For more details please contact:
Shri G. K. Ghosh,
Chief Engineer (EM & PC),
Damodar Valley Corporation,
Electricity Department, 10th Floor,

DVC Towers, VIP Road,

Kolkata - 700 054 .


One day Workshop cum training programme for brick kiln owners for use of fly ash in clay bricks will be organised at NTPC, Ramagundam (A.P.) in August 2004.

For more details please contact:
Shri Y. S. Gupta,  Sr. Manager (EMG),
National Thermal Power Corporation,
Ramagundam, P.O.-Jyothinagar,

Distt. Karimnagar (A.P.)

Book Reviews

Geotechnical  Aspects of Landfill

Design and Construction (2002)

Xuede Qian

Geotechnical Engineering Specialist Michigan

Department of Environmental Quality

Robert M. Koerner

Drexel University

Donald H. Gray

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The University of Michigan

 

This text addresses landfill design and construction issues in a comprehensive manner. It does this by focusing on all elements of a landfill from design to completion. The text also looks at actual, state–of-the-art construction procedures in a step-by-step manner. This is accomplished with carefully selected design equations and examples, diagrams, tables and homework problems.

 

Guide to the Deterioration and Failure of Building Materials

R.O. Heckroodt

2003, 184pp., Hard Cover Thomas Telford Ltd., Stock # 3172

 

Professionals concerned with the build environment are all too often confronted with cases where building materials failed prematurely. Information required for the understanding of the causes of such failures, for identifying the appropriate remedial action, is generally buried under a mass of other information unwieldy reference volumes. Numerous trade bulletins are also available, but they usually only deal with a particular group of materials.

This guide condenses and organizes the relevant information that should allow the professional to take appropriate action, or at least understand the recommendations made by  specialists. The distinction between the deterioration and failure of building material and  system failure of structures is sometimes rather blurred-this guide is mainly concerned with failure of materials, while system failures are only referred to when the possibility of confusion exists.

Information in the work has been condensed and organized as concise synopses and diagnostic tables, backed by overviews ad containing photographs and diagrams to aid the navigation of the reader. Contents include:

            ·        Failure of concrete

·        Metal failures and corrosion

·        Deterioration of masonry

·        Tiling failures

·        Deterioration of timber

·        Paint failures

 

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