Basic Construction Materials
by Theodore Marotta, John Coffey, Cynthia Lafleur-Brown, Christine Laplante
This practical textbook provides a foundation in construction materials, covering their properties, selection, testing, processing, and uses. It combines explanations with hands-on experiments, review questions, metric problems, reference standards, and updated resources addressing Superpave asphalt, sustainability, recycling, reuse, and laboratory data analysis.
About This Book
Basic Construction Materials introduces the commonly used materials that form the foundation of construction practice, including aggregates, asphalt, Portland cement concrete, masonry, ferrous metals, and wood.
The book examines how construction materials are selected and tested, along with their properties, uses, extraction and processing methods, and related equipment.
Hands-on experiments provide experience with testing procedures used on construction sites and with recording, analyzing, and reporting results.
Revised coverage addresses Superpave asphalt, sustainability in materials manufacture and use, recycling and reuse, metric information, and updated examples, tables, figures, charts, and photographs.
Review questions, metric problems, industry reference standards, data-recording sheets, and Excel spreadsheets support classroom learning and laboratory work.
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