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Description: Chinese edition of PCA's premier publication includes translation of the popular 14th U.S. edition of Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures (EB001.14)
From the basics to specifics of materials, mixing, placing, testing, and new developments, this manual on concrete technology covers about every aspect of the most widely used construction material in the world.
This reference on concrete technology covers fundamentals and detailed information on freshly mixed and hardened concrete. Topics include portland cement manufacture, types (including blended hydraulic cements), and chemical composition. Cement fineness, soundness, setting time, compressive strength, and heat of hydration are also covered. Describes supplementary cementing materials such as fly ash, slag and silica fume. Gives tolerable impurity levels in mixing water. Discusses coarse- and fine-aggregate grading, shape and surface texture, unit weight, specific gravity, absorption, freeze-thaw resistance, abrasion resistance, alkali aggregate reactions, and thermal properties. Effects of air-entraining admixtures, water-reducers, retarding admixtures, and accelerators. Properties of air-entrained concrete and factors affecting air content are also included. Sections on proportioning from field data and trial mixtures give numerical examples. Effects of water-cement ratio, cement content, and air content are illustrated. Production topics include batching, mixing, transporting, and handling. Construction topics include forms, placing, vibration, finishing, jointing, and curing. Hot- and cold-weather concreting, including effects of temperature extremes on concrete properties. Volume changes caused by loads or by temperature or moisture content variations. Describes tests for slump, air content, temperature, and unit weight of fresh concrete, plus strength, durability, and permeability of hardened concrete. Nondestructive tests are also described. Special concretes are discussed; high-performance concretes are covered in detail. Eighteen chapters and a comprehensive glossary.
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