Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers - Hardcover

Mamlouk, Michael S.; Zaniewski, John P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0673981878 ISBN 13: 9780673981875

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1998

Synopsis

Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers provides a current and comprehensive overview of the materials used by Civil and Construction engineers. It introduces the student to the important characteristics of these materials, their uses, and their properties. The focus of this book is on the practical application of information on civil and construction materials.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Features

• Covers all commonly used construction materials:

  • Steel
  • Aggregates
  • Masonry
  • Wood
  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Asphalt
  • Composites
  • plus high-performance materials such as fiber-reinforced composites and plastics
  
  
• Emphasizes both quantitative and qualitative properties of materials
• Reviews basic engineering and microstructural properties of materials
• Presents laboratory experiments and tests
• Provides example problems and worked review questions for each chapter

About the Author:

John P. Zaniewski is the Asphalt Technology Professor in the Department of Civil andEnvironmental Engineering at West Virginia University. While teaching at Arizona State University, Dr. Zaniewski was awarded Chi Epsilon's James M. Robbins Excellence-in-Teaching Award. He co-authored the textbook Modern Pavement Management. Dr. Zaniewski has been active in the field of technology transfer, and has presented more than 40 seminars in support of the T2 Program in several states.

About this edition

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0673981878
• ISBN 13: 9780673981875
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400