Does anyone know of an economical method (that's not untested) besides rebar to get the needed bending capacity from a shearwall? How...