A new edition of a popular ASTM International publication on concrete expands and updates the information included. STP 169D, Significance of Tests and Properties of Concrete and Concrete-Making Materials, is now available for purchase through ASTM Customer Service.

Joseph Lamond, consulting engineer, and James Peilert, of the Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory, edited the volume, which contains the latest technology in concrete and concrete-making materials.

Six sections, and a total of 56 chapters, cover the following topics:

• General information on the nature of concrete, sampling, variability, and testing laboratories, including a new chapter on modeling cement and concrete properties,

• Properties of freshly mixed concrete,

• Properties of hardened concrete,

• Concrete aggregates, a newly revised section that presents topics in order of concern to most concrete users – grading, density, soundness, degradation resistance, petrographic examination, reactivity, and thermal properties,

• Materials other than aggregates: the chapter on curing materials now reflects the current technology of materials applied to new concrete surfaces, and the chapter on mineral admixtures has been separated into two chapters, supplementary cementitious materials and ground slag; and

• Specialized concretes, which contains a new chapter on self-consolidating concrete.

Copies of STP 169D (ISBN: 0-8031-3367-7, stock #: STP169D) may be ordered for $149 from ASTM Customer Service (phone: 610/832-9585; fax: 610/832-9555; or https://www.astm.org/contact/), or online at www.astm.org.

 
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