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EUROCODE 2 Application to Concrete Highway Bridges

The guide begins with chapters 1 to 3 that deal with the generalities and basics for dimensioning and verification of projects. It continues with discussions on concrete: shrinkage and creep in chapter 4 and prestress in chapter 5.
The justifications to be carried out at the ultimate limit states are then dealt with in chapter 6 where detail will be found on classic subjects such as verifications on bending, shear stress, torsional stress, crushing stress and fatigue stress. They are followed by a new subject: verification of brittle failure.
The justifications to be carried out on the service limit states are dealt with in chapter 7, where there are new developments concerning control of cracking.
Constructive provisions are the subjects of chapters 8 and 9, the first relating to reinforcement and the second to structural elements.
The last chapter, 10, brings together specific justification methods: verification relative to shear in special cases, the use of connecting rods and tie rods for zones of discontinuity, study of the prestress diffusion, ‘sandwich method’ for plate design and particularly the bending-shear combination. Foundations, treated in a very partial manner by Eurocode 2, should provide useful references for designers.
The guide finally ends with numerous and varied appendices. In effect, it likes to think it’s complete without having been able to deal with everything, and to avoid burdening the reader with an excessive amount of information; much non-essential information and detailed developments of examples of application are to be found in the appendices.
The guide’s first objective is a detailed description of the instructions that are new relative to previous practices. At this point of implementation of the Eurocodes, this development aims particularly to facilitate their understanding and their use. The numerous pages of the guide given over to them are there to give the maximum of explanation. It is however true that for certain instructions it is still too early to be able to well define their field of use, to estimate their importance and to evaluate the results of their application.
A second objective is trying to make the designer feel at home in this new voluminous entity full of multiple and diverse rules. Hence the reason for all this extra information, not only in Eurocode 2 itself, but also when it is necessary and thus useful to other Eurocodes.
And finally, the austere nature of such a work is inevitable. It is also accentuated by the very large number and diversity of the subjects treated. Further, a particular effort has been made to aim for simplicity and in the reasoning, or the logic in the linking of subjects, with the aim of providing a relative ease of reading. The guide will have succeeded in its aims if the designers quickly find it easy to use and practical, and if they refer to it often. This should not, however, excuse them from referring to Eurocode 2.

DESIGN FIRST Design-based planning for communities

Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems.

Design First uses case studies from the authors' own professional projects to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice, using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary planning and design issues in American communities.

The book is aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners, elected officials and citizens -- and, importantly, students of architecture and planning -- with the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.

Stability and Safety of Ships - Risk of Capsizing (2nd Edition)