Quote:
Originally Posted by Ed Workman
Green concrete has not yet reached its design strength
[ceee-mint is just the glue that holds the aggregates together, unless one is talking about sidewalks and patio slabs]
If I could read it I'd be able, perhaps, to comment more.
Is that article from LA Herald, many issues which are available on the UCR website?
Historically , there have been several construction failures due to poor shoring, and that may be what is being referred to as 'support failure'
Concrete normally requires several days to achieve sufficient strength to support itself
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The article is from the
Los Angeles Times of November 10, 1906. Here is the major part of that article, easier to read, compacted by me, shorn of its two illustrations, and much edited (most of the final fifth is gone, as just milking the event). It is still so long that it takes two images for
this article (all in this posting from
Los Angeles Times via ProQuest via CSULB Library).
Second part of the same article (oops, I see that I repeated the last line of part one):
And here's an edited, compacted version of an article about the Coroner's Jury report, published November 13, 1906: