Concrete Glossary

# Admixture # Aggregate # Agitator (Mixer Truck) # Air Content (Fresh Concrete) # Air-Entraining Admixture # Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) # Anchor Bolt

# Base Course # Batch Plant # Bearing Capacity # Berm (Containment Berm) # Bleeding (Concrete Bleeding) # Blended Cement # BMP (Best Management Practice) # Bond Breaker # Boom Pump # Broom Finish # Bull Float

# California Bearing Ratio (CBR) # Camber # Capillary Break # Carbonation # Cement Type (ASTM C150 Type I–V) # Check Dam # Chute # Cold Joint # Cold Weather Concreting # Compaction (Soil Compaction) # Compaction Lift # Compressive Strength (PSI) # Concrete Sealer # Concrete Washout # Consolidation (Soil Consolidation) # Construction General Permit (CGP) # Construction Joint # Core Sample (Coring) # Corrosion Inhibitor (Admixture) # Creep (Concrete Creep) # Curing # Curve Number (NRCS) # Cut and Fill # Cylinder Break (Compression Test)

# Darby # Dead Load # Deflection # Densifier (Concrete Hardener) # Design Storm # Development Length # Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) # Dowel (Rebar Dowel) # Dry-Rodded Unit Weight

# Efflorescence # Entrapped Air # Epoxy-Coated Rebar # Erosion Control Blanket # Expansion Joint Filler # Expansive Soil # Exposed Aggregate Finish

# Factor of Safety # False Set # Falsework # Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (FRC) # Final Stabilization # Fineness Modulus (FM) # Flash Set # Flatwork # Fly Ash # Footing # Form Release Agent # Formwork # Freeze-Thaw Cycling # Frost Depth

# Geogrid # Geotextile # Gradation (Aggregate Gradation) # Grade Beam # Groover (Jointing Tool) # Grout

# Hand Float # High-Performance Concrete (HPC) # Honeycombing # Hydration # Hydraulic Cement # Hydraulic Conductivity # Hydroseeding

# Illicit Discharge # Impervious Surface # Infiltration # Inlet Protection # Integral Color # Isolation Joint

# Joint (Control Joint)

# K-Factor (Soil Erodibility Factor)

# Laitance # Lap Splice # Laser Screed # Lift (Pour Lift) # Lightweight Concrete # Line Pump # Liquefaction # Live Load # Low Impact Development (LID)

# Mat Foundation # Maturity Method # Modulus of Elasticity # Moment Connection # Mortar # MS4 (Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System)

# NOI (Notice of Intent) # Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) # Non-Shrink Grout # NOT (Notice of Termination) # NPDES

# Optimum Moisture Content # Outfall # Overlay (Concrete Overlay)

# Percolation Test # Permeability # Pervious Pavement # Petrographic Analysis # pH (of Washout Water) # Pile (Foundation Pile) # Plastic Shrinkage Cracking # Polished Concrete # Portland Cement # Post-Tensioning # Power Trowel # Pozzolan # Precast Concrete # Prefabricated Washout Structure # Prestressed Concrete # Proctor Compaction Test # Pumpability

# Quality Control (QC) Testing

# Rapid Chloride Permeability Test (RCPT) # Ready-Mix Concrete # Rebar (Reinforcing Steel) # Rebar Chair # Rebar Grade (Grade 60) # Rebound Hammer (Schmidt Hammer) # Retaining Wall # Retarder (Admixture) # Retention Pond # Rip-Rap # Riparian Zone

# Screed # Sediment Basin # Segregation # Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC) # Set Time (Initial and Final Set) # Shear Wall # Shoring # Shotcrete # Silica Fume # Silt Fence # Slab-on-Grade # Slag Cement # Slump / Slump Test # Slump Flow (SCC) # Slurry # Spalling # Split Tensile Strength # Stamped Concrete # Stem Wall # Straw Wattle # Structural Fill # Subbase # Subgrade # Sulfate Attack # Superplasticizer (High-Range Water Reducer) # Swell Potential # SWPPP (Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan)

# Tensile Strength # Tilt-Up Construction # Total Suspended Solids (TSS) # Trench Box # Trial Batch # Trowel Finish # Turbidity

# Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (UPV) # Underdrain # Underpinning # Unit Weight (Fresh Concrete) # Uplift Pressure

# Vapor Barrier (Under-Slab) # Vibrator (Concrete Vibrator) # Void Ratio

# Washout Pan # Water Quality Volume (WQv) # Water Reducer (Normal Range) # Water Table # Water-Cement Ratio (w/c) # Waterstop # Welded Wire Fabric (WWF) # Well Point (Dewatering) # Wind Load # Workability

# X-Ray / Radiographic Testing

# Yield (Concrete Yield)

# Zero-Slump Concrete