• A concrete float is a tool used to finish a concrete surface by making it smooth. A float is used after the surface has been made level using a screed...
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  • Power trowel (redirect from Power float)
    performs the tasks of several hand tools, hand trowel, hand float, darby and concrete float. Concrete pump Screed Trowel Personal hovercraft FCS Construction...
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  • Look up float in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Float may refer to: Lowboy (trailer), called a float in Eastern Canada usage Float (parade) Float (sculpture)...
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    seemingly unfloatable float. However, since concrete and other poured surfaces are an integral part of a civil engineer's education, concrete canoes typically...
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    placed concrete. After levelling the concrete, they smooth the surface using either a hand trowel, a long handed bull float or by using powered floats. After...
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    Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete or ferro-concrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility...
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    Screed (redirect from Concrete screed)
    After the concrete is flattened it is smoothed with a concrete float or power trowel. A concrete floor is sometimes called a solid ground floor. A plasterer...
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    and float trowel. A power trowel is a much larger gasoline or electrically powered walk-behind device with rotating paddles used to finish concrete floors...
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    Concrete is produced in a variety of compositions, finishes and performance characteristics to meet a wide range of needs. Modern concrete mix designs...
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  • Concrete - Concrete degradation - Concrete densifier - Concrete finisher - Concrete float - Concrete fracture analysis - Concrete grinder - Concrete hinge...
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    Pontoon bridge (redirect from Float bridge)
    supporting boats or floats can be open or closed, temporary or permanent in installation, and made of rubber, metal, wood, or concrete. The decking may be...
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    into the hardener you float and trowel it in. This method only covers the surface about 3/16 of an inch but it gives the concrete surface a longer wear...
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  • Cement shoes (redirect from Concrete boots)
    shins were encased in concrete set inside a 5 US gallons (19 L) bucket. His body floated to the shore due to air in the concrete because it was not given...
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    The Great Float is a body of water on the Wirral Peninsula, England, formed from the natural tidal inlet, the Wallasey Pool. It is split into two large...
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  • Tone Float is the only album by the German band Organisation zur Verwirklichung gemeinsamer Musikkonzepte (Organisation). Organisation included as members...
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  • nine-page art portfolio. Concrete: Eclectica #2, color comic, has color versions of "I Strive for Realism", "Soon, we'll all float in A Sky of Heads", "100...
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    A concrete slab is a common structural element of modern buildings, consisting of a flat, horizontal surface made of cast concrete. Steel-reinforced slabs...
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    New York, and after completion were floated down the Hudson to the site. The two largest (in terms of volume) concrete caissons are 360 feet (110 m) long...
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  • Reinforced concrete is concrete in which reinforcement bars ("rebars"), reinforcement grids, plates or fibers are embedded to create bond and thus to strengthen...
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    the weight of the water. Splash dams were timber crib dams used to help float logs downstream in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. "Timber plank...
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  • Offshore concrete structures, or concrete offshore structures, are structures built from reinforced concrete for use in the offshore marine environment...
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  • abbreviated CLSM, also known as flowable fill, is a type of weak, runny concrete mix used in construction for non-structural purposes such as backfill or...
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    and resistant, materials-efficient 3-D structure, made from steel and concrete and widely used in civil engineering. Tridilosa was invented by the Mexican...
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    first concrete forces the plug down the pipe and displaces the water. The pig will be pushed out of the bottom end of the pipe and will float to the...
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    water, steam, and in the event that the reactor vessel is breached, molten concrete from the floor of the reactor room. The heat causing the melting of a reactor...
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    Pumice (redirect from Pumice concrete)
    to the thickness of the solid material between the bubbles; many samples float in water. After the explosion of Krakatoa, rafts of pumice drifted through...
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    Houseboat (redirect from Float house)
    since the time of the Srivijaya kingdom. Raft houses are built on rafts and float along the banks of the Musi River, Ogan River and Komering River. To avoid...
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    The Roman architectural revolution, also known as the concrete revolution, is the name sometimes given to the widespread use in Roman architecture of the...
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  • Parade Floats (which later became Phoenix Decorating), one of the main float construction companies for the parade. Phoenix relocated to a concrete tilt-up...
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    carburetors include a reservoir of fuel, called a "float chamber" or "float bowl". Fuel is delivered to the float chamber by a fuel pump or by gravity with the...
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