"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Quality is important to surviving tough competition. Consequently, the execution of quality control has been needed technically skilled people who compete for improvement. We needed a small and complete book for the use of statistical and laboratory test methods and procedures for quality control and to ready reference in the laboratory.
This book has been trying to serve the students of civil engineering, technology and also students of related disciplines. It has primarily kept in view our needs so that it can be prepared by compiling necessary test procedures with calculated example.
The author does not claim to be a specialist or any original research and photographs in this hand-book, but the presentation is an attempt to make it, that level. It provides comprehensive coverage of the basic principles of quality control of roads, highways and bridges. The objective of the book is to try to send out an understanding of the principles, procedure of tests and the basis for applying them in different situations. The laboratory test of sand, soil, aggregate, bricks, concrete, cement, bitumen etc compiled in this book. Readers, whose background is a basic course in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Statistical, will easily, find much material in this book, as the language of the book is very simple so that it is very easy to understand.
R N Pandey
R.N. Pandey is a resident of Bihar (India). He has worked for Quality Control Unit under Bihar Government. he realized the need for a fundamental guideline or notebook of proper testing procedures for various quality control tests of roads. During the work he expanded his experience and this book resulted. The author does not claim to be a specialist or any original research and photographs in this hand-book, but the presentation is an attempt to make it, that level.
