Design of Prestressed Concrete
ISBN: 9780471830726 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revision of a popular text discusses the behavior, analysis, and design of prestressed concrete structures. Changes in the Second Edition include a new emphasis on partially prestressed concrete members, flexural strength calculations, deflection calculations, crack width calculations, along with new information on high strength materials, and more. Develops an understanding of design methods used in practice and familiarity with the important provisions of the governing 1983 Building Code of the American Concrete Institute. Balance of theory and practice provides a clear survey of...
This revision of a popular text discusses the behavior, analysis, and design of prestressed concrete structures. Changes in the Second Edition include...
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1290,23 zł |
Construction Measurements
ISBN: 9780471836636 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This revision of the successful text/reference on construction measurements contains much new material concerning electronic surveying and remote sensing. The index and the gathered section titles at the start of each chapter make for easy reference. New to this edition is coverage of the GPS satellite positioning system, electronic distance measurement (EDM), laser sweep, calculator techniques, radial surveying and tracking, Loran-C, inertial navigation surveying, 3-point resection, computer software, and electronic fieldbooks. Topics covered include difference of elevation, angle...
This revision of the successful text/reference on construction measurements contains much new material concerning electronic surveying and remote sens...
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Fundamentals of Earthquake-Resistant Construction
ISBN: 9780471839811 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for engineers without a background in seismic design. Provides design standards and parameters, explaining how to interpret and apply them. Examines and recommends procedures to accommodate the enormous forces and variations in effects common to major earthquakes. Covers practical aspects of soil behavior and structural and foundation design. Gives tips on special construction situations: foundations, dams and retaining walls, strengthening existing structures and construction over active faults.
Written for engineers without a background in seismic design. Provides design standards and parameters, explaining how to interpret and apply them. Ex...
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757,55 zł |
Soil Mechanics for Unsaturated Soils
ISBN: 9780471850083 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The principles and concepts for unsaturated soils are developed as extensions of saturated soils. Addresses problems where soils have a matric suction or where pore-water pressure is negative. Covers theory, measurement and use of the fundamental properties of unsaturated soils--permeability, shear strength and volume change. Includes a significant amount of case studies.
The principles and concepts for unsaturated soils are developed as extensions of saturated soils. Addresses problems where soils have a matric suction...
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900,33 zł |
Construction Equipment Guide
ISBN: 9780471888406 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of this guide covers the fundamentals of construction equipment from an operational perspective. It stresses the factors that govern or control the equipment productivity on construction work. As equipment is one of the largest long-term capital investments a contractor makes, the physical conditions under which equipment will be used are most important to contractors in equipment selection.
The second edition of this guide covers the fundamentals of construction equipment from an operational perspective. It stresses the factors that gover...
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905,82 zł |
Structural Design for Fire Safety
ISBN: 9780471890607 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting a comprehensive overview of the fire resistance of building structures, this key text brings together a large volume of material from many sources on this increasingly important topic. Starting with the fundamentals of fires and fire safety, the book gives an introduction to real fire exposure and the response of structures to such fires, outlining the important contribution of structural fire resistance to overall fire safety. Methods of calculating fire severity and achieving fire resistance are described, including fire performance of the main structural materials including...
Presenting a comprehensive overview of the fire resistance of building structures, this key text brings together a large volume of material from many ...
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285,29 zł |
The Finite Element Method in the Static and Dynamic Deformation and Consolidation of Porous Media
ISBN: 9780471928096 / Angielski / Twarda / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the first edition was published in 1987, there has been a rapid expansion in research and professional applications to the area of porous media. This text provides detail in the field covering the mechanical and numerical aspects of flow in porous media, and provides readers with a theoretical aspect to the text by considering averaging theories as well as the phenomenological approach.
Since the first edition was published in 1987, there has been a rapid expansion in research and professional applications to the area of porous media....
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Time Effects in Rock Mechanics
ISBN: 9780471955177 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rheological behaviour of rock mechanics studies the mechanisms of deformation, volume of change and failure of rock salt along with the kinds of test necessary to reveal them. The results of these studies are affected by mechanics important for repositories for chemical or radioactive wastes, among other applications.
Rheological behaviour of rock mechanics studies the mechanisms of deformation, volume of change and failure of rock salt along with the kinds of test ...
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1987,65 zł |
Wind Loads on Structures
ISBN: 9780471956518 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wind loads have to be taken into account when designing any kind of civil engineering structure. The wind load on structures can be systematized by means of the wind load chain: wind climate (global wind), terrain (wind at low height), aerodynamic response (wind flow to pressure), mechanical response (wind pressure to structural response) and design criteria.
Wind loads have to be taken into account when designing any kind of civil engineering structure. The wind load on structures can be systematized by me...
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1350,64 zł |
Structural Analysis, Design and Control by the Virtual Distortion Method
ISBN: 9780471956563 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virtual distortions are incompatible deformations imposed on structures like trusses and frames, caused by elements such as nonhomogeneous heating or by local imperfections. The theory of virtual distortions provides an efficient tool which can be used to treat many problems that differ from the physical. The idea of simulating a variety of structural analysis and design methods by superimposing a set of virtual strains is not generally known by researchers in this field.
Virtual distortions are incompatible deformations imposed on structures like trusses and frames, caused by elements such as nonhomogeneous heating or ...
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Buckling Experiments: Experimental Methods in Buckling of Thin-Walled Structures, Volume 1: Basic Concepts, Columns, Beams and Plates
ISBN: 9780471956617 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by eminent researchers and renown authors of numerous publications in the buckling structures field.
* Deals with experimental investigation in the industry. * Covers the conventional and more unconventional methods for testing for a wide variety of structures. * Various parameters which may influence the test results are systemically highlighted including, imperfections, boundary conditions, loading conditions as well as the effects of holes and cut-outs. Written by eminent researchers and renown authors of numerous publications in the buckling structures field.
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Finite-Element Modelling of Unbounded Media
ISBN: 9780471961345 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dynamic unbounded medium-structure interactions occur in many fields of engineering and physical science, such as wave propagation in soil-structure and fluid-structure interactions, acoustics and electromagnetism and as diffusion in heat conduction and consolidation. This book presents three novel concepts, based on the finite-element methodology, to model the unbounded medium:
* The consistent infinitesimal finite-element cell method, a boundary finite-element procedure, requires the discretization of the structure-medium interface only and is exact in the finite-element sense. It is... Dynamic unbounded medium-structure interactions occur in many fields of engineering and physical science, such as wave propagation in soil-structure a...
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1438,50 zł |
Transportation Network Analysis
ISBN: 9780471964933 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fabric of all societies is held together by networks of various kinds, such as water supply, energy supply, sewage disposal, communication and, perhaps most importantly, transportation. Transportation Network Analysis is concerned primarily with the spatial, but also the temporal, nature of the movement of people and freight across land, where the movement is channelled onto roads or railways. The road and rail infrastructure constitute the transportation network while the movement of people and freight constitute the flows on the network. Providing a coherent theoretical...
The fabric of all societies is held together by networks of various kinds, such as water supply, energy supply, sewage disposal, communication and, pe...
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Passive Energy Dissipation Systems in Structural Engineering
ISBN: 9780471968214 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Passive energy dissipation is one of the structural protective systems used to strengthen existing structures by incorporating devices that are intended to absorb or consume a portion of the input energy, thereby reducing energy dissipation demand on primary structural members and minimising possible structural damage. All major types of energy dissipation device are presented and discussed in this book, including those currently installed in structures throughout the world as well as possible future developments in the field.
Passive energy dissipation is one of the structural protective systems used to strengthen existing structures by incorporating devices that are intend...
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1378,09 zł |
Stochastic Processes and Random Vibrations: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780471971924 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is an introduction to the world of uncertainties and to the problems of random nature and their interpretative solutions, using the stochastic analysis probability theory, in the field of civil engineering.
This text is an introduction to the world of uncertainties and to the problems of random nature and their interpretative solutions, using the stochast...
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Dam Hydraulics
ISBN: 9780471972891 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dam Hydraulics D. L. Vischer W. H. Hager VAW, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland This book develops the main themes of water flow in dam structures, emphasizing the hydraulic principles governing the design, construction and refurbishment of dams. Opening with an overview of the various dam structures, it then develops fundamental topics including: reservoir sedimentation, waves due to landslides and dambreak waves. The authors provide a systematic analysis of the various phenomena associated with dam hydraulics, illustrated with appropriate figures and photographs of laboratory models and prototype...
Dam Hydraulics D. L. Vischer W. H. Hager VAW, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland This book develops the main themes of water flow in dam structures, emphasizing...
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Buckling Experiments: Experimental Methods in Buckling of Thin-Walled Structures, Volume 2: Shells, Built-Up Structures, Composites and Additional Top
ISBN: 9780471974505 / Angielski / Twarda / 1136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * Edited by Josef Singer, the world's foremost authority on structural buckling.
* Time-saving and cost-effective design data for all structural, mechanical, and aerospace engineering researchers. * Edited by Josef Singer, the world's foremost authority on structural buckling.
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Material Instabilities in Solids
ISBN: 9780471974604 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The behaviour of instabilities in solids (metals, polymers, soils and rocks, concrete) is important when studying the durability of materials and serviceability of structures in their environment. Researchers in this subject area use not only numerical modelling techniques, but also experimental and hybrid analytical/modelling techniques. The powerful modern computational methods on the one hand and the major improvements in experimental techniques on the other have resulted in significant progress in recent years in the study of the mechanical behaviour of instabilities. This text is an...
The behaviour of instabilities in solids (metals, polymers, soils and rocks, concrete) is important when studying the durability of materials and serv...
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1702,09 zł |
Handbook of Water Economics: Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9780471985716 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Handbook of Water Economics is presented in three sections: theory, methods and applications, providing the latest information in the growing area of water economics and the environment, covering the theory and issues relating to resource management techniques, policy formulation, implementation and evaluation in the water sector.
* Includes strong theory section which links to real world examples in the applications section * Provides an associated website which will include: formats for EXCEL spreadsheet application covered in the text; bibliography and links to related... The Handbook of Water Economics is presented in three sections: theory, methods and applications, providing the latest information in the growing area...
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1054,10 zł |
Stochastic Finite Elements: A Spectral Approach, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780486428185 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discrepancies frequently occur between a physical system's responses and predictions obtained from mathematical models. The Spectral Stochastic Finite Element Method (SSFEM) has proven successful at forecasting a variety of uncertainties in calculating system responses. This text analyzes a class of discrete mathematical models of engineering systems, identifying key issues and reviewing relevant theoretical concepts, with particular attention to a spectral approach.
Random system parameters are modeled as second-order stochastic processes, defined by their mean and covariance functions.... Discrepancies frequently occur between a physical system's responses and predictions obtained from mathematical models. The Spectral Stochastic Finite...
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73,32 zł |