Bøger af Kokou Missogbe Thomas R Akogbe

This book emphasizes that there was no significant progress since 1960. Statistic analysis shows that the country¿s economy was even better the time of president Hubert Maga during independency time than the time of Yayi Boni and Patrice Talon. The economy was at the worst level in the time of Marxist-Leninist of Mathieu Kerekou but president Nicephore Soglo did a great job by recovering the economy and put the GDP rate to 5.6%. It is very important to notify that since 1990, Benin had just experienced only one great leader who worked hard to make positive change in this country. Beninese¿s people are still expecting until today a great leader like Nicephore Soglo but could not find one because since 1996 every president had left the office with a deficit budget and the country level of poverty is getting worst and worst. It means that there is no progress but only poverty, an increase of unemployment, increase of corruption, no freedom of press or speech.

Resume: This book analyses concrete, reinforced concrete, concrete admixtures, steel, fiber reinforced polymer (FRP), and Cement materials. It develops with detail in this book, each material characteristic, their role, and most importantly their resistant in terms of stress and strain under solicitation loads of compression, traction and flexion. The study includes also the analysis of concrete composite materials and detailed method of experimental test procedures. The knowledge could help civil engineering activists to understand each of the materials properties and to choose the right material needed to meet the design requirements. This book can be used by students in research environment, in laboratory, by engineers at construction site or by professors as teaching instrument.

This book is written to help construction project practitioners to challenge the problems which lead most of the time the performance of construction projects into failure. It is developed in this book, a knowledge of construction projects concerning construction schedule, construction cost, construction productivity and construction bid. The factors which cause delay and cost overrun, low productivity and unsuccessful bid contract are part of the contents of this book. The method of Pert and Gant and a basic knowledge of Microsoft project have been introduced to help the users of this book to successfully handle the planning of future development construction projects. Earning value management has also been described, interpreted in detail and samples of the project are used to evaluate the performance of the project in terms of schedule performance index and cost performance index. In the end, a list of potential construction project research topics in different areas of civil engineering is discussed and the methodology of conducting project management research is proposed in several published keynote papers included in this book.