Concrete Construction Made Easy - Giving Designs, Tables, Data, and Other Information to Aid Builders to Carry Out Simple Kinds of Concrete Structures


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An in-depth guide to using concrete as a building material. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.










Concrete Designers' Manual


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Basic Concrete Engineering for Builders


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Concrete can be a pretty unforgiving building material. Ask any of the builders who come into your store and they'll usually have a horror story to share about a concrete job gone awry and how much it cost them.Basic Concrete Engineering for Builders may be one of the only books available today that explains how to avoid common concrete problems with foundations, slabs, columns, and more. It gives step-by-step explanations on how to plan, mix, reinforce and pour concrete. It also shows how to design concrete for buildings -- the calculations, the tables, and the rules of thumb, with examples and insight into the working knowledge that every builder needs.Most builders don't end up specifying requirements for structural concrete work. That's the job of an engineer. But most builders working with concrete need a good general understanding of the concepts behind structural concrete engineering. They need to know about: surveying, foundation layout, formwork, form materials, forming problems, aggregates, admixtures, reinforcing, mixing and placing requirements, pumping, creating joints, curing, and testing the concrete's strength. They need to know basic design for walls, columns, slabs, slabs-on-grade, one- and two-way slabs, elevated slabs, equipment pads, pre-cast walls, retaining walls, basement walls, crib walls, reinforcing beams and girders, driveways, sidewalks, curbs, catch basins, manholes and other miscellaneous structures, as well as how to calculate the reinforcement needed for these structural components. You'll find all this information in this book and on the software included in the back.Includes Free Engineering Software: A CD-ROM is included with easy-to-useengineering software for designing simple concrete elements for beams, slabs and columns.










Concrete Designers' Manual


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Excerpt from Concrete Designers' Manual: Tables and Diagrams for the Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures The tables and diagrams presented in this manual make possible the rapid designing of reinforced concrete structures in accordance with the Joint Committee Recommendations, the American Concrete Institute Recommendations, the New York Building Code Requirements and the Chicago Building Code Requirements. Some of these tables and diagrams will also be found of such a general nature that they can be used when the designing requirements are different from any of those mentioned. No tables are presented based on the flat slab recommendations of the Joint Committee as these recommendations are so conservative that they are not used to any extent. The authors have for some time been preparing and using in their practice various tables and diagrams in order to finally obtain complete data in the most, convenient form and of the greatest value to the majority of designing engineers. The collection given in this book is the result. No attempt has been made to develop theory or to duplicate information not directly relating to concrete design which can conveniently be found in other handbooks possessed by all designers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Concrete


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