Secrets of Warmth by Hal Weiss

Secrets of Warmth by Hal Weiss

This book presents the work done by the RILEM Technical Committee 227-HPB (Physical properties and behaviour of High-Performance Concrete at high temperature). It contains the latest research results on the modelling of concrete behaviour at high temperature. Some monographs on the subject have been published already but generally they do not cover the whole range of possibilities which are encountered in the literature as well as in practice. Moreover, there has been a rapidly increasing development of computational models during the last twenty years, which deserves attention. Therefore, it is the aim of this report to compile and present most of the tools that are proposed in the literature and are nowadays available for practice in some commercial computational packages.

The book is divided in 3 main chapters dealing with:

- engineering modelling

- advanced modelling

- constitutive parameters including hydral, thermal and mechanical parameters.

The results presented especially target a group of users composed by universities and research laboratories, building material companies and industries, material scientists and experts, building and infrastructure authorities, designers and civil engineers.

Hal Weiss holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the City University of New York. He has spent his professional career in the field of civil engineering, most recently managing infrastructure projects throughout the metropolitan New York area. Hal began his writing career in 1988 with the publication of his first book, Secrets of Warmth. He started writing poetry in 1986, and continues to write poetry when the muse appears. When he is not writing or engineering, Hal enjoys listening to a wide range of music, from Baroque to Rock, as well as reading, hiking, skiing, photography and table tennis. Among the people he admires are Nikola Tesla, Buckminster Fuller, Tim Ferris, Dave Asprey, Dr. Jack Kruse, Carlos Castanada, George Washington, Werner Erhard, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, J.S. Bach, and Vivaldi. Hal is originally from Brooklyn, New York. For the past 20 years, he has lived with his wife in Westchester County, New York.

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ISBN 13	9780898866438
ISBN 10	089886643x
Title	Secrets of Warmth
Author	Hal Weiss
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Mountaineers Books
Year published	1999-02-01
Number of pages	160
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