Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions
Traditional Buildings: A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions (International Library of Human Geography)
By Allen G. Noble
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2007-09-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1845113055
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781845113056
Product Description:
Based on a lifelong professional and personal interest, Traditional Buildings presents a unique survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China, the stilt houses on the shores of Dahomey, the housebarns of Europe and North America, the wind towers of Iran, the Bohio houses of the Arawak indians of the Caribbean, and much more. Professor's Noble's extensive travels have allowed him to examine many of the building at close quarters and the richly illustrated text includes photographs from the his personal collection. With its comprehensive and detailed bibliography the work will be welcomed by experts and non-specialists alike.
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Engineering Optimization: An Introduction with Metaheuristic Applications
Engineering Optimization: An Introduction with Metaheuristic Applications
By Xin-She Yang
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 378
Publication Date: 2010-07-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470582464
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470582466
Product Description:
An accessible introduction to metaheuristics and optimization, featuring powerful and modern algorithms for application across engineering and the sciences
From engineering and computer science to economics and management science, optimization is a core component for problem solving. Highlighting the latest developments that have evolved in recent years, Engineering Optimization: An Introduction with Metaheuristic Applications outlines popular metaheuristic algorithms and equips readers with the skills needed to apply these techniques to their own optimization problems. With insightful examples from various fields of study, the author highlights key concepts and techniques for the successful application of commonly-used metaheuristc algorithms, including simulated annealing, particle swarm optimization, harmony search, and genetic algorithms.
The author introduces all major metaheuristic algorithms and their applications in optimization through a presentation that is organized into three succinct parts:
Foundations of Optimization and Algorithms provides a brief introduction to the underlying nature of optimization and the common approaches to optimization problems, random number generation, the Monte Carlo method, and the Markov chain Monte Carlo method
Metaheuristic Algorithms presents common metaheuristic algorithms in detail, including genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, ant algorithms, bee algorithms, particle swarm optimization, firefly algorithms, and harmony search
Applications outlines a wide range of applications that use metaheuristic algorithms to solve challenging optimization problems with detailed implementation while also introducing various modifications used for multi-objective optimization
Throughout the book, the author presents worked-out examples and real-world applications that illustrate the modern relevance of the topic. A detailed appendix features important and popular algorithms using MATLAB® and Octave software packages, and a related FTP site houses MATLAB code and programs for easy implementation of the discussed techniques. In addition, references to the current literature enable readers to investigate individual algorithms and methods in greater detail.
Engineering Optimization: An Introduction with Metaheuristic Applications is an excellent book for courses on optimization and computer simulation at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners working in the fields of mathematics, engineering, computer science, operations research, and management science who use metaheuristic algorithms to solve problems in their everyday work.
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The Visual Dictionary of Architecture
By Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris
Publisher: AVA Publishing
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2008-02-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 294037354X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9782940373543
Product Description:
This book is a guide to the many and varied terms used frequently within architecture. From Column to Cornice, Skyscraper to Ha-Ha, this book will prove an invaluable resource to anyone interested in architecture. Each term is explained and contextualised, giving the reader an enhanced understanding of architectural terminology. More than 270 common architecture terms are distilled and illustrated. From practical terms such as Vaulted, Spire and Cladding to conceptual terms such as Modernism and Postmodernism, including modern terminology and many of the traditional terms still in current usage. "The Visual Dictionary of Architecture" is produced in collaboration with a leading London architectural practice and an architectural historian.
Summary: visual dictionary of architecture and construction
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A Pictorial Record of the Qing Dynasty - Qing Dynasty Architecture
A Pictorial Record of the Qing Dynasty - Qing Dynasty Architecture
By Compiled by Peking University Library
Publisher: Gale Asia
Number Of Pages: 350
Publication Date: 2010-04-16
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 981427240X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789814272407
Product Description:
This book is a compilation of 540 photographs and paintings of Qing Dynasty architecture that appeared in Western publications currently housed in the Peking University Library. The collection is categorized into 18 chapters, such as city walls and gates, pagodas, archways, guild houses, churches, streets, and bridges. These photographs and paintings present a visual introduction to the modes and styles of Chinese architecture built before and during the Qing Dynasty. Besides mirroring the various social upheavals in China during the late Qing Dynasty, the photographs also reflect the Sino Western cultural interactions and military encounters then. This is shown in photographs of armed foreign troops standing guard on the city walls of Nanjing and the triumphant parade of the German military motorcade along a street in Qingdao. In conclusion, this book is useful as a visual reference for researching the architectural evolution during the Qing Dynasty and also provides a fresh and multi-faceted perspective on China's political, social, cultural, and economic landscapes then.
KEY FEATURES
- The latest publication from the series, A Pictorial Record of the Qing Dynasty.
- High print resolution: close examination of details on each photograph is enhanced with the high print resolution of the book.
- Reader-friendly layout: single- or dual-picture layout on each page facilitates a fast browsing experience on printed and eBook formats.
- Accompanying text: each photograph includes useful annotations such as, explanatory notes touching on specific architectural features, sources, dates of photography, and names of photographers.
- Chapter overview: each chapter opens with a brief historical overview and introduction to the specific architecture.
- Quotations from Western publications: interesting remarks on Qing Dynasty architecture are included from books written by Western historical figures, such as Osvald Siren, Matteo Ricci, and Hans Christian Andersen.
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This steel detailing manual has been prepared to provide practical and up to date information on various aspects of steel construction for educators, designers, draughtsmen, detailers, fabricators and all others who have an interest in structural steelwork.
The text covers the full scope of structural detailing in the UK, Europe and the USA. The text covers the fundamentals of drawing, continuing with draughting practice and connections, the types of fastenings and the conventional methods of detailing components. Individual case studies are included.
The types of structure covered represent the bulk of the typical fabricator’s work in commercial and industrial buildings, bridges, tanks, hydraulic and offshore structures and power structures. Examples of steel detailing in CAD format are included in some of the chapters.
Many of the drawings included are typical and, with minimal alteration, can be adopted directly from the book and attached to individual drawings based on a special code.
This book should serve both as a primer for trainee detailers and as a reference manual for more experienced personnel. Engineers, architects and contractors will find the book useful for daily use and practice.
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This book is intended as a design guide for practitioners and advanced students with a sound knowledge of structural design who are not expert in seismic aspects of design, and perhaps are encountering the problem for the first time. Earthquake engineering is a vast subject and the intention of this book is not to provide a fully comprehensive treatment of all its aspects. Rather, it is to provide the practising engineer with an understanding of those aspects of the subject that are important when designing buildings in earthquake country, with references to sources of more detailed information where necessary. Many of the principles discussed
also apply to the design of non-building structures, such as bridges or telecommunications towers, but the scope of this book is restricted to buildings.
Although earthquakes do not respect national boundaries, the practice of earthquake engineering does vary significantly between regions, and this is reflected in the differing formats and requirements of national seismic codes. The book is intended to be more general than to describe the approach in just one code, although it reflects the experience of the authors, particularly of the European seismic code Eurocode 8 and of US codes. Japanese practice is in many ways very different, and is scarcely mentioned here.
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API RP 686 -2009
Recommended Practice for Machinery Installation and Installation Design
This recommended practice (RP) is intended to provide recommended procedures, practices, and checklists for the installation and precommissioning of new, existing, and reapplied machinery and to assist with the installation design of such machinery for petroleum, chemical, and gas industry services facilities. In general, this RP is intended to supplement vendor instructions and the instructions provided by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) should be carefully followed with regard to equipment installation and checkout.
Most major topics of this RP are subdivided into sections of “Installation Design” and “Installation” with the intent being that each section can be removed and used as needed by the appropriate design or installation personnel.
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In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on numerically based methods of structural analysis. This has been reflected in the production of structural mechanics texts that are orientated towards particular numerical methodologies, especially the finite element method. Whilst this approach serves the needs of potential research engineers, a concentration on the numerical analysis aspects of structural mechanics is of less relevance to professional engineers, who are likely to be concerned with the use and interpretation of numerical analyses, but not in the development of the methodologies.
It is to this group that Advanced Structural Mechanics is especially addressed.
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Ultimate limit-state design of concrete structures - a new approach - M.Kotsovos,M.Pavlovic (1999)
ISBN: 0 7277 2665 X
The aim of the present book, is to introduce designers to the ‘compressive-force path’ method. Such an introduction not only includes the description of its underlying theoretical concepts and their application in practice but, also, presents the causes which led to the need for a new design methodology for the implementation of the limit-state philosophy into practical structural concrete design together with evidence — both experimental and analytical — supporting its validity. The book is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 presents characteristic cases of structural concrete members, mostly designed in compliance with current code provisions, for which the behavior predicted by the methods implemented in such code provisions deviates excessively from that established by experiment. In Chapter 2, the results obtained from an investigation of the fundamental causes which led to the excessive deviations discussed in the preceding chapter are described. These results from Chapter 2 are summarized in Chapter 3 so as to then form the theoretical basis of the proposed design methodology. The latter is fully described in Chapter 4,
together with examples of its application in practical structural concrete design.
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Dear Friends,
Any body can help to find the paper of Nicholson, D.P. (1987), “The design and performance of retaining walls at Newton Station”, Proceeding of the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit Conference, Singapore, 99. 147-154.
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