Abstract:
As one of the Programming Textbooks for New-century Higher Vocational
and Professional Civil Engineering, this book is published by Science Press in
August, 2001. This book has won the special prize of 2001-2003
Programming Textbooks for National IIigher Vocational and Professional
Civil Engineering proposed by Textbook Construction Expert Committee of
Chinese Academy of Sciences. It has gained good evaluations from peer
experts, construction technicians and teachers. It is one of the “Eleventh
Five-year Plan” National Textbooks for General Higher Education.
This book is suitable for students majoring in “Civil Engineering”,
“Construction Engineering”, “Engineering Supervision”, “Costing
Engineering”, and “Water Supply and Drainage Engineering”, also for the
engineers and technicians engaging in the relevant specialties.
For the sake of requirements for higher vocational and profcssional
teaching and vocational education, this book not only focuses on cement,
concrete, steel, new waterproof materials, but also introduces the
environment-friendly materials. It tries to make the teaching materials more
applicable, more substantial, more succinct, and more novel. Since it ‘was
published, this book has been amended and rewritten carefully to satisfj the
new amended national regulations and standards. Due to the limited
knowledge in the compilation of this book, mistakes and errors cannot be fully
avoided. The comments and criticism from the readers will be highly
