About this Training Series #4
This concise but comprehensive mini treatise on the subject of structural concrete briefly covers the all-important disciplines of:
• design of High Strength concrete mix.
• Its statistical control for quality
• Concrete in Hot-weather and aggressive environment and in sea-water surroundings
• Durability and deterioration of structural concrete
• High Performance Structural Concrete
• Strength and Properties of Structural concrete
This approach and the explanatory is pin-pointed, professional-practice oriented and entirely workman-like.
The Engineers in the field, who may not be terribly interested in a theoretical hyperbole, is always short on time and long on effort because he has to ‘deliver’ the project in time as the elected public-representative is answerable to his electorate for accomplishing the project as early as possible. In pursuance of this aim, the little book readily provides ‘practical’ answers without waffling, sacrificing neither the ‘nuances’ nor the ‘subtilities’ enroute.
About the Author
Dr. V. K. Raina Team Leader of the UN Team-of-Experts for over 10 years for multi-Billion US $ Highways-&-Bridges Projects in the Middle East; Ph.D. and D.I.C. from the Imperial College, University of London, England; Double GOLD Medalist at the Engineering Graduation; Registered Chartered Engineer in the UK and Europe; Registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada; Consultant and Senior Expert for nearly 17 years with The UN, The World Bank, The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and The African Development Bank, and Resource–person with The Asian Development Bank; AND Technical Advisor to many Govts. and States; ALSO Professor-Emeritus; Distinguished CHAIR Professor BRIDGES (AICTE), Life-time Achievement Awardee in Civil Engineering in the fields of BRIDGE: Design, Construction, and Rehabilitation-and-Retrofitting; recipient of the coveted S.B.Joshi Award of Excellence in Bridge Engineering.
......He has professionally worked in over 20 Countries and trained hundreds of Engineers in the above fields; has DESIGNED and SUPERVISED CONSTRUCTION of over 1,10,000 lane-meters of CONCRETE BRIDGES in different countries on various types of foundations in different substrata conditions [in POST- TENSIONED and PRE-TENSIONED PRESTRESSED Concrete and REINFORCED concrete, Straight / Skew / Curved - Continuous, Semi-Continuous and Determinate - Superstructures (voided slabs, boxes, beams- and-slab), constructed segmentally, in-place or precast in place / launched; on caisson / pile / open foundations]......has authored 16 PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE-CLASS Books of INTERNATIONAL STANDING and over 100 Professional Technical PAPERS and ADVISORIES
.......In addition, he has INVESTIGATED and EXAMINED the STRUCTURAL and FORENSIC HEALTH of many Bridges -and Retrofitted many- in various Countries: RATU, SHIVA GANGA, JHARAI and other Bridges in Nepal, MAHAD in Maharashtra, TALLAH, DUNLOP and VIVEKANANDA Flyovers in Kolkata, SUKTEL in Odisha, KATNI in M.P., being only a few examples at random.”
