Surinder Singh Virdi - Construction Science and Materials

1. Chapter 01
2. Chapter 02
3. Chapter 03
4. Chapter 04
5. Chapter 05
6. Chapter 07
7. Chapter 08
8. Chapter 09
9. Chapter 10
10. Chapter 11
11. Chapter 13
12. Chapter 14
13. Chapter 15
14. Chapter 16

1. Chapter 01
2. Chapter 02
3. Chapter 03
4. Chapter 04
5. Chapter 05
6. Chapter 06
7. Chapter 07
8. Chapter 08
9. Chapter 09
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Appendix 3

Second Edition

Surinder Singh Virdi

Lecturer in Construction
South and City College Birmingham

Visiting lecturer
City of Wolverhampton College

With contribution from
Robert Waters

Lecturer in Construction
South and City College Birmingham

This edition first published 2017
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All students should spend some time studying the first seven chapters.

Students pursuing Level 2 courses should focus additionally on .

Students pursuing Level 3/4/5 courses should study all chapters in this book.

Specimen assignment tasks are given in .

The website also includes solutions for the endofchapter exercises, information on the use of a scientific calculator, information on units, information on settlement and consolidation, the design of building foundations, the design of timber joists, daylight calculations and PowerPoint presentations on some topics.

This book has been written for students pursuing fulltime/parttime studies in level 2, 3, 4 and 5 programmes in Construction, Civil Engineering and Building Services. The book should also be informative for students on level 2/3 construction craft courses. The topics included cover most of the syllabus of the core subject of Construction Science and Materials. The syllabi cover a wide range of topics, and since Construction Materials is a subject on its own, the discussion in this book is focussed on a selection of nine materials that are used widely in building and civil engineering projects. Structural Mechanics is complex and is also a subject on its own; I have tried to include information on some of the basic concepts that students need to learn to achieve the relevant grading criteria.

The learning material has been divided among the first sixteen chapters, which provide information on construction science, construction materials and structural mechanics for the above courses. Two chapters from the first edition have been moved to the companion website, and two new chapters (Forces and structures 3) have been included in the second edition. Each chapter gives detailed explanations of the topics involved, and the text in the second edition is supported by a large number of illustrations and worked examples. To reinforce students' learning, almost all chapters have endofchapter exercises, and if a student has difficulty in obtaining the right answer, help is at hand in the form of solutions available on the companion website.

My thanks are due to my family, my students and colleagues for the interest they have shown in this project, and a special thank you to Robert Waters for his contribution towards the development of new material for this edition.

A big thank you to: Madeleine Metcalfe, Viktoria Vida (Editorial Assistant), Blesy Regulas (Project Editor) and Rajitha Selvarajan (Production Editor) for their support during the publication of this book.

Surinder Singh Virdi

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There you will find valuable material designed to enhance your learning, including:

1. Fully worked solutions to the exercises at the ends of chapters;
2. Model answers for the assignment tasks set in ;
3. Explanations of settlement and consolidation in structures; details on the design of building foundations; and daylight calculations;
4. A task+solution on the design of timber joists;
5. PowerPoint slides for lecturers on: Hookes Law; Forces and their Effects; Temperature and Heat Loss.

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1. Define speed, velocity and acceleration.
2. Explain mass, gravitation and weight.
3. Explain Newtons laws of motion and solve numerical problems based on these laws.
4. Explain work, energy and power, and solve numerical problems.