stone aggregate

These include stone aggregate and rock armour, cement, forest products, steel and fertilizer.

He developed an inexpensive paving material of soil and stone aggregate (known as macadam).

About 10% of the population is engaged in jewelry manufacture and another 10% work in a stone aggregate plant.

Each of them carried on his head a basket of stone aggregate, which he dumped into the mouth of the waiting gabion.

The last sample, about 10 inches long, was a mottled blue-gray, with the stone aggregate of the concrete clearly distinct from the cement binder.

The local granite quarries are a major source stone aggregate railway traffic especially for road building and railway maintenance purposes.

Terrazzo consists of marble or other stone aggregate set in mortar and ground and polished to a smooth surface.

Certain kinds of stone aggregate become very smooth or polished under the constant wearing action of vehicle tyres, again leading to poor wet-weather traction.

Stone aggregate was used on the pavilion's exterior to maintain consistency with the original civic centre building's portland stone exterior.

A cement is a binder whereas concrete is the composite material resulting from the addition of cement to stone aggregates.

Both are based on McAdam's concept of stone aggregate in a binder, asphalt cement or Portland cement respectively.

The thick walls and piers were built using brick, mortar, and "argamasa" (a mixture of crushed brick, sand, stone aggregate and lime).

The material is based on the same materials used in asphalt shingles; an organic felt or fiberglass mat, saturated with asphalt, and faced with granular stone aggregate.

This hornfels was exploited for stone aggregate at Windmill Quarry, which closed in 1979 and is located 5.5 km SSW of Windmeul .

Officially termed The Tan Track as it has a surface of tan-coloured stone aggregate, it is more commonly and affectionately known as The Tan.

The Rostone House, for example, featured Rostone siding, a stone aggregate, while the Armco-Ferro House was assembled of porcelain enamel panels held together by steel clips.

When made from tire-derived geo-cylinders, Mechanical Concrete is a highly energy-absorbing material, due to the partial fluid properties of the stone aggregate and the elasticity of the tire tread cylinder.

Other free standing receptacles, such as those made of pre-cast concrete and stone aggregate materials, rely on water, sand or gravel placed in the collection bin to assist in extinguishing disposed butts.

He developed an inexpensive paving material of soil and stone aggregate (known as macadam), and he embanked roads a few feet higher than the surrounding terrain to cause water to drain away from the surface.

Using Mechanical Concrete methods, general, unskilled construction laborers can transform stone aggregates and other indigenous earthen materials into new, load-supporting solid building materials faster than using conventional materials, means and methods.

Certain structures were made possible by the character of the land upon which these structures are built; a volcanic peninsula with stone aggregates and conglomerates containing crystalline material, will produce material which weathers differently from soft, sedimentary rock and silt.

In this increasingly alienating context, the French designer Philippe Starck created chairs with funny, almost animalistic arms and legs, not to mention his ruffled pasta for Panzani, and the English designer Ron Arad encased telephones and electronic gadgets in raw cement, with the stone aggregate showing.