Uncover the Technology behind Hybrids and Make an Intelligent Decision When Purchasing Your Next Vehicle
With one billion cars expected to be on the roads of the world in the near future, the potential for war over oil and the negative environmental effects of emissions will be greater than ever before. Now is the time to seriously consider an alternative to standard automobiles.
Exploring practical solutions to these problems, Hybrid Vehicles and the Future of Personal Transportation provides broad coverage of the technologies involved in manufacturing and operating hybrids. It reviews key components of hybrid and pure electric vehicles, including batteries, fuel cells, and ultracapacitors. The book also discusses both concept and production-bound hybrids as well as the economics and safety issues of hybrid ownership. In addition, the author supplies effective tips on how to save gasoline with conventional and hybrid automobiles.
Making the jargon of fuel-efficient vehicles accessible to a wide audience, this guide explains the history of hybrids, how they work, and their impact on the environment. It will help you make a sound decision concerning the purchase and operation of a hybrid or electric vehicle.
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Sustainable Transportation: Problems and Solutions
By William R. Black Phd
* Publisher: The Guilford Press
* Number Of Pages: 321
* Publication Date: 2010-01-04
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1606234854
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781606234853
Product Description:
During the last two decades, sustainability has become the dominant concern of transportation planners and policymakers. This timely text provides a framework for developing systems that move people and products efficiently while minimizing damage to the local and global environment. The book offers a uniquely comprehensive perspective on the problems surrounding current transportation systems: climate change, urban air pollution, diminishing petroleum reserves, safety issues, and congestion. It explores the full range of possible solutions, including applications of pricing, planning, policy, education, and technology. Numerous figures, tables, and examples are featured, with a primary focus on North America.
Review
"This is not only an excellent book, it is a wise book. Rather than providing a ‘silver bullet’ for the problems of sustainable transportation, Black clarifies the options in a dynamic and increasingly vulnerable world. He shows how policy can play a role, as can pricing, more travel options, and design solutions. The text provides a panoramic and historical view of the limits of sustainability, from the level of horse manure New York City streets could handle in 1900 to the amount of oil we can import today without risking national security and our climate. This is a book that students, educators, planners, placemakers, and reform advocates would do well to study and reflect upon." – David Burwell, Founding Chair, Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation and Sustainability, USA
"This book is a welcome addition to the evolving literature on how to put transport systems on a more sustainable pathway. Its coverage is vast – beyond widely discussed topics like climate change, energy depletion, and local air pollution, Sustainable Transportation also chronicles the societal costs of road fatalities, oil spills, and traffic jams. Technological, urban planning, and demand management approaches to solving such problems are critically reviewed. The book deserves a place on transportation professionals’ bookshelves and in graduate courses in environmental and transportation planning." – Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning and Director, University of California Transportation Center, University of California, Berkeley
"This outstanding book should become a standard text for courses on transportation. The analytical message is clear and the coverage is excellent. Black has struck ‘pay dirt’ in the clarity of his delivery and in refocusing traditional approaches to transportation from a sustainability orientation. In an engaging and appealing style, the text directly addresses what today’s professors and students want to know about the interface of transport, energy, environment, and policy. Students in geography, planning, sociology, public affairs, environmental science, and civil engineering would flock to a course organized around this text." – Kingsley E. Haynes, Dean and University Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, USA
"Black, true to form, has provided essential reading for anyone interested in sustainability challenges and solutions. This text is comprehensive in scope, accessibly written, and current. At times provocative, the book tackles issues as diverse as vehicle technology, full-cost pricing, and educating for change, and gives clear messages about the way forward." – Jean Andrey, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada
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Management of Off-highway Plant and Equipment provides a working knowledge of plant management for engineers, managers and students, and explains concisely and clearly the factors to be considered during investment in, andmanagement of, construction equipment. It compares the cost of leasing with those of purchase, discusses ways of achieving optimum economic useage of plant, and covers issues of health and safety, licensing and the logistics of maintenance.
Management of Off-highway Plant and Equipment is an ideal text for students of plant and construction equipment and civil engineering. It will also be essential reading for engineers and construction managers.
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Punching Shear Retrofit Method Using Shear Bolts for Reinforced Concrete Slabs under Seismic Loading
The shear bolts are a new type of transverse reinforcement developed for retrofit of existing structures
against punching. This research focuses on how the shear bolts can improve the punching-shear
capacity and ductility of the existing slab-column connections under vertical service and lateral
seismic loads.
A set of nine full-scale reinforced concrete slab-column connection specimens were tested under
vertical service and cyclic loads. The vertical (gravity) load for each specimen was kept at a constant
value throughout the testing. The cyclic lateral drift with increasing intensity was applied to the
columns. The specimens were different in number of bolts, concrete strength, number of openings,
and level of gravity punching load. Strains in flexural rebars in the slabs, crack widths, lateral loads,
and displacements were obtained.
The peak lateral load (moment) and its corresponding drift ratio, connection stiffness, crack width,
and ductility were compared among different specimens. The testing results show that shear bolts can
increase lateral peak load resisting capacity, lateral drift capacity at peak load, and ductility of the
slab-column connections. Shear bolts also change the failure mode of the slab-column connections
and increase the energy dissipation capacity.
The thesis includes also research on the development of guidelines for shear bolt design for concrete
slab retrofitting, including the punching shear design method of concrete slab (with shear bolts),
dimensions of bolts, spacing, and influence of bolt layout patterns. Suggestions are given for
construction
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This book, part of a series of four, offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It outlines the theory of the principal features of urban design from which method is developed and provides a better understanding of the main elements of urban design. This includes the arrangement, design and details of the streets and squares, and the roles they play in city planning.
This third edition includes chapters on "Sustainable Urban Design" and "Visual Analysis", introducing the latest theories and influences in the field and bringing greater practical significance to the book. Cliff Moughtin explores the street and square in terms of function, structure and symbolism and examines fine examples in their historical context. These are set against the background of the laws of urban design composition, culled from Renaissance and modern writers.
* Gain an understanding of the detail of urban design from towns and buildings to squares and streets
* Learn from examples in their historical context and see the evolution of urban design
* New case studies help relate theory to practice
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The Messina Strait Bridge
A Challenge and a Dream
By Fabio Brancaleoni, Giorgio Diana, Ezio Faccioli, Giuseppe Fiammenghi, Ian P.T. Firth, Niels J. Gimsing, Michele Jamiolkowski, Peter Sluszka, Giovanni Solari, Gianluca Valensise, Enzo Vullo
This book describes the enormous depth of work carried out since the early seventies on the Messina Strait Bridge, up to the recent award of the detailed design and construction contract. This important work has included extensive studies, concepts and design developments, with far reaching applications, which have all confirmed the feasibility of this huge endeavour and have led to the optimisation of costs and expected performance levels.
Attention is focused not only on the design itself, but also on the context for the project (e.g. historical, geological, seismo-tectonic and wind conditions; structural and mechanical properties; project management and financial aspects; and environmental considerations), and on the great challenges involved. Thus, considering the innovations and specific solutions adopted in overcoming the challenges presented by constructing a world record span of 3,300 metres at this site, it becomes clear how the Messina Strait Crossing will take its place as a masterpiece in bridge engineering history.
This book will be of interest to bridge and structural engineers, geotechnical and wind engineers, mechanical and earthquake engineers, graduate students in all these areas and all others with a broad interest in bridge design and engineering.
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These are a set of guidelines and standard practice documents related with design, formwork, placing and curing of concrete on floors and slabs, namely:
ACI 302.1R-96
ACI 360R-92
ACI 308-92
ACI 309R-87
ACI 117-90/117R90
ACI 224.3R-95
ACI SP-2(92)
CP-10(95)
I hope that these documents are still useful for this forum, as they deal with fundamental issues always present in the engineering field.
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About the Author
John Bird, the author of over 100 textbooks on engineering and mathematical subjects, is the former Head of Applied Electronics in the Faculty of Technology at Highbury College, Portsmouth, U.K. More recently, he has combined freelance lecturing at Portsmouth University, with technical writing and Chief Examiner responsibilities for City and Guilds Telecommunication Principles and Mathematics, and examining for the International Baccalaureate Organisation. John Bird is currently a Senior Training Provider at the Royal Naval School of Marine Engineering in the Defence College of Marine and Air Engineering at H.M.S. Sultan, Gosport, Hampshire, U.K. The school, which serves the Royal Navy, is one of Europe's largest engineering training establishments.
Product Description
This compendium of essential formulae, definitions, tables and general information provides the mathematical information required by students, technicians, scientists and engineers in day-to-day engineering practice. A practical and versatile reference source, now in its fourth edition, the layout has been changed and the book has been streamlined to ensure the information is even more quickly and readily available - making it a handy companion on-site, in the office as well as for academic study. It also acts as a practical revision guide for those undertaking BTEC Nationals, Higher Nationals and NVQs, where engineering mathematics is an underpinning requirement of the course.
All the essentials of engineering mathematics - from algebra, geometry and trigonometry to logic circuits, differential equations and probability - are covered, with clear and succinct explanations and illustrated with over 300 line drawings and 500 worked examples based in real-world application. The emphasis throughout the book is on providing the practical tools needed to solve mathematical problems quickly and efficiently in engineering contexts. John Bird's presentation of this core material puts all the answers at your fingertips.
* A compendium of the maths essential to all engineering disciplines
* Succinct, easily accessible information, combined with comprehensive coverage - ideal for ongoing reference by both professional engineers and students alike
* New, improved structure to make information available even more quickly
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