Professor Wong Kai Sin Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This short course focuses on issues related to deep excavations in fi ne grained soils. It provides an overview of deep excavation in soil and an understanding of the uncertainties and variables affecting the performance of the earth retention system. Its main emphasis is on the design and analysis using the limit equilibrium and the fi nite element methods and the range of applications and limitations of the Mohr-Coulomb soil model. Some topics will be covered in detail while others will be highlighted on the important points. This course has been taught in Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam and extensively in Singapore.
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Prevention of Reflective Cracking in Pavements
L. Francken, A. Vanelstraete,
Spon Press | 1998 | ISBN: 0419229507 | 138 pages | PDF | 5,1 MB
Crack reflection, one of the main causes of premature pavement deterioration, is a widespread problem in many countries. This book considers all aspects of the subject, including assessment and use of overlay systems.
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147 Kb file size - 82 slides in PDF format - Didactic pourpose (Very interesting!)
The presentation is all about the basic concepts for those who started there career with Civil Engineering.
I very much like personally this small presentation which grows my concepts towards the structure designing.
I hope you GUYS like it
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I create a very complex FEM model with triangular and square elements but when i got the results, noticed that RISA gives them only on local coordinates. Is it possible to get the results on Global Coordinates.
Thanks,
Sorry ... is it possible to get the results on Global Coordinates ???
Deep Excavations: A Practical Manual - 1st Edition
This book assembles the practical rules and details for the efficient and economical execution of deep excavations. It draws together a wealth of experience of both design and construction from published work and the lifetime practice of the author. This second edition is extensively revised to include changes in design emphasis including those due to Eurocode 7 and descriptions of the latest equipment, construction techniques and geotechnical processes. Additional details include those of the latest piling and diaphragm wall equipment and innovations in top-down construction applied to basements and cut-and-cover works. The section on caissons has been expanded to include design methods. The successful conceptual design of temporary and permanent works for the support of deep excavations requires both freshness of ideas and experience of similar construction. The purpose of this book is to present varied international examples in sufficient detail to allow this to succeed.
# Hardcover: 571 pages
# Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd.
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0727731505
# ISBN-13: 978-0727731500
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Principles of Hyperplasticity: An Approach to Plasticity Theory Based on Thermodynamic Principles
Principles of Hyperplasticity: An Approach to Plasticity Theory Based on Thermodynamic Principles
Publisher: Springer | Pages: 351 | 2006-12-28 | ISBN: 184628239X | PDF | 9 MB
The approach to plasticity theory developed here is firmly rooted in thermodynamics. Emphasis is placed on the use of potentials and the derivation of incremental response, necessary for numerical analysis. The derivation of constitutive models for irreversible behaviour entirely from two scalar potentials is shown. The use of potentials allows models to be very simply defined, classified and, if necessary, developed and it permits dependent and independent variables to be interchanged, making possible different forms of a model for different applications. The theory is extended to include treatment of rate-dependent materials and a powerful concept, in which a single plastic strain is replaced by a plastic strain function, allowing smooth transitions between elastic and plastic behaviour is introduced. This monograph will benefit academic researchers in mechanics, civil engineering and geomechanics and practising geotechnical engineers; it will also interest numerical analysts in engineering mechanics
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Analysing Buildings from Context to Detail in Time. ABCD Research Method By H. Zijlstra
Analysing Buildings from Context to Detail in Time. ABCD Research Method By H. Zijlstra
Publisher: IOS Press 2009 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 1607500205 | PDF | 13 MB
Technology provided the author of this book with the inspiration to develop a more comprehensive research method to assess buildings: Analysing Buildings from Context to Detail in time: ABCD Research Method. Technology, at academic level, should be considered in the analysis of a building. In this book the focus is on construction engineering, the study of the requirements associated with constructing buildings. Providing information on practice is a key element in construction engineering, which is a learning process. Changes are made during the life of a building and they might be made differently if the history and technical aspects of the building were studied in greater detail. Both maintenance and changes require us to understand the building concerned. In essence, a building can be described in detail using the ABCD research method. Experience obtained with other buildings can lead to better considered solutions when designing and building new buildings or intervening in existing buildings. We can recognize layers where changes may have led to interventions in what existed at one time. The ABCD research method is an instrument to show us how changes happened and what the original concepts for the building were. We have to investigate the history of the design and construction of a building to distil this essence.
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P.J.M. Bartos, J.J. Hughes, P. Trtik , W. Zhu , "Nanotechnology in Construction"
Royal Society of Chemistry; 1 edition (July 13, 2004) | ISBN:0854046232 | 374 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
The importance of nanotechnology related research and development has become recognised worldwide. Substantial public and private investment is now being ploughed into research and development in a number of industrial sectors, where nanotechnology has become established and has led to new commercial products. The construction industry, having major economic significance with nano-scale research and development which is only emerging, offers a wide scope for exploitation of nanotechnology.
With international contributions from experts in the field, Nanotechnology in Construction amalgamates previously fragmented research and emerging trends. It reflects the inherent multi-disciplinary nature of nano-scale research in construction and contributions cover a wide spectrum, from highly scientific investigations to futuristic applications. The books is organised into four broad sections, the first reviews and analyses the prospects of exploitation of nanotechnology in construction, the second discusses novel tools and their capabilities, the final two sections show existing significant products where nanotechnology has been already been exploited or where product development is under-way.
Nanotechnology in Construction will appeal to researchers already working in this field as well as those wishing to enter it. It will also inform governmental and other funding agencies of the most promising future directions and their related timescales. Practical applications are considered and explanations of the underlying basics are given, raising awareness and understanding of what nanotechnology can offer to construction professionals in general.
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Przemyslaw Litewka, "Finite Element Analysis of Beam-to-Beam Contact"
Springer | 2010 | ISBN: 3642129390 | 175 pages | PDF | 1,8 MB
Phenomena occurring during a contact of two bodies are encountered in everyday life. In reality almost every type of motion is related to frictional contact between a moving body and a ground. Moreover, modeling of simple and more complex processes as nailing, cutting, vacuum ing, movement of machines and their elements, rolling or, finally, a numerical simulation of car crash tests, requires taking contact into account. Therefore, its analysis has been a subject of many research efforts for a long time now. However, it is author’s opinion that there are relatively few efforts related to contact between structural elements, like beams, plates or shells. The purpose of this work is to fill this gap. It concerns the beam-to-beam contact as a specific case of the 3D solids contact. A numerical formulation of frictional contact for beams with two shapes of cross-section is derived. Further, a couple of effective methods for modeling of smooth curves representing beam axes are presented. A part of the book is also devoted to analyze some aspects of thermo-electro-mechanical coupling in contact of thermal and electric conductors. Analyses in every chapter are illustrated with numerical examples showing the performance of derived contact finite elements.
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I need the papers:
"Construction materials selection and characteristics of Wan An Xi concrete raced rockfill dam. (1993). Proc., Int. Symp. on High Earth-Rockfill Dams, pp. 272-285.
Beijing
And
"Deformation and cracks in concrete face rockfill dams"
(1999) Proc., 2nd Symp. on Concrete Face Rockfill Dams, pp. 49-61.Brazilian Committee on Dams, Florianopolis, Brazil
And
Wu, H., Wu, J., Wang, S., Wu, Q., and Cao, K. 2000b. “Ten years
surveilance of Chengbing concrete face rockfill dam.” Proc., Int.
Symp. on Concrete Faced Rockfill Dams, International Committee on
Large Dams, Beijing, 595–605.
And
Pinto, N. L. S., and Marques, F. P. 1998. “Estimating the maximum face
deflection in CFRDs.” Int. J. Hydropow. Dams, 56, 28–31.
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