Revision of the best selling civil engineering materials book on the market right now.  Appropriate for civil engineering students at the junior or senior level.  In the second edition, new sample problems have been added throughout the text.  Many numerical problems have been added  at the end of each chapter.  The authors added many figures and pictures throughout the MS, especially in the appendix.  The sections on Heat Treatment of Steel,  Properties of Blended Aggregates,  Admixtures for Concrete,  Superpave Mix Design have been changed or updated.  New sections on Bulk Unit Weight and Voids in Aggregate, Selef Consolidating Concrete and Flowable Fill, High-Performance Concrete have been added.