Research Catalog

Title

Historic concrete : background to appraisal / edited by James Sutherland, Dawn Humm, and Mike Chrimes.

Publication

London : Thomas Telford ; Reston, VA : [Distributed in the USA by] ASCE Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Sutherland, R. J. M.
• Humm, Dawn.
• Chrimes, Mike

Description

437 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Subject

• Concrete bridges
• Concrete construction > Great Britain > History
• Historic buildings
• Concrete dams

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / James Sutherland -- The innovative uses of concrete by engineers and architects / Frank Newby -- Concrete and the structural use of cements in England before 1890 / Lawrence Hurst -- The era of proprietary systems / Michael Bussell -- The development of reinforced concrete design and practice / Michael Bussell -- Cement and concrete as materials : changes in properties, production and performance / George Somerville -- Concrete foundations and substructures : a historical review / Mike Chrimes -- The early development of reinforced concrete shells / Peter Morice and Hugh Tottenham -- Concrete shell roofs, 1945-65 / Robert Anchor -- Prestressing / Francis Walley -- The development of concrete bridges in the British Isles prior to 1940 / Mike Chrimes -- UK concrete bridges since 1940 / William Smyth -- Reinforced and prestressed concrete in maritime structures / Brian Sharp -- The concrete institute 1908-23, precursor of the institution of structural engineers / Anita Witten -- Concrete in tunnels / Alan Muir Wood -- Water-retaining structures in Britain before 1920 / Michael Gould -- Historic concrete in dams / D.A. Bruggemann, K.J. Hollock, G.P. Sims -- Concrete roads / Graham West -- Military / John Weiler.

ISBN

072772875X

LCCN

^^2002391461

OCLC

48153811

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library