Reducing Test Costs for Compressive Strength Tests | Cost Reduction
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. How many reinforcing bars do you produce per day for rebar insertion and ground anchor work? For formwork construction, the specifications clearly state that both one-week and four-week strengths must be verified. Therefore, we take one test specimen per day and perform six core drillings (θ7 and θ28…
Let's Try a Crack Experiment (Part 1) | Investigating the Cause
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. One of our employees made this for me the other day! Do you recognize it? This! Does it ring a bell? I’d been meaning to make this box for a while, but I just couldn’t find the time. Now I can use it for crack testing. Conditions…
That Submersible Pump | Anti-Theft Modification
Hello, everyone. It’s Enta here. It finally arrived the other day! Here it is! As you can see, it’s a submersible pump! But wait—it’s actually a submersible pump for hot water!! And it just arrived right now, when winter is almost over lol. I guess I won’t be able to use it until next winter…
Rules for Preparing Test Specimens | Quality Control
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. Are you making test specimens? lol Did you know there are actually rules for making test specimens? To be honest, I hadn’t really thought much about it because I didn’t know enough, but something prompted me to look into it. Test specimens…
Seeing the Essence by Breaking Things Down | Thinking Techniques
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. Do you ever have trouble getting the compression strength test results you need? I’ve had that happen a few times in the past. I’d like to share some strategies for dealing with that situation and how to identify the causes. Generally, we conduct a test pour before proceeding with the actual construction, but there are some regions where this isn’t done…
The Ambiance of Fiber-Reinforced Cement Milk
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. In my recent article, I mentioned that even if I receive inquiries about flat caps... For more details, please contact either KF Co., Ltd. or the Disaster Response New Technology Research Association. KF Co., Ltd. Disaster Response New Technology Research Association But anyway, moving on to the performance of cement slurry containing fiber...
"Do Not Add Water" | On-Site Warning
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. When you’ve mixed a few batches of grout, the grout left in the mixer tends to get pretty hard, right? What do you do in that case? This video shows what happens when you add something to that hardened grout! At first, it’s all clumpy…
Simple Tension Management | Improving Anchor Installation Efficiency
Hello, everyone. This is Enta. Do you know how to collect basic data for stress management? There are times when the final data from aptitude tests or verification tests seems off, right? Like when the results fall outside the upper and lower limits. Back in the day, I used to run cycle tests over and over again without giving it a second thought, but…
Movement of the Dial Gauge | Observations During Tensile Testing
Hello, everyone. It’s Enta here. Regarding that Mad Balance article from the other day, the daily page views hit an all-time high lol. It was 16,010 PV/day!! I don’t usually pay that much attention to traffic, but I was really surprised to see the bar graph shoot way up like that…