Building Materials and Construction

A full course on the materials that go into a building and how they are put together, covering aggregates, bricks, lime, cement, concrete, steel, timber and masonry construction. Each material is treated with its properties, field tests and quality criteria.

Dr. S. K. Panigrahi

Covers cement chemistry, aggregates, admixtures, fresh and hardened concrete properties, mix design and testing. The core reference if you need to understand why a concrete mix behaves the way it does.

Vemu Institute of Technology

Goes past the basics into mix design methods, special concretes, durability and non destructive testing. Take this one after you are comfortable with ordinary concrete technology.

Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology