Concrete Proportion and Concrete Mixture Ratio

The two different ways in Concrete Proportioning Mixture: 1. Volume Method 2. by Using Mixturing Box. Volume Method is the most common and convenient method in Mixing Concrete to attained the desired strength of concrete.Concrete misture, it involves cement, sand and gravel. Proportioning by Volume method had been long practiced and it is proven effective and successful. Most construction industry used this method in proportion the mixture of the concrete. see tabulation below about the ratio of the cement sand and gravel mixture.

Mixture class Proportion

Cement in bag 40kg 50kg 9.5 7.0 6.0 5.0

sand cu.m 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

gravel cu.m 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0

class AA class A class B class C

1 : 1 1/2 : 3 1:2:4 1 : 2 1/2 : 5 1:3:6

12 9.0 7.5 6.0

Strength of Mixture a. Class AA - 4000 PSI b. Class A - 3500 PSI c. Class B d. Class C - 3000 PSI - 2500 PSI

Mixture of half cubic meter sand, a cubic meter of gravel and a portion mixture of cement depending on the class that you are using and plus water, there will be a little bit more than one cubic meter of volume,this will serve as contingency or wastage