Civil engineering, surveying and building Books

To determine the carrying capacity of a structure or a structural element susceptible to operate beyond the elastic limit is an important task in many situations of both mechanical and civil engineering. The so-called "direct methods" play an increasing...

The micro- and nano-modification of infrastructure materials and the associated multi-scale characterization and simulation has the potential to open up whole new uses and classes of materials, with wide-ranging implications for society. The use of...

Knowing the safety factor for limit states such as plastic collapse, low cycle fatigue or ratcheting is always a major design consideration for civil and mechanical engineering structures that are subjected to loads. Direct methods of limit or shakedown...

This report is a useful tool for countries starting to recycle aggregates or construction and demolition waste. It contains the latest developments in this field, introduces a completely new approach to the procedure of proportioning concrete mixtures...

The objective of this book is to fill some of the gaps in the existing engineering codes and standards related to soil dynamics, concerning issues in earthquake engineering and ground vibrations, by using formulas and hand...

Authors and Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction, by Y. Ohama and D. Van Gemert; 2. Principles of TiO2 photocatalysis, by M. Castellote and N. Bengtsson; 3. Application of TiO2 photocatalysis to cementitious materials for self-cleaning purposes, by...

These are the papers presented at the Fib-RILEM workshop held in Madrid, Spain, in November 2010. The assessment of deterioration and aging of concrete structures, most commonly through reinforcement corrosion, is not considered in current structural...

The 98 papers from the December 1999 symposium report on new technologies and monitoring approaches in field geotechnical instrument measurements, and case studies on geotechnical projects. Deep and shallow foundations, deep excavations and retain...

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to organize the Sixth International RILEM Symposium on SCC and the Fourth North-American Conference on the Design and Use of SCC, held on Sept 26-29, 2010 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The RILEM series of symposia started...

<P>Performance-based Earthquake Engineering has emerged before the turn of the century as the most important development in the field of Earthquake Engineering during the last three decades. It has since then started...

This volume, dedicated to Professor Dimitri Beskos, contains contributions from leading researchers in Europe, the USA, Japan and elsewhere, and addresses the needs of the computational mechanics research community in terms of...

Existing Views on Fluidodynamics in Petroliferous Formations.- Investigation Methods of Deep Fluidodynamics.- Role of Regional Infiltration Recharge Sources in the Formation of Deep Fluids and Petroliferous Basin Hydrodynamic Zoning.- Elision Recharge...

Proceedings of the EC Contractors' Meeting held in Brussels, Belgium, November 13-14, 1986

Proceedings of the EC Contractors' Meeting held in Athens, Greece, 11-13 November 1981

This book is intended primarily as a teaching text, as well as a reference for individual study in the behavior of thin walled structural components. Such structures are widely used in the engineering profession for spacecraft,...

This book is based on a number of lectures presented at CISM* -Course on "Stochastic Methods in Structural Mechanics", August 28 -30,1985 in Udine, Italy. The chapters presented here are either expanded and/or updated versions...

In the context of water management, structures that measure the flow rate in open channels are used for a variety of purposes: (i) In hydrology, they measure the discharge from catchments; (ii) In irrigation, they measure and...

This book focuses on the aspects of contracting contracts, basically related to road construction and management contracts. The book presents an analytical study of Performance-Based Road Management and Maintenance (PMMR), Funktionsbauvertrag (FBV)...

The groundwater science and engineering has been closely connected with various fields (1) Groundwater Hydrology, (2) Groundwater Hydraulics or Geohydraulics, (3) Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media, (4) Groundwater Quality...

Ever since mankind first appeared on Earth, people have confronted a variety of threats caused by global environmental changes and catastrophic natural disasters. In recent years, there has been a huge necessity to attempt the...

Entre Meeanique et Arehiteeture: e'est-a-dire, entre les proeedes teehniques qui, depuis des temps immemoriaux eonforment l'art et la scienee de la eonstruetion au developpement de la scienee physique et mathematique la plus...

The present doctoral thesis was developed within the framework of the research project "Deformation Capacity of Structural Concrete". This project aims at developing a consistent and experimentally verified theory of the...

This volume contains 18 papers from 8 countries dealing with different aspects of triggered and induced seismicity. In situ observations of the phenomenon include examples of seismicity due to reservoirs, hard-rock mines, coal...

Authors: Hugo Bachmann, Walter J. Ammann, Florian Deischl, Josef Eisenmann, Ingomar Floegl, Gerhard H. Hirsch, Günter K. Klein, Göran J. Lande, Oskar Mahrenholtz, Hans G. Natke, Hans Nussbaumer, Anthony J. Pretlove, Johann H...

Most existing arch dams have been designed for seismic loading by static methods involving the use of seismic coefficients. Although there are no known examples of arch dams which have been seriously damaged by earthquakes, the...

(4). The next three papers extend these views by taking a closer look on parameters that govern hydraulic diffusivity in sandstones and other types of rocks. Specific targets addressed are the influence of differential stress...

Es mag als ein gewagtes Beginnen erscheinen, die Lehren eines groBen, umfassenden Wissensgebietes in der Form einer Enzyklopadie vermitteln zu wollen. Der Verfasser hat dennoch den Versuch unternommen. Es bestarkte ihn in...

Die Linienführung moderner Verkehrswege macht größere Brückenspannweiten unerläßlich. Die Schrägseilbrücken haben die 500 m Marke übersprungen. Projekte mit mittelgroßen Spannweiten, etwa 500 - 1000 m, bilden die nächste große...

Das vorliegende Buch behandelt die Berechnung von Tragwerken unter dynamischen Lasten. Dabei wird auf der einen Seite großes Gewicht auf die Herausarbeitung der physikalischen Zusammenhänge und der Querverbindungen bei den...

Die dritte Auflage des Klassikers Stahlbetonbrücken behandelt in umfassender Form die Grundlagen des konzeptionellen Entwurfs sowie der Projektierung, Ausführung und Erhaltung von Brücken aus Stahl- und Spannbeton. Diese...

Zweck und Übersicht. Die nachstehende Arbeit ist ein experimenteller Beitrag zur Frage des Bewegungswiderstandes von festen Körpern in Flüssigkeiten. Sie ist der erste fertige Teil eines umfangreichen syste­ matischen ...

Schon in den wenigen Monaten seit dem Erscheinen des Reftes 14 der "Mitteilungen uber Versuche, ausgefuhrt vom Osterr. Eisenbeton­ ausschuJ3", in welchem die Berichte uber die bisherige T?tigkeit des Unter­ ausschusses fUr...

In der heutigen Zeit sind wir Zeugen einer stiirmischen Entwicklung von Rechenautomaten. Die Folgen dieser neuen Rechentechnik greifen in eine ganze Reihe von Fachgebieten ein, darunter natiirlich auch in die Statik der...

In dem vorliegenden zweiten Teile des II. Bandes ist eine Reihe der einfacheren statisch unbestimmten, vollwandigen Systeme be­ handelt, wie sie in mannigfaltigen Formen speziell in der Baupraxis vorkommen. Als Grundlage dienen...

This book is a collection of articles covering the six lecture courses given at the CISM School on this topic in 2008. It features contributions by established international experts and offers a coherent and comprehensive overview of the state-of-the art...

Optimal analysis is defined as an analysis that creates and uses sparse, well-structured and well-conditioned matrices. The focus is on efficient methods for eigensolution of matrices involved in static, dynamic and stability analyses of symmetric and...