Structural engineering

This book deals with important topics of current interest, such as climate change, floods, drought, and hydrological extremes.

This book formulates and consolidates a coherent understanding of how harnessing the dynamics of bistable structures may enhance the technical fields of vibration control, energy harvesting, and sensing.

This book contains selected articles from the fourth International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering-Iraq 2024 (ICGE-2024) held on April 17-18, 2024, at at Warith Al-Anbiyaa University, Karbala, Iraq.

This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers presented in the International Conference Down To Earth 2019, and is focused on Water Security and Sustainability.

This book is dedicated to the general study of the dynamics of mechanical structures with consideration of uncertainties.

The second, enlarged edition of this established reference integrates many new insights into wastewater hydraulics.

This book comprises select proceedings of the First Indian Symposium on Offshore Geotechnics.

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

This important book provides an account of the linear acoustics of basic isotropic/anisotropic structures excited by time-harmonic and transient mechanical forces and acoustic sources.

This book provides the main topics currently used for the calculus of structures.

The aim of the Watching series is to draw attention to some of the very interesting items around us, things that perhaps we don't notice as much as we might.

This paper collection is the second volume of the LNMOB series on Road Vehicle Automation.

This book focuses on the generalization of map features, providing descriptions and classifying groups of map objects into six categories: point clusters, groups of contours, road networks, river networks, continuous areal features and discrete areal features.

Sustainable Construction Technologies: Life-Cycle Assessment provides practitioners with a tool to help them select technologies that are financially advantageous even though they have a higher initial cost.

An overview of the processes related to geopressure development, prediction and detection using state-of-the-art tools and technologies.

This book offers a comprehensive review of current systems for fish protection and downstream migration.

Routine seismic monitoring in mines was introduced over 30 years ago with two main objectives in mind: * immediate location of larger seIsmIC events to guide rescue operations; * prediction of large rockmass instabilities.

This book contains the best papers accepted for presentation at the 3rd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-3).

This textbook serves as a guide to real estate students and educators on the various property innovations and digital technologies that continue to shape the property industry.

Piezocone and cone penetration tests (CPTu and CPT) applications in foundation engineering includes different approaches for determining the bearing capacity of shallow foundations, along with methods for determining pile bearing capacity and settlement concepts.

This book presents an overview of current research problems and advances in theoretical and applied aspects of environmental hydraulics.

This book is a profound compendium on strain gages and their application in materials science and all fields of engineering.

Students and professionals encountering estimating for the first time need an approachable introduction to its principles and techniques, which is up to date with current practice.

This volume presents select papers presented during the Second International Conference on Waste Management held at IIT Guwahati.

This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Workshop on Geotechnical Natural Hazards held July 12-15, 2014, in Kitakyushu, Japan.

The purpose of the book is to present some recent progress in two active and related areas of continuum mechanics: fracture mechanics and structured deformations.

Valuation and Sale of Residential Property is aimed at all those studying for a qualification or already practising as residential valuers, surveyors and estate agents.

The book provides the solutions to the unsolved problems given in the book titled Fluvial Hydrodynamics: Hydrodynamic and Sediment Transport Phenomena.

Bridges are great symbols of mankind s conquest of space.

Natural hazards events such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions involve activation of coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical processes in rocks.

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

This book gathers the peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the European Working Group on Internal Erosion in Embankment Dams, Levees and Dikes, and their Foundations (EWG-IE), held in Milano, Italy, on 10-13 September 2018.

This book focuses on the application of machine learning in slope stability assessment.

In the oil and gas industries, large companies are endeavoring to find and utilize efficient structural health monitoring methods in order to reduce maintenance costs and time.

Rockbolting: Principles and Applications brings current theoretical and practical developments in the most widely used support device for underground rock excavations.

An authoritative guide to the theory and practice of static and dynamic structures analysis Static and Dynamic Analysis of Engineering Structures examines static and dynamic analysis of engineering structures for methodological and practical purposes.

Bei Deponien, die im Verdacht stehen, das Grundwasser zu gefährden, müssen Gefährdungsabschätzungen durchgeführt werden.

This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017.

Metaheuristics for Structural Design and Analysis discusses general properties and types of metaheuristic techniques, basic principles of topology, shape and size optimization of structures, and applications of metaheuristic algorithms in solving structural design problems.

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

This book presents select proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG 2024).

Understanding FIDIC explains in simple and practical terms what is often seen as a very complex range of international engineering and construction contracts.

This textbook provides a complete introduction to Hydrogeology.

This book presents new findings on intrinsic variability in pollutant build-up and wash-off processes by identifying the characteristics of underlying process mechanisms, based on the behaviour of various-sized particles.