The rheological properties of concrete vary during pumping. In this study, the tests were conducted to evaluate whether changes in rheological properties of concrete during pumping occur only by pressure, or by both pressure and shear flow. A high-strength concrete with a design strength of 50 MPa was used in the experiment. From the test results, it was confirmed that the change of rheological properties of concrete during pumping was affected by both pressure and shear flow.

This is a development of testing method of pressurized absorption for prediction and evaluation on the pumpability about lightweight aggregate concrete. For this testing method, we device pressure vessel, plug, and process of experiment. As the results of experiment with hollow sphere, we found a equation on the load-displacement.