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Quality Assurance Handbook for Rural Roads Volume-I - pmgsy

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<strong>Quality</strong> <strong>Assurance</strong> <strong>Handbook</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Rural</strong> <strong>Roads</strong><br />

15 After minimum of 28 days after casting the concrete pavement, joint groove at contraction joint<br />

shall be widened to 10 mm width and to a depth 18 to 20 mm and shall be sealed.<br />

B. <strong>Quality</strong> Control Requirements<br />

1. Material<br />

(i) Cement<br />

Cement shall be capable of achieving the design strength and may be<br />

(a) Ordinary Portland Cement, 33 Grade IS:269<br />

(b) Ordinary Portland Cement, 43 Grade IS:8112<br />

(c) Ordinary Portland Pozzalana cement, IS:1489<br />

(d) Portland Blast Furnace Slag cement, IS:455<br />

(e) Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), 53 Grade IS:12269, (to be used only when a part of cement<br />

is replaced by fly-ash.)<br />

(f) If the soil around has soluble salts like sulphates in excess of 0.5%, by weight of soil, cement<br />

used shall be sulphate resistant and shall con<strong>for</strong>m to IS:12330.<br />

(ii) Admixture<br />

Chemical admixture con<strong>for</strong>ming to IS:6925 and IS:9103 may be used to improve workability of<br />

concrete. Mineral admixture like fly-ash shall con<strong>for</strong>m to IS: 3812.<br />

(iii) Aggregate<br />

(a) Aggregate <strong>for</strong> pavement concrete shall con<strong>for</strong>m to IS:383 but with a Los Angeles Abrasion<br />

test value not more than 35% or Wet Aggregate Impact Value not exceeding 30%. The limits<br />

and deleterious material shall not exceed the requirements set out in IS 383.<br />

(b) The total chloride content expressed as chloride ion content shall not exceed 0.06% by weight.<br />

(c) Total sulphate content expressed as sulphuric anhydride (SO 3 ) shall not exceed 0.25% by<br />

weight.<br />

(d) Coarse aggregate shall be clean, hard, strong, dense, non porous and durable crushed stone<br />

or crushed gravel.<br />

The maximum size of coarse aggregate shall not exceed 25 mm. It shall not have a flakiness<br />

index more than 35% and water absorption exceeding 5%.<br />

(e) Fine aggregate shall be clean natural sand or crushed stone sand or a mixture of both. It<br />

shall not contain deleterious material beyond the following limits:<br />

Clay : 4%<br />

Coal and lignite : 1%<br />

Material passing Sieve No. 75 micron: 4% in natural sand and 15% in crushed sand.<br />

(f) Coarse and fine aggregates, after blending shall con<strong>for</strong>m to the gradation requirements<br />

mentioned in Table 1501.1

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