Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures,

14th edition - Covers fundamentals and detailed information on freshly mixed and hardened concrete. It also discusses portland cements, supplementary cementing materials, aggregates, admixtures and fibers; air entrainment; procedures for proportioning, batching, mixing, transporting, handling, placing, consolidating, finishing, and curing concrete; precautions necessary during hot- and cold-weather concreting; causes and methods of controlling volume changes; commonly used control tests for quality concrete; special types of concrete, such as high-performance, lightweight, heavyweight, no-slump, roller-compacted, shotcrete, mass concrete, and many more. Applicable ASTM, AASHTO, and ACI standards are referred to extensively. Available in hardcopy and CD-ROM. CD-ROM extras: links from references in the book provide access to 170 research reports and relevant web sites, PowerPoint slides and short video clips. Information is indexed and can be searched using keywords or phrases.