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The use of the newly-designed electronic accelerometer as an integral part of the vibration rheometer, for the first time made it possible to continuously and accurately record the acceleration of an apparatus piston as a solid mass oscillating in the test specimen of the material under sub-base excitation. The research is focused on plastic concrete, mortar and appropriate reference materials whose behavior was approximated to a pseudoplastic fluid. An analytical solution to the oscillation of the piston in the specimen is also provided. The research showed that a layer of the material with the properties close to the ideal Newtonian fluid forms around each particle exceeding 0.25 mm causing a reduction in resistance to deformation and compression in a specimen. The effect of vibrations on plastic concrete and similar materials is also described.

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