Advances in Construction Materials

By Christian U. Grosse
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: 2007-09-14
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3540724478
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540724476

Book Description:
The book is a compilation of recent research results on
building construction materials. The construction industry
consumes extreme volumes of material, and the growing
demand for quality and safety require continuous
improvement of materials and material compositions. A
deep understanding of material behavior is essential to
enable efficient construction: light-weight or heavily
burdened structures ask for the development of innovative
composites or new material compositions.
Civil Engineers and Materials Scientists from all over the
world present their ideas for further material developments,
the testing of structures and solutions for in situ applications.
Many of the innovations, composites and the design of existing material mixes, especially for concrete, are discussed. These
include high-strength and high-performance concrete (HPC), self-compacting concrete (SCC), shotcrete, and textile or
fiber reinforced concrete (FRC).
Moreover, the enhancement of material variations and the
improvement of their properties are observed for most
construction materials (e.g. wood, masonry, steel, polymers).
This book gives a good overview about the state-of-the-art in
construction material science. Some of the world s leading experts have contributed in honor of Professor Dr.-Ing. Hans W.
Reinhardt. The book starts with a review about his scientific achievements up to his recent retirement. Some contributions are
presented at the conference "Advances in Construction Materials" (ACM2007) held in July 2007 in Stuttgart.

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Fundamental Trends in City Development (Urban and Landscape Perspectives) (Urban and Landscape Perspectives)

Fundamental Trends in City Development (Urban and Landscape Perspectives) By Giovanni Maciocco

• Publisher: Springer
• Number Of Pages: 220
• Publication Date: 2008-02-25
• ISBN-10 / ASIN: 354074178X
• ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540741787
• Binding: Hardcover

What do phenomena like sprawl, generic city or urban segregation have in common with the concept of the city? This is not an easy question. It is nevertheless the inquiry this book is based on, mainly because of the bewilderment we feel when faced with these phenomena that are spread throughout the urban world and constitute a tall order for our concepts of the city. Expressions like discomposed city, generic city and segregated city refer to entities that share the loss of the city as a space of communication and social interaction and as the space of the public sphere.

In order to explore what we call the city adrift, certain positions of scholars of the city are analysed, using the utopia as an analytical category and referring to three kinds the conservative utopia, liquidatory utopia and resistant utopia which can perhaps significantly distinguish the different positions on current spatial trends of the city and, more generally, the phenomena emerging in the urban world.

This book investigates how the city can be re-established as the space of dialogue and communication, how the spatial conditions of the public sphere can be created and the city retrieved, and what the features might be of a city retrieved and restored to its citizens.

The author adopts the concept of externity as an innovative element for the project for the city, a constituent feature of all those situations traditionally considered non-functional, therefore external, to our contemporary post-cities, which are consigned to us adrift through decomposition, genericity and segregation.

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