Concrete in Hot Environments

ISBN-13: 9780367866310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 251 str.

I. Soroka

Opis

Elevated temperatures are known to affect the properties of both fresh and hardened concrete. This book describes in detail these effects and explains the mechanisms involved with particular reference to their practical aspects.

Spis treści

Portland cement. Setting and hardening. Mineral admixtures and blended cements. Workability. Early volume changes and cracking. Concrete strength. Drying shrinkage. Creep. Durability of concrete. Corrosion of reinforcement. Index.

O autorze

Itzhak Soroka is Professor of Civil Engineering at the National Building Research Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology at Haifa.