SP-167
High-Strength Concrete: An International Perspective
1996, 332 pp.
$42.50

This ACI special publication is a collection of 15 symposium papers that were presented in three sessions at the ACI Fall Convention in Montreal in November of 1995. The authors were asked to present a view of activities on high-strength concrete from work done in their respective countries: Japan, France, Norway, Holland, Germany, Canada and the United States. The following titles are contained within this informative document.

Contents:
*HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE IN JAPAN - HISTORY AND

PROGRESS, by Shigeyoshi Nagataki

*APPLICATION OF HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE IN

NORWAY, by Steinar Helland

*HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCRETE - CUSTOM-DESIGNED

CONCRETE: A REVIEW OF THE FRENCH EXPERIENCE

AND PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, by

Yves Malier and Pierre Richard

*TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL MEMBERS

OF HSC/HPC IN GERMANY, by Gert Konig, Rainer Grimm,

Julian Meyer, and Ulrich Schmelter

*HIGH-STREGTH CONCRETE IN THE NETHERLANDS,

by Joost Walraven

*TRANSMISSION OF LOADS FROM HIGH-STRENGTH

CONCRETE COLUMNS THROUGH NORMAL-STRENGTH

CONCRETE FLOORS, by C E Ospina, S D B Alexander,

and James G MacGregor

*EARLY-AGE TEMPERATURE DEVELOPMENTS IN A

HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCRETE VIADUCT, by Mohamed

Lachemi, Michel Lessard, and Pierre-Claude Aitcin

*DIFFUSION OF CHLORIDE IONS IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE

MORTARS, by Anik Delagrave, Jacques Marchand, Eric Samson,

Michel Pigeon, and Jean-Pierre Ollivier

*FIVE YEARS' MONITORING OF THE BEHAVIOR OF HPC

STRUCTURAL COLUMNS, by Buquan Miao and

Pierre-Claude Aitcin

*IN-PLACE STRENGTH OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE

CONCRETES, by F Michael Bartlett and James G MacGregor

*APPLICATIONS OF MATURITY FUNCTIONS TO HIGH-

STRENGTH CONCRETES, by Roberto C A Pinto and Ken Hover

*DEVELOPMENT OF REACTIVE POWDER CONCRETE

(RPC) PRODUCTS IN THE UNITED STATES CONSTRUCTION

MARKET, by Edward Francis O'Neil, Christophe Evian Dauriac,

and Scott Keith Gilliland

*THE EFFECT OF ELEVATED TEMPERATURES ON THE

MOISTURE MIGRATION AND SPALLING BEHAVIOR OF

HIGH-STRENGTH AND NORMAL CONCRETES, by Naysan

Khoylou and George L England

*HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE SLABS POST-TENSIONED

WITH UNBONDED TENDONS, by Bernard Espion and

Pierre Halleux

*EFFECT OF HIGH-STRENGTH CONCRETE ON

PRESTRESSED FRAMES, by Y L Mo and W L Hwang

*SI (Metric) Tables

*INDEX