Properties of Concrete: Properties of Concrete, 5th Edition

Preface to the Fifth Edition

The format, organization and style of this edition are the same as those of the previous editions. The justification is that those features have shown themselves to be successful by the fact that sales have continued to be strong right up to the year 2011. The total sales in English, as well as in the 12 languages into which this book has been translated, exceed half-a-million copies over a period of nearly half-a-century.

With the passage of time, standards evolve, become modified, withdrawn and replaced. This produces a need for updating a technical book such as Properties of Concrete and can be accommodated by minor changes in new impressions of an existing edition, as was done in the 14 impressions of the fourth ...