TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sood, Hemant
TI  - Laboratory manual on testing of engineering materials
SN  - 8122407579
U1  - 620.110287 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - New Age International (P) Ltd.
N1  - CONTENTS Foreword  iii Preface  v UNIT-1  BRICKS  1 (1 Test for compressive strength  1 (2) Test for water absorption.  2 (3) Test for efflorescence.  4 (4) Test for dimension and tolerance.  5 (5) Test for warpage.  6 UNIT-IIBUILDING STONES  8 (6) Method of test for determination of water absorption, apparent specific gravity and porosity of natural building stones.  9 (7) Determination of true specific gravity of natural building stones.  10 (8) Method of test for determination of durability of natural building stones 12 (9) Compressive or crushing strength test of building stone.  13 (10) Transverse strength test of building stone.11 (11) Tensile strength test of building stone. 17 (12) Shear strength test of building stone. 19 (13) Determination of weathering of natural building stones.  24 UNIT-IIIMETALS  M (14) Method for Brinell Hardness test for light metals and their alloys.  28 (15) Method for Vicker's Hardness test for light metals and their alloys.  30 (16) Method for charpy Impact test (U-Notch) for metals.  32 (17) Method for transverse testing of hard metals.  36 (18) Method for reverse bend testing of metals.  39 UNIT-IV  TIMBER  41 (19) Testing timber for (a) Tension perpendicular to grain (b) Tension parallel to grain 41 (20) Testing timber for resistance to nail pulling and screwpulling.  46 (21) Testing for brittleness of timber (Izod and charpy test).  47 (22) Testing of timber for its resistance against torsion.  5O (23) Determination of moisture content in tnc given muuer specimen 53 (24) Determination of specific gravity and shrinkage. 54 (25) Static bending test. 59 UNIT-V  LIME 64 (26) Determination of residue on slaking of quicklime. 64 (27) Determination of fineness of hydrated lime. 66 (28) Determination of volume yield of quicklime. 67 (29) Determination of compressive and transverse strength. 70 (30) Determination of workability. 73 (31) Determination of soundness. 75
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