Lecture Notes on Civil Engineering Materials and Construction

Course notes on stones, bricks, timber, cement, mortar and concrete, followed by the construction techniques that use them: masonry, floors, roofs, plastering and painting. Written for students meeting these materials for the first time.

S. Ram Prasath

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