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Advanced Concrete Technology Course program

2017 - 2018

No. Topics
1 Portland Cement production
2 Types of cement, Chemical Composition Of Cement
3 Hydration of cement, Microstructure of the hydrated cement paste
4 Aggregates, Deleterious Substances in Aggregate
5 Admixtures
6 Fresh concrete
7 Hardened Concrete and theories of concrete strength
8 Concrete Mix Design
9 Types of Concrete
10 Shrinkage and Shrinkage cracking
11 Creep of Concrete
12 Durability of Concrete ( steel Corrosion, Sulphate attack ,Thaw and freezing)
13 Thermal Cracking of Concrete
14 High Value Concrete
15 Fiber Reinforced Concrete
16 Light weight Concrete
17 Heavy weight concrete
18 Self-compacting concrete
19 Recycled concrete
20 Geopolymer concrete

References:
1. Advanced Concrete Technology - Constituent Materials, John Newman and Ban Seng Choo
2. Advanced Concrete Technology - Concrete Properties, John Newman and Ban Seng Choo
3. Advanced Concrete Technology Processes, John Newman and Ban Seng Choo
4. Advanced Concrete Technology - Testing & Quality, John Newman and Ban Seng Choo