During his long career, Pier Luigi Nervi has explored the potential of concrete through the cast-in place and the prefabrication of elements in reinforced concrete or in ferro-cement, the material he invented and patented during the war. All of his best known works, such as the …
During his long career, Pier Luigi Nervi has explored the potential of concrete through the cast-in-place and the prefabrication of elements in reinforced concrete or in ferrocement, a material he invented and patented during the war. All of his best known works such as the Stad…
Provides a thorough review of properties, durability and use of high performance concrete, derived from recent research and experience. This book contains contributions from the leading French, Canadian and Swiss researchers, designers and material specialists, translated into E…
Fresh concrete must be produced with the properties required for its intended applications, for example, it must be workable enough to flow into formwork, and to be compacted. This book deals with the measurement of the flow properties of fresh concrete and the factors which aff…
"This volume emphazises the most recent advances in fracture mechanics as specifically applied to steel bar reinforced concrete. Fracture mechanics has been applied to plain and fibre reinforced concrete with increasing success over recent years. This workshop extended these con…
"This book forms the Proceedings of an RILEM workshop in Barcelona in November 1994. It is structured as a series of presentations/reviews by some of the leading international researchers and technical experts of the concrete world. Coverage ranges from developments in materials…
"One of the most popular books in civil engineering returns with an all-new second edition. In the past decade, many new technologies and methods have developed in this field. This 2nd edition will include the state-of-the-art of advanced concrete technologies developed in the l…
"One of the most popular books in civil engineering returns with an all-new second edition. In the past decade, many new technologies and methods have developed in this field. This 2nd edition will include the state-of-the-art of advanced concrete technologies developed in the l…
Advanced concrete technology
by Li, Zongjin, Zhou, Xiangming, Ma, Hongyan, Hou, Dongshuai
"One of the most popular books in civil engineering returns with an all-new second edition. In the past decade, many new technologies and methods have developed in this field. This 2nd edition will include the state-of-the-art of advanced concrete technologies developed in the l…
Management of structure formation and properties of cement concretes
by Parinov, Ivan A., Cherpakov, Alexander V., Mailyan, Levon R., Stel'makh, Sergey A., Shcherban', Evgenii M., Kholodnyak, Mikhail G., Smolyanichenko, Alla S.
fromInnovation and Discovery in Russian Science and Engineering
The book presents Russian experience in researching and developing theoretical and experimental problems of heavy concrete elements and constructions with functionally gradient structure, manufactured by using mechanical and electromagnetic vibrations, and broadly utilized in di…
"The central event in Time, forward! is a successful attempt by a brigade of workmen at Magnitogorsk, in competition with a brigade working in Karkov, to break the world's record for pouring concrete. The vivid action reveals the mechanisms developed in the USSR during the Firs…