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Concrete: Microstructure, Properties, and Materials
- ISBN 13:
9780071797870
- ISBN 10:
0071797874
- Edition: 4th
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/03/2013
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary
THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND CURRENT GUIDE TO THE PROPERTIES, BEHAVIOR, AND TECHNOLOGY OF CONCRETE
This thoroughly updated edition contains new information on:
- Recently built construction projects worldwide
- Shrinkage-reducing admixtures
- Self-consolidating concrete, pervious concrete, internal curing, and other cutting-edge innovations
- Modeling of ice formation and alkali-aggregate reaction in concrete
- Environmental impact of concrete
Each chapter begins with a preview of the contents and ends with a self-test and a guide for further reading. More than 300 drawings and photographs illustrate the topics discussed in this definitive text on concrete.
Comprehensive coverage includes:
- Microstructure of concrete
- Strength
- Dimensional stability
- Durability
- Hydraulic cements
- Aggregates
- Admixtures
- Proportioning concrete mixtures
- Concrete at early age
- Nondestructive methods
- Progress in concrete technology
- Advances in concrete mechanics
- Global warming and concrete in the future
