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Fully revised, with all codes and standards updated, this classic handbook offers construction professionals, engineers, and architects the most complete and current information available on all aspects of concrete technology and construction. Packed with essential data and illustrated instruction, it features 13 easy-access sections covering the full range of modern materials and methods--including formwork and shoring, batching and mixing, placing concrete, finishing and curing, architectural concrete, and concrete repair. This edition now incorporates the 1995 ACI Concrete Building Code and contains all-new material on high strength concrete and repair and design innovations resulting from the Northridge earthquake.
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"A thorough look at concrete construction."--Construction Data. The Bible of the industry, Concrete Construction Handbook has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the entire range of modern concrete technology and advanced practices. Professionals who turn to these pages will find extensively revised sections on materials, formwork and shoring, batching, mixing and transporting, finishing and curing, special concrete, and leading-edge building construction systems. Packed with the most needed concrete information and liberally illustrated with figures, tables, and graphs, this essential handbook features 13 easy-access parts in straightforward, nontechnical language. Updates through the 1995 ACI Concrete Building Code. All new material on high-stength concrete. Earthquake-resistant design innovations. Repair techniques developed after the Northridge earthquake. The latest on finishing, curing, special surface treatments, and ornamental concrete. New corrosion protection techniques. Form, testing, and equipment developments. And much more.
Fully revised, with all codes and standards updated, this classic handbook offers construction professionals, engineers, and architects the most complete and current information available on all aspects of concrete technology and construction. Packed with essential data and illustrated instruction, it features 13 easy-access sections covering the full range of modern materials and methods--including formwork and shoring, batching and mixing, placing concrete, finishing and curing, architectural concrete, and concrete repair. This edition now incorporates the 1995 ACI Concrete Building Code and contains all-new material on high strength concrete and repair and design innovations resulting from the Northridge earthquake.
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"A thorough look at concrete construction."--Construction Data. The Bible of the industry, Concrete Construction Handbook has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the entire range of modern concrete technology and advanced practices. Professionals who turn to these pages will find extensively revised sections on materials, formwork and shoring, batching, mixing and transporting, finishing and curing, special concrete, and leading-edge building construction systems. Packed with the most needed concrete information and liberally illustrated with figures, tables, and graphs, this essential handbook features 13 easy-access parts in straightforward, nontechnical language. Updates through the 1995 ACI Concrete Building Code. All new material on high-stength concrete. Earthquake-resistant design innovations. Repair techniques developed after the Northridge earthquake. The latest on finishing, curing, special surface treatments, and ornamental concrete. New corrosion protection techniques. Form, testing, and equipment developments. And much more.
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dry aggregate weight, required average strength, slipform operation, coloring admixtures, batching water, batching devices, wet sandblast, slipform paving, discharging concrete, walkway brackets, mockup sample, field mockup, batching controls, deflected strands, specific gravity factor, unformed surfaces, unit water content, stressing bed, slipform construction, shoring frames, architectural concrete, form vibrators, field cured cylinders, formwork and shoring, slipform paver Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Concrete Institute, United States, Bureau of Reclamation, California Department of Water Resources, New York, Roller Compacted Concrete, Concrete Manual, Portland Cement Association, Set-up Total Operations, Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles, Set-ups Total Operations, Welding Code, Courtesy of Eagle Iron Works, High Chair, Oroville Dam, Personnel Required, Wasted Effort, Concrete International, Courtesy of Portland Cement Assoc, Courtesy of Rexwerks, Form Fillers, North America, American Society of Civil Engineers, Cement Corp New!
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dry aggregate weight, required average strength, slipform operation, coloring admixtures, batching water, batching devices, wet sandblast, slipform paving, discharging concrete, walkway brackets, mockup sample, field mockup, batching controls, deflected strands, specific gravity factor, unformed surfaces, unit water content, stressing bed, slipform construction, shoring frames, architectural concrete, form vibrators, field cured cylinders, formwork and shoring, slipform paver Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Concrete Institute, United States, Bureau of Reclamation, California Department of Water Resources, New York, Roller Compacted Concrete, Concrete Manual, Portland Cement Association, Set-up Total Operations, Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles, Set-ups Total Operations, Welding Code, Courtesy of Eagle Iron Works, High Chair, Oroville Dam, Personnel Required, Wasted Effort, Concrete International, Courtesy of Portland Cement Assoc, Courtesy of Rexwerks, Form Fillers, North America, American Society of Civil Engineers, Cement Corp New!
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- Formwork for Concrete by M. Hurd on page 353, page 557, and page 197
- Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures (13th ed) (EB-001) by Portland Cement Association on page 181, page 274, and page 276
- Concrete Manual by Joseph J. Waddell on page 295, and page 525
- Roller Compacted Concrete by Kenneth D. Hansen on page 123, and page 124
- Practical Quality Control for Concrete by Joseph J. Waddell on page 294, and page 350
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- Soil Testing Manual: Procedures, Classification Data, and Sampling Practices by Robert W. Day on page 402, and Back Matter
- Neville on Concrete: An Examination of Issues in Practice by Adam Neville on page 89
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