Latest Papers

                    Is Lightweight Concrete All Wet? The Advantages and Disadvantages of Lightweight Concrete in
                    in Building Construction (STRUCTURE, Jan 2013) NEW RELEASE!
                    This educational article was written by structural engineers and compares the performance of
                    LWC and NWC on suspended steel deck floors. The article goes beyond moisture issues and
                    includes cost and benefit comparisons with an unbiased approach.

     
     4366.1   Concrete Floor Drying Study for the Expanded Shale, Clay and Slate Institute  (Craig, 2011)
                    This research report covers the study performed by ESCSI in Dalton, Georgia and the controlled
                    environment study done with WR Grace in 2009.

                       Another Look at the Drying of Lightweight Concrete: A Comparison of Drying Times for Normalweight 
                       and Lightweight Floors                                        
                       This article on the research report above was published by Concrete International in the January 2012
                       issue. Courtesy of the American Concrete Institute, www.concrete.org.

         Embodied Energy Study: Lightweight Concrete in Steel Framed Buildings (September 2012)  
         This report presents the results of an embodied energy study performed by Walter P. Moore and
         Associates, Inc. The purpose of the study was to compare the embodied energy in the structural
         system of a steel framed building with lightweight concrete floor slabs on composite steel deck
         to the same system utilizing normalweight concrete.

                   
                         Cracking Tendency of Lightweight Concrete (December 2010)    
                         This report presents the results of the cracking tendency of lightweight concrete performed by
                         the Highway Research Center at Auburn University's College of Engineering.

                        Lightweight Concrete – Material Properties for Structural Design (Russell, 2009)   
                        Presented at The International Bridge Conference (IBC) held in Pittsburgh, PA in June 2009.

                   
                        Durability of Structural Lightweight Concrete (Ozyildirim, 2009)   
                        Presented at The International Bridge Conference (IBC) held in Pittsburgh, PA in June 2009.

                        QC/QA of Lightweight Concrete – A Ready Mixed Concrete Perspective (Chua, 2009)  
                        Presented at The International Bridge Conference (IBC) held in Pittsburgh, PA in June 2009.

   
                       FHWA Research Program on Lightweight High-Performance Concrete (Greene/Graybeal, 2009)
                       Presented at The International Bridge Conference (IBC) held in Pittsburgh, PA in June 2009. 

                     Internal Curing - From the Laboratory to Implementation (Henkenseifken et al, 2009)
                     Presented at The International Bridge Conference (IBC) held in Pittsburgh, PA in June 2009.