Hey guys. My name is Ross, I'm 22 years old and just recently started getting a big liking for civil engineering. My uncle came back from Dubai and the pictures are one of the things that just set me off. My whole life I have loved architecture and what not. So after years of working to figure out what I want to do in life I'm headed on that track. Currently enrolled in community college to finish out two years of classes, then I want to transfer to a CSU with a good Civil Engineering Program. ( I live in California. )
I'm wondering if anyone has any background into what it will be like in the whole. I understand the coursework loads and all the hard times I will have but I mean can anyone tell me the real experience of being a civil engineer? Anything to really spark my interest, something you have done or seen that has really made you love being an engineer?
I will be looking forward to hanging around these forums...
Dear our fourm members and staff
Herein Drawings group for Chinese champion (Guan Yu Effigy ) project
Guan Yu (Chinese: was a general under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China. He played a significant role in the civil war that led to the collapse of the Han Dynasty and the establishment of the Kingdom of Shu, of which Liu Bei was the first emperor.
One of the best known Chinese historical figures throughout East Asia, Guan Yu's true life stories have largely given way to fictionalized ones, mostly found in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms or passed down the generations, in which his deeds and moral qualities have been much exaggerated.
Guan Yu had been deified as early as the Sui Dynasty and is still being worshiped by Chinese people today, especially in Hong Kong. While being seen as the epitome of loyalty and righteousness, Guan Yu had been criticized by historians for being arrogant and vain, qualities that eventually led to his downfall in the hands of Sun Quan, lord of Eastern Wu.
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Hi
I need paper in science direct : "A unified analysis model for energy dissipation devices used in seismic structures"
"Semi-active control of a building complex with variable friction
dampers "
"Method of estimating the parameters of tunedmass dampers for seismic applications"
"Semi-active tuned mass dampers for seismic protection of civil
structures"
The purpose of this guidance manual is to help local road officials gain a better understanding of:
- Typical problems that can result from improper maintenance of unpaved roads;
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To do this, this manual presents guidelines on Best Management Practices (BMP’s) that can be used to improve water quality in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts while enhancing the quality of unpaved roads. These guidelines should not be considered definitive design specifications for BMP’s, as individual site conditions will always determine the level of design necessary for success at any given site.
This manual is designed for those who supervise highway departments, work in road crews, or are otherwise involved in maintaining public or private roadways. The information contained within is meant to help road maintenance decision-makers understand that unpaved roads can be managed in such a way so as to not be contributors to water quality problems.
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Dear all CivilEA members,
Now I am designing a prestressed concrete box girder bridge, I need "Guide Specifications for Design and Construction of Segmental Concrete Bridges(AASHTO)". Can anyone help me?
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WIND ENERGY ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT This authoritative resource offers comprehensive details on effectively using wind energy as a viable and economical energy source. Featuring a multidisciplinary approach, Wind Energy Engineering covers physics, meteorology, aerodynamics. wind measurement, wind turbine specifications, electricity, and integration with the grid. Planning, site selection, cost assessment, environmental impact, and project management are also discussed. Filled with diagrams, tables, charts, graphs, and statistics, this is a definitive reference to current and future developments in wind energy.
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Civil engineering structures such as buildings, bridges, stadiums, and offshore structures play an import role in our daily life. However, constructing these structures requires lots of budget. Thus, how to cost-efficiently design structures satisfying all required design constraints is an important factor to structural engineers. Traditionally, mathematical gradient-based optimal techniques have been applied to the design of optimal structures. While, many practical engineering optimal problems are very complex and hard to solve by traditional method. In the past few decades, swarm intelligence algorithms, which were inspired by the social behaviour of natural animals such as fish schooling and bird flocking, were developed because they do not require conventional mathematical assumptions and thus possess better global search abilities than the traditional optimization algorithms and have attracted more and more attention. These intelligent based algorithms are very suitable for continuous and discrete design variable problems such as ready-made structural members and have been vigorously applied to various structural design problems and obtained good results. This book gathers the authors’ latest research work related with particle swarm optimizer algorithm and group search optimizer algorithm as well as their application to structural optimal design. The readers can understand the full spectrum of the algorithms and apply the algorithms to their own research problems.
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Found these on the internet, they seem very interesting, so I thought to share them:
Article: STEEL BUILDING DAMAGE CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKE 22-2011 NEW ZEALAND
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Author: American Institute of Architects | Size: 42.3 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: - | Year: 2011 | pages: 68 | ISBN: NA
Eco-structure is geared toward architects, builders, interior designers and others interested in green building. By focusing on particular green residential and commercial projects, as well as gaining “perspectives” from industry leaders, the publication strives to improve the built the... Eco-structure editorial covers green building from all angles, providing information about diverse green-building techniques and rating systems to help architects and designers choose the proper approach to their specific projects. In addition, Eco-structure focuses on the entire building and how intricately a building's systems work together to achieve sustainability. Eco-structure consistently provides reliable, in-depth coverage of the market, new trends and market statistics, as well new products information.
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