Notes Building Construction Part Materials by Anon (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition Revised and Englarged. Hardback. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Wear to spine and wear to top and bottom edge of spine of cloth. Sunned spine to cloth. Red cloth with gilt lettering. These Notes are intended to furnish a Student with information amply sufficient to enable him to pass the Honours Examination of the Science and Art Department, so far as a knowledge of Building Materials is concerned. They have, however, been extended somewhat beyond what is actually necessary for this purpose by the addition of Tables and information of a practical nature, which it is hoped may be useful to young Engineers, Architects, and others engaged in the design and erection of structures of different kinds. They deal with the nature, characteristics, qualities asnd defects of the materials used in Building and Engineering works; and they describe the methods of examining and testing such materials.Illustrations.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…