Page 53 - Built Expressions - Online Construction Magazine - November 2014 Issue

i01.i.aliimg.com Cover Feature concrete batching plant is a central road slab, mix concrete plant in which either section platform. all or only a few ingredients of • Table Vibrator-used for consolidation concrete are mixed along with water of precast units. at a fundamental location where the plant is situated. This mixed concrete solution is then disposed to the job 11. Bar Bending and Shearing Batching Plants site for construction purposes. This Machines is usually a high capacity batching The cutting and bending of steel is one plant, which generally consists of the most important activities in any of silos, bins, concrete batchers, kind of construction or infrastructure conveyors and control equipment. projects. This could be done on • Batching Plants- A concrete They are stationary mixer units as site manually or mechanically. In batching plant is special form of compared to the mobile batching the traditional method of cutting machinery designed to homogeneously plants which consist of frameworks and bending, there is a possibility mix various ingredients for formation carrying batchers, conveyors, scales, of inaccuracies creeping in. This is of the right concrete mixture that control equipment, small silos and are avoided by using Cutting and Bending can be used in various applications. normally adapted to be transported machines. Reinforcement bars of Types of Concrete Batching Plants from site to site. various diameters (ranging from 6 mm Depending on the how the concrete in to 40 mm) are cut and bent as per the mixed and when the concrete reaches • Vibrator- For compacting the bar bending schedule. We fnd bending the construction site, the concrete concrete after its placement concrete and cutting machines separately plants are mainly classifed into two vibrator is used. It help volume of in the market while there are also categories – ready mix concrete plant concrete quickly placed, give high machine performing dual duties. The and central mix concrete batching density, reduce air voids. Types of machine usually consists of electrical plant. Vibrators; panel board, limit switch, emergency In a ready mix concrete plant, dry • Internal vibrators-Use on large work stop and indicator. Different dies are form of concrete excluding water is for fat slab. provided for different sizes of bar. mixed thoroughly. This dry concrete • External or form vibrators-uses for is then transported in a concrete thin section of walls. transport truck to the construction • Surface vibrator-used to fnish site. Water is added to this dry concrete surface such as bridge foor, concrete mixture when the truck is on its way to the job site. The another popular form of V Vol: 3 Issue: 11ol: 3 Issue: 11 November 2014vember 2014 Built Expressions PG 53Built Expressions PG53 No