TIP is Technology through education.
Technology in Practice is a series of short information pieces on important topics written in an easy understandable “What, Why and How?” format. It can be used by ready mixed concrete industry personnel to support internal as well as customer education.
TIP Bulk Set (20 collated printed sets of 24 topics)
Member $125; Non-member $250
Single Set (1 each of the 24 topics)
Members-printed ($60) / Members-pdf ($40)
Non-members-printed ($120) / Non-members-pdf ($80)
Individual Topics (in packages of 10 for printed)
Members-printed ($15) / Members-pdf ($10)
Non-members-printed ($30) / Non-members-pdf ($20)
Order below and click on the title to read the first page of each topic:
- TIP 1 – Quantifying Concrete Quality | order (one package of 10)
- TIP 2 – Establishing the Required Average Strength of Concrete Mixtures | order
- TIP 3 – Aggregate Sampling for Laboratory Tests | order
- TIP 4 – Aggregate Sample Reduction for Laboratory Tests | order
- TIP 5 – Capping Cylindrical Concrete Specimens with Sulfur Mortars and Unbonded Caps | order
- TIP 6 – Aggregate Moisture and Making Adjustments to Concrete Mixtures | order
- TIP 7 – Creating and Using Three Point Curves for Laboratory Trial Batches | order
- TIP 8 – Concrete Yield | order
- TIP 9 – Density of Structural Lightweight Concrete | order
- TIP 10 – Mixing Water Quality for Concrete | order
- TIP 11 – Testing Concrete Cores | order
- TIP 12 – Slump Loss of Concrete | order
- TIP 13 – Chloride Limits in Concrete | order
- TIP 14 – Time of Setting of Concrete Mixtures | order
- TIP 15 – Estimating Concrete Strength Using Maturity | order
- TIP 16 – Evaluating Strength Test Results | order
- TIP 17 – Drying Shrinkage of Concrete | order
- TIP 18 – Managing Concrete Temperature for Specified Requirements | order
- TIP 19 – Reuse of Returned Concrete | order
- TIP 20 – Understanding Variability of Test Methods—Precision Statements | order
- TIP 21 – Concrete Mixtures for High Strength and Modulus of Elasticity | order
- TIP 22 – Reducing Embodied Carbon in Concrete Mixtures | order
- TIP 23 New – Establishing Required Average for Specified Properties | order
- TIP 24 New – Permeability of Concrete | order