Highway and Airport Engineering

Adrian R. Legault

Published by Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1960

About this Item

Vg, hardback, brown cloth covers with gilt titles in black panel on spine, ex-Royal Aircraft establishment Library, contents are clean and unmarked, small octavo 483pp. Weight 900g so a bulky and overweight book that will require extra shipping charges. An introductory textbook with 27 chapters & 3 appendices. Historcal; admin & financing; planning; plans, specifications, & contract; safety; location; geology & soils; problems of design; design of city streets; drainage problems; constructing grade; standards of construction; bituminous materials; bases & low-cost surfaces; determining thickness requirements for flexible pavements; design of bituminous mixes; bituminous pavements & surface treatments; design of Portland cement concrete pavements; construction of portland cemennt concrete pavements; rubber-bitumen pavements; maintenance problems; signs, signals & markings; use of aerial photos; water transportation; railways; pipe lines; conveyors. Above material was in 2 segments: highway & airport; waterways; railroads; pipe-lines & conveyors. Appendices; Federal Highway Act; major findings road test; geometric design standards, National system of Interstate & Defense highways. A very comprehensive textbook.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Highway and Airport Engineering
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall, New Jersey
• Publication Date: 1960
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Poor
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Engineering & Building