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Quantity of Cement & Sand Calculation in Mortar Quantity of Cement & Sand Calculation in Mortar

This document provides instructions for calculating the quantity of cement and sand needed for mortar. It explains that mortar is used in various cement to sand proportions like 1:1, 1:2, etc. To calculate for 1 cubic meter of mortar, the volume of materials needed is assumed to be 1.6 cubic meters accounting for voids in sand. The volume of cement is based on a standard bag volume of 0.0347 cubic meters. An example calculation is shown for a 1:6 cement to sand ratio mortar.

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Quantity of Cement & Sand Calculation in Mortar Quantity of Cement & Sand Calculation in Mortar

This document provides instructions for calculating the quantity of cement and sand needed for mortar. It explains that mortar is used in various cement to sand proportions like 1:1, 1:2, etc. To calculate for 1 cubic meter of mortar, the volume of materials needed is assumed to be 1.6 cubic meters accounting for voids in sand. The volume of cement is based on a standard bag volume of 0.0347 cubic meters. An example calculation is shown for a 1:6 cement to sand ratio mortar.

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QUANTITY OF CEMENT & SAND CALCULATION IN

MORTAR

3. Volume of cement will be calculated as:

QUANTITY OF CEMENT & SAND CALCULATION IN


MORTAR

Since the volume of 1 bag of cement is 0.0347 m3, so the


number of bag of cement will be calculated as:

Quantity of cement mortar is required for rate analysis of


brickwork and plaster or estimation of masonry work for a
building or structure. Cement mortar is used in various
proportions, i.e. 1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, 1:6, 1:8 etc.

Example:

Calculation of quantity of cement mortar in brickwork


and plaster:For the calculation of cement mortar, let us
assume that we use 1m3 of cement mortar. Procedure for
calculation is:
1. Calculate the dry volume of materials required for
1m3 cement mortar. Considering voids in sands, we assume
that materials consists of 60% voids. That is, for 1m3 of wet
cement mortar, 1.6m3 of materials are required.

For cement mortar of


quantity calculated will

1:6, the
be as below:

Sand quantity:
Quantity of cement (in bags):
Volume of cement =

2. Now we calculate the volume of materials used in cement


mortar based on its proportions.
There number of bags required =
Lets say, the proportion of cement and sand in mortar is
1:X, where X is the volume of sand required.
Then, the volume of sand required for 1:X
proportion of 1m3 cement mortar will be

= 6.58 bags.

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