Building construction and materials
The size of the present book has been enlarged considerably easily it has been updated according to the latest trends on valuable suggestions and specifications from learned professors of various engineering colleges. Basic engineering material like stone, bricks, lime, cement, timber and iron has b...
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New Delhi, India
Standard Book House
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Foundations
- Setting out plan and excavation of foundation
- Pile foundations
- Caisson
- Cofferdams
- Structural design od foundation
- Stone masonry
- Brick masonry
- Composite masonry, cavity walls and partition walls
- Damp-proofing and termite proofing
- Scaffolding, shoring and underpinning
- Lintels
- Arches
- Planning and design of stairs
- Plain concrete
- Reinforced cemment concrete and prestressed concrete
- Form-work
- Doors and windows
- Carpentry and joinery
- Ground floors
- Upper floors and their designs
- Roofs
- Roofs coverings
- Structural steel work
- Fire protection of buildings
- Thermal insulation of building
- Acoustics
- Sound insulation of buildings
- Ventilation and air conditioning of a building
- Building planning
- Plastering and pointing
- White washing, colour washing and distempering
- Paints and varnishes
- Building services
- Joints in structures
- Construction management and planning
- Construction equipment
- Stones
- Bricks
- Lime
- Cement
- Timber
- Iron
- Design of earthquake resistant constructions