#Worktime with high strength grout plus#
A plus to using the higher strength units is that they are cured before being used and not subject to the vagueness associated. It is well known that the mortar strength has a minor effect on the strength of a prism. It is far cheaper to increase the strength of the masonry units than to add grout or high strength grout. That is the reason many designers put an upper limit on the grout strength (usually a % of the f'm for ungrouted prism), to make the wall act as it is designed.Ģ. Unfortunately, for most walls the outer fibers are the most highly stressed, but the grouted prism give a false reading on the strength of the outer fibers. If the grout is too much stronger than the units masonry strength, the average f'm is increased. A grouted prism can be very misleading when you look at the big picture if the grout is appreciably higher in compressive strength. There a number of reasons why it is bad to rely on grout to increase the compressive strength of a wall.ġ. grout strength rrmiv (Structural) 23 Sep 09 08:31įortunately, the old concept of testing solidly grouted prisms and using the results as a quality control means is going out of existence. Just for fun you should ask the lab to email or fax over a copy of the testing tech's certification. The testing lab in this case appears to be lazy or incompetent or both! You didn't specify grout breaks but in order to determine f'm they did them anyway in order to get out of doing the correct albeit more difficult and more expensive unit prism test C-1314 and to top things off they did the C-1019 half-assed generating half-baked BS that caused a big headache over nothing. The cardboard box is unable to absorb the same amount of water as the dry block so I doubt that your test results accurately indicate strength of grout your test results more accurately indicate m'tll (magnitude of the testing lab's laziness). If you have samples out of these cardboard boxes and you don't have comparative test results then you don't have jack. Since test results vary with methods of forming and specimen geometry, comparative test results between the specimen described in this test method and the proposed specimen should be required and confined to a single specimen shape and method of forming. So although these cardboard boxes are made for this test be advised: Test results are highly dependent on the water content of the sample.
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