Building Materials, Third Edition

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Fire-clay bricks 39
Flash and fire point test 451
Fluxed bitumen 443
Fly ash 17, 236
Foxiness 100
Freeze-thaw resistance 187
French polish 434
Frog 11
Full cell 106

G

Gel water 151
Gel-space ratio 266
Geosynthetics 505
Glass 393
Glass wool 398
Glazing 42
Graded 182
Ground blast furnace slag 239
Grout 352
Guniting 352
Gypsum 458, 460, 462, 463
classification 460
manufacture 460
plaster boards 463
wall plasters 462

H

Hard boards 132
Hard finish plaster 463
Hardness 6, 53, 68, 75
Heart wood 95
Heat insulating materials 503
Heat of hydration 163
Heat treatment 365
Heavyweight concrete 487
High carbon steel 364
High strength concrete 482
High-performance concrete 494
Hydration 151
rate of 151
Hygroscopicity 4

I

Initial setting time 159
Insulating boards 132
Iron 357

J

Jallis 32

K

Knots 100

L

Laitance 209, 287

Laminations 30

Lawry process 106

Le-chatelier method 160

Lead 386

Light alloy 382

Light weight concrete 479

Line of least resistance 63

Linoleum 502

Loss on ignition 166

Lumber 93

Lustre 53

Lzod impact test 118

M

Magma 58

Majolica 42

Maturity 278

Mc. Neill’s process 98

Mechanical works 367

Medullary rays 96

Methods of 96

seasoning 96

Mild steel 364

Mineral tar 443

Minerals 53

Mix design 309, 325

IS method of 325

principles 309

Mixing 247

hand 247

machine 247

Moisture movement 123

Mortar 341, 342, 343, 345, 347,

348, 349

cement 343

characteristics 342

classification 341

lime 345

lime-cement 347

mud 348

selection of 349

special 348

surkhi 347

testing 349

Moulding 19, 20

ground 20

hand 19

machine 20

table 20

N

Natural bitumen 442

Natural puzzolanas 236

applications 236

effects of 236

Nickel 387

Non-destructive testing 289

O

Of gypsum 459

Oil paint 421

Oil-well cement 468

P

Paint 424

characteristics of 424

covering power of 425

preparation of 424

Painting 427, 429

defects 429

metal surfaces 429

new surface 427

old surfaces 427

plastered surfaces 427

wood surfaces 427

Paints 421, 425, 434

miscellaneous 434

Particle boards 133

Petroleum bitumens 442

Pig iron 357

Pigment volume concentra-

tion 426

Pigments 423

Pitch 444

Pith 96