Unit 1 Introduction to materials 1
Text 1 Types of materials 2
Text 2 Properties of materials 6
Unit 2 Cement and its manufacture 9
Text 1 History of cement 10
Text 2 Types of Portland cement 12
Text 3 Chemical composition and raw materials of Portland cement 15
Text 4 Hardening and corrosion of Portland cement 18
Text 5 Specifications and tests of cement 21
Text 6 Manufacture of Portland cement 1——Preparation of the raw meal 24
Text 7 Manufacture of Portland cement 2——Preparation of the clinker and cement 28
Text 8 The cement kiln 32
Reading text A brief overview on kiln 37
Unit 3 Glass and its manufacture 39
Text 1 Introduction to glass 40
Text 2 Raw materials of the glass industry 47
Text 3 Batch of glass plant 53
Text 4 Furnace and glass melting 56
Text 5 Float glass production 1 60
Text 6 Float glass production 2 65
Text 7 Annealing lehr 69
Text 8 Production of further processed glass 74
Text 9 Borosilicate glass 78
Reading text Toughened glass 82
Unit 4 Concrete 83
Text 1 Introduction to concrete 84
Text 2 Aggregates 87
Text 3 Admixtures for concrete,mortar and grout 90
Text 4 Fresh concrete 94
Text 5 Properties of hardened concrete 98
Text 6 Concrete with reinforcing materials 101
Text 7 High strength concrete 105
Reading text Readymixed concrete 108
Unit 5 Fiber-Reinforced-Plastic 111
Text 1 Composite material and classification 112
Text 2 Fiber-Reinforced-Plastic composite materials 114
Text 3 Properties of constituent materials 117
Text 4 Applications of FRP in engineering 119
Text 5 Production processes for Fiber-Reinforced-Plastic composite materials 123
Reading text The Application of FRP in Building Structures 129
Unit 6 Building materials 131
Text 1 Building materials 132
Text 2 Aclassic building material——brick 135
Text 3 The properties of structural steel 138
Text 4 Green building materials 140
Text 5 Plastic materials 144
Text 6 Refractories 147
Reading text Construction ofsteel 150
Appendix 1 The Periodic Table of Elements 153
Appendix 2 Vocabulary 154
References 164