Structural engineering

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

This advanced undergraduate and postgraduate text serves for courses in many engineering disciplines and professionals in industrial or academic research.

Earthquake Resistant Design and Risk Reduction, 2nd edition is based upon global research and development work over the last 50 years or more, and follows the author s series of three books Earthquake Resistant Design, 1st and 2nd editions (1977 and 1987), and Earthquake Risk Reduction (2003).

In order to describe soil structure interaction in various situations (nonlinear, static, dynamic, hydro-mechanical couplings), this book gives an overview of the main modeling methods developed in geotechnical engineering.

This book provides detailed analysis methods and design guidelines for fire resistance, a vital consideration for offshore processing and production platforms.

The second edition of the Construction Project Manager's Pocket Book maintains its coverage of a broad range of project management skills, from technical expertise to leadership, negotiation, team building and communication.

This comprehensive textbook compiles cutting-edge research on beams and circular plates, covering theories, analytical solutions, and numerical solutions of interest to students, researchers, and engineers working in industry.

This book provides a thorough understanding of the general principles of measurement for taking off quantities.

Building and Facilities Maintenance Management: An Innovative Operational Approach is a new introductory textbook aimed at students who are studying building maintenance and asset management for the first time as part of their undergraduate or foundation course.

Soil properties such as water retention, salinity and acidity are not just issues for agriculture and forestry.

Astronautics Year: An International Astronautical and Military Space/Missile Review of 1964 documents in detail the international astronautical and military space/missile activities conducted in 1964.

Any structural system in service is subject to age-related deterioration, leading to potential concerns regarding maintenance, health & safety, environmental and economic implications.

Advanced Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures analyzes contemporary theoretical models at the micro- and macro levels of material structure.

This book summarizes the research being pursued as part of the Erasmus+ CBHE KA2 project entitled "e;Development of master curricula for natural disasters risk management in Western Balkan countries"e; (NatRisk), which aims to educate experts on the prevention and management of natural disasters in the Western Balkan region in line with national and EU policies.

This book mainly studies the methodologies of structural design and construction for highway engineering, which are applicable to the overall control and the precise operation of engineering structures.

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

This book seeks to fill the information gap on a key emerging real estate market and demystify the perception that the market in Ghana and indeed, across sub-Saharan Africa is opaque.

Bridges have always played an important role on the social and economic history of human development, and Buckinghamshire has a great wealth of them.

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

June 1997 marked the opening of the Confederation Bridge which spans the Northumberland Strait and connects Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick.

While the static behavior of concrete has been the subject of numerous works, the same cannot be said for the dynamic behavior.

The Leading Guide To Site Design And Engineering Revised And Updated Site Engineering for Landscape Architects is the top choice for site engineering, planning, and construction courses as well as for practitioners in the field, with easy-to-understand coverage of the principles and techniques of basic site engineering for grading, drainage, earthwork, and road alignment.

This book addresses the complex challenges and responsibilities involved in preserving humanity's collective heritage.

Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying for Commercial Property is the first book to introduce the process of technical due diligence (TDD) and examine the role of the building surveyor within the commercial property sector.

This book consists of selected papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Concrete, Structural, and Geotechnical Engineering (ACSGE 2024) held at BITS, Pilani, India.

For the third edition, the author has revised his popular text and enlarged the chapters on the valuation of freehold and leasehold interests, discounted cash flow techniques and methods of valuation.

Construction cost inflation is at its highest level for decades.

This book aims, through its chapters, at providing the knowledge to make competent decisions, convince peers or top management to take appropriate action, or beat out the competition for climate adaptation measures including adjustments for design and operations.

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

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

This book gathers proceedings of the 18th World Conference on Seismic Isolation (18WCSI), held in Antalya, Turkiye on November 6-10, 2023.

Inspections and Reports on Dwellings is a series of four books, the first three of which have already been published to considerable success.

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Foundation Design discusses fundamental concepts in the design of foundations.

Have you ever wondered how NASA designs, builds, and tests spacecrafts and hardware for space?

The Penetrometer and Soil Exploration: Interpretation of Penetration Diagrams-Theory presents the many uses of the penetrometer for investigating soil conditions.

Methods of controlling mass concrete temperatures range from relatively simple to complex and from inexpensive too costly.

This book is the translated English version of a text on industrial surveys, originally published in Slovak by SPEKTRUM STU Publishing.

This important, self-contained reference deals with structural life assessment (SLA) and structural health monitoring (SHM) in a combined form.

Solutions for Biot's Poroelastic Theory in Key Engineering Fields: Theory and Applications provides solutions related to soil-structure interactions based on a poroelasticity theory, including moving loads such as trains.

Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books The wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe's tallest building.

Agricultural Valuations: A Practical Guide has long been the standard text for students and professionals working on agricultural valuations.

This book provides an overview of facts, theories and methods from hydrology, geology, geophysics, law, ethics, economics, ecology, engineering, sociology, diplomacy and many other disciplines with relevance for concepts and practice of water resources management.

This book contains the keynote presentations, invited speeches, and general session papers presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Asia Urban GeoEngineering, which will be held from 24 November to 27 November 2017 in Changsha, China.

Launched in 1991, the New Engineering Contract (NEC) has become one of the UK's leading standard forms of contract for major construction and civil engineering projects.

Tunneling in Rock reviews the theory and practice of engineering geology and its application to tunneling in rocks.

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

This book is composed of eight chapters, introducing the authors' research and application achievements in the hazard-causing system and disaster evaluation of water and mud inrush in tunnels over the past 10 years.

Aeroacoustics of Low Mach Number Flows: Fundamentals, Analysis, and Measurement provides a comprehensive treatment of sound radiation from subsonic flow over moving surfaces, which is the most widespread cause of flow noise in engineering systems.