Ten Thousand Years of Binding Materials and Concrete

Today's civilization has been achieved through advancements in technology, art, and politics. Within the works in these fields, civil engineering applications, especially the binding materials used and concrete, have played a very important role.
This book describes when and how clay soils, plaster, lime, pozzolans, natural cements, Portland cements, concrete, reinforced concrete, and prestressed concrete were first used, starting from ten thousand years ago, and how these materials have developed throughout history.