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| | Product Details | | Author: | Sándor Popovics | | Hardcover: | 535 pages | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Publication Date: | March 09, 1998 | | ISBN: | 0471149039 | | Package Length: | 9.54 inches | | Package Width: | 6.44 inches | | Package Height: | 1.31 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.26 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 1 reviews |
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An exciting departure from the traditional concrete texts. Aug 07, 1998
Teaching concrete technology has all but disappeared in many of the colleges and universities. What has replaced that teaching are, in most cases, courses in fracture mechanics. In fact many colleges and universities use concrete only as a means to teach what is in effect either fracture mechanics or higher mathematics. Popovics' volume is a refreshing departure from that disturbing trend. Popovics is really the first to depart from the standard qualitative analyses of concrete. This book starts off where general concrete technology books finish. Make no mistake this text is about strength. And the approach is quite unique. Popovics uses a quantitative approach that allows him to summarize an entire century's worth of research while still presenting a fresh perspective on strength and strength related qualities. Popovics has really accomplished quite a feat. Just about anyone can discuss the effect of the curing temperature on concrete strength. Popovics goes well beyon! d that. He discusses the various models, the calculation of values versus strengths obtained experimentally, and even the interpretation of the kinetics. Just about anyone can discuss the effect of water content or air content on strength. Once again, Popovics goes well beyond that. Throughout the book he maintains a consistent balance between the theoretical or experimental basis and the practical validation. It's like walking through the history of concrete with a tour guide who consistently points out what you are looking at while giving his own opinion on what's really worth seeing. He starts off his tour with an exhaustive overview of compressive strength followed by other strengths. His text then takes a look at strength development and the structure of hardened paste and concrete. A final chapter devoted to elastic deformations rounds out the volume. The 75 pages of references alone are one of a kind and invaluable to the concrete practitioner. If that isn't enough ther! e is an accompanying computer program that proportions for ! concrete strength. It is outstanding. So who should buy this book? This text is written with the engineer in mind although any concrete professional will find it indispensable. I would recommend it particularly to concrete professionals that specify, design, produce, deliver or test concrete. Anyone teaching concrete materials but particularly strength or strength related properties should be familiar with this work. That's a wide audience but Popovics' book covers a wide spectrum. As a practicing educator who is also a licensed engineer I was extremely impressed with his treatment of the relationship between composition and strength of concrete. I think it provides the seminal treatment of that subject and it is a classic in itself. Although I wouldn't recommend it specifically for undergraduates, there are enough of the fundamentals to place this book on a par with Neville's book. This is not a reference book that will sit on a shelf collecting dust. It is one of those few ! eminently readable texts that users will quickly dog-ear and highlight to death. I enthusiastically recommend it! Please note that the views expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
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