Excerpt from Concrete Work, Vol. 2: A Book to Aid the Self-Development of Workers in Concrete and for Students in Engineering
Scientific principles are rapidly being applied to the increasing volume of concrete construction. An urgent need exists for the training of inspectors and workers who will have an understanding of the laws controlling the handling of concrete.
This volume is prepared to develop the practical ability of the concrete worker, the inspector, and the student in technical schools. This ability is best developed through the actual doing of jobs, learning the "how" and the "why" of these. Volume I is a reference book for Vol. II.
Most of the applications of concrete are founded on a few fundamental principles and operations, of computing, selection of materials, mixing, and placing concrete. The "job" sheets in this volume are devised to uncover these fundamentals. Once these elementary elements are understood, subsequent applications in diverse constructions may be handled intelligently, and practices may be modified to suit new situations.
It is the intention to lead the worker and student through the work of reading blue prints; calculation of quantities; estimation of cost; selection and inspection of materials; selection and disposition of equipment; organization of gang; staking out; excavating form work; measuring, mixing, and depositing concrete; protection of work - in a word, what a foreman on a small job must be able to do, or the work of a local cement contractor or inspector. The field of the engineer is not reached. This book fills in a gap between the theory of the engineer and the special technology of the contractor.
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