Advanced Concrete Technology

Description

The book is divided into nine chapters. Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction of concrete,
including its historic development and advantages. Chapter 2 provides the knowledge of raw
materials used for making concrete, covering aggregates, binders, admixtures, and water. Chapter
3 discusses the properties of fresh concrete, including workability and the corresponding measurement
methods. Chapter 4 focuses on the structure of concrete at different scales, especially
the calcium silicate hydrate at nanometer scale. Chapter 5 covers the properties of hardened
concrete, including strength, durability, stress–strain relation, and dimension stability. Chapter 6
provides updated knowledge on various cement-based composites, including self-consolidation
concrete, ultra-high-strength concrete, and extruded and engineered cementitious composites.
Chapter 7 focuses the fracture behavior of concrete and provides the basic knowledge of fracture
mechanics of concrete. Chapter 8 covers the essential knowledge of nondestructive testing
of concrete engineering, including wave propagation theory in 1-D case, detecting principles of
different NDT methodologies and techniques of different NDT methods. In Chapter 9, the issues
regarding the future and development trend of concrete have been discussed.
Although the book is designed and written primarily to meet the teaching needs for undergraduate
students at senior level and graduate students at entry level, it can serve as a reference
or a guide for professional engineers in their practice.