Structural engineering

The book is intended for practicing engineers in the oil industry, researchers, and graduate students interested in designing and simulating offshore hydrocarbon production systems.

Wave Propagation Analysis of Smart Nanostructures presents a mathematical framework for the wave propagation problem of small-scale nanobeams and nanoplates manufactured from various materials, including functionally graded composites, smart piezoelectric materials, smart magneto-electro-elastic materials, smart magnetostrictive materials, and porous materials.

The daily work of engineers, for preliminary design and to check plausibility, would be inconceivable without them: design aids for reinforced concrete elements in the form of diagrams and tables.

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry.

Surface Production Operations: Facility Piping and Pipeline Systems, Volume III is a hands-on manual for applying mechanical and physical principles to all phases of facility piping and pipeline system design, construction, and operation.

This book extensively covers rock mechanics and engineering, playing a vital role in mining, geological, and civil applications.

Devised with a focus on problem solving, Geotechnical Problem Solving bridges the gap between geotechnical and soil mechanics material covered in university Civil Engineering courses and the advanced topics required for practicing Civil, Structural and Geotechnical engineers.

The primary aim of this book is to put together an understanding of the appropriate principles of ensuring performance and sustainability of concrete.

This book addresses the latest developments in Information Technologies (IT) for geo-engineering.

This book presents select proceedings of North-East Research Conclave (NERC 2022) that will help pave way toward disaster risk reduction through a holistic and multidisciplinary approach.

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

This book is a collection of papers on the subject of applied system dynamics and control written by experts in this field.

This book explains the hypoplastic modelling framework.

From the book s Foreword by Trevor Mole, Managing Director, Property Tectonics; President of the European Association of Building Surveyors and Construction Experts: Shu-Ling and Martin have built on their research work and that of others to produce an understandable and readable insight into innovation in small professional service firms.

Die Einführung des Eurocode 2 (EC 2) wird die Ingenieure im Stahlbetonbau bei der Bemessung der Bauwerke mit einem geänderten Konzept konfrontieren.

Engineering rock mechanics is the discipline used to design structures built in rock.

This book systematically introduces the advancement of transparent soil modelling technique and its application.

Starting and Developing a Surveying Business shows how surveyors can develop their own successful small business.

Rock masses are initially stressed in their current in situ state of stress and to a lesser natural state.

Written from an 'in house' perspective in response to the UK Government Housing White Paper released in February 2017, Housing Regeneration: A Plan for Implementation presents sustainable solutions to Britain's housing crisis and will be a useful practical guide for anyone involved in the process of regeneration.

This book introduces an analytical method, the U-transformation method, for the exact analysis of structures with the periodic property.

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the new geophysical detection theories, methods and technologies of tunnel engineering under complex geological conditions and environments.

Captures real material, plant and labour costs from the UK's major live rail, civils and highways projects.

Energy-Efficient Retrofit of Buildings by Interior Insulation: Materials, Methods and Tools offers readers comprehensive coverage of current research in German Language Countries.

This book demonstrates various types of deepwater risers with different motion equations and boundary conditions depending on their different structural configurations.

This updated and expanded edition of the book includes four additional chapters on earthwork on sloping sites; transitional curves and super elevation; calculations of super elevations on composite curves; and underground mine surveying.

This new edition surveys the full range of available structural equation modeling (SEM) methodologies.

This volume deals with the most modern and topical problems of bridge design.

Based on the author''s lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this concise textbook presents an exhaustive treatment of structural dynamics and mechanical vibration.

Foundation Design discusses fundamental concepts in the design of foundations.

Written from an 'in house' perspective in response to the UK Government Housing White Paper released in February 2017, Housing Regeneration: A Plan for Implementation presents sustainable solutions to Britain's housing crisis and will be a useful practical guide for anyone involved in the process of regeneration.

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Finite Elements in Water Resources, held in June, 1982, at the University of Hannover, Federal Re- public of Germany.

This book collects current scientific information on advanced technologies and management practices associated with the desalination industry in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world.

This book discusses recent developments in dam engineering, covering theoretical as well as practical aspects.

An accessible, clear, concise, and contemporary course in geotechnical engineering, this key text: strikes a balance between theory and practical applications for an introductory course in soil mechanics keeps mechanics to a minimum for the students to appreciate the background, assumptions and limitations of the theories discusses implications of the key ideas to provide students with an understanding of the context for their application gives a modern explanation of soil behaviour is presented particularly in soil settlement and soil strength offers substantial on-line resources to support teaching and learning

The book provides suitable methods for the simulations of boundary value problems of geotechnical installation processes with reliable prediction for the deformation behavior of structures in static or dynamic interaction with the soil.

Wind erosion has such a pervasive influence on environmental and agricultural matters that academic interest in it has been continuous for several decades.

This book offers a comprehensive review of the various options for improving the performance of overhead power lines in winter conditions, taking into account both mechanical and electrical aspects.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 1st Indo-China Research Series in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering held in May 2020 online.

The definitive guide to steel connection design-fully revised to cover the latest advancesFeaturing contributions from a team of industry-recognized experts, this up-to-date resource offers comprehensive coverage of every type of steel connection.

The definitive guide to bringing accuracy to measurement, updated and supplemented Adjustment Computations is the classic textbook for spatial information analysis and adjustment computations, providing clear, easy-to-understand instruction backed by real-world practicality.

An in-depth, comprehensible approach to theoretical soil mechanics and an introduction to the new theory of barodesy.

The construction industry is undergoing great change particularly with the introduction of digital technologies and the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ethical practice.

These proceedings of the EPS 2018: 5th International Conference on Geofoam Blocks in Construction Applications, held in Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus on May 9 to 11, 2018, present a collection of contributions on the state-of-the-art of research and applications relating to geofoam.

This book is the consequence of research undertaken by the authors in the field of advanced problems of structural mechanics.

Numerical Models for Submerged Breakwaters: Coastal Hydrodynamics and Morphodynamics discusses the practice of submerged breakwaters, an increasingly popular tool used as a coastal defense system because of their amenity and aesthetics as compared to common emerged beach protection measures.