Structural engineering

Granular Geomechanics provides a comprehensive exploration of soils as granular materials and the manner in which a soil's engineering properties form grain-scale mechanics.

A comprehensive overview is given in this book towards a fundamental understanding of the micromechanics of the overall response and failure modes of advanced materials, such as ceramics and ceramic and other composites.

The world's population is expected to increase to over 8 billion by 2020.

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

Risk-based engineering is essential for the efficient asset management and safe operation of bridges.

Vibration Engineering presents recent developments in the field of engineering, encompassing industrial norms, applications within the finite element method, infrastructure safety assessment, and active vibration control strategies.

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

This book presents select proceedings of the Third International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials and Sustainable Engineering (EGRWSE-2022).

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A comprehensive overview of managing and assessing safety and functionality of ageing offshore structures and pipelines A significant proportion, estimated at over 50%, of the worldwide infrastructure of offshore structures and pipelines is in a life extension phase and is vulnerable to ageing processes.

Structural Health Monitoring with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors, Second Edition provides an authoritative theoretical and experimental guide to this fast-paced, interdisciplinary area with exciting applications across a range of industries.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

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

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Rehabilitation of Concrete Structures with Fiber Reinforced Polymer is a complete guide to the use of FRP in flexural, shear and axial strengthening of concrete structures.

The physics of fracture processes, which includes Fracture mechanics, is crucial for understanding the longevity and reliability of any structure, from fracture initiation to propagation and final catastrophic failure.

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Bridge engineering essentials-fully updated to reflect the latest standards and regulationsThis thoroughly revised resource combines the latest LRFD bridge engineering standards with cutting-edge maintenance and rehabilitation techniques, enabling you to successfully address today s challenging infrastructure projects.

This book covers different geotechnical and structural engineering topics applied to buildings, power grid infrastructures, hydroelectric projects, bridges, and transport infrastructures.

Get Deep into the Field of Excavation-Planning, Practice, and SafetyExcavation Systems Planning, Design, and Safety is a thorough guide to ensuring your projects are completed correctly, safely, and cost effectively.

Metal and composite components used in structural engineering not only contain geometrical features resulting in stress concentration phenomena, but they are also subjected to in-service multiaxial fatigue loading.

This book presents selected papers from the 7th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, held at IIT Mandi, India.

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011.

The last three decades have seen the evolution of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and Relationship Contracting (RC) as alternative procurement approaches to traditional methods of delivering public infrastructure.

This book presents central problems in the design, research and maintenance of large-size mining machines for open pits, mobile earth-moving machinery, hydraulic hammers for mining and civil engineering, and screening processes for bulk materials.

This book presents some of the latest technologies in waste management, and emphasizes the benefits that can be gained from the use of recycled products.

This manual provides a comprehensive source of building component life-span and maintenance data for commercial and industrial building components, following the same format as the ground-breaking HAPM Component Life Manual for domestic buildings.

This book is intended to serve as a textbook for engineering courses on earthquake resistant design.

The fourth edition of this textbook has been thoroughly revised in order to reflect the central role which geodesy has achieved in the past ten years.

Geologische Prozesse und Erscheinungsformen, die für den Tätigkeitsbereich eines Bauingenieurs wichtig sind, werden hier anhand von Einzelbeispielen aus der Praxis vorgestellt und erläutert.

This book provides a detailed step-by-step guide to taking off building work.

Mechanics of Flow-Induced Sound and Vibration, Volume 1: General Concepts and Elementary Sources, Second Edition, enables readers to fully understand flow-induced vibration and sound, unifying the disciplines of fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, vibration, acoustics, and statistics in order to classify and examine each of the leading sources of vibration and sound induced by various types of fluid motion.

This compendium gathers the latest advances in the area of Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT), a means of testing full-scale pavement construction in an accelerated manner for structural deterioration in a very short term.

This book presents a first-of-its-kind exposition on the emerging technology of jute fiber geotextiles.

This book presents select papers from the International Conference on Smart Materials and Techniques for Sustainable Development (SMTS) 2019.

These proceedings address the latest developments in information communication and technologies for geo-engineering.

Engineering drawing is the "e;instrument of communication"e; upon which the designer must place all information necessary to define a new product.

Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, Sixth Edition, is the leading self-contained aircraft structures course text.

Intelligent Buildings and Infrastructure with Sustainable and Social Values, Third edition is a comprehensive guide and an international reference source to the latest knowledge on the design, management, operation and technology of intelligent buildings and cities for sustainable developments that meet the needs of users now and in the future.

Advances in Rock Mechanics is a publication presenting the state of the art in the field of rock mechanics.

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The modelling tools for soils and rocks require more and more specific parameters not always available from the standard or usual survey campaigns, this generally for reasons of delay or costs.

Stability and Vibrations of Thin-Walled Composite Structures presents engineering and academic knowledge on the stability (buckling and post buckling) and vibrations of thin walled composite structures like columns, plates, and stringer stiffened plates and shells, which form the basic structures of the aeronautical and space sectors.

Structural Resilience in Sewer Reconstruction: From Theory to Practice provides engineers with a balanced mixture of theory and practice.

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