Concrete Construction: Practical Problems and Solutions

✍ Scribed by Akhtar Surahyo

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a thorough and comprehensive update of the 2002 edition, that incorporates detailed references to the Canadian, American, and British (European) standards, contextualized by the author based on over 30 years of construction experience. In addition to updates to the core text, many new topics are presented in the second edition, including a chapter discussing the methods for achieving quality control and ensuring quality assurance in concrete construction.

The book consists of two parts. The first part provides basic information about normal concrete, its grades used on sites and various kinds of modified concretes such as fiber- reinforced concrete, sulphur concrete, roller compacted concrete, high performance concrete, ultra- high performance concrete, and flowing concrete. . It further addresses physical properties of concrete and various types of Portland cement, blended cements, admixtures, additives including properties of aggregates and their influence. The second part of the book highlights the principal causes of concrete deterioration along with protective measures, resulting from incorrect selection of constituent materials, poor construction methods, external factors, chemical attack, corrosion problems, hot and cold weather effects, and the various errors in designing and detailing. Featuring an extensive bibliography of the highly adopted standards as well as manuals and journals critical to the construction industry at the end of each chapter, the volume offers readers an advanced understanding of the theory and practical application of concrete technology and international standards in North America and Britain.

• Addresses concrete technology as well as concrete construction practices, meeting national and international standards;
  
• Maximizes readers' understanding of the principal causes of concrete deterioration along with protective measures;
  
• Facilitates readers' grasp of different nomenclature used for the same materials in different parts of the world;
  
• Features suitable tables, charts, and diagrams that illustrate and organize useful information;
  
• Explains sustainable concrete doctrine and how to achieve it meeting green concrete / building requirements;
  
• Provides a glossary, conversion factors, and examples of concrete mix design.
  

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Concrete (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 3-20
Constituent Materials (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 21-59
Physical Properties of Concrete (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 61-88
Proportioning of Concrete Mixes (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 89-103
Sustainable Concrete (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 105-121
Front Matter ....Pages 123-124
Incorrect Selection of Constituent Materials (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 125-136
Poor Construction Methods (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 137-186
External Factors (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 187-222
Chemical Attack (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 223-238
Corrosion of Embedded Metals in Concrete (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 239-255
Hot and Cold Weather Concreting (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 257-272
Errors in Design and Detailing (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 273-285
Achieving Quality in Concrete Construction (Akhtar Surahyo)....Pages 287-302
Back Matter ....Pages 303-320

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Building Materials; Building Law; Structural Materials; Building Construction and Design