This book entitled Concrete Technology is an attempt to provide a textbook for Civil Engineering technicians, who are taking up a course in the polytechnics, or who are engaged in supervising quality control in concrete construction. The subject matter is organized for the specific needs of technicians.
The book has some specific and unique features. First, it is a pioneering attempt to provide a textbook for diploma course using scientific methods of subject matter analysis. Secondly, the text can be used as self-instructional material by the students if they are interested to orient themselves for self-study. This is achieved by including section like "Idea Direction", "Vocabulary Development, "Instructional Objectives" and "Work Book".
The book extensively follows the specifications and practices contained in the relevant Indian Standards. The book should also be of help to practicing engineers of PWD. MES and construction enterprises in the private and public sectors.
This book is a part of a package of instruction in Concrete Technology to be used along with the Laboratory Manual and Handbook.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P.D. Kulkarni
P.D. Kulkarni was Principal of the Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Chandigarh, till the year 1990 and retired from service in 1992. He graduated from the Pune Engineering College in 1954 in Civil Engineering and obtained a Diploma for Professional Teacher Education in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1966. He served in the Polytechnics in Rajasthan for 11 Years and worked as Professor of TTTI Chandigarh for 13 years since 1969. Beside Civil Engineering, his areas of interest are Educational Technology, Systems Development, Independent Study Techniques, Rural Development and Distance Teaching. He has published a number of papers in the above areas of special singificance to the improvement of technician Education.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R K Ghosh
Dr. R.K. Ghosh (Late) headed the Rigid Pavements Subdiscipline of the Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi, from 1961 till his premature death in 1981. He obtained his B.E. and C.E. degrees from Calcutta University in 1954 and 1955, respectively and his doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, in 1960. A well-known expert in the field of concrete technology and pavements, he made valuable contribution in this field.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Y R Phull
Y.R. Phull, scientist at the Central Road Research Institute, joined the institute in 1958. He holds a Master's degree in Highway Engineering from Punjab university, and had advanced training in France in 1962-63. He had been closely associated with Dr. R.K. Ghosh since 1965, and has worked in the areas of concrete pavements, rehabilitation and strengthening. Presently, he heads the Rigid Pavements Subdiscipline of the Institute.
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