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WC Branch Cube Crushing Competition – 2018

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Branch Chairman, Mfundo Taliwe and Dr Riaan Combrinck, PhD MScEng BEng, Senior Lecturer at Stellenbosch University welcomed everyone to the W. Cape Cube Crushing Competition held recently at the University of Cape Town. This year’s competition was kindly sponsored by PPC, who generously sponsored the prize money which was divided equally between the undergraduate and the post-graduate categories. This year the competition attracted a total of 27 entries.

The winning entry in each category (based on the strength of a single 100 mm cube specimen) was calculated as the closest to a target strength of 14.8 MPa of the '24-hour drip-dried' cube specimen.

The prizes were split as follows:

 

Category	Position	Name	Organisation
	Highest score	Charles May	University of Cape Town
Post graduate students	Runner up	Simon Odendaal	Lafarge
	Third place	Alice Bakera	University of Cape Town
	Highest score	Kelvin Mutaitina	Stellenbosch University
Undergraduate students	Runner up	Amond Ngobeni	Stellenbosch University
	Third place	Tianca Olivier	Stellenbosch University