Concrete Lab
The Concrete Lab of the Civil Engineering Department is used by Professor Jameel Ahmad and graduate and undergraduate civil engineering students for research on Self-Compacting Concretes (SCC) with special applications in blast-resisting wall systems. SCC are produced by adding super-plasticizers to the concrete mix. The use of super-plasticizers produces concretes with low or vey low water/cement ratios, leading to a significant ncrease in the compressive strengths of SCC.