Earth Plus® Conductive Concrete is Safety Protection Grid Solution’s brand name for conductive concrete. Our Earth Plus® Conductive Concrete has a resistance value around 20 Ohms per centimeter (cm).
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Soil Resistivities (Approximate Ohm-Meters) | |||
Description | Median | Minimum | Maximum |
Topsoil, Loam | 26 | 1 | 50 |
Inorganic clays of high plasticity | 33 | 10 | 55 |
Fills-ashes, cinders, brine wastes | 38 | 6 | 70 |
Gravelly clays, sandy clays, silty clays, lean clays | 43 | 25 | 60 |
Slates, shales | 55 | 10 | 100 |
Silty or clayey fine sands with slight plasticity | 55 | 30 | 80 |
Clayey sands, poorly graded sand-clay mixtures | 125 | 50 | 200 |
Fine sandy or silty clays, silty clays, lean clays | 190 | 80 | 300 |
Decomposed gneisses | 275 | 50 | 500 |
Silty sands, poorly graded sand-silt mixture | 300 | 100 | 500 |
Clayey gravel, poorly graded gravel, sand-clay mixtures | 300 | 200 | 400 |
Well graded gravel, gravel-sand mixtures | 800 | 600 | 1,000 |
Granites, basalts, etc. | 1,000 | ---- | --- |
Sandstone | 1,010 | 20 | 2,000 |
Poorly graded gravel, gravel-sand mixtures | 1,750 | 1,000 | 2,500 |
Gravel, sand, stones, little clay or loam | 2,585 | 590 | 4,580 |
Surface limestone | 5.050 | 100 | 10,000 |
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Note 1: Low resistivity soils are highly influenced by the presence of moisture | |||
Note 2: Low resistivity soils are more corrosive than high resistivity soils |