Download or read book MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTION - I written by H. S. Vishwanath and published by Sapna Book House (P) Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Materials Of Construction-I” is intended to be used as a text book for First Semester Diploma in Civil Engineering and is designed for comprehensively covering all topics relevant the subject as per the Syllabus Prescribed by the Board of Technical Education, Karnataka. At the end of each chapter, Points to remember, Fill up the blanks & Descriptive type questions is given. To enhance the utility of book, Multiple Choice Questions are given towards the end of the book along with answers. This should benefit the students preparing for Common Entrance Test. It is hoped that this book will be immense use to teachers and students of Polytechnics. I wish to express my gratitude to MEI Polytechnic, Bangalore for providing me an opportunity to bring out this text book. I am grateful to Sri Nitin S.Shah, M/s Spana Book House (P) Ltd., Bangalore for publishing this book within a reasonable time. I am thankful to M/s Datalink, Bangalore for neatly typing the manuscript of this book. I also express my sincere thanks to Sri C.Chandrashekar, HOD (Civil) and colleagues for their encouragement. The readers are welcome to send their valuable comments and suggestions for further improvement of this book.