Basic Concrete Engineering for Builders

Basic concrete design principles in terms readily understood by anyone who has poured and finished site-cast structural concrete. Shows how structural engineers design concrete for buildings – foundations, slabs, columns, walls, girders, and more. Tells you what you need to know about admixtures, reinforcing, and methods of strengthening concrete, plus tips on field mixing, transit mix, pumping, and curing. Explains how to design forms for maximum strength and to prevent blow-outs, form and size slabs, beams, columns and girders, calculate the right size and reinforcing for foundations, figure loads and carrying capacities, design concrete walls, and more. Includes a CD-ROM with a limited version of an engineering software program to help you calculate beam, slab and column size and reinforcement.

256 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, $39.50