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Concrete Temperature Monitoring

Concrete Temperature Monitoring

Concrete Temperature Monitoring

(OP)
Does anyone have experience with multiple methods of monitoring temperature in mass concrete?  What has worked the best/worst?  How do the prices compare with each other?  What method is recommended?  
I am looking to purchase some equipment to monitor internal temperatures in mass concrete.  I have a little experience with thermocouples, and from what I've been told have a margin of error of +/- 3 degrees.  I recently found a product called intelliRock.  The margin of error with this is +/- .001 degree C.  My only reservation on this is that it is rather expensive.  

Thanks!

 

RE: Concrete Temperature Monitoring

I don't know much about measuring the temperature of concrete, but I'd be willing to bet that 3 degrees is close enough and 0.001 degrees is ridiculously accurate and completely unnecessary.

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(OP)
Actually, when the specs hold you to a 35 degree difference between the core and the edge of the mass concrete, +/- 3 degrees is too great of a margin of error.  That is why I am pursuing something more accurate.   

RE: Concrete Temperature Monitoring

We've used a data logger with thermocouples and they seem to work quite well.

Dik

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