Structural engineering

Widely used in the construction of bridges, dams and pavements, concrete and masonry are two of the world's most utilized construction materials.

A comprehensive account of ancient surveying instruments together with translations of all the ancient sources.

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

Tooling for Composite Aerospace Structures: Manufacturing and Applications offers a comprehensive discussion on the design, analysis, manufacturing and operation of tooling that is used in the lamination of composite materials and assembly.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 3rd International Petroleum and Petrochemical Technology Conference (IPPTC 2019).

Natural disasters are occasional intense events that disturb Earth's surface, but their impact can be felt long after.

Distributed in the East European countries, China, Northern Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and Mongolia by Academia, Prague, CzechoslovakiaThis book is based on the efficient subsoil model introduced by the authors in 1977 and applied in the last ten years in the design of foundations.

Many concrete structures and elements of concrete infrastructure have exceeded their original design lives and are deteriorating to an extent where they are becoming dangerous.

Aggregates are among the most common natural resource used in everyday's life, having enhanced life quality.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2021.

Mechanical Vibrations: Theory and Application to Structural Dynamics, Third Edition is a comprehensively updated new edition of the popular textbook.

An industrial book that analyses various theoretical problems, optimizes numerical applications and addresses industrial problems such as belt-conveyor bridge, pipeline, wind turbine power, large-span suspended roof and offshore jacket member.

Basic Structures provides the student with a clear explanation of structural concepts, using many analogies and examples.

Thin-plated structures are used extensively in building construction, automobile, aircraft, shipbuilding and other industries because of a number of favourable factors such as high strength-weight ratio, development of new materials and processes and the availability of efficient analytical methods.

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

The proceedings of the International Congress (c) include about 120 papers selected out of 160 papers submitted for presentations at APCF/SIF-2014, to be held in Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2014, and uniting the Asian-Pacific Conference on Fracture and Strength 2014 (APCFS-2014) with the International Conference on Structural Integrity and Failure (SIF-2014).

Das vorliegende Buch ist bewusst kompakt gehalten und verzichtet weitgehend aufDoppelspurigkeiten und Redundanz.

Increased environmental and energy concerns have renewed global interest in raw earth as a building material.

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.

The book develops a practical understanding of the fundamental scientific principles and logic underlying the art of turf pitch preparation, measuring, analysing, and interpreting pitch surface behaviour.

This book gives a systematic and comprehensive presentation of the results concerning effective behavior of elastic and plastic plates with periodic or quasiperiodic structure.

This book presents the most up to date information relevant to the design and instrumentation of underground structures.

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

This book is focused on the seismic vulnerability assessment methods, applied to existing buildings, describing several behaviors and new approaches for assessment on a large scale (urban area).

This book covers a range of topics that are of increasing importance in engineering practice: natural hazards, pollution, and environmental protection through good practice.

The key to the solution of geological hazards such as Karst water inrush and mud burst in tunnel lies in the accurate prediction or detection of Karst and groundwater.

Property Finance is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the field of property finance, linking the practicalities of property and construction with an understanding of core financial structures and concepts.

This textbook offers a unique introduction to hydraulics and fluid mechanics through more than 100 exercises, with guided solutions, which students will find valuable in preparation for their preliminary or qualifying exams and for testing their grasp of the subject.

This new edition of Reporting for Buyers provides guidance for the surveyor on setting out the findings of the inspection in a clear, unambiguous and unequivocal way.

This book presents recent research findings and critically reviews the existing literature related to assessment of geotechnical structures under complex and extreme loading conditions such as cyclic, seismic and blast loads.

This publication contains the abstracts of 20 papers, the majority of which were presented at the International Workshop on Limit State Design in Geotechnical Engineering Practice (LSD2003).

Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit, der bewusste und schonende Umgang mit Ressourcen bei Neubau und dem Bauen im Bestand werden im Beton-Kalender 2021 unter dem besonderen Blickwinkel des Bauens mit Fertigteilen und des Ertüchtigens beleuchtet.

A comprehensive and systematic analysis of elastic structural stability is presented in this volume.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 10th International Field Exploration and Development Conference (IFEDC 2020).

In a time without GPS and echosounder, European engineers and black labourers worked for decades to get a better understanding of the nautical intricacies of the Congo River.

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.

Automation and Manufacturing for the Built Environment is a plain-language guide to the application of automation and manufacturing technologies and processes to the delivery and operation of the built environment.

Highway Bridge Maintenance Planning and Scheduling provides new tactics for highway departments around the world that are faced with the dilemma of providing improved operations on a shoestring budget.

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.

This book presents the signal processing and data mining challenges encountered in drilling engineering, and describes the methods used to overcome them.

This book is a concise and comprehensive guide to building defects and building inspection.

Aim of this book is to present to researchers and engineers a description of the present knowledge on the viscoplasticity of geomaterials, considering the experimental and theoretical aspects and the applications to relevant problems.

PROVEN TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING ENERGY USE WITH CHP SYSTEMSPlan, design, construct, and operate a sustainable on-site CHP (combined heat and power) facility using the detailed information in this practical guide.

This book provides 101 real-life construction management case studies from an author with over 40 years' experience in the construction industry and as a lecturer in construction management.