ABSTRACT

This new edition of Ken Day's established professional guide provides comprehensive, readily understandable assistance to concrete producers in the design and control of their product, and looks as far as possible into the future of concrete.Concrete has become a complex material, generating hundreds, if not thousands, of PhD theses and a substanti

chapter 1|7 pages

Advice to specifiers

chapter 2|13 pages

Properties of concrete

chapter 3|54 pages

Mix design

chapter 4|57 pages

Quality control

chapter 5|33 pages

Concrete in the 22nd century

chapter 6|8 pages

Specification of concrete quality

chapter 7|28 pages

Aggregates for concrete

chapter 8|17 pages

Cementitious and pozzolanic materials

chapter 9|11 pages

Chemical admixtures

chapter 10|16 pages

Statistical analysis

chapter 11|37 pages

Testing

chapter 12|18 pages

Unchanging concepts!

chapter 13|7 pages

Troubleshooting