Advanced Materials and Techniques for Reinforced Concrete Structures

Abstract

Nowadays, there is a race among investors for constructing high-rise buildings due to high profits from the real estate business worldwide. Therefore, the major challenge for structural engineers is how to achieve the goal for the investors and the architects as well. The aim of this book is to present the most advanced materials and construction techniques used in the reinforced concrete structure industry. Because advanced materials are growing parallel to the development of new structure systems, the advantages and disadvantages of the different structure systems are very important from durability, reliability, and construction points of view. This book is intended to serve as a guide to junior and senior engineers who work in design, construction, and maintenance of reinforced concrete structures to assist them in choosing the most reasonable structure system, materials, method of construction, and maintenance plan. Construction quality control is the main factor that allows a firm to be competitive in the market, so this book is written to be easy for structural engineers to understand the statistical parameters that govern quality control in concrete construction projects. Its aim is to avoid complicated statistical terms, and instead be more applicable by using strong theoretical background information to help analyze and meet concrete construction quality control criteria. This book consists of three main approaches: the first chapters present ways to control a project to achieve the owner’s target and discusses different loads that affect the buildings from the point of view of the international codes. In addition, the different structure systems that are used in traditional and high-rise buildings will be presented with their advantages and disadvantages to assist the designer in choosing the optimum structure system to meet stability, reliability, and architectural requirements. The second main approach is to describe the traditional and most recent materials used in concrete technology such as high strength concrete, high performance concrete, and self-compacted concrete. Moreover, the book presents the modern techniques used in all construction stages in temperate and hot climate regions. After construction, the structural engineers may face many problems with the durability of the concrete, which can be achieved by using modern materials to protect steel bars from corrosion and avoid problems in countries with hot climates