Concrete

**Glossary:**
Stonelike: It is an object that has aspects alike to the stone

Water and fire resisting: It is something that has de characteristic to resist water and fire without harm his integrity.

Compressive strength: It is when the vector of the axial force has the direction to the inside of the object Tensile strength: It is the contrarie of the compressive, the axial force has de direction to the outside of the object

Poured: It is the process where a something with liquid properties it is layed down on a superficie

Fusing: Merge or mix Volcanic ash: They are the ashes that a volcano produce when they erupt

Brick ribbing: It is when the bricks nterspersed each otrer Sewerage: They are the various webs of pipes and valves for moving water and human waste from one place to another, ussing pressure bombs or gravity

Water proofing: It is the characteristic of a material to protect the integrity of other thing in presence of water.

Pipes: There are metal or plastic tuber where wires, water and waste go in the sewerage, they normally go inside the walls and below the street

Mesh: It is a screen or a net of brace rebars to built flooring, columns, and more.

Limitless: having no limits.

Stresses: It is the force applied in a certain piece of area.

Slabs: It is a board, flat thick piece of stone.

Hardscape construction: It is what we called obra limpia, it is the final result of concrete construction with a cast, and it is at plain saight. Deck: A platform extending horizontally from one side to other.

Concrete shell construction: It is when some shells are used like molds in order to give a specific form to the concrete. Precast concrete construction: It is when in a construction use premade concrete parts. this ones are created outside or far away from the construction place.

Prestressed concrete: It is like the reinforced concrete but the steel it is on the out side of the concrete.

Spring: It is a circular coil made of metal, that resist tension or compression.

Span: Is the distance between two intermediate supports for a structure, a beam or a bridge.

Concrete: is a manufactured mixture of cement and water with aggregates of sand and stones which hardens rapidly by chemical combination to a stonelike, water and fire ressitng solid of great compressive but low tensile strength.

Reinforced concrete: It was developed to add the tensile strength of steel to the compressive strength of mass concrete this combination is much more versatile than either product.

Tilt-up construction is a process where several parts of the construction are made near to the ground and in a horizontal way and in the construction site; then when the concrete is ready they lift up the piece of concrete to a vertical position in a place where it will become a wall, or also could be the floor or sellying. In short terms tilt-up is the proces where this pieces are made in the construction site in horizonal way like huge slabs, but then they are moved to there final position. Tilt-wall is one of the structure pieces that can be created by the tilt-up proces. All this differs from pre-cast-concrete-construction, becacuse in the pre-cast construction, the pieces of the structure are made in a place far a away form the construction site, while the tilt pieces are made on the floor of the terrain of the site. check out this video of how tilt walls are lifted at the construction site.

prestressed construction

Precast concrete construction



Concrete shell construcction

Reinforced concrete contruction