Practical Concrete Mix Design

1. Concrete Mix Proportioning General Concepts
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Concrete Mix Design
1.3 Understanding K better
1.4 Finding Water Cement Ratio for Target Strength
1.5 Checking the limits on Water Cement Ratio
1.6 Estimation of Water Content
1.7 Calculation of Cement Content
1.8 Aggregate Content
2. Concrete Proportioning- Rapid Method
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Calculation of Target Strength
2.3 Estimating Water Cement ratio for achieving the strength
2.4 Estimating the water content and aggregate interproportions
2.5 Significance of Water correction
2.6 Cement Content Calculation
2.7 Estimating Air content
2.8 Aggregate Proportion and Content
2.9 Rapid Method Graphical
3 ACI method of Proportioning concretes
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Estimating Water Cement Ratio
3.3 Estimating Water Content
3.4 Proportioning and calculating Aggregate Contents
4 DOE Method of proportioning concretes
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Target Strength Calculation
4.3 Estimating water cement ratio to achieve the strength
4.4 Finding the water content
4.5 Aggregate proportion & content
5 BRMCA Method of Proportioning 
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Methodology
5.2.1 Mix corrections and Records
5.3 Curve fitting and Concrete Proportioning
5.4 Curve Fitting through Excel
6 Unconventional Proportioning Methods & special concretes
6.1 Author’s method, proportioning through void content optimization
6.2 Mix proportioning of Self Compacting Concrete
6.3 Mix Proportioning of Low Density/ Lightweight or High Density/ Heavy Weight Concrete
6.4 Mix Design of Pervious Concrete/ No Fines Concrete
6.5 Mix proportioning of Shotcrete
6.6 Roller Compacted Concrete Design
7 Optimization of concrete
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Entropy Buster Method To Optimize Concrete
8 Conducting Laboratory Tests & Validation of Mixes
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Correction for Moisture content and Absorption in Aggregates
8.3 Corrections in Batch and their effect on Mix Design
8.4 Deciding Water Reducing Admixture Dosage