Now-a-days, the major challenge that’s being faced by the concrete industry is the cleaning of concrete handling equipment. Concrete consists of aggregates, which harden with time, and the transportation of concrete mixture within the plant is a significant problem. This will not only increase the overall maintenance cost, but will lead to loss of raw materials, affect the rate of production, and reduce the lifetime of concrete handling equipment. The present study focuses on the design and implementation of an adaptive cleaning mechanism in the concrete industry and its importance in achieving efficient cleaning, which is tested to verify its performance in the Paver production plant. The goal of this study is to provide practical evidence about the importance of adaptive cleaning mechanisms for industrial applications. The first chapter gives a detailed introduction about pavers and the production process, the cause of material loss that occurs during transportation of wet concrete mixture inside a paver plant, and its effect on handling equipment and work environment. The second chapter explains design and working of the paver machine push bar mechanism, which can be implemented in a hydraulic press production process of pavers. The third chapter includes analysis and results of the mechanism obtained using Solidworks and Autodesk Inventor followed by observations that are achieved based on practical application of this mechanism in a paver production plant.

My work describes technology design of pervious concrete. The theoretical part contains a research about this kind of concrete usually from foreign authors. In general, I focused on the composition of the PC, aggregate grading curve, behaviour of concrete in fresh state, storing and compaction of concrete. A critical part is the aggregate grading curve – it plays the main role in the final level of water permeability. Further, we will go through the real world scenarios where we can use this type of concrete and also through the associated drawbacks. A substantial part of this work is about development of water-permeability test. The practical part shows variety of recipes with a list of measured and observed characteristics (compressive strength, frost resistence and water-permeability). The conclusion includes evaluation of the results and suggestions for future development in this area.

The purpose of the work is to study the effect of fiber on the physical and mechanical characteristics of concrete and to develop recommendations for the production of dispersed reinforced structures. As a result of the research work, the principles of optimizing the structure of fiber concrete due to the influence of fiber length on the mechanical strength properties are proposed. Using graphical methods derived statistical dependence of the qualitative characteristics (prism strength, modulus of elasticity, Poisson's ratio) of fiber-reinforced concrete from prescription-technological parameters of the dispersed reinforcement, which improves the bearing capacity of concrete structures or to reduce the amount of steel reinforcement. / Цель работы - изучение влияния фибры на физико-механические характеристики бетона и разработка рекомендаций по изготовлению дисперсно-армированных конструкций. В результате проведенной исследовательской работы предложены принципы оптимизации структуры фибробетона за счет влияния длины волокон на механико-прочностные свойства. С помощью графических методов выведены статистические зависимости качественных характеристик (призменная прочность, модуль упругости, коэффициент Пуассона) фибробетонов от рецептурно-технологических параметров дисперсного армирования, что позволяет повышать несущую способность бетонных конструкций или уменьшать расход стальной арматуры.