Concrete - Microstructure Properties and Materials 2006







Preface

There is a direct relationship between population and urbanization. During the

last 100 years, the world population has grown from 1.5 to 6 billion and nearly

3 billion people now live in and around the cities. Seventeen of the 20 megacities,

each with a population of 10 million or more, happen to be situated in developing

countries where enormous quantities of materials are required for the construction

of housing, factories, commercial buildings, drinking water and sanitation facilities,

dams and canals, roads, bridges, tunnels, and other infrastructure. And the

principal material of construction is portland cement concrete. By

volume, the largest manufactures product in the world today is concrete. Naturally, design and

construction engineers need to know more about concrete than about other materials

of construction.





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