As increasing demands and higher expectations are placed on project managers a need has arisen for an innovative book to enable managers to take on the ever-changing challenges involved in overseeing whole works and dealing with the conflicting needs of the many people involved in a construction project.
Based on the author's observations and extensive experience, this book offers the practitioner or the student reader a new approach to project management in construction and engineering, increasing efficiency and communication at all stages while reducing costs, time and risk. It considers integrated project management, emphasizing the importance of effectively handling external factors in order to best achieve an on-schedule, on-budget result and focuses on good negotiation with clients and skilled team leadership.
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CSC giant UK based structural software developer is taking steps to take over STRUDS software, the reason is CSC want to enter Indian big consultancy market. Keep watching..
i am working on the design of a raw water treatment plant. and for that i have to analyze the slope for stability.
can any one provide some guidance which book i should go through to understand following things:
1. types of failures in slopes
2. methods of analyzes for slope stability
Size: 7.6 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: Leonardo da Vinci Pilot Project | Year: 2008 | pages: 254
“Handbook 1“ gives a brief overview of the history of timber structures in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 deals with the properties of wood and Chapters 3 informs about facts concerning structural timber – the basic product for engineering purposes. In order to obtain timber components of large dimensions, wooden parts need to be bonded by means of adhesives (Chapter 4). This enables the production of the most important timber engineering products, glulam (Chapter 5) and wood based panels (Chapter 6). Chapters 7-10 summarize the basics of timber structure design. Chapter 7 gives an overview about general issues and special facts concerning the verification process of timber structures. The main topic of Chapter 8 is the behaviour of timber structures in the serviceability limit state (SLS), while the following two chapters deal with aspects of the ultimate limit state (ULS) for cross-sections and members (Chapter 9) and joints (Chapter 10). Chapters 11-15 contain basics and useful information about planar (Chapter 11) and spatial (Chapters 12) timber structures, timber house framing (Chapter 13), bracings (Chapter 14) and timber bridges (Chapter 15). In the subsequent chapters the important questions about durability (Chapter 16), fire resistance (Chapter 17) and the properties of timber in aggressive environments (Chapter 18) are described and discussed.
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Residential Hip Roof Framing Using Cold-Formed Steel Members
Size: 0.6 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: American Iron and Steel Institute | Year: 2006 | pages: 63
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PD 6687-1:2010 Background paper to the National Annexes to BS EN 1992-1 and BS EN 1992-3
When there is a need for guidance on a subject that is not covered by the Eurocode, a country can choose to publish documents that contain non-contradictory complementary information that supports the Eurocode. This Published Document provides just such information and has been cited as a reference in the UK National Annexes to BS EN 1992-1-1:2004, BS EN 1992-1-2:2004, and BS EN 1992-3:2006.
PD 6687-2:2008 contains non-contradictory complementary information that supports BS EN 1992-2, parts of which are also relevant to the design of building structures. Designers might find this information useful.
Contents of PD 6687-1:
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 BS EN 1992‑1‑1:2004, Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures – Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings
3 BS EN 1992‑1‑2:2004, Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures – Part 1-2: General rules – Structural fire design
4 BS EN 1992-3:2006, Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures – Part 3: Liquid retaining or containing structures
Annexes
Annex A (informative) Standards to used in conjunction with BS EN 1992-1 (all parts)
Annex B (informative) Detailing rules for particular situations
Annex C (informative) Appraisal and testing of structures
Annex D (informative) Effect of temperature on the properties of concrete
Bibliography
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when we design a building , how do we get its dead load as we do not have the dimensions from the beginning ? i recall one of my instructors said that we generate a preliminary design then we modify it .. can someone elaborate on this ??
The definitive guide to stability design criteria, fully updated and incorporating current research
Representing nearly fifty years of cooperation between Wiley and the Structural Stability Research Council, the Guide to Stability Design Criteria for Metal Structures is often described as an invaluable reference for practicing structural engineers and researchers. For generations of engineers and architects, the Guide has served as the definitive work on designing steel and aluminum structures for stability. Under the editorship of Ronald Ziemian and written by SSRC task group members who are leading experts in structural stability theory and research, this Sixth Edition brings this foundational work in line with current practice and research.
The Sixth Edition incorporates a decade of progress in the field since the previous edition, with new features including:
Updated chapters on beams, beam-columns, bracing, plates, box girders, and curved girders. Significantly revised chapters on columns, plates, composite columns and structural systems, frame stability, and arches
Fully rewritten chapters on thin-walled (cold-formed) metal structural members, stability under seismic loading, and stability analysis by finite element methods
State-of-the-art coverage of many topics such as shear walls, concrete filled tubes, direct strength member design method, behavior of arches, direct analysis method, structural integrity and disproportionate collapse resistance, and inelastic seismic performance and design recommendations for various moment-resistant and braced steel frames
Complete with over 350 illustrations, plus references and technical memoranda, the Guide to Stability Design Criteria for Metal Structures, Sixth Edition offers detailed guidance and background on design specifications, codes, and standards worldwide.
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Sustainable Architectures: Critical Explorations of Green Building Practice in Europe and North America
Author: Simon Guy (Editor), Steven A. Moore (Editor) | Size: 3.1 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: Spon Press | Year: 2005 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 0415700450 & 9780415700450
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As buildings are responsible for fifty per cent of CO2 emissions, their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or ecologically responsible, buildings, and being able to assemble the social resources to do so, requires different forms of knowledge and practice. There is wide contestation over the optimal pathways to greener buildings design and great diversity in practices of sustainable architecture.
This volume brings together leading researchers from across the European Union and North America both to illustrate the diversity of practice and to provide a critical commentary on this key debate. The reader is provided with an introduction to competing perspectives on the sustainable architecture debate, international exemplars of differing practice and an overview of new theoretical and methodological resources for understanding and meeting the conceptual, social and technical challenges of sustainable architecture.
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Author: Milan Jirásek, Z. P. Bažant | Size: 55,1 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: Wiley | Year: 2001 | pages: 758 | ISBN: 9780471987161
The modeling of mechanical properties of materials and structures is a complex and wide-ranging subject. In some applications, it is sufficient to assume that the material remains elastic, i.e. that the deformation process is fully reversible and the stress is a unique function of strain. However, such a simplified assumption is appropriate only within a limited range, and in general must be replaced by a more realistic approach that takes into account the inelastic processes such as plastic yielding or cracking.
This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the most important areas of plasticity and of time-dependent inelastic behavior (viscoplasticity of metals, and creep and shrinkage of concrete). It covers structural aspects such as:
* incremental analysis
* limit analysis
* shakedown analysis
* optimal design
* beam structures subjected to bending and torsion
* yield line theory of plates
* slip line theory
* size effect in structures
* creep and shrinkage effects in concrete structures.
The following aspects of the advanced material modeling are presented:
* yield surfaces for metals and plastic-frictional materials
* hardening and softening
* stress-return algorithms
* large-strain formulations
* thermodynamic framework
* microplane models
* localization of plastic strain.
Inelastic Analysis of Structures is a textbook for basic and advanced courses on plasticity, with a slight emphasis on structural engineering applications, but with a wealth of material for geotechnical, mechanical, aerospace, naval, petroleum and nuclear engineers. The text is constructed in a very didactical way, while the mathematics has been kept rigorous.
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