Structural engineering

Science now reveals the true cause of the dam breach flood that destroyed Johnstown in 1889.

A fully up-to-date, practical guide to foundation engineeringRevised to cover the 2009 International Building Code, Foundation Engineering Handbook, Second Edition presents basic geotechnical field and laboratory studies, such as subsurface exploration and laboratory testing of soil, rock, and groundwater samples.

This book covers the mechanical problems of tunnels in traffic, hydraulic and mining engineering.

This year the rates in the book include contractor's overheads and profit, making the book easier for design and planning professionals.

Compiled especially for small and medium contractors and for all those involved in building traditional extensions or converting lofts, Spon's House Improvement Price Book provides detailed and reliable cost data.

This textbook provides a comprehensive guide to fracture mechanics and its applications, providing an in-depth discussion of linear elastic fracture mechanics and a brief introduction to nonlinear fracture mechanics.

This book brings together a total of 48 contributions (including 5 keynote papers) which were presented at the 2nd International Workshop on the Application of X-ray CT for Geomaterials (GeoX 2006) held in Aussois, France, on 4-7 October, 2006.

Corrosion of reinforcing steel is now recognized as the major cause of degradation of concrete structures in many parts of the world.

This book comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2021.

This book describes the latest research advances, innovations, and applications in the field of water management and environmental engineering as presented by leading researchers, engineers, life scientists and practitioners from around the world at the Frontiers International Conference on Wastewater Treatment (FICWTM), held in Palermo, Italy in May 2017.

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

Rarely covered in formal engineering courses, natural gas hydrates are a common problem and real-life danger for engineers worldwide.

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

The book is a tribute to the research contribution of Professor Andrei Reinhorn in the field of earthquake engineering.

This book describes the second phase of the Qinghai-Tibetan railway construction project and is the first technological book discussing the geological routing of the Qinghai-Tibetan railway project on the "e;roof of the world.

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

The near-field earthquake which struck the Hanshin-Awaji area of Japan before dawn on January 17, 1995, in addition to snatching away the lives of more than 6,000 people, inflicted horrendous damage on the region's infrastructure, including the transportation, communication and lifeline supply network and, of course, on buildings, too.

This book presents selected papers from the 7th International Field Exploration and Development Conference (IFEDC 2017), which focus on upstream technologies used in oil & gas development, the principles of the process, and various design technologies.

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.

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

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.

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMECHANICS The new edition of the first book to cover the computational dynamic aspects of geomechanics, now including more practical applications and up-to-date coverage of current research in the field Advances in computational geomechanics have dramatically improved understanding of the behavior of soils and the ability of engineers to design increasingly sophisticated constructions in the ground.

This book, for the first time, introduces comprehensively all main topics of lifeline earthquake engineering, including the structure analysis, network evaluation, and network design.

The development of oil and gas fields offshore requires specialized pipeline equipment.

Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook: A Manual of Quick, Accurate Solutions to Everyday Pipeline Engineering Problems, Ninth Edition, the latest release in the series, serves as the "e;go-to"e; source for all pipeline engineering answers.

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from September 21st - 27th, 2023, with the theme of Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth.

The 9th edition maintains the content on all soil mechanics subject areas - groundwater flow, soil physical properties, stresses, shear strength, consolidation and settlement, slope stability, retaining walls, shallow and deep foundations, highways, site investigation - but has been expanded to include a detailed explanation of how to use Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design.

This book shares essential insights on evaporites and their effects on dams and reservoirs.

Avoiding or controlling fatigue damage is a major issue in the design and inspection of welded structures subjected to dynamic loading.

This revised and significantly expanded edition contains a rigorous examination of key concepts, new chapters and discussions within existing chapters, and added reference materials in the appendix, while retaining its classroom-tested approach to helping readers navigate through the deep ideas, vast collection of the fundamental methods of structural analysis.

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

Analysis and Design of Plated Structures: Stability, Second Edition covers the latest developments in new plate solutions and structural models for plate analysis.

The contents of the book will highlight the differences between the design and engineering disciplines strengths and flaws.

This book focuses on the engineering properties of unsaturated widely graded soils and their influence on slope stability.

Earthquakes represent a major risk to buildings, bridges and other civil infrastructure systems, causing catastrophic loss to modern society.

Anschaulich werden die verschiedenen Verfahrens- und Arbeitstechniken im Straßenbau erklärt.

This volume comprises select papers presented during TRANSOILCOLD 2019.

A vast amount has been written on climate change and what should be our response.

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

This book focuses on the application of statistical methods in the field of hydrology and hydroclimatology.

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

Prestressed Members with External Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Tendons: Design, Assessment and Modelling provides an overview of using FRPs, including how to predict the short-term and long-term behavior of externally prestressed concrete or steel-concrete composite members, their second-order effects, and how to examine the effectiveness of using FRP tendons instead of steel tendons for external prestressing.

This volume focuses on asymptotic methods in the low and high frequency limits for the solution of scattering and propagation problems.

This book compiles the first part of contributions to the China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering held 13.

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.

Structural Cross Sections: Analysis and Design provides valuable information on this key subject covering almost all aspects including theoretical formulation, practical analysis and design computations, various considerations and issues related to cross-sectional behavior, and computer applications for determination of cross-sectional response.

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

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

This book presents selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering in Tropical Regions (GEOTROPIKA), held during 4-5 September, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.