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    Moisture content calculations are important for concrete design and quality control. Moisture content can be calculated relative to the oven dry condition or saturated surface dry condition. The saturated surface dry condition is used as a reference point since aggregates at this stage will neither absorb nor release water. Density, specific gravity, and unit weight measurements of aggregates also depend on whether the aggregates are oven dry or saturated surface dry. Bulk specific gravity values that include internal pore space provide a more realistic value for how aggregates will behave in concrete.

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    Moisture content calculations are important for concrete design and quality control. Moisture content can be calculated relative to the oven dry condition or saturated surface dry condition. The saturated surface dry condition is used as a reference point since aggregates at this stage will neither absorb nor release water. Density, specific gravity, and unit weight measurements of aggregates also depend on whether the aggregates are oven dry or saturated surface dry. Bulk specific gravity values that include internal pore space provide a more realistic value for how aggregates will behave in concrete.

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    Moisture content calculations are important for concrete design and quality control. Moisture content can be calculated relative to the oven dry condition or saturated surface dry condition. The saturated surface dry condition is used as a reference point since aggregates at this stage will neither absorb nor release water. Density, specific gravity, and unit weight measurements of aggregates also depend on whether the aggregates are oven dry or saturated surface dry. Bulk specific gravity values that include internal pore space provide a more realistic value for how aggregates will behave in concrete.

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    Aggregates Moisture Content

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    Moisture content calculations are important for concrete design and quality control. Moisture content can be calculated relative to the oven dry condition or saturated surface dry condition. The saturated surface dry condition is used as a reference point since aggregates at this stage will neither absorb nor release water. Density, specific gravity, and unit weight measurements of aggregates also depend on whether the aggregates are oven dry or saturated surface dry. Bulk specific gravity values that include internal pore space provide a more realistic value for how aggregates will behave in concrete.

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    Moisture content (MC) calculations

    a) Relative to oven dry condition

    where Wstock = weight of aggregates in stock


    WOD = weight of oven dry aggregates

    b) Relative to saturated surface dry condition

    where Wstock = weight of aggregates in stock


    WSSD = weight of aggregates in SSD condition
    NCAT 1
    c) Absorption capacity

    To make concrete, aggregates are mixed with water and cement. Since
    concrete properties at both the fresh and hardened states are strongly
    affected by the water content, it is very important to ensure that the right
    amount of water is added to the mix. In designing concrete mix, the
    moisture content under SSD condition is used as reference because that
    is an equilibrium condition at which the aggregates will neither absorb
    water nor give up water to the paste.

    Thus, if MCSSD value for a batch of aggregates is positive, there is


    surface moisture on the aggregates. If it is negative, it means that the
    pores in aggregates are only partly filled with water.

    NCAT 2
    Density and specific gravity

    Definitions
    Density (D): weight per unit volume (excluding the pores inside a single aggregate)

    Bulk density: the volume includes the pores inside a single aggregate.

    BD can be either BDSSD or BDAD according to the moisture condition of


    aggregate when it is weighed.

    NCAT 3
    Specific gravity (SG): mass of a given substance divided by unit mass of an
    equal volume of water (it is the density ratio of a substance to water).

    Depending on the definition of volume, the specific gravity can be divided into
    absolute specific gravity (ASG) and bulk specific gravity (BSG).

    and

    NCAT 4
    In practice, the BSG value is the realistic one to use since the effective volume
    that aggregate occupies in concrete includes its internal pores.
    The BSG of most rocks is in the range of 2.5 to 2.8.

    Similar to BD, BSG can be either BSGSSD or BSGAD according to the moisture
    condition of aggregates.
    The BSG can be determined using the displacement method.
    The weight of aggregate is first measured in air, e.g. under SSD condition, this is
    denoted as WSSD in air.
    Then, the weight of the sample is measured in water, the value being denoted
    as WSSD in water.

    Where, Wdisplacement is the weight of water displaced by the aggregates.

    NCAT 5
    Unit Weight (UW) (except for pores inside every aggregate, the bulk volume
    includes the spacing among aggregate particles).

    The unit weight is defined as weight per unit bulk volume for bulk aggregates.

    Besides the pores inside each aggregate, the bulk volume also includes the
    space among the collection of particles.

    According to the weight measured at different conditions, the unit weight can
    be divided into UW (SSD) and UW (OD).

    and

    NCAT 6
    The percentage of spacing (voids) among the aggregates can be calculated as

    NCAT 7

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