BACKGROUND Previous research has examined how age and health can shape workability (WA). This study seeks to explore how a lack of WA (inability) may affect the health of the employee. AIMS To explore the effects of work inability on mental wellbeing among therapeutic prison officers. METHODS An anonymous cross-sectional study of prison officers conducted in a category B English prison usin...

Mortar with high workability even without a water-reducing agent and with high tensile and compressive strengths (3.1 and 78 MPa, respectively) was obtained by using as an admixture silica fume that had been surface treated with a silane coupling agent. The treatment enhanced the wettability of silica fume by water, thereby increasing the workability of the mortar mix. It also enhanced the bond...

This paper studies the addition of fibers from end-of-life tires to commercial mortar mixtures. Two different types of mortar, one lime-plastic and other cement-fluid, are mixed with different percentage of fibers ranging from 0% to 1%. The changes in bulk density, consistency, compressive and flexural strength, dynamic Young modulus and water absorption are studied. According to the results, c...

Proactive scheduling can effectively handle activity duration uncertainty in real-world projects, by generating a baseline solution according to a prior stochastic knowledge. However, most of the previous approaches cannot deal with the activity duration uncertainty caused by time-dependent workability uncertainty. In this paper, we aim at finding a partialorder schedule (POS) that produces the...

In this study, the benefits of limestone powder (LP) and marble powder (MP) as partial replacement of Portland cement are established. Furthermore, LP and MP are used directly without attempting any additional processing in the production of selfcompacting concrete (SCC). The water to binder ratio is maintained at 0.33 for all mixtures. The examined properties include workability, compressive s...

This study aims to investigate the activating effect of Na2CO3 and NaOH on the workability and mechanic strength of slag-based alkali activated materials with different alkali contents and water to binder ratios. The heat release during the reaction process of slag activated with sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide were monitored respectively to analyze the hydration process. Meanwhile, the w...

The objectives of the present research is to appreciate the effect of synthesizing parameters on setting time and workability of Fly ash based geopolymer paste . Locally available low calcium fly ash from a thermal power plant located near Kolkata, India, was used . Fly ash used are lignite coal based and falls under class F category. The broad areas of present research include: Manufacturing o...