Structural engineering

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Civil Infrastructure and Construction Materials (CICM) and provides a compendium of cutting-edge research and innovative solutions in civil engineering from around the world.

On the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay.

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018).

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2022.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2022.

Any structural system in service is subject to age-related deterioration, leading to potential concerns regarding maintenance, health & safety, environmental and economic implications.

The book presents the select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Construction Technologies and Advancements in Civil Engineering (ScTACE 2021).

The successful design and construction of iconic new buildings relies on a range of advanced technologies, in particular on advanced modelling techniques.

Nach einer Einführung in die Grundlagen der Geothermie werden die wichtigsten thermischen und hydraulischen Parameter in ihrer Bedeutung behandelt.

This book provides an introduction to the complex system functions, variability and human interference in ecosystem between the continent and the ocean.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geographic information systems and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG), held in Roorkee, India on April 2-4, 2021.

Valorization of Dredged Sediments as Sustainable Construction Resources provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research on the reuse of sediments as a raw material for civil engineering fields.

A review of clays and clay minerals related to the geological, biological and material sciences in the Critical Zone.

Construction innovation is an important but contested concept, both in industry practice and academic reflection and research.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2023.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG), held on October 28 - November 1, 2018 in Hangzhou, China.

Increased environmental and energy concerns have renewed global interest in raw earth as a building material.

Piping and Pipeline Calculations Manual, Second Edition provides engineers and designers with a quick reference guide to calculations, codes, and standards applicable to piping systems.

Das Buch beschreibt die Einschätzung des Risikos und der Wahrscheinlichkeit des Eintretens von Schäden gemäß Richterskala.

Visual images play an integral part in the surveying, development and sale of a property.

Built environment students are not always familiar with the range of different research approaches they could be using for their projects.

The design of tall buildings and complex structures involves challenging activities, including: scheme design, modelling, structural analysis and detailed design.

This book is organized around the various sensing techniques used to achieve structural health monitoring.

Plate and Shell Structures: Selected Analytical and Finite Element Solutions Maria Radwa ska, Anna Stankiewicz, Adam Wosatko, Jerzy Pamin Cracow University of Technology, Poland Comprehensively covers the fundamental theory and analytical and numerical solutions for different types of plate and shell structures Plate and Shell Structures: Selected Analytical and Finite Element Solutions not only provides the theoretical formulation of fundamental problems of mechanics of plates and shells, but also several examples of analytical and numerical solutions for different types of shell structures.

Advanced Piping Design is an intermediate-level handbook covering guidelines and procedures on process plants and interconnecting piping systems.

This book provides a timely review on recent advancements in rock-filled concrete dam: a new type of dam originated from Tsinghua University in China.

This book is the third volume of the proceedings of the 4th GeoShanghai International Conference that was held on May 27 - 30, 2018.

Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise, coherent and comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of defects in domestic buildings.

Seismic Retrofit of Existing Buildings is a concise and easy-to-use book aimed at supporting engineers in the design of retrofit solutions for seismically vulnerable buildings.

This is a book written by those at the sharp end of leisure service contract management.

The physical upgrading of the existing domestic and industrial building stock to improve energy performance is an essential part of a transition to a low carbon society.

This book introduces the fundamental design concepts of Eurocode 3 for steel structures in building construction, and their practical application.

 This book contains the materials of the Conference "e;Construction and Development: Life Cycle-2020"e; (CDLC-2020), held at Chuvash State University, Russia.

Learn how to plan for maximum impact with this hands-on guide to conducting high-quality engineering research.

Which member of the NEC3 family of contracts should I use?

This book introduces the basic structure, modeling methods, numerical calculation processes, post-processing, and system functions of MatDEM, which applies the basic principles and algorithm of the discrete element method.

In view of its extreme complexity the mathematical description of the mechanical behaviour of granular materials is an extremely difficult task.

Specially written for contractors and small businesses carrying out small works, Spon's Estimating Cost Guide to Finishings contains accurate information on thousands of rates, each broken down to labour, material overheads and profit.

This book presents the basic theories of Plastic Mechanics of Geomaterial, including the static and dynamic mechanical properties, nonlinear and classical plastic theory, yield surface theory, hardening model, flow rule and loading-unloading criterion, the calculation theory of principal stress axe rotation, and limit analysis of geomaterial and the latest advances in FEM limit analysis.

Whether the Phoenicians and t he In the south-west of the Iberian Carthaginians ever actually worked Peninsula there is a vast pyritic the mines , or were merely traders, is mineral ised zone, known as the not certain , but after 205 BC, when Andevallo, extending from near they defeated the Carthagi nians, the Seville to south of Lisbon, an area Romans brought their own men skilled some 150 kilometres long and 30 in mining and metallurgy.

There are thousands of road bridges all over Britain with many being found around the coastline.

This book covers the fundamentals of tunneling machine technology: drilling, tunneling, waste removal and securing.

Geotechnische Messungen liefern wichtige Werte über den Untergrund.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.