Civil engineering, surveying and building Books

On Land-Drainage, Subsoil-Ploughing And Irrigation is a book written by John French Burke in 1841. The book covers various methods of improving the quality of soil for agriculture, such as land drainage, subsoil ploughing, and irrigation. Burke explains...

Lydd: And Its Church is a historical book written by Thomas H. Oyler in 1894. The book provides a comprehensive account of the town of Lydd in Kent, England, and its church. The author explores the town's history, geography, and architecture, as well as...

The book ""Distribution Of Energy In The Spectra Of Platinum, Palladium, And Tantalum"" was written by George Vest McCauley in 1911. It is a scientific study that focuses on the distribution of energy in the spectra of three metals: platinum, palladium,...

""M�����moire Arch�����ologique sur les D�����couvertes d'Herbord: Dites de Sanxay (1883)"" est un livre �����crit par Camille de la Croix. Ce livre d�����crit les d�����couvertes arch�����ologiques faites dans la r�����gion de Sanxay, en France, par un...

One Hundred Easy Window Trims is a book published by the Byxbee Publishing Company in 1913. The book is a guide for retailers and store owners on how to make their store windows more profitable. It provides 100 different window trim ideas that are easy...

Das Buch ""Meteorologia, oder Anfangsgr�����nde zu Berechnung und Wissenschaft der Witterung"" wurde 1764 von einem anonymen Autor ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um ein Werk, das sich mit der Wissenschaft der Meteorologie befasst und grundlegende...

Londinium Redivivum V3: Or An Ancient History And Modern Description Of London (1805) is a book written by James Peller Malcolm. It is a comprehensive historical and descriptive account of the city of London, covering its ancient origins and development...

""Lives of the Engineers, Harbors, Lighthouses, Bridges: Smeaton and Rennie"" is a book written by Samuel Smiles and published in 1874. The book is a collection of biographies of two prominent civil engineers, John Smeaton and John Rennie, who were...

... La cheminée est une invention du Moyen âge. Les anciens ne l'ont pas connue. Les premiers peuples dont l'histoire fasse mention, dans notre hémisphère, étaient confinés en Asie, dans les régions qui avoisinent le golfe Persique, et en Europe, sur les...

... En France les bouchers fondaient eux-mêmes les graisses, et avec ce suif fabriquaient les chandelles. Une corporation de chandeliers fut établie en France vers 1016, sous le roi Philippe Ier, et régularisée vers 1470.La lanterne fut imaginée vers les...

This is my MPhil thesis on the topic of using infrared flash thermography (FT) for detecting surface cracks,subsurface defects and water-paths in building structures.Infrared thermography was started to apply on building diagnosis in the early 19th...

This book is intended to provide a methodology for the design of grouted bolts, based on empirical and analytical methods. The main objectives of this book are to offer the practical means for better characterization of poor to very poor rock masses ...

Self-consolidating high performance concrete (SCHPC)is a special concrete that spreads through congestedreinforcement and fills every corner of the formworkunder self-weight, provides high strength, and showsgood durability. It is produced by exploiting...

The author, Nitin Naik is an enthusiastic engineer who started his career as a Civil Engineer in mid 90s. Nitin has worked with renowned universities in Hong Kong and Australia focusing on applied research with various challenging topics that include...

This book explores working and learning practices in the context of safety within the Civil Construction Industry of Western Australia and specifically focuses on the relations between organisational safety values and current working practices, primarily...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

The Life of JAM is the story of the life of Dr. James A. Mandel PE. He was born on Christmas day in 1934 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. His parents Isadore and Jennie Mandel guided his early years. He learned to swim at age 7. Jim earned a BS in Civil...

The value of this book to the reader as well as their agency is based on offering essential information to assist in their desire to provide:A mechanism to consistently train employees A tool to evaluate the effective of the field crewsA means of...

Big businesses, small businesses, government agencies, and workers are all active in safety today.In fact, safety is currently the single most acted-upon and yet routinely ignored issue in the construction industry. We see enormous amounts of activity...

Sustainable construction engineering focuses on reducing the negative impacts of construction on the environment. This process starts from the very beginning of construction like choosing recycled materials, efficient use of resources, reducing waste,...

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning is a technology that is concerned with indoor and vehicular environmental comfort. Its objective is to provide comfort and high indoor air quality. The technology develops on the principles of fluid mechanics,...

A building can be defined as a structure, which has a roof and walls. The architectural, technical and engineering applications for designing buildings is referred to as building design. Zoning requirement, investigation of the environmental impact of...

Foundation engineering is a branch of engineering that applies the principles of soil and rock mechanics for the design of the foundational elements of architectural structures. A foundation connects a structure with the ground and is responsible for the...

Civil engineering is a branch of engineering that is concerned with the construction, design and maintenance of physical infrastructure such as bridges, roads, dams, airports, sewage systems, railways, etc. Many different types of building materials are...

This book is an advanced, well-rounded and in-depth view about what it takes to be the best in the international arena, in a world where change is the only constant. It is endorsed by a wide range of industry experts. This well-researched book will take...

The unusual frequency of hydro-meteorological events in recent decades, often with catastrophic consequences for society and the environment, require new methods for designing water management projects and the structures meant to protect us from natural...

Many of the struggles that we are currently experiencing when attempting to implement Lean in the construction environment are the direct result of applying Lean tools out of proper context. Understanding Lean as an overall operating system will help to...

The first edition published in 2010. The response was encouraging and many people appreciated a book that was dedicated to quality management in construction projects. Since it published, ISO 9000: 2008 has been revised and ISO 9000: 2015 has published...

Differential equations play a vital role in the fields of engineering and science. Problems in engineering and science can be modeled using ordinary or partial differential equations. Analytical solutions of differential equations may not be obtained...

This second of two comprehensive reference texts on differential equations continues coverage of the essential material students they are likely to encounter in solving engineering and mechanics problems across the field - alongside a preliminary volume...

This new edition encompasses current design methods used for steel railway bridges in both SI and Imperial (US Customary) units. It discusses the planning of railway bridges and the appropriate types of bridges based on planning considerations.

This book covers the field of applied geotechnology related to all aspects of construction in ground, including compacted fill, excavations, ground improvement, foundations, earth retaining systems and geotechnical site characterization. It suits the...

DISTRICT COOLING: THEORY and PRACTICE provides a unique study of an energy cogeneration system, set up to bring chilled water to buildings (offices, apartment houses, and factories) needing cooling for air conditioning and refrigeration. In winter, the...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

A comprehensive presentation of wicking models developed in academia and industry, Wicking in Porous Materials: Traditional and Modern Modeling Approaches contains some of the most important approaches and methods available, from the traditional...

Measuring, monitoring, and modeling technologies and methods changed the field of glaciology significantly in the 14 years since the publication of the first edition of Fundamentals of Glacier Dynamics. Designed to help readers achieve the basic level of...

This state of the art report from an international task group (TG44) of CIB, the International Council of Building Research Organizations, presents a highly authoritative guide to the application of innovative technologies on response control and seismic...

Construction teams are usually complex, interdisciplinary and temporary, and, as such, the need for effective communication is crucial. However, published data regarding the manner in which individuals interact within the temporary project team is...

Residential Real Estate introduces readers to the economic fundamentals and emerging issues in housing markets. The book investigates housing market issues within local, regional, national and international contexts in order to provide students with an...

Establishes Geotechnical Reliability as Fundamentally Distinct from Structural ReliabilityReliability-based design is relatively well established in structural design. Its use is less mature in geotechnical design, but there is a steady progression...

Across the AEC industry, the non-technical skills possessed by organisations are key to their overall performance. In this study, the particular importance of optimising the so-called "soft power" of organisations, is addressed. Things like...

Effective risk and opportunity management is key to the successful delivery of any major engineering and　construction project. This book looks at how all those involved can manage risk and capitalise on the opportunities that uncertainty present. The...

This is the first design guide, with calculation methods and guidance. They give high strength, ductility and durability, fire resistance and favourable constructability, and lighter weight, higher bending stiffness and better cyclic performance than...

Despite generations of change and recent, rapid developments in gas dynamics and hypersonic theory, relevant literature has yet to catch up, so those in the field are generally forced to rely on dated monographs to make educated decisions that reflect...

Retrofitting of building structures, including maintenance, rehabilitation, and strengthening, is not only an important issue in urban construction and management, but also a frequent problem to structural engineers in property management disciplines...

The use of more robust, affordable, and efficient techniques and technologies in the application of medicine is presently a subject of huge interest and demand. Technology and Medical Sciences solidifies knowledge in the fields of technology and medical...

Student design engineers often require a "cookbook" approach to solving certain problems in mechanical engineering. With this focus on providing simplified information that is easy to retrieve, retired mechanical design engineer Keith L. Richards has...