Where Bucca Weir is a medium-paste mix, Paradise Dam is a low-paste roller-compacted concrete RCC dam made with 63-65kg of cement per cubic metre.

Where Bucca Weir is a medium-paste mix, Paradise Dam is a low-paste roller-compacted concrete RCC dam made with 63-65kg of cement per cubic metre.

Roller-compacted concrete met the criteria and is now used in a number of civil and industrial applications, including roads, port facilities, dams and other large-scale projects.

The upper bowl of the 440-MW pumped-storage system sits on top of Missouri’s highest peak, 1,590-ft Proffit Mountain. It is believed to be North America’s largest roller-compacted concrete dam.

The project involved removing two inches from the surface of the original St. Vincente dam, then using roller-compacted concrete to add—in layers, one on top of the other—an additional 117 ft ...

Regardless, roller-compacted granules produced from homogenous dry powders of different CCM formulations have been evaluated for handling efficiency and cell culture performance.