Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers in SI Units (4^th Ed.)

Civil and Construction Engineering Materials: Properties, Uses, and Evaluations

Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers helps readers understand and select the materials involved in supporting the infrastructure needs of society--from buildings, to water and treatment distribution systems, to dams, highways, and airport pavements. By gaining a deep understanding of material behavior and the material selection process, readers can begin to understand how to create and maintain civil and construction engineering systems crucial to society.

The primary focus of the updates presented in this fourth edition was on the sustainability of materials used in civil and construction engineering. The information on sustainability was updated and expanded to include the most recent information. In addition, sections were added describing the sustainability considerations of each material. The problem set for each chapter was updated and increased to provide some fresh exercises. References were updated and increased in all chapters to provide students with additional reading on current issues related to different materials.

ONE Materials Engineering Concepts
1.1 Economic Factors
1.2 Mechanical Properties
1.2.1 Strain Relations
1.2.3 1.2.6 hetic Characteristics
1.6 Sustainable Design
1.7 Material Variability
1.7.1 ential Transformer (LVDT)
1.8.3

3.12 Steel Sustainability

3.12.1

3.12.2

Summary

Questions and Problems

3.13 References

4.6 Aluminum Sustainability

4.6.1 s

4.6.2 Summary
Questions and Problems
4.7 References

5.7.1 rations

5.7.2

Summary

Questions and Problems
5.8 References

6.13.1

6.13.2

Summary
Questions and Problems
6.14 References

7.6.12

7.7 Concrete Sustainability

7.7.1

EIGHT Masonry
8.1 Masonry Units
8.1.1 8.4 Plaster

8.5 Masonary Sustainability

8.5.1

Michael S. Mamlouk is a Professor of Civil, and Environmental and Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University. He has many years of experience in teaching courses of civil engineering materials and other related subjects at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers contains the following features to facilitate learning:

The text is organized into three parts to help students digest the vast amount of information available on this topic

• Part one provides an introduction to materials and engineering, including discussions on the basic mechanistic properties of materials, their environmental influences, and basic material classes, as well as methods for quality control.
• Part two provides detailed introductions to the primary material types used in civil and construction engineering, including:
  • Steel
  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Masonry
  • Asphalt
  • Wood
  • Composites
• Part three offers laboratory methods for material evaluation.

UPDATED! The second edition refines and updates the first with notable additions

• UPDATED! Description of heat treatments, phase diagram, and the heat-treating effects of welding have been improved with new sections.
• NEW! Section on stainless steel has been added with updates to the current information on the structural uses of steel.
• UPDATED! Chapters on cement and concrete have new sections on hydration-control admixtures, recycled wash water, silica fume, self-consolidating concrete, and flowable fill.
• REVISED! The asphalt chapter has been rewritten to include a discussion on Superpave, as well as to accommodate the current methods and procedures for performance grading of asphalt binders.
• REVISED! The wood chapter now includes recent information on new manufactured wood products.
• NEW! The composites chapter offers examples of fiber-reinforced polymer to reflect its growing use in retrofitting old or part