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In construction industry, concrete exist as most  popular building material exist in two forms as fresh concrete and hardened concrete. Fresh concrete , this is concrete in plastic state that can be poured or casted in different shaped forms to form artificial hard rock on hardening. Hardened concrete , this is the concrete in solid form, concrete that lost its plasticity property so it can not be poured or casted in forms. Concrete in each form or state has its specific properties which describe its behaviors in different conditions during its lifetime. The following are the properties of hardened concrete which describe how hardened concrete behaves and how they affected by external surrounding. Strength Strength , this is the ability of hardened concrete to withstand induced stresses in structure where is going to be used. The strength of concrete can be  expressed in three kinds, due to different kinds of stresses that exist from structure usage, here we have compressive strength,