Concrete: Microstructure, Properties, and Materials, 4th Ed.

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THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND CURRENT GUIDE TO THE PROPERTIES, BEHAVIOR, AND TECHNOLOGY OF CONCRETE

This thoroughly updated edition contains new information on:

• Recently built construction projects worldwide
• Shrinkage-reducing admixtures
• Self-consolidating concrete, pervious concrete, internal curing, and other cutting-edge innovations
• Modeling of ice formation and alkali-aggregate reaction in concrete
• Environmental impact of concrete

Each chapter begins with a preview of the contents and ends with a self-test and a guide for further reading. More than 300 drawings and photographs illustrate the topics discussed in this definitive text on concrete.

Comprehensive coverage includes:

• Microstructure of concrete
• Strength
• Dimensional stability
• Durability
• Hydraulic cements
• Aggregates
• Admixtures
• Proportioning concrete mixtures
• Concrete at early age
• Nondestructive methods
• Progress in concrete technology
• Advances in concrete mechanics
• Global warming and concrete in the future