Concrete Petrography: A Handbook of Investigative Techniques, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9780367866884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 816 str.

Alan Poole; Ian Sims

Opis

Written by leading experts in the field, this new edition of Concrete Petrography is a unique and invaluable reference on the material properties of concrete. It covers all aspects of the petrographic study of hardened concrete and related materials, from the selection of sample material and its preparation as petrographic specim

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Petrographic equipment and methods 3. Sampling and specimen preparation 4. Composition of concrete 5. Appearance and textures of cementitious materials 6. Examination of deteriorated and damaged concrete 7. Precast and special concretes 8. Portland cement mortar, screeds, renders and special cements 9. Non-Portland cementitious materials, plasters and mortars.  Glossary of minerals

O autorze

Dr. Alan Poole began his career as a geologist before becoming a consultant specializing in the petrography of aggregates, concrete and related materials. He gained a wide experience of both the practical and research aspects of alkali-aggregate reaction in concrete working both in the UK and abroad. He is involved in specialist post-graduate training, with British and European standards committees and with technical working parties.

Dr. Ian Sims is a director of RSK Environment Ltd in the UK, where he is responsible for their Materials Consultancy team (including their Petrography Laboratory) and expert witness services. He is Chairman of the British Standards aggregates committee; and previously Secretary of the Geological Society (Engineering Group) working parties on Aggregates, Stone and Clay materials for construction, also their working party on Hot Deserts: engineering, geology and geomorphology, and of the RILEM international technical committees on alkali-aggregate reactivity in concrete (1988 to 2014).