PREFACE to Advanced Concrete Technology

The Advanced Concrete Technology by John Newman and Ban Seng Choo guide relies on the syllabus and studying goals devised by the Institute of Concrete Technology for the Advanced Concrete Technology (ACT) course.

The primary ACT course was held in 1968 on the Fulmer Grange Coaching Centre of the Cement and Concrete Affiliation (now the British Cement Affiliation).

Following a re-organization of the BCA the course was introduced at Imperial Faculty London from 1982 to 1986 and at Nottingham College from 1996 to 2002.

With advances in computer-based communications know-how the normal residential course has now been changed within the UK by a web-based distance studying model to focus extra on self-learning reasonably than instructing and to permit higher entry for contributors outdoors the UK.

This Advanced Concrete Technology by John Newman and Ban Seng Choo guide, in addition to being a reference doc in its personal proper, offers the core materials for the brand new ACT course and is split into 4 volumes masking the next basic areas:

• constituent supplies

• properties and efficiency of concrete • varieties of concrete and the related processes, plant and strategies for its use in development

• testing and high quality management processes. The goal is to supply readers with an in-depth information of all kinds of subjects inside the discipline of concrete know-how at a complicated stage.

To this finish, the chapters are written by acknowledged specialists of their fields.

The Advanced Concrete Technology by John Newman and Ban Seng Choo guide has taken a comparatively very long time to assemble in view of the numerous authors so the contents are a snapshot of the world of concrete inside this timescale.

It’s hoped that the Advanced Concrete Technology by John Newman and Ban Seng Choo guide will probably be revised at common intervals to replicate modifications in supplies, strategies and requirements.

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