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This is why Hoover Dam was poured in planned, interlocking segments, with cold water piped through it to accelerate curing. A contiguous pour would have taken
by DrScump 9y ago
This is why Hoover Dam was poured in planned, interlocking segments, with cold water piped through it to accelerate curing.
A contiguous pour would have taken an estimated 125 years to cure, even assuming no fatal shrinkage occurred.
- kwhitefoot 9y agoSurely cooling retards curing. And it is commonly done to avoid inducing thermal stress and causing cracks.
- philjohn 9y agoNot necessarily - the reaction that produces heat is purely chemical, by taking this heat away you're not going to stop it, but you are going to give more headroom for the reaction to continue.