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Product Description
Concrete and stone seem made to last forever. But the fact is they develop structural damage over time. While not always as dramatic as the collapse of a roof section at the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in 2004, gradual changes also occur that may compromise a building's appearance and structure. These changes include efflorescence, thermal stress, material incompatibilities, corrosion, and impact. Failed Stone systematically analyzes cases of damage in contemporary international architecture and offers strategies for minimizing the risk of damage. Examples include such high-visibility structures as Finlandia Hall in Helsinki by Alvar Aalto, Renzo Piano's Parco della Musica in Rome, and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington. In nine chapters, typical kinds of damage are explained and illustrated with real-world examples.
About the Author
Patrick Loughran is an architect and engineer and has worked as a façade designer in Chicago since 1994. His book Falling Glass: Problems and Solutions in Contemporary Architecture analyzes damage and defects of glass facades and was also published by Birkhäuser.
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Dear Admin
after the wide jump for our forum to be the best forum in the world , and all of us saw the improvement touched every thing
so , my suggestion come as the following
1. change this section name from ( suggestions ) to ( suggestions & complains )
2. appointment a referee from the best moderators be responsible about this section
3. the referee responsibilities , to review the warnings from moderators & check applieng rules by the right way & receive the complains from members and the final decision will be from him
this suggestion because the moderators have a heavy tasks and they are not angels or prophets and the human mistaks will be done
so , all of us keep in his mind that we are engineers and we are in a civil forum
regards
Make any renovation job go smoother. Building renovation, conservation and reuse represents more than half of all construction work - and is projected to increase to 80% by 2004. Structural Renovation of Buildings, by Alexander Newman, puts a single, convenient source of information about all aspects of structural renovation and strengthening of buildings at your fingertips. While its focus is largely on low and midrise buildings, you can apply the principles it clarifies to buildings of any size - steel-framed, masonry, or wood. Whether you're repairing deteriorated concrete...rehabilitating slabs on grade...strengthening lateral-load resisting systems...renovating a building facade...handling seismic upgrades or fire damage, you'll find this time-and-trouble-saving guide loaded with practical tips, methods, and design examples. It's also heavily illustrated with autoCAD generated details, supplier illustrations of materials, procedural techniques, and much, much more.
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Many thanks to uploader and the member who is willing to share this book! I'm willing to award a member who make download link(s) to this book with 500 points - so here is some kind of motivation. (Award goes only for the whole book in PDF format)
Nowadays and due to the utmost develpmnet that happened for electronic Books...
We can get tons of books and papers... millions of equations ...
Thanks god because these books are availbel....
But I hope the world have to change the methods of teaching....
We loss the basics and fundamentals with this huge informations...
We need to the mothers of books which provide us the basic knowledge and the way to think and creat a better life....
I look to the genius scientest Issac Newtons how he wrote a science in a simple rules
Force=massx accel. ...It is a simple and general rule...because he is genius
Same issue for Albert Inestian..Maxewll...
I look to civil engineering knowledge ... If I open any book for example dyanamic of structure... Any reader can find many thousand of complex equations ...spending a lot of time to know and the basic concepts hidden within tons of equations....
No thinking, No basics and Fundamentals, Just reading code articles and run softwares and getting results ....
Hoping some genius persons will change this way...
Author: Ed by Robert N. Hunter | Publisher: Thomas Telford, | Year: 1994 | pages: 441 | ISBN: 0727716832, 9780727716835
Composition and specification of bituminous pavement materials - The properties of road surface layers - The design of roads - The plant production process - Raw materials to mixed materials - Laying bituminous materials - Compaction - Testing of material - Surface dressing and other surface treatments - Problems, failures and their causes - Some European practices and the harmonisation of bituminous mixture specifications
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Asphalts In Road Construction
Author: Ed. by Robert N Hunter | Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd | Year: 2000 | pages: 588 | ISBN: 072772780X, 9780727727800
Assessing aggregates for use in asphalts - Bitumens - Functions and properties of road layers - Design and maintenance of asphalt pavements - Production: processing raw materials to mixed materials - Surfacing plant - Good surfacing practice - Compaction of asphalts - Standards for testing - Specialist surface treatments - Failures in asphalts and how to avoid them
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Highway materials, soils, and concretes
Author: Harold N. Atkins | Publisher: Prentice Hall, | Year: 2003 | pages: 383 | ISBN: 0130993042, 9780130993045
This clear, concise text provides a user-friendly introduction to the most current civil engineering and highway construction materials. It covers the essentials of highway construction technology without getting bogged down with complicated mathematics, excess theory, or difficult language. Topics covered in this book include soils, aggregates, pavement structure and base, asphalt pavements and materials, and Portland Cement Concrete, as well as Stone Matrix Asphalt, admixtures, and whitetopping. For civil engineers, those in highway construction, construction materials dealers, and soil mechanics.
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