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WASTE MATERIALS AND BY-PRODUCTS IN CONCRETE R. Siddique. Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-74293-7, £135, 414 pp.
Waste Materials and By-Products in Concrete is part of Springer's engineering materials series, which aims to provide topical information on innovative structural and functional materials with applications in mechanical, civil and medical engineering. This volume, by Rafat Siddique, professor of civil engineering at Thapar University, Patiala, India, gives detailed descriptions of the effects of 12 waste and by-product materials in concrete, with a separate chapter covering each material: ground granulated blastfurnace slag, metakaolin, recycled/waste plastic, scrap tyres, waste glass, coal fly ash, rice husk ash, municipal solid waste ash, wood ash, volcanic ash, cement kiln dust and foundry sand.
The book is essentially a literature review, covering...