Concrete Petrography: A Handbook of Investigative Techniques, Second Edition, Edition 2
About this ebook
Now in full color throughout, Concrete Petrography, Second Edition provides case study examples, with appropriate explanatory discussions and practical advice on selecting, handling and preparing specimens. It assists and guides the engineer, the trainee and the experienced petrographer in understanding the scientific evidence that is basic to petrographic analysis and so will lead to more accurate and timely diagnosis and treatment of problems in structural concrete.
This book includes:
- Contributions in specialist areas by internationally recognized experts
- Explanation of computer techniques as an aid to petrography
- Full coverage of inspection, sampling, and specimen preparation
- New sections covering recent technological development of equipment
- Guidance on observation of cement and concrete mineralogy and microfabrics
- Discussion and illustrative examples of deterioration and failure mechanisms
- New work and guidance on the determination of water/cement ratio
- New color illustrations and micrographs throughout
- Thorough updating of standards, other authoritative publications, and references
- A fully revised, extended, and updated glossary of optical and other properties
About the author
Dr. Alan Poole began his career as a geologist before becoming a consultant specializing in the petrography of aggregates, concrete and related materials. He gained a wide experience of both the practical and research aspects of alkali-aggregate reaction in concrete working both in the UK and abroad. He is involved in specialist post-graduate training, with British and European standards committees and with technical working parties.
Dr. Ian Sims
is a director of RSK Environment Ltd in the UK, where he is responsible for their Materials Consultancy team (including their Petrography Laboratory) and expert witness services. He is Chairman of the British Standards aggregates committee; and previously Secretary of the Geological Society (Engineering Group) working parties on Aggregates, Stone and Clay materials for construction, also their working party on Hot Deserts: engineering, geology and geomorphology, and of the RILEM international technical committees on alkali-aggregate reactivity in concrete (1988 to 2014).
