Basic Construction Materials

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• Considers some of the most commonly used materials in construction—aggregates, asphalt and asphalt concrete, Portland cement and Portland cement concrete, masonry, ferrous metals, and wood.
• Gives students a strong foundation in basic construction materials—how they are selected and tested, their properties and uses, methods of extraction and processing, auxiliary equipment, and more.
• Gives students hands-on experience with testing procedures used on a daily basis on today's construction sites.
• Concludes each chapter with many review questions, metric problems, and a reiteration of usable industry reference standards.
• Provides students with immediate reinforcement and support of the concepts and applications they have just learned.
• Includes valuable metric information.
• Prepares students for an upcoming conversion in the construction industry to metrication.
• These experiments allow students and instructors to follow accepted guidelines for testing materials and analyzing results.
• Completely revised and updated, chapter 3 on asphalt includes extensive new information regarding Super Pave.
• Chapter 1 offers a new section highlighting concepts of sustainability in materials manufacture and use.
• Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6 concerning asphalt, concrete, iron and steel, and wood have been revised to reflect concerns about sustainability and materials recycling and reuse.
• A revised Instructor Test Bank is available electronically along with lecture slides for each chapter, providing updated lecture materials and exercises for presentation to students.
• New example problems have been developed for chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4.
• New data recording sheets and Excel spread sheets have been developed which make it easier for students to record, analyze, and report the results of material experiments.
• New tables, figures, charts, and photos have been added.
• Tables and figures are now identified separately so that readers may more easily follow and coordinate between text and graphic information.