Concrete Production by Means of Knowledge Supported Mix Design

There are two characteristic phases in the mix design design in concrete: Laboratory tests and Redesign of concrete proportioning on the basis of control testing. in the first phase, the concrete composition is predicted on the basis of the fundamental rules of concrete technology, and then the properties of fresh mixture and hardened concrete are tested in the laboratory. Proportions of the ingredients necessary for the beginning of production are obtained by application of mathematical methods on the basis of experimental data. In this paper, the Computer Aided Mix Design Of Concrete (CAMDOC)is presented. Its application reduces the scope of preliminary laboratory tests, as well as time necessary for their performance, and it enables quick implementation of the quality control results to the correction of ingredients' proportion during concrete production.