Structural engineering

During the last decade, concrete technology has made an enormous advance through the introduction of self-compacting concrete.

This book is a collection of select papers presented at the Tenth Structural Engineering Convention 2016 (SEC-2016).

This book gathers the latest research, innovations, and applications in the field of civil engineering, as presented by leading national and international academics, researchers, engineers, and postgraduate students at the AWAM International Conference on Civil Engineering 2019 (AICCE'19), held in Penang, Malaysia on August 21-22, 2019.

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The book is about bridging the huge gaps between what engineers know, what they do and why things go wrong.

This book presents the theoretical bases and the application tools for using the 'convergence-confinement' method which is a rational method largely used in design engineering for tunneling.

Service life estimation is an area of growing importance in civil engineering both for determining the remaining service life of civil engineering structures and for designing new structural systems with well-defined periods of functionality.

This book reports on the costs, effectiveness, and risks associated with agency and private sector inspection practices.

This text aims to develop an understanding of Limit State Design as applied to structural steelwork.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of accelerated pavement testing (APT), presented at the 6th International Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing, in Nantes, France, in April 2022.

This book explains the integration of data of different support in Geostatistics.

This book aims to stimulate new thinking on the roles of river contracts in the protection and management of hydrographic resources and ecosystems and in the sustainable development of dependent territories and communities.

Now in its 41st edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2022 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs.

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

By their very nature, construction projects can create seemingly endless opportunities for conflict.

This volume presents selected papers from IACMAG Symposium,The major themes covered in this conference are Earthquake Engineering, Ground Improvement and Constitutive Modelling.

Climate protection and raw material change require new, sustainable carbon sources for the chemical and fuel industries.

This science comic presents the entire life cycle of the metro system in an accessible and fun way.

Construction cost inflation is at its highest level for decades.

Die Umwelt unter dem Einfluß menschlicher Nutzungen wird als dynamisches, rückgekoppeltes System dargestellt: Bevölkerung, Klima, Energiehaushalt, Nährstoffkreisläufe, Ökosysteme, erneuerbare und nicht-erneuerbare Ressourcen, Umweltbelastung durch Schadstoffe usw.

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of earthquake hazards in Lebanon and its vicinity.

The definitive guide to unsaturated soil from the world's experts on the subject This book builds upon and substantially updates Fredlund and Rahardjo's publication, Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils, the current standard in the field of unsaturated soils.

Elastic, Plastic and Yield Design of Reinforced Structures presents a whole set of new results which have been published by the authors over the last 30 years in the field of continuum solid mechanics applied to the analysis and design of reinforced civil engineering structures.

Coastal structures are an important component in any coastal protection scheme.

This book provides essential insights into recent developments in fundamental geotechnical engineering research.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of mining, geology and geo-spatial technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Innovations for Sustainable and Responsible Mining (ISRM), held in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 15-17 2020.

This textbook introduces pipeline design, one of the most efficient techniques for mass and energy transport available today.

The book comprises an assembly of benchmarks and examples for porous media mechanics collected over the last twenty years.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of innovative biosystems engineering for sustainable agriculture, forestry and food production.

This book presents contributions to a workshop dedicated to Prof.

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

Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 7 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the seventh volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book comprises the select peer-reviewed papers presented at the 7th Indian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (7IYGEC 2019) held at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar.

In diesem Band werden unter anderem Handlungsempfehlungen für die Überflutungsvorsorge gegeben, die Hebung des energetischen Potenzials von Abwasser besprochen und Praxisbeispiele zur ökologischen Sanierung oder ökologischen Baubegleitung dargestellt.

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.

This book introduces shield construction risks under mixed face ground condition, analyzes the shield tunneling risks, gives definitions of relevant risks and creates the theoretical system of shield tunneling technology under mixed face ground condition, that is,  geology is the foundation, TBM is the key, and people (management) is the essence.

Engineers have a range of sophisticated techniques at their disposal to evaluate the condition of reinforced concrete structures and non-destructive evaluation plays a key part in assessing and prioritising where money should be spent on repair or replacement of structurally deficient reinforced concrete structures.

This book is focused on the theoretical and practical design of reinforced concrete beams, columns and frame structures.

Find Practical Solutions to Civil Engineering Design and Cost Management ProblemsA guide to successfully designing, estimating, and scheduling a civil engineering project, Integrated Design and Cost Management for Civil Engineers shows how practicing professionals can design fit-for-use solutions within established time frames and reliable budgets.

The book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Sustainable Environment (RAiSE 2022).

The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology to renew the construction industry.

This book contains select proceedings of the 10th annual conference of Deep Foundations Institute of India, DFI India, 2021.

Construction Calculations is a manual that provides end users with a comprehensive guide for many of the formulas, mathematical vectors and conversion factors that are commonly encountered during the design and construction stages of a construction project.

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