Unit One
Text: Historical Development of Materials and Technology
Reading Passage
Properties of Materials
Cements and Glasses
Unit Two
Text:Portland Cement and its Types
Reading Passage
Composite Cements : General Considerations
History of Cement
Unit Three
Text: Manufacture of Portland Cement
Reading Passage
Raw Materials for the Manufacture of Portland Cements
Burning
Unit Four
Text: Setting and Hardening
Reading Passage
The Hydration of Portland Cement
Low-energy" Cements
Unit Five
Text: Concrete, Reinforced Concrete, and Prestressed Concrete
Reading Passage
High Performance Concrete
Durability of Concrete
Unit Six
Text: Ceramming : Changing G|ass to Glass-Ceramics
Reading Passage
Types of Ceramic Glasses
Ion Exchange in Glass Processing
Unit Seven
Text: Pollution Control in Glass- Making
Reading Passages
Energy Conservation Technologies and Recycling
Glass Quality
Unit Eight
Text: History of Glass Making
Reading Passage
Architectural Glass
Glass Products
Unit Nine
Text: Application of Microcomputers to Glass Problems
Reading Passage
Batch Calculations
Distributed Computer Systems
Unit Ten
Text : Ceramics
Reading Passage
Ceramics: An Overview
Ceramic Kiln
Unit Eleven
Text: Ceramic Raw Materials
Reading Passage
Basic Raw Materials
Structure of Ceramics and Ceramic Phase Diagrams
Unit Twelve
Text: Developments in Ceramics
Reading Passage
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Unit Thirteen
Unit Fourteen
Unit Fifteen
Unit Sixteen
Appendix Key to Exercises