Civil Engineering Materials Links CEMENT BASED MATERIALS Advanced Cement-Based Materials (ACBM) Concrete Microscopy Library sponsored by University of Illinois, NIST, ACBM, and NSF. Virtual Tour of Cement Making Process by Portland Cement Association (PCA) Animation of aggregate, cement, and concrete production by Holcim University of Tokyo Concrete Laboratory Concrete Mixture Design Alkali Silica Reaction Tutorials ASPHALT and ASPHALT CONCRETE Transportation Research Board (TRB) FHWA's Technical Advisory for Asphalt Mix Design and Field Control Asphalt and Modified Asphalt described by Korea Petroleum Asphalt Institute AC Mixture Design Methods provided by the Asphalt Institute National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) at Auburn University METALS Atomic Structure and Phase Diagrams at UC Berkeley An excellent tutorial on phase diagrams and microstructure by the Department of Engineering Materials at the University of Southampton Predict Stress-strain behavior for steels based on their microstructure and composition Animation of blast furnace steel production in the 18th century by the BBC How steel is made in a blast furnace by AISI American Iron and Steel Institute POLYMERS PolymersDotCom Plastics Market Development Alliance for fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) WOOD and WOOD PRODUCTS Wood Research Laboratory at Purdue University Forest Industry Network UC Berkeley tutorial describing Structure and Properties of Wood Western Wood Products Association Timber Tutorials by Washington State University American Wood Preservers Institute GENERAL REFERENCE MATERIALS Georgia Tech's Virtual CE Library On-Line Unit Conversion Periodic Table of the Elements American Society for Testing and Materials ASTM Standards at the Georgia Tech library (must be registered student, faculty, or staff)