Building Materials
Testing and Sustainability
Price: 699.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199497218
Publication date:
15/05/2019
Paperback
816 pages
Price: 699.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199497218
Publication date:
15/05/2019
Paperback
816 pages
Building Materials, Testing and Sustainability is a comprehensive textbook designed to cater to undergraduate students of civil engineering, based on the recent AICTE syllabus on Materials, Testing & Evaluation. This book will be useful to architects (who usually specify the materials), students of diploma courses in civil engineering, and also serve as an invaluable reference to postgraduate students and practising engineers as well as researchers.
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Description
Building Materials, Testing and Sustainability is a comprehensive textbook designed to cater to undergraduate students of civil engineering, based on the recent AICTE syllabus on Materials, Testing & Evaluation. This book will be useful to architects (who usually specify the materials), students of diploma courses in civil engineering, and also serve as an invaluable reference to postgraduate students and practising engineers as well as researchers.
Each chapter starts with an introduction and historical review of the material discussed and proceeds to discuss about classifications, manufacture, important properties, advantages and disadvantages, green substitutes (if any), and sustainability. Traditional materials such as stones, bricks, lime, cement, mortars and plasters, aggregates, concrete, iron, steel, other metals, wood, glass, paints, as well as modern materials such as plastics, gypsum, special structural concretes, wood products, and ceramics are discussed. Thermal and sound insulating and waterproofing materials are also included. Students and engineers will find the separate chapter on testing and evaluation of these materials very useful.
Table of contents
- Properties of building materials
- Building stones
- Bricks and Brick substitutes
- Building lime
- Cement and cementitious materials
- Aggregates for concrete
- Mortars and plasters
- Concrete and reinforced concrete
- Special structural concretes
- Gypsum
- Wood and wood products
- Ferrous metals other than steel
- Steel
- Non-ferrous metals and alloys
- Glass
- Clay and ceramic products
- Plastics and rubbers
- Paints and varnishes
- Asphalt, bitumen, and tar
- Thermal insulating materials
- Sound insulating materials
- Waterproofing and damp-proofing
- Miscellaneous materials
- Deformation and fracture of materials
- Testing and evaluation of building materials
Features
- Based on latest Indian codes
- Discussion on alternate or substitute materials like M-Sand
- Includes sustainability and health effects of various materials and recent trends
- Provides over 300 illustrative figures and photographs and 200 tables to supplement the text and 30 case studies from actual practice
- Includes more than 750 review questions and 440 multiple choice questions (with answers) to test the understanding of the students
- More than 1440 references, which include relevant Indian and American codes
ONLINE RESOURCES
- Chapter-wise PowerPoint Presentations
For Students
- List of References
Review
An outstanding book! In essence, the book is comprehensive and unique. Without any exaggeration, I am learning new information. – Dr B Vijaya Rangan, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
The text is easily readable, comprehensive, and well supplemented with figures and photos - Dr P. Suryanarayana, Professor & Former Dean (Retd), Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
Description
Building Materials, Testing and Sustainability is a comprehensive textbook designed to cater to undergraduate students of civil engineering, based on the recent AICTE syllabus on Materials, Testing & Evaluation. This book will be useful to architects (who usually specify the materials), students of diploma courses in civil engineering, and also serve as an invaluable reference to postgraduate students and practising engineers as well as researchers.
Each chapter starts with an introduction and historical review of the material discussed and proceeds to discuss about classifications, manufacture, important properties, advantages and disadvantages, green substitutes (if any), and sustainability. Traditional materials such as stones, bricks, lime, cement, mortars and plasters, aggregates, concrete, iron, steel, other metals, wood, glass, paints, as well as modern materials such as plastics, gypsum, special structural concretes, wood products, and ceramics are discussed. Thermal and sound insulating and waterproofing materials are also included. Students and engineers will find the separate chapter on testing and evaluation of these materials very useful.
Read MoreReviews
An outstanding book! In essence, the book is comprehensive and unique. Without any exaggeration, I am learning new information. – Dr B Vijaya Rangan, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
The text is easily readable, comprehensive, and well supplemented with figures and photos - Dr P. Suryanarayana, Professor & Former Dean (Retd), Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
Read MoreTable of contents
- Properties of building materials
- Building stones
- Bricks and Brick substitutes
- Building lime
- Cement and cementitious materials
- Aggregates for concrete
- Mortars and plasters
- Concrete and reinforced concrete
- Special structural concretes
- Gypsum
- Wood and wood products
- Ferrous metals other than steel
- Steel
- Non-ferrous metals and alloys
- Glass
- Clay and ceramic products
- Plastics and rubbers
- Paints and varnishes
- Asphalt, bitumen, and tar
- Thermal insulating materials
- Sound insulating materials
- Waterproofing and damp-proofing
- Miscellaneous materials
- Deformation and fracture of materials
- Testing and evaluation of building materials
