What Is The Dry Volume of Concrete and How To Calculate

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If you want to estimate concrete ingredients, you need to know the dry
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of concrete.
To estimate the concrete quantity we just take the dimension from

drawings and then calculate the volume. The result we get is the actual
concrete quantity and it is the wet volume of concrete.
If you order ready-mix concrete from suppliers then this estimation is

correct and you don’t have to do anything.
But if you want to produce concrete manually on site, you need to order
concrete ingredients separately. To estimate concrete ingredients, you need
to know the dry volume of concrete.
What is The Dry Volume of Concrete

The prime ingredients of concrete are cement, ne aggregate (sand), and
coarse aggregate (stone/brick chips). Concrete is produced by adding water
with the mix of these ingredients.
The volume of the mix of concrete ingredients before adding water is the
dry volume of concrete.
Difference Between “Wet Volume” and “Dry

Volume” of Concrete
After adding water the volume of concrete ingredients is reduced to a
certain level. It is happened due to the presence of air voids and pores in
concrete ingredients.
Let me give you an example.
If you through a glass of water on a stack of sand, you’ll see a trench where
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water is dropped. It’s happened due to evaporate air voids from sand.
And thus, the volume is reduced.
How to Calculate The Dry Volume of

Concrete
You can get wet volume by multiplying dimensions of a concrete member
from drawing. When we need to get the dry volume of concrete, we just
multiply the wet volume by 1.54.
Now the question is what is 1.54? How do we get that?
To understand this, we need to know the air voids and pores containing
capability of concrete ingredients.
Let’s see.
Air voids containing capability of,
Coarse aggregate (stone/brick chips) – 32% to 34%

Fine aggregate (sand) – 20% to 27%
Due to very ne particles, air voids capability of cement is ignored.
If we take the highest percentage of air voids in both coarse and ne

aggregates, we get,
= 34% + 27%
= 61%
But when sand and cement is mixed with coarse aggregate, it evaporates
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from the coarse aggregate. The percentage of this is 5% to
7%.
If we deduct this, we’ll get,
= 61% – 7%
= 54%.
That means the dry volume of concrete ingredients is reduced 54% after
adding water. in other words, the wet volume of concrete is increased by
54% in the dry condition.
So, the formula of dry volume of concrete is,
= wet volume of concrete x 1.54.
Practical Example of Calculating The “Dry

Volume of Concrete”
Suppose, you need to calculate the dry volume of concrete for an RCC
column. The column dimension is given in the drawing as 30″ x 30″ and
the height of the column is 10′.
So, the wet volume of concrete for the column is,
= 30″ x 30″ x 10′
= 62.50 cubic feet (30″ = 2½′)
The dry volume of concrete for the column is,
= wet volume x 1.54

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= 62.50 x 1.54
= 96.25 cubic feet.
Conclusion
To get the dry volume of concrete, rst, calculate the wet volume of

concrete by multiplying the dimension of concrete members as shown in
the drawing. Then multiply the result by 1.54. That’s it.
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antonio says
13/09/2018 at 6:39 pm
Glad it was helpful!
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Liton Biswas says

15/09/2018 at 5:57 pm
Thank you, Antonio.

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10/11/2018 at 8:03 am
I’m glad.
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What is The Dry Volume of Concrete

Updated March 8th, 2019

To estimate the concrete quantity we just take the dimension from

If you order ready-mix concrete from suppliers then this estimation is

What is The Dry Volume of Concrete

Difference Between “Wet Volume” and “Dry

Let me give you an example.

How to Calculate The Dry Volume of

Now the question is what is 1.54? How do we get that?

Air voids containing capability of,

Coarse aggregate (stone/brick chips) – 32% to 34%

Due to very ne particles, air voids capability of cement is ignored.

If we take the highest percentage of air voids in both coarse and ne

If we deduct this, we’ll get,

So, the formula of dry volume of concrete is,

= wet volume of concrete x 1.54.

Practical Example of Calculating The “Dry

So, the wet volume of concrete for the column is,

= 30″ x 30″ x 10′

= 62.50 cubic feet (30″ = 2½′)

The dry volume of concrete for the column is,

= wet volume x 1.54

= 96.25 cubic feet.

To get the dry volume of concrete, rst, calculate the wet volume of

Get The “Estimating Cheat Sheet” Free.

 Filed Under: Estimating Tips

Glad it was helpful!

Liton Biswas says

Thank you, Antonio.

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interesting and helpful article

digital market says

what a nice and good stu keep it up

Nahid SEO says

Wow fantastic ideas.

Tatan Debnath says

Nicely explained keep it up

Liton Biswas says

Thank you, Tatan.

Simple and nicely explained, i liked it.

Liton Biswas says

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