The Fire Book

SCI P335: H-Pile Design Guide

This publication gives guidance on the selection, design and installation of steel H-piles and UC section plunge columns for foundations to all types of structure. Current practice and experience in this field are presented, discussed and recommendations given. The characteristics and advantages of steel bearing piles in construction are described in order to assist in the primary process of selection of the correct pile type for any given site and soil conditions. Load transfer mechanisms are described and limit state design methods applied in line with the new Eurocodes. The sections on design include axial and lateral load resistance prediction methods, combined loading effects on retaining walls and pile group analysis. Up-to-date pile driving analysis is presented as a basis for planning efficient installation and as an aid to design. Practical aspects of test loading, installation tolerances and connection details are covered.
It is noted that excessive conservatism has been found in current practice and this results in unnecessary overdesign. Currently used specifications for load testing piles only up to 1.5 × working load, are insufficient to reach the ultimate pile resistance and the whole object of the new limit state design (LSD) procedures has been denied. This problem has been compounded by making unrealistically low design assumptions on the soil parameters in pile resistance prediction methods. This publication adopts LSD using the new Eurocodes and suggests more reliance be placed on static and dynamic load test methods to establish ultimate capacity to permit more economic steel pile design.

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Convection in porous media

Pumping Manual International: Handbook of Pumps and Pumping

A Primer for Finite Elements in Elastic Structures

Handbook of Technical Textiles

Summary
While various books address the technical textile industry, most are vague or narrow in scope, addressing only a specific process, fabric structure, or area of application. Although the development of technical and industrial applications for textiles goes back many years, more recent milestones have marked the emergence of technical textiles, as we know them today. Very largely, these have centered upon new materials, processes, and applications.

A comprehensive new book, HANDBOOK OF TECHNICAL TEXTILES provides in-depth coverage of all the principal aspects of manufacturing processes and fabric structures, plus in-depth reporting on all major applications of high-tech textiles. This publication examines textiles for a wide range of industrial uses, including heat and flame protection applications, waterproof and breathable fabrics, geotextiles and natural fibre geotextiles; as well as the use of textiles in medicine, defence, transport and filtration; textiles for survival, and textiles and the environment.

HANDBOOK OF TECHNICAL TEXTILES is ideal for textile yarn and fibre manufacturers, producers of woven, knitted, and non-woven fabrics, textile finishers, and companies producing new textile coatings and colorants. If you work with textiles in any capacity, this will prove itself an indispensable guide and an up-to-date reference book.

Field Geophysics

This handy pocket-sized book provides practical information and assistance to anyone engaged in small-scale surveys on the ground. The 3rd edition updates the considerable changes in instrumentation, and far-reaching developments in applications that have occurred since 1996. New sections include details on Ground Penetrating Radar, VLF and CSAMT/MT, GPS navigation, electromagnetic methods of conductivity mapping, capacity coupling, and audiomagnetotellurics (AMT).