Structural engineering

This book summarizes the authors' extensive experience and interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate how acquiring and integrating data using a variety of analytical equipment can provide better insights into unconventional shale reservoir rocks and their constituent components.

This book is concerned with the dynamic behavior of reinforced/prestressed concrete structures, such as: buildings and bridges.

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

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 1st Belt and Road Webinar Series on Geotechnics, Energy and Environment, March - May 2021.

This book focuses on case studies from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and the USA in various ground improvement projects.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI) 2019.

The most comprehensive treatment of key elements of original surveys, and the research required to find them, which is an important issue in retracement surveys that has never been fully explored.

Seismic Rehabilitation Methods for Existing Buildings covers various structures, effective parameters in seismic improvement, and other factors in seismic loading in eight applied chapters with descriptive classification.

Master the Latest Developments in Soil Testing and New Applications of Geotechnical EngineeringGeotechnical Engineering: Principles and Practices offers students and practicing engineers a concise, easy-to-understand approach to the principles and methods of soil and geotechnical engineering.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2022.

When bridges fail, often with loss of human life, those involved may be unwilling to speak openly about the cause.

This book is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 2nd MedGU Annual Meeting, Marrakesh 2022.

This important volume-the product of a meeting of a select group of scientists-provides the most recent research results from the world's leaders in the study of toxic pollutants in sediments.

This book focuses on the seismic design of Structures, Piping Systems and Components (SSC).

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

Quantity Surveying Practice: The Nuts and Bolts is a practical guide to quantity surveying in building construction.

This book analyzes various properties and structures of ice from the point of view to solve problems in civil aviation.

A tribute to the pioneers of oil exploration in Indonesia (1850-1898).

Based on the construction of Nanjing Weisan Road Yangtze River Tunnel, this book comprehensively introduces the new technology of large-diameter shield tunnel construction crossing circular air shafts.

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

Widely publicised disasters serve as a reminder to the maritime profession of the eminent need for enhancing safety cost-effectively and as a strong indicator of the existing gaps in the stability safety of ships and ocean vehicles.

Understanding and analysing the complex phenomena related to elastic wave propagation has been the subject of intense research for many years and has enabled application in numerous fields of technology, including structural health monitoring (SHM).

Underground Engineering: Planning, Design, Construction and Operation of the Underground Space provides the author's vast experience as both an academic and practitioner.

The book highlights and analyses the distress to buildings caused by sulphate-induced heave, with particular reference to the recent problems in the Dublin area of Ireland.

This book presents the results of a Japanese national research project carried out in 1988-1993, usually referred to as the New RC Project.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2022.

This book is an introductory text on building measurement and estimating for simple buildings in Hong Kong, based on the Hong Kong Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works 4th Edition Revised 2018 (HKSMM4 Rev 2018).

With increasing urbanization and development of society, advancement in geotechnical technologies is essential to the construction of infrastructures.

The Finite Element Method for Solid and Structural Mechanics is the key text and reference for engineers, researchers and senior students dealing with the analysis and modeling of structures, from large civil engineering projects such as dams to aircraft structures and small engineered components.

This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of structural health monitoring, as presented at the 8th Civil Structural Health Monitoring Workshop (CSHM-8), held on March 31-April 2, 2021.

Safe Intrusive Activities on Land Potentially Impacted by Contamination provides health, safety and environmental information and good practice recommendations for professionals engaged with intrusive activities on land potentially impacted by contamination.

Fundamental coverage, analytic mathematics, and up-to-date software applications are hard to find in a single text on the finite element method (FEM).

Construction Cost Estimating equips a new generation of students and early-career professionals with the skills they need to bid successfully on projects.

This book covers different geotechnical and structural engineering topics applied to buildings, power grid infrastructures, hydroelectric projects, bridges, and transport infrastructures.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illegal extraction of metals and minerals from the perspectives of organized crime theory, green criminology, anti-corruption studies, and victimology.

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, as well as their interface with Engineering Seismology, Geophysics and Seismology, have all made remarkable progress over the past 15 years, mainly due to the development of instrumented large scale experimental facilities, to the increase in the quantity and quality of recorded earthquake data, to the numerous well-documented case studies from recent strong earthquakes as well as enhanced computer capabilities.

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UK construction shows its underlying strength.

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

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

Facilities Management (FM) and Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) are two closely related and relatively new management disciplines with developing international professions and increasing academic attention.

This book is a thoroughly revised and enlarged version of "e;Shock-capturing methods for free-surface shallow flows"e;, first published by Wiley and Sons, 2001.

Inspecting and Diagnosing Disrepair provides housing officers, surveyors, landlords, tenants, lawyers and environmental health inspectors with the essential information they need to record, diagnose and remedy disrepair.