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Default dry time for concrete footing

On Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 12:22:10 PM UTC-4, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 05:58:10 -0700 (PDT), bob haller
wrote:

On Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 12:38:24 PM UTC-4, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 02:10:37 -0400, micky
wrote:

In 1970 when I was at the Panama Canal, which was built before 1910,
they told me the locks were still curing and still getting harder, but
they was already hard enough that when ships hit it, the ship got
dented. They were kept wet up to the water level.

Seems I recall it would have taken ~700 years for the (Boulder) Hoover
Dam to cure. They used pipes to circulate water through that reduced
the curing time.


the pipeses carried water to cool the dam so the concrete would be stronger


reduced curing time = stronger Get it?

The dam was stronger faster, do you think the dam is fully cured, eh?


actually no, slower cooling time greater strength. the hoover dam is still not fully cured

the temperature of the dam if not cooled, would of been of very low strength