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Properties and Testing of Materials

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is to provide students with the behavior of steel. The properties of metals under different types of stresses are included.
  • Course Goals
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Requirements

CES251

Description

  • English Description

    Concrete materials: Cement (manufacture, chemical composition, hydration, physical and mechanical properties, testing and common types), Aggregates (types, Physical, chemical and mechanical properties), mixing water, reinforcing steel (types, properties and standard specifications), admixtures (chemical, mineral and air entrained). Surface hardness of metals. Behavior of metals under dynamic loads (Impact) and repeated loads (Fatigue). Creep of metals.
  • Arabic Description

    Concrete materials: Cement (manufacture, chemical composition, hydration, physical and mechanical properties, testing and common types), Aggregates (types, Physical, chemical and mechanical properties), mixing water, reinforcing steel (types, properties and standard specifications), admixtures (chemical, mineral and air entrained). Surface hardness of metals. Behavior of metals under dynamic loads (Impact) and repeated loads (Fatigue). Creep of metals.
  • Department
    Structural Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (25 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + tr.Oral/Practical (10) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 1, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
  • - Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers, Michael Mamlouk and John P. Zaniewski, Prentice Hall, Second Ed., ISBN: 0-13-147714-5 - Second edition – 2012
  • - Construction materials for civil engineering projects
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  • - Egyptian codes of practice for reinforced concrete (2019) & Steel structures
  • - Egyptian Standard Specifications for different construction materials (Updated versions) - Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers, Michael Mamlouk and John P. Zaniewski, Prentice Hall, Second Ed., ISBN: 0-13-147714-5 Second edition – 2012 - Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers, Michael Mamlouk and John P. Zaniewski, Prentice Hall, Second Ed., ISBN: 0-13-147714-5 Second edition – 2012.