Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers (2nd Edition) [Hardcover]

Michael S. Mamlouk (Author), John P. Zaniewski (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0131477145 | ISBN-13: 978-0131477148 | Publication Date: September 9, 2005 | Edition: 2

Revision of the best selling civil engineering materials book on the market right now.  Appropriate for civil engineering students at the junior or senior level.  In the second edition, new sample problems have been added throughout the text.  Many numerical problems have been added  at the end of each chapter.  The authors added many figures and pictures throughout the MS, especially in the appendix.  The sections on Heat Treatment of Steel,  Properties of Blended Aggregates,  Admixtures for Concrete,  Superpave Mix Design have been changed or updated.  New sections on Bulk Unit Weight and Voids in Aggregate, Selef Consolidating Concrete and Flowable Fill, High-Performance Concrete have been added. 

Editorial Reviews

Review

“This is one of the most comprehensive and up to date CE materials textbooks available.”

-Jose Weissmann, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO

 

“This book is very well written and easy to follow.  The contents of aggregates, Portland cement concrete, and asphalt binders and asphalt mixtures are exactly what I need for teaching my transportation materials course.”

-Jie Han, KANSAS STATE

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Features

• Covers all commonly used construction materials:

  • Steel
  • Aggregates
  • Masonry
  • Wood
  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Asphalt
  • Composites
  • plus high-performance materials such as fiber-reinforced composites and plastics
  
  
• Emphasizes both quantitative and qualitative properties of materials
• Reviews basic engineering and microstructural properties of materials
• Presents laboratory experiments and tests
• Provides example problems and worked review questions for each chapter

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 592 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (September 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131477145
• ISBN-13: 978-0131477148
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #411,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read., January 6, 2009

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A. Patterson "CivEngGirl" (Bonita Springs, FL.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

This book was easy to read and follow along with. The information is mostly well laid out and the example problems are ok, could use more. Biggest downside was that the answers were not in the text.

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Book, September 30, 2011

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Olivia R. Mccracken (Portland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

This textbook is very vague and not the best book I have ever used, but if you are taking an introductory course to construction materials it will suffice.

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for solid knowledge without much flare, December 14, 2009

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N. Skachkov (NYC and Penn State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

I used this book in class. It isn't the most modern-looking or modern-feeling book by any means. However, the information is provided in a straight forward and simple way. There isn't too much unnecessary elaboration like many other textbook authors try to do to prove their credentials to the reader. At a personal level, I personally found the book really interesting. The information presented here was different than the average engineering book. This was a more of a guideline for design and explanation for why things the way they are - not a list of equations that you blindly follow. The examples are worked out clearly and everything seems to make sense right away. The book is relatively basic (at least my understanding of what basic is) but not boring. Good for people that want to understand whats going on. Its also not too math involved. As I said before, the different sections tend to outline the basics of a topic (concrete for example) and then the author goes step by step explaining how to design a mix for a specific purpose and how every property you choose will affect the outcome. Chances are you don't have a choice in whether to buy the book or not since its for a class, but if not, for what its worth, I recommend it.