Concrete in Extreme Environments

The Eurocodes are being reviewed to ensure that concrete structures can resist accidental extreme actions, such as impact, explosions, weather, chemical, and seismic events. Extreme events are rare events that occur at the extreme ends of the statistical distribution in a particular situation, and clients rely on designers and construction companies to predict the service conditions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 30 July 2018
Publisher: Whittles Publishing

Contemporary events have shown that buildings designed to modern day codes need to be able to resist accidental extreme actions such as impact, explosions, weather, chemical and seismic events. This is one of the reasons for the present reviewing of the Eurocodes used to design concrete structures. The definition of the use of concrete used in extreme environments is difficult, but extreme events are usually defined as those rare events which occur at the extreme ends of the statistical distribution in a particular situation. Often the clients who order the concrete structures are unable to determine the extremes of environments the concrete will encounter and rely on the designers and construction companies to be able to predict the service conditions.

Weight: 778g
Dimension: 162 x 243 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781849953276