Table of Contents

Sole of Concrete - Mix Proportion.- Important Raw Material - Coarse Aggregate.- Core Raw Material - Cement.- Alkali-aggregate Reaction, Where Are You?.- Is air-entraining agent a panacea for solving frost resistance problem?.- Breeding and False Setting, Which Is Better?.- Fiber, When Is Useful?.- Cancer of Modern Concrete - Cracks.- Fly Ash, Really Only Advantages?.- Additives - All medicines have their own side-effects.- Fatal Factor for Durability - Drying Shrinkage.- Doctor of Concrete - Self-curing.- High Performance Concrete, Really High Performance?.- Where Is the Correct Idea for Durability Research?.- Scientific Foundation of Modern Concrete.- Summary report of Experimental study on dehydration cracks appearing in the construction of Turpan civil airport cement concrete pavement.

About the Author

Yang Wenke is a distinguished senior engineer at China Airport Construction Group Corporation, CAAC. His research areas are focused on chemical synthesis and processing of building materials, construction of airport and development of materials.

He received a number of awards for excellence in guiding the construction engineering of airport such as the National Construction Project Luban Prize (the highest construction prize in China) and Silver Award in Construction. He served as a member of China Concrete Quality Committee, a member of China Commercial Concrete Experts Committee, a member of China Concrete Durability Committee, a member of China Concrete Engineering and Technology Experts Committee and a professor at East China Jiaotong University.

His research was directed primarily to building materials, in particular construction of concrete and published over 20 papers in Chinese well-known journals such as concrete, cement etc.