Materials for Sustainable Sites: A Complete Guide to the Evaluation, Selection, and Use of Sustainable Construction Materials
This complete guide to the evaluation, selection, and use of sustainable materials in the landscape features strategies to minimize environmental and human health impacts of conventional site construction materials as well as green materials. Providing detailed current information on construction materials for sustainable sites, the book introduces tools, techniques, ideologies and resources for evaluating, sourcing, and specifying sustainable site materials. Chapters cover types of materials, both conventional and emerging green materials, environmental and human health impacts of the material, and detailed strategies to minimize these impacts. Case studies share cost and performance information and lessons learned.
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Digital Terrain Modeling: Acquisition, Manipulation And Applications (Artech House Remote Sensing Library )
Digital Terrain Modeling: Acquisition, Manipulation And Applications (Artech House Remote Sensing Library)
By Naser El-Sheimy, Caterina Valeo, Ayman Habib
Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Number Of Pages: 270
Publication Date: 2005-07-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1580539211
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781580539210
With its expanding array of applications in everything from biodiversity modeling to wireless communications, it's no wonder digital terrain modeling (DTM) - the electronic process of representing topography in three dimensions -- is a hot subject among engineers and geoscientists. This concise resource is the first truly complete guide to this growing field. It combines a mathematically rigorous treatment of DTM generation, manipulation, and analysis together with the full spectrum of real-world applications. The book describes the various data acquisition techniques and explains how to determine the most appropriate DTM generation method for any given project. This unique reference presents highly illustrative examples and real-world applications that highlight DTM's current capabilities and limitations in various environmental modeling, mapping, military, transportation, and engineering activities.
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BRE building elements: foundations, basements and external works
BRE building elements: foundations, basements and external works
Series/doc. No
Report Report 440
Year
2002
Abstract
Gives descriptions and advice concentrating on practical details of foundations, basements and external works. Foundations and basements includes is all work below DPC level, including strip foundations, piles, retaining walls to basements; but not including ground floor slabs or rafts, and building services within the footprint of the building. Included in external works are all items outside the building footprint but inside the site boundary, encompassing wastewater and surface water drains, supply of utilities (e.g. gas, electricity and cabled services), footpaths, and access for vehicles including car parks and hard standings to be found in the vicinity of buildings. Perimeter and freestanding boundary walls are also dealt with, as is security fencing and, in outline only, lighting. This is not a manual of construction practice, nor does it provide the reader with the information necessary to design foundations, basements or external works. Both good and bad features of these elements are described, and sources of further information and advice are offered.
ISBN
9781860815409
Author
Harrison, H. W. and Trotman, P. M.
Subject(s)
Civil engineering and public utilities
Site investigation
Earthworks/foundations/piling/retaining walls
Building structure
Building foundations/ground floors
Publisher
BRE
Publisher History
Formerly known as the Building Research Establishment, BRE is wholly owned by the BRE Trust. Their activities include research, consultancy, training and certification. They publish a range of reports, information papers, guides, digests, and case studies covering all aspects of construction.
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Dear Colleagues, Does Anyone have a copy of this book?
Erection Analysis of Cable-Stayed Bridges
Author : Behin, Zabihollah. Murray, D. W.
Edmonton, Alta. : Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta 1990
Posted by: hugoreynal - 10-30-2010, 04:40 AM - Forum: Archive
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Dear Colleagues. Does Anyone hava a copy of this book?
Finite Strip Analysis of Bridges
Author : M. S. Cheung, S. E. Chidiac, W.Li
Hardcover: 364 pages
Publisher: Spon Press; 1st ed edition (September 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 041919150X
ISBN-13: 978-0419191506
Posted by: ir_71 - 10-30-2010, 04:09 AM - Forum: EN
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EN 12350-2:2009 Testing fresh concrete - Part 2: Slump-test
This European standard specifies a method for determining the consistence of fresh concrete by the slump
test.
The slump test is sensitive to changes in the consistence of concrete, which correspond to slumps between
10 mm and 200 mm. Beyond these extremes the measurement of slump can be unsuitable and other
methods of determining the consistency should be considered.
If the slump continues to change over a period of 1 min after de-moulding, the slump test is not suitable as a
measure of consistence.
The test is not suitable when the maximum size of aggregate in the concrete is greater than 40 mm.
Is there anyone who does not know this method?:JC_shhh:
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Free F.E./P.E. video exam reviews from Texas A&M University
These reviews are made possible by courtesy of the U.S. Military at Fort Hood, Texas, for whom they were originally prepared, and by the generosity of Dr. Dan Turner, whose Incentive Grant Award was used to purchase everything from the software needed, to extra memory and big old hard drives to process the materials. Server software and computers are supplied by the Civil Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. Thanks guys. The presentations were generated by professors at Texas A&M University and presented to Fort Hood engineering students by live televideo. Presentation notes are included with the video, and can be downloaded and printed in various formats, or you can open a second copy of your browser and view them along side with the taped presentations. Simply display the talking heads on one side of your screen, and the notes on the other. You will find this necessary because in most cases the notes in the streamed video will be too small to read.
Video presentations require you to have a player to view Real media, but if you are smart you won't use Real Media Player. See below. Although you might be able to view these videos over a 56k modem, it is certainly no fun. We recommend that you go to a University computer lab where you have access to broad-band, or find a friend who has a DSL line or a cable modem, and view them in teams. If you go to a University computer lab, you might want to take a set of headphones to plug into the computer. They may not have headphones to loan, and may not want the noise in the lab. The notes usually require Adobe Reader. Please note that there is a button on the Adobe Reader to "rotate" the notes if you need to rotate them 90 degrees on your screen.
The FE and PE tapes were generated in 1998, and someday the information will get out of date. While most of the engineering principles remain the same, code procedures and requirements will change over time. Thus you can be pretty sure that the reviews on statics, strength of materials, and engineering economics will stay current, but less sure about the calculation methods listed for Cb in the steel beam design review. Please be careful. The complete courses are current as of the dates presented to our students.
Finally, PLEASE let us know if they are useful. If 30,000 people view this material and nobody gets a bit of good out of it, then we have wasted the valuable time of the next 30,000 people who could be studying in some more useful way. Also, if you find errors or omissions or other problems in the presentations or in the printed materials please let us know, or it won't ever get corrected
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EN 1279 - 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 Glass in Building - Insulating glass units
EN 1279-1:2004 Glass in Building - Insulating glass units - Part 1: Generalities, dimensional tolerances and rules for the system description
This European Standard is the product standard for insulating glass units, which defines insulating glass units, and ensures by means of the evaluation of conformity to this standard that over time:
- energy savings are made because the U-value and solar factor do not change significantly;
- health is preserved because sound reduction and vision do not change significantly;
- safety is provided because mechanical resistance does not change significantly.
It covers characteristics that are of importance for trade. Marking conditions are included.
NOTE 1: For glass products with electrical wiring or connections for, e.g. alarm or heating purposes, other directives, e.g. Low Voltage Directive, may apply.
The main intended uses of the insulating glass units are installations in windows, doors, curtain walling, roofs and partitions where there exists protection against direct ultraviolet radiation at the edges.
NOTE 2: In cases where there is no protection against direct ultraviolet radiation at the edges, such as structural sealant glazing systems, additional European technical specifications should be followed.
Units that are intended for artistic purposes are excluded from this standard.
This Part of this European standard, which is inextricably bound up with the other Parts of the standard, covers the materials, the rules for the system description, the optical and visual quality and the dimensional tolerances for insulating glass units.
EN 1279-2:2002 Glass in building - Insulating glass units - Part 2: Long term test method and requirements for moisture penetration
This draft European Standard is the product standard fo insulating glass units, which defines insulating glass units, and ensures by means of an adequate evaluation of conformity to this standard that: - energy savings are made because the U-value and solar factor do not change significantly; - health because sound reduction and vision do not change significantly; - safety is provided because mechanical resistance does not change significantly.
EN 1279-3:2002 Glass in building - Insulating glass units - Part 3: Long term test method and requirements for gas leakage rate and for gas concentration tolerances
This European Standard is the product standard for insulating glass units, which defines insulating glass units, and ensures by means of an adequate evaluation of conformity to this standard that:
- energy savings are made because the U-value and solar factor do not change significantly;
- health is preserved because sound reduction and vision do not change significantly;
- safety is provided because mechanical resistance does not change significantly.
It covers additional characteristics that are of importance for trade. Marking conditions are included.
The main intended uses of the insulating glass units are installations in windows, doors, curtain walling, roofs and partitions where there exists protection against direct ultraviolet radiation at the edges.
NOTE In cases where there is no protection against direct ultraviolet radiation at the edges, such as structural sealant glazing systems, additional European technical specifications should be followed. See Bibliography [2] and [3].
This Part of this standard, which is inextricably bound up with the other Parts of the standard, covers:
- the gas leakage rate by testing;
- the gas concentration tolerances;
as one means of verifying whether a product made in accordance with its system description, conforms with the relevant aspects of the definition of insulating glass units.
EN 1279-4:2002 Glass in building - Insulating glass units - Part 4: Methods of test for the physical attributes of edge seals
This part of the standard covers the evaluation of the edge seal strength, and partial evaluation of moisture and gas permeation through sealants, by testing and/or report examination as a means of verifying whether a product made in accordance with its system description, and its variations in accordance with prEN 1279-1 conforms to the relevant aspects of the definition of insulating glass units.
EN 1279-5:2005 Glass in building - Insulating glass units - Part 5: Evaluation of conformity
This document specifies requirements, the evaluation of conformity and the factory production control of insulating glass units for use in buildings.
NOTE 1 For glass products with electrical wiring or connections for e.g. alarm or heating purposes, other directives, e.g. Low Voltage Directive, may apply.
The main intended uses of the insulating glass units are installations in windows, doors, curtain walling, roofs and partitions where there exists protection against direct ultraviolet radiation at the edges.
NOTE 2 In cases where there is no protection against direct ultra-violet radiation at the edges, such as structural sealant glazing systems, additional European technical specifications should be followed (e.g. prEN XXX, prEN 13022-1).
NOTE 3 Units for which the intended use is only ''artistic'' and therefore no essential requirement is required, are not subject to CE marking and are not part of this document.
EN 1279-6:2002 Glass in building - Insulating glass units - Part 6: Factory production control and periodic tests
This draft European Standard is the product standard for insulating glass units, which defines insulating glass units, and ensures by means of an adequate evaluation of conformity to this standard that: - energy savings are made because the U-value and solar factor do not change significantly; - health because sound reduction and vision do not change significantly; - safety is provided because mechanical resistance does not change significantly.
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