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Basic Construction Materials (6th Edition)

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This was interesting reading on the industrial uses of common building materials.Six major materials are explained in detail.First,the aggregates and secondly,the asphalt with or without concrete.The third and the fourth are Portland cement concrete and the masonry.The last two materials are iron(steel) and wood.Many review questions revised and expanded.Discussion on plastics,glass, and sheetrock.Appendix on codes and standards(A.S.T.M.).Plenty of metric examples and illustrations.The text provides valuable information on structural engineering standards for up-dating today's infrastructure needs for tomorrow's uses.

I bought this book for a construction materials class and it has proved to be very informative and thourough.

This book is in a head on collision with the applicable codes and basic engineering judgement, for instance question (10 on page 225) showing a 10 feet wall with 1 ft thickness and two feet wide footing with no reinforcement, what happened to concrete creep, shrinkage, fondation design and differential settlement, also on part c of the same question, the layout of the reinforcement with open transverse reinforcement and two adjacent bars with no ties which is not acceptable by ACI 318, if you don't have time to consider this major basic details use a cookbook, and this goes on and on.
but the book has some qood pictures though.

Purchased this book in used but good condition. I was in exactly that condition when it arrived. Actually I would call it very good but used, I am very pleased with the quality of the book and the accuracy of the description from the seller. And I ordered fast shipping and I had it in 3 days. I'm very pleased with that too.

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