This is a reference book for students and engineer involved with vibroacoustics and noise reduction from structures and machinery. This title covers in depth structural radiation and vibration wave theory with classical references. Book exercises with answers provide applications to digest physics elements into long-term scientific and engineering background.
PREFACE:
In writing this book my aim has been to present a unified qualitative and quantitative account of the physical mechanisms and characteristics of linear interaction between audio-frequency vibrational motion in compressible fluids and structures with which they are in contact. The primary purpose is to instruct the reader in theoretical approaches to the modelling and analysis of interactions, whilst simultaneously providing physical explanations of their dependence upon the parameters of the coupled systems. It is primarily to the engineering student that the book is addressed, in the firm belief that a good engineer remains a student throughout his professional life. A preoccupation with the relevance and validity of theoretical analyses in relation to practical problems is a hallmark of the engineer. For this reason there is a strong emphasis on the relationship of results obtained from theoretical analysis of idealised models and the behaviour of the less than ideal realities from which they are abstracted. The teacher of analysis in any sphere of applied science is faced with a central dilemma: systems which can be modelled and analysed in a manner sufficiently explicit and direct to illustrate a principle are usually gross oversimplifications of the real world and are hence, to some extent, trivial; systems which are of practical concern are usually much too complex to offer suitable examples for didactic purposes.
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Guidelines for Design of Structures for Vertical Evacuation from Tsunamis
Guidelines for Design of Structures for Vertical Evacuation from Tsunamis
Prepared By: Michael Mahoney, FEMA Project Officer, Applied Technology Council
Prepared For:
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program
National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
Publisher: Homeland Security, FEMA
Number Of Pages: 176 , 7 MB
Publication Date: June 2008
Product Description:
Guidelines for design of structures for vertical evacuation from tsunamis [electronic resource] / prepared by Applied Technology Council ; prepared for Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program [and] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
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NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures, 7th edition
NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures, 7th edition 2009
David Bonneville, Chairman, BSSC Board of Direction
Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC)
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP)
Prepared for: Federal Emergency Management Agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Paperback
Edition: Seventh Edition
Publisher: Building Seismic Safety Council (2009)
Description:
The 2009 edition of the NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions is the seventh update since the first publication in 1985.
This new edition adopts ASCE/SEI 7-05 by reference, which allows the Provisions to resume its role as the resource for introducing new knowledge, innovative concepts, and design methods to improve the national seismic standards and codes. The Provisions are presented in a new one-volume format with three parts
Part 1 adopts ASCE/SEI 7-05 by reference and presents consensus approved modifications to the reference standard.
Part 2 provides a completely rewritten commentary that explains how to design using the reference standard.
Part 3 comprises a series of resource papers that focus on emerging seismic design concepts and methods for exposure to and trial use by the design community and on issues that have proven historically difficult or complex to adequately codify.
PDF, 25 MB
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Primer for Design Professionals, Communicating with Owners and Managers of New Buildings on Earthquake Risk (FEMA389)
Primer for Design Professionals, Communicating with Owners and Managers of New Buildings on Earthquake Risk
Christopher Rojahn, Applied Technology Council
Risk Management Series
Series: Risk Management Series
Publisher: Federal Emergency Management Agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (FEM
Pages: 190
Subjects:
* Earthquake resistant design
* Earthquake hazard analysis
* Commercial buildings -- Earthquake effects
* Public buildings -- Earthquake effects
* Risk assessment
Description:
Seismic risk management tools, including new seismic engineering technology and data, are now available to assist with evaluating, predicting, and controlling financial and personal-injury losses from future damaging earthquakes. These tools have evolved as a result of scientific and engineering breakthroughs, including new earth-science knowledge about the occurrence and severity of earthquake shaking, and new engineering techniques for designing building systems and components to withstand the effects of earthquakes. As a result, design and construction professionals can now design and construct new buildings with more predictable seismic performance than ever before.
Seismic risks can be managed effectively in a number of ways, including the design and construction of better performing buildings as well as the employment of strategies that can result in risk reduction over the life of the building. Risk reduction techniques include the use of new technologies, such as seismic isolation and energy dissipation devices for both structural and nonstructural systems; site selection to avoid hazards such as ground motion amplification, landslide, and liquefaction; and the use of performance-based design concepts, which enable the engineer to better estimate building capacity and seismic loading demand and to design buildings for enhanced performance (beyond that typically provided by current seismic codes). The implementation of risk reduction strategies by building owners and managers is critically important, not only for reducing the likelihood of life loss and injury, but also for reducing the potential for losses associated with earthquake damage repair and business interruption.
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Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors (FEMA)
Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors
Charles Kircher, Applied Technology Council
Publisher: Federal Emergency Management Agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (FEMA)
Published: June 2009
Pages: 421
Subjects:
* Earthquake resistant design - Standards
* Earthquake hazard analysis
* Buildings -- Earthquake effects
* Risk assessment
* Earthquake engineering.
* Structural analysis (Engineering)
* Building laws
The objective of this publication was to develop a procedure to establish consistent and rational building system performance and response parameters (R, Cd, Ω0) for the linear design methods traditionally used in current building codes. The primary application of the procedure is for the evaluation of structural systems for new construction with equivalent earthquake performance
Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors presents a recommended methodology for reliably quantifying building system performance and response parameters for use in seismic design. The parameters or “seismic performance factors” addressed include the response modification coefficient (R factor), system overstrength factor, and deflection amplification factor. The methodology is a refinement of an earlier preliminary methodology, and is based on a review of relevant research on nonlinear response and collapse simulation, benchmarking studies of selected structural systems, feedback from an expanded group of experts and potential users, and evaluations of additional structural systems conducted to verify the technical soundness and applicability of the approach
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Buildings for Industrial Storage and Distribution
Publisher: Architectural Press | ISBN: 0750648198 | edition 2003 | PDF | 288 pages | 26,4 mb
The purpose of this book is to assist in understanding the mechanics of industrial storage processes. Many of the relationships are of an approximate nature and may be unsuitable for detailed calculations. While reasonable care has been taken, it is possible that errors exist in the material contained and neither the authors nor the publisher can accept responsibility for any results arising from use of information in this book.
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Electric Railways, 1880-1990
By M. C. Duffy
Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2003 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 0852968051 | PDF | 4 MB
This book presents a thorough survey of electric railway development from the earliest days of the London Underground to modern electrified main line trains. Coverage includes chapters on signalling and communications, power supplies, and a detailed survey about traction systems, both AC and DC. The introduction, first of mercury arc rectifiers, and later of power semiconductor controls, is also discussed in detail. The author has a long standing interest in engineering history and has written many papers on aspects of railway technology. This book will be of particular interest to scientists and historians interested in the development of electric railways.
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Construction Management and Planning
B Sengupta,H. Guha,
Tata Mcgraw-Hill | 2002 | ISBN: 0074623982 | 310 pages | PDF | 15,6 MB
This book presents the various issues and techniques in different facets of construction management. It gives a lucid description of the concepts included in the study of construction site analysis, financial management and legal environs with special emphasis on applications.Special Features: System techniques like CPM and PERT to study time-cost relationships and uncertainty;Includes selected research topics on construction management detailing bidding models, scheduling uncertainty, resource optimisation, aggregate blending, etc; Incorporates important topics--accounts management, cost management, contracts and commercial laws and, tender evaluation;Discusses the computer aided training in various fields of construction industry through application programs on project management, advanced construction engineering and export system for construction;Includes a case study showing the analysis of a tender bid; Highlights the various operation research techniques such as queuing, linear programming and simulation;Innovative exercises and worked examples at the end of various chapters.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Contract Management
3. Details of Construction
4. Construction Organisation and Superintendence
5. Operation Analysis and Statics
6. Construction Practice I
7. Construction Practice II: Superstructure
8. Times Management and Scheduling
9. Quantitative Management Applications
10. Quality Management and Safety
11. Resource Management and Inventory
12. Accounts Management
13. Cost Management
14. Financial Management
15. Contract and Relevant Commercial Laws
16. Relevant Labour and Industrial Laws
17. Case study
18. Information Management and Computers
19. Selected ResearchTopics in Construction Management
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Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part 1 & 2
By: Xiang-chu Yin, Peter Mora, Andrea Donnellan, Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modeling capabilities. Designing realistic supercomputer simulation models for the complete earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and range of scales involved from microscopic to global.
The book is divided into two parts:
Part I - focuses on microscopic simulation, scaling physics, dynamic rapture and wave propagation, earthquake generation, cycle and seismic pattern. Topics covered range from numerical developments, rupture and gouge studies of the particle model, Liquefied Cracks and Rayleigh Wave Physics, studies of catastrophic failure and critical sensitivity, numerical and theoretical studies of crack propagation, developments in finite difference methods for modeling faults, long time scale simulation of interacting fault systems, modeling of crustal deformation, through to mantle convection.
Part II - incorporates computational environment and algorithms, data assimilation and understanding, model applications and iSERVO. Topics covered range from iSERVO and QuakeSim: implementing the international solid earth research virtual observatory by integrating computational grid and geographical information web services; LURR (Load-Unload Response Ratio) described in six papers involving this promising earthquake forecasting model; pattern informatics and phase dynamics and their applications, which was also a highlight in the Workshop; computational algorithms, including continuum damage models and visualization and analysis of geophysical datasets; evolution of mantle material; the state vector approach; and assimilation of data such as geodetic data, GPS data, and seismicity and laboratory experimental data.
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Tailor Made Concrete Structures: New Solutions for our Society
Tailor Made Concrete Structures: New Solutions for our Society
Joost C. Walraven, Dick Stoelhorst "
CRC Press | English | 2008-05-07 | ISBN: 041547535X | 316 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
In recent years knowledge of concrete and concrete structures has increased, as has its applications. New types of concrete challenged scientists and engineers, and ecological constraints encouraged the implementation of life cycle design of concrete structures, moving the focus more and more to maintenance and uprating of structures. And since buildings are not only designed for safety and serviceability, but also for flexibility and adaptability, the design of performance based materials and structures has become more and more important.
Tailor Made Concrete Structures. New Solutions for our Society comprises the proceedings of the International fib Symposium 2008 (Amsterdam, 19-22 May 2008), and considers these new perspectives and developments, including sections on new materials (i.e. fire resisting concrete, ultra-high performance fibered concrete, textile reinforced concrete, bacteria-based self healing concrete) and codes for the future (i.e. the American P2P Iniative, fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) applications in construction, Codes for SFRC Structures).
The book includes contributions from leading scientists and professionals in concrete and concrete structures worldwide, and covers:
– Life cycle design
– Design strategies for the future
– Underground structures
– Monitoring and Inspection
– Diagnosis
– Innovative materials
– Codes for the future
– Modifying and adapting structures
– Architectural Concrete
– Developing a modern infrastructure
– Designing structures against extreme loads
– Increasing the speed of construction
Tailor Made Concrete Structures. New Solutions for our Society includes the state-of-the-art in research on concrete and concrete structures, and will be invaluable to professionals, structural engineers and scientists
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