Civil engineering, surveying and building

The book presents the select proceedings of 13th Structural Engineering Convention.

This book reviews Operations Research theory, applications and practice in seven major areas of airline planning and operations.

The first edition of Sound and Structural Vibration was written in the early 1980s.

Public misperception of radiological risk consistently directs limited resources toward managing minimal or even phantom risks at great cost to government and industry with no measurable benefit to overall public health.

Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture provides an original, visual approach to the study of landscape architecture by creating a spatial morphology based on use and experience of landscapes.

Der neue Bauphysik-Kalender 2018 mit den Schwerpunkten Feuchteschutz und Bauwerksabdichtung bietet eine solide Arbeitsgrundlage und ein topaktuelles und verlässliches Nachschlagewerk für die Planung dauerhafter Bauwerksabdichtungen.

This proceedings volume brings together selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Frontier of Energy and Environment Engineering.

This book explores the 'craft of use', the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector.

This study presents the fundamental principles of the theory of modelling with equivalent materials.

This book focuses on the fundamentals of rock mechanics as a basis for the safe and economical design and construction of tunnels, dam foundations and slopes in jointed and anisotropic rock.

Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private.

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In the past, the possibilities of structural optimization were restricted to an optimal choice of profiles and shape.

If planning is understood to be about the nature of place, about the way in which we use land, and about the physical expression of the ordering of society, then it becomes apparent that planning as an activity cannot possibly be divorced from the general cultural traditions that inform it.

A concise introduction to the principles and practices of structural dynamicsThis hands-on textbook lays out essential structural dynamics concepts and computational methods.

This book provides a thorough review of this powerful and sophisticated technique for modelling soil structure interactions.

Published on behalf of The Watt Committee on Energy

This book focuses on combustion simulations and optical diagnostics techniques, which are currently used in internal combustion engines.

Heat Recovery with Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Heat Pumps presents the basic concepts and thermodynamic behavior of mechanical vapor compression and recompression.

The environmental legacy of past industrial and agricultural development can simultaneously pose serious threats to human health and impede reuse of contaminated land.

The relationship between project managers representing project owners and those on the contractor side is often threatened by communication risk.

Despite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged.

This edited book provides discussion and presents results related to some "e;hot topics,"e; all dealing with the soil-structure interaction.

This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in cement-based materials (CBM) and concrete structures, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the International RILEM Conference on synergizing expertise toward sustainability and robustness of CBM and concrete structures (SynerCrete), held in Milos Island, Greece, on June 14-16, 2023.

This study explains how, confronting ever-greater environmental pressures, we can plan for and achieve a sustainable environment.

This book is designed to provide lecture notes (theory) and experimental design of major concepts typically taught in most Mechanics of Materials courses in a sophomore- or junior-level Mechanical or Civil Engineering curriculum.

This book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground.

Not since the 19th century has the future of the countryside been such a focus of political and public attention, nor of profound uncertainty and anguished debate.

Outrigger systems are rigid horizontal structures designed to improve a building's stability and strength by connecting the building core or spine to distant columns, much in the way an outrigger can prevent a canoe from overturning.

Provides aspiring engineers with pertinent information and technological methodologies on how best to manage industry's modern-day environment concerns This book explains why industrial environmental management is important to human environmental interactions and describes what the physical, economic, social, and technological constraints to achieving the goal of a sustainable environment are.

This book surveys reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) analyses of various engineering systems.

Wellbeing is now at the top of almost everyone's agenda and many technical books have been published on the topic.

First published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Union of Architects.

This book draws on author's wealth of knowledge working on numerous projects across many countries.

Dieses Handbuch gibt einen vollständigen und umfassenden Überblick über Pfahlsysteme und ihre Anwendungen.

This book covers the major polluting chemicals affecting fisheries in European fresh waters and the effort required to extend the work towards the preparation of critical reviews on less important chemicals would be out of proportion to the benefits obtained.

Product design is becoming increasingly challenging as product complexity increases dramatically with the advent of autonomous control and the need to achieve zero emissions.

This book discusses the features of composite materials and arch structures.

Der Mauerwerksbau ist mit rund 73 % Marktanteil der Wandbaustoff Nummer 1 im Wohnungsbau in Deutschland.

This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat storage, electricity and control).

The committee that prepared this report was charged with assessing the state of fire safety research and describing the potential role of the NSF in improving fire safety in the United States.

Advances in Extraterrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater includes the latest advances that have been made in recent years in developing drilling and excavation mechanisms for extraterrestrial bodies.

Reinforced concrete structures are subjected to a complex variety of stresses and strains.

Originally published in 1988.

This straightforward text examines the scientific principles, characterization techniques, and fabrication methods used to design and produce high quality optical fibers.

This book contains accepted papers submitted and peer-reviewed for the 25th Annual Symposium organised by the Sydney Chapter of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS).

This book provides insight into domino effects in industrial chemical sites and process industries.

This is the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Strain-Hardening Cement-Based Composites (SHCC4), that was held at the Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany from 18 to 20 September 2017.