Factors influencing concrete quality: a survey to the principal actors of the concrete industry

Authors

  • M. Orozco Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Colombia)
  • Y. Avila Universidad de la Costa (Colombia)
  • S. Restrepo Universidad de la Costa (Colombia)
  • A. Parody Universidad Libre (Colombia)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-50732018000200161

Keywords:

Concrete quality, concrete, analytic hierarchy process, quality control

Abstract

Concrete is the most used building material worldwide, involving thousands of field, academic and laboratory professionals in its production, transportation and its application, which creates a great margin of possible error that may yield in a poor quality concrete. Each professional takes care of the concrete quality according to his/her experience or academic knowledge/expertise. In order to analyze the factors that concrete workers in Barranquilla (Colombia) perceive as the most important for achieving a high-quality concrete, a survey was made to both academic and field experts with different years of experience and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was applied to weigh the perception of each factor in the concrete quality. Results have shown that for the survey respondents one of the most important factors is the environment; this may be associated with geographic location of the city, which is in a coastal region.

 

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Author Biographies

M. Orozco, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (Colombia)

Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá, COLOMBIA 

Y. Avila, Universidad de la Costa (Colombia)

Universidad de la Costa
Colombia

S. Restrepo, Universidad de la Costa (Colombia)

Universidad de la Costa
Colombia

A. Parody, Universidad Libre (Colombia)

Universidad Libre
Colombia

Published

2018-08-31

How to Cite

Orozco, M., Avila, Y., Restrepo, S., & Parody, A. (2018). Factors influencing concrete quality: a survey to the principal actors of the concrete industry. Revista Ingeniería De Construcción, 33(2), 161–172. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-50732018000200161

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Original Research