About this Training Series #3
This short volume briefly enumerates and pin-pointedly draws the engineer’s attention to the otherwise ever divergent subject matter of the specifications for some important repair-materials, and repair methods, procedure and techniques concerned with structures in general and Bridges in Particular.
It lucidly covers various ‘Admixtures’ ‘Shotcrete’, ‘Gunite’, ‘Crack repairs’, ‘Repair of Concrete’, ‘ Epoxy Bonding’, ‘Curing’, ‘Concreting under water’, ‘ Control of Surface-evaporation of laid-concrete’, ‘Acceptability of Concrete Strength’ ‘Curing and Surface Protection of laid-concrete’, ‘Concreting in adverse weather conditions’, ‘Concrete exposed to Sea water’, ‘Recommendations for Durable Concrete’, etc.
All in all: a depository of ‘Specifications for Good Practicel !
About the Author
Dr. V. K. RainaTeam 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; ANDTechnical 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.”
