A quarter century has passed since pump concreting method was applied to concreting work, and now it is used in civil engineering as well as architecture. Although the method was used in early days in the condition that its effect on quality of concrete was not clear, the quality and the mixing proportion of concrete and the load after squeeze pumping have been clarified. It was used in various ways so that it has been stably fixed to concreting work. In this paper, the history of pump concreting method, the outline and utilization of pumping machine, the quality of concrete and the squeeze pumping performance are introduced including the effect of recent studies.
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