Dan Cook

co-author of "Concrete Reports and Submitals"

December 12, 2018

Marllon Daniel Cook is a fourth generation concrete finisher. He obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy in Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University. Dan grew up working for his family owned concrete construction company starting as a laborer and working through the positions of finisher, foreman and estimator. Dan has a vast experience of building concrete structures from floor slabs using post-tension cabling, parking lots with minimal elevation for drainage, city streets, private dams, small bridges, retaining walls, residential house slabs, driveways, decorative concrete and concrete repair.

As a researcher, Dan worked on a variety of projects in the concrete laboratory at OSU. Some of his most noteworthy contributions as a research team member of Tyler Ley were developing the Box Test as a workability test for slip formed paving and creating the Tarantula Curve for aggregate proportioning in a concrete mixture design.

Previously employed as a technical service engineer for an international cement supplier, Dan provided technical support for both customers and internal personnel on a variety of topics related to cement, slag cement, concrete, masonry and oil-well. Some tasks included communicating material specifications, generating concrete submittals, submitting slag and cement submittals, designing mixes for concrete, conducting quality audits, and troubleshooting hardened and fresh concrete and masonry.

Have you ever wondered what a concrete report or material specification really said? “Concrete Reports and Submitals” will help you tackle this tough question and many more. The authors have formatted this book to provide clear, concise and practical information about a variety of different concrete reports such as the core report, the cement mill certification report and the petrographer's report.

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Last Updated: 12 December 2018