Concrete Technology: Theory and Practice

This book is intended to provide students and professionals, a deep understanding of concrete technology. It explains the fundamental concepts, material characteristics and related laboratory experiments on concrete and its ingredients. It also includes latest relevant provisions of Indian standards such as IS 456, IS 10262, IS 383, IS 2386 and IS 516.

Salient features:

• Content of the book aligned with the mapping course outcomes, programs and Units Outcomes.
• In the beginning of each unit learning outcomes are listed to make the student understand what is expected out of him/her after completing that unit.
• Book provides lots of recent information, interesting facts, QR code for E-resources, QR code for use of ICT, projects, group discussion etc.
• Student and teacher centric subject materials included in book with balanced and chronological manner.
• Figures, tables, and software screen shots are inserted to improve clarity of the topics.
• Apart from essential information a ‘know more’ section is also provided in each unit to extend the learning beyond syllabus.
• Short questions, objective questions and long answer exercises are given for practice of students after every chapter.
• Solved and unsolved problems including numerical examples are solved with systematic steps.