Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering (Computational Intelligence and Its Applications)
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Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering (Computational Intelligence and Its Applications)
By Nikos D. Lagaros
* Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
* Number Of Pages: 444
* Publication Date: 2007-03-08
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1599041006
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781599041001
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"The enormous advances in computational hardware and software resources over the last fifteen years resulted in the development of non-conventional data processing and simulation methods. Among these methods artificial intelligence (AI) has been mentioned as one of the most eminent approaches to the so-called intelligent methods of information processing that present a great potential for engineering applications. Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering contains contributions that cover a wide spectrum of very important real-world engineering problems, and explore the implementation of neural networks for the representation of structural responses in earthquake engineering. This book assesses the efficiency of seismic design procedures and describes the latest findings in intelligent optimal control systems and their applications in structural engineering. Intelligent Computational Paradigms in Earthquake Engineering presents the application of learning machines, artificial neural networks and support vector machines as highly-efficient pattern recognition tools for structural damage detection. It includes an AI-based evaluation of bridge structures using life-cycle cost principles that considers seismic risk, and emphasizes the use of AI methodologies in a geotechnical earthquake engineering application. "
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Homebuilders' Guide to Earthquake-Resistant Design and Construction, FEMA 232
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Quote:Author: Building Seismic Safety Council, FEMA, International Code Council, NEHRP
Publisher: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Published: June 2006
Pages: 224
Format: Softcover
ISBN 10: 1410108791
ISBN 13: 9781410108791
Homebuilders' Guide to Earthquake-Resistant Design and Construction (FEMA 232) includes prescriptive building detail plans based on the state-of-the-art earthquake-resistant design for use by homebuilders and others in the construction of a non-engineered residential structure.
This guide replaces the Home Builder's Guide to Seismic Resistant Construction and all earlier versions of FEMA 232.
It presents seismic design and construction guidance for one- and two-family light frame residential structures that can be utilized by homebuilders, homeowners, and other non-engineers, and provides supplemental information to the 2003 edition of the International Residential Code. Includes background information on the principles of seismic resistance and how earthquake forces impact conventional residential construction and more detailed information on architectural considerations.
Discussions of masonry and stone elements, examples of typical floor plans for earthquake resistant one- and two-story homes, excerpts of seismic requirements from building codes, and checklists for home builders are included. The guide also presents a series of "above code recommendations" and low cost measures that would increase the performance of the building and help keep it functional after an earthquake.
Quote:Contents
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Table Of Contents
Appendices
List Of Figures
List Of Tables
Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Earthquake-Resistance Requirements.
Chapter 3: Foundations and Foundation Walls.
Chapter 4: Floor Construction.
Chapter 5: Walls.
Chapter 6: Roof-Ceiling Systems.
Chapter 7: Chimneys, Fireplaces, Balconies, and Decks.
Chapter 8: Anchorage of Home Contents.
Chapter 9: Existing Houses.
Appendices
Appendix A: Analysis of Model House Used in this Guide.
Appendix B: Earthquake Provisions Checklist for Builders and Designers.
General Earthquake-resistance Requirements
Foundations And Foundation Walls
Floor Construction
Light-frame Wall Construction
Roof Construction
Cold-formed Steel Construction
Masonry Wall Buildings
Concrete And Insulating Concrete Form Wall Buildings
Stone And Masonry Veneer
Fireplaces And Chimneys
Appendix C: Earthquake Provisions Checklist for Designers and Plan Checkers.
General Earthquake-resistance Requirements
Foundations And Foundation Walls
Floor Construction
Light-frame Wall Construction
Cold-formed Steel Construction
Masonry Wall Buildings
Concrete And Insulating Concrete Form Wall Buildings
Stone And Masonry Veneer
Fireplaces And Chimneys
Appendix D: Significant Changes for the 2006 International Residential Code.
Appendix E: References and Additional Resources.
Appendix F: Homebuilder's Guide Project Participants.
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Quote:Elsevier Science | ISBN:0080437516 | 2003-06-01 | PDF | 7800 Pages | 135 MB | PDF
The Treatise on Geochemistry is the first work providing a comprehensive, integrated summarry of the present state of geochemistry. It deals with all the major subjects in the field, ranging from the chemistry of the solar system to environmental geochemistry. The Treatise on Geochemistry has drawn on the expertise of outstanding scientists throughout the world, creating the reference work in geochemistry for the next decade. Each volume consists of fifteen to twenty-five chapters written by recognized authorities in their fields, and chosen by the Volume Editors in consultation with the Executive Editors. Particular emphasis has been placed on integrating the subject matter of the individual chapters and volumes. Elsevier also offers the Treatise on Geochemistry in electronic format via the online platform ScienceDirect?, the most comprehensive database of academic research on the Internet today, enhanced by a suite of sophisticated linking, searching and retrieval tools.
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1. Origin of the Elements. 2. Presolar Grains. 3. Solar System Abundances of the Elements. 4. The Solar Nebula. 5. Classification of Meteorites. 6. Oxygen Isotopes in Meteorites. 7. Chondrites and their Components. 8. Calcium-Aluminium-rich Inclusion in Chondritic Meteorites. 9. Nebular vs. Parent Body Processing. 10. Structural and Isotopic Analysis of Organic Matter in Carbonaceous Meteorites. 11. Achondrites. 12. Iron and Stony-Iron Meteorites. 13. Cosmic Ray Exposure Ages of Meteorites. 14. Noble Gases. 15. Condensation and Evaporation of Solar System Materials. 16. Early Solar System Chronology. 17. Planet Formation. 18. Mercury. 19. Venus. 20. The Origin and Earliest History of the Earth. 21. The Moon. 22. Mars. 23. Giant Planets. 24. Major Satellites of the Giant Planets.25. Comets. 26. Interplanetary Dust Particles.
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1. Composition of the Continental Crust. 2. Constraints on Crustal Heat Production from Heat Flow Data. 3. Continental Basaltic Rocks. 4. Volcanic Degassing. 5. Timescales of Magma Transfer and Storage in the Crust. 6. Fluid Flow in the Deep Crust. 7. Geochemical Zoning in Metamorphic Minerals. 8. Geochronology and Thermochronology in Orogenic Systems. 9. Continental Crust Subduction and Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism. 10. Ages and Growth of the Continental Crust from Radiogenic Isotopes. 11. Granitic Perspectives on the Generation and Secular Evolution of the Continental Crust. 12. Ores in the Earth's Crust. 13. Geochemistry of the Igneous Ocean Crust. 14. Melt Migration in Oceanic Crustal Production: A U-series Perspective. 15. Hydrothermal Alteration Processes. 16. Oceanic Plateaus. 17. Generation of Mobile Components during Subduction of Oceanic Crust. 18. One View of the Geochemistry of Subduction-related Magmatic Arcs, with Emphasis on Primitive Andesite and Lower Crust.
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1. Ozone, Hydroxyl Radical and Oxidative Capacity. 2. Global Methane Biogeochemistry. 3. Tropospheric Halogen Chemistry. 4. Non-Mass Dependent Isotopic Fractionation Processes: Mechanisms and Recent Observations in Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Environments. 5. The Stable Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric CO². 6. Radiocarbon. 7. Water Stable Isotopes: Atmospheric Composition and Applications in Polar Ice Core Studies. 8. Tropospheric Aerosols. 9. Biomass Burning: The Cycling of Gases and Particulates from the Biosphere to the Atmosphere. 10. Natural Radionuclides in the Atmosphere. 11. The Origin of Noble Gases and Major Volatiles in the Terrestrial Planets. 12. The History of Planetary Degassing as Recorded by Noble Gases.
Volume 5:Surface and Groundwater, Weathering, and Soils, edited by James Drever
1. Soil Formation. 2. Modeling Low-Temperature Geochemical Processes. 3. Reaction Kinetics of Primary Rock-Forming Minerals under Ambient Conditions. 4. Mass Balance Approach to Interpreting Weathering Reactions in Watershed Systems. 5. Natural Weathering Rates of Silicate Minerals. 6. Plants and Mineral Weathering: Present and Past. 7. Geochemical Weathering in Glacial and Proglacial Environments. 8. Global Occurrence of Major Elements in Rivers. 9. Trace Elements in River Waters. 10. Dissolved Organic Matter in Fresh Waters. 11. Stable Isotope Applications in Hydrologic Studies. 12. Radiogenic Isotopes in Weathering and Hydrology. 13. Geochemistry of Saline Lakes. 14. Geochemistry of Ground Water. 15. Ground Water Dating and Residence Time Measurements. 16. Deep Fluids in the Continents: I. Sedimentary Basins. 17. Deep Fluids in the Continents: II. Crystalline Rocks. 18. Soils and Global Change in the Carbon Cycle over Geological Time.
Volume 6:The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry, edited by Harry Elderfield
1. Physico-Chemical Controls on Seawater. 2. Controls of Trace Metals in Seawater. 3. Gases in Seawater. 4. The Biological Pump. 5. Marine Bioinorganic Chemistry: The Role of Trace Metals in the Oceanic Cycles of Major Nutrients. 6. Organic Matter in the Contemporary Ocean. 7. Hydrothermal Processes. 8. Tracers of Ocean Mixing. 9. Chemical Tracers of particle Transport. 10. Biological Fluxes in the Ocean and Atmospheric pCO². 11. Sediment Diagenesis Benthic Flux. 12. Geochronometry of Marine Deposits. 13. Geochemical Evidence for Quaternary Sea-Level Changes. 14. Elemental and Isotopic Proxies of Past Ocean Temperatures. 15. Alkenone Paleotemperature Determinations. 16. Tracers of Past Ocean Circulation. 17. Long-Lived Isotopic Tracers in Oceanography, Paleoceanography and Ice Sheet Dyanmics. 18. the Biological Pump in the Past. 19. The Oceanic CaCO3 Cycle. 20. Records of Cenozoic Ocean Chemistry. 21. The Geologic History of Seawater.
Volume 7:Sediments, Diagenesis, and Sedimentary Rocks, edited by Fred Mackenzie
1. Chemical Composition and Mineralogy of Marine Sediments. 2. Geochemistry of Fine-Grained Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. 3. The Recycling of Biogenic Material at the Sea Floor. 4. Green Clay Minerals. 5. Late Diagenesis and Mass Transfer in Sandstone-Shale Sequences. 6. Formation and Diagenesis of Carbonate Sediments. 7. The Diagenesis of Biogenic Silica: Chemical Transformations Occurring in the Water Column, Seabed and Crust. 8. Formation and Geochemistry of Precambrian Cherts. 9. Coal Formation and Geochemistry. 10. Formation and Geochemistry of Oil and Gas. 11. Manganiferous Sediments, Rocks, and Ores. 12. Sulfur-rich Sediments. 13. The Geochemistry of Mass Extinction. 14. Chronometry of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. 15. Evolution of Sedimentary Rocks.
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1. The Early History of Life. 2. Evolution of Metabolism. 3. Sedimentary Hydrocarbons, Biomarkers for Early Life. 4. Biomineralization. 5. Biogeochemistry of Primary Production in the Sea. 6. Biogeochemistry of Terrestrial Net Primary Production. 7. Biogeochemistry of Decomposition and Detrital Processing. 8. Coupled Anaerobic-Aerobic Metabolism. 9. the Geological History of the Carbon Cycle. 10. The Contemporary Carbon Cycle. 11. The Global Oxygen Cycle. 12. The Global Nitrogen Cycle. 13. The Global Phosphorus Cycle. 14. The Global Sulfur Cycle.
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1. Groundwater and Air Contamination: Risk, Toxicity, Exposure Assessment, Policy and Regulation. 2. Arsenic and Selenium. 3. Heavy Metals in the Environment - Historial Trends. 4. Geochemistry of Mercury in the Environment. 5. The Geochemistry of Acid Mine Drainage. 6. Environmental Geochemistry of Radioactive Contamination. 7. The Medical Geochemistry of Minerals, Dusts, Soils, and Other Earth Materials. 8. Worldwide Eutrophication of Water Bodies: Causes, Concerns, Controls. 9. Salinization and Saline Environments. 10. Acid Deposition and Acid Rain. 11. Tropospheric Ozone and Photochemical Smog. 12. Volatile Fuel Hydrocarbons and MTBE in the Environment. 13. High-Molecular Weight Petrogenic and Pyrogenic Hydrocarbons in Aquatic Environments. 14. Biogeochemistry of Halogenated Hydrocarbons. 15. The Geochemistry of Pesticides. 16. The Geochemistry of Waste Disposal Facilities in Groundwater.
Volume 10: Indexes
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Failure of hydrosystems, such as dams, levees, storm sewers, or pollution control systems, pose threats to the public safety and health as well as potentially inflict enormous damages on properties and environments. Many failures of hydrosystems are mainly attributed by the existence of various uncertainties, including inherent natural randomness and the lack of complete understanding of involved geophysical processes. It is therefore essential to systematically quantify the degree of uncertainty for the problem in hand so that reliability assessment and risk-based design of hydrosystems can be made. The conventional approach of frequency analysis of heavy rainfalls or large floods consider only portion of the uncertainties involved in hydrosystem engineering problems. Over the past two decades or so, there has been a steady growth on the development and application of uncertainty analysis techniques in hydrosystems engineering and other disciplines. The aim of this book is to bring together these uncertainty analysis techniques in one book and to demonstrate their applications and limitations for a wide variety of hydrosystem engineering problems.
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Project Management in Construction
Sidney Levy,
2006
ISBN-10: 0071464174
402 Pages
PDF 6,1 MB
Step-by-step advice on making every construction job profitable and successful
Covering every aspect of the job, from writing initial contracts to complying with OSHA regulations, this trusted resource outlines the essential tenets of project management including estimating, purchasing, and administration of the contract.
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Design of Liquid Retaining Concrete Structures
by R.D. Anchor (Author)
224 pages/14.6MB PDF (scanned copy)
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (2 Jul 1992)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0340545275
ISBN-13: 978-0340545270
Product Description
This is a guide to the detailed structural design of concrete for retaining or excluding liquids. Structural developments are discussed individually so that expertise can be applied to any situation likely to be encountered - from the construction of water-towers to the damp-proofing of basements. This new edition has been brought up-to-date with the latest changes in UK and international practice. The design methods refer to British Standards (8007, 8110 and 8102) as well as US standards (including ACI codes). Reference is also made to a recent Australian standard.
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The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake, Selected Photographs
by By J.K. Nakata, C.E. Meyer, H.G. Wilshire, J.C. Tinsley, W.S. Updegrove, D.M. Peterson, S.D. Ellen, R.A. Haugerud, R.J. McLaughlin, G.R. Fisher, and M.F. Diggles
Photographs and descriptions to accompany
Digital Data Series DDS-29
Version 1.2 1999
104 pages
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Introduction
On October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 p.m. (P.d.t.), a magnitude 6.9 (moment magnitude; surface-wave magnitude, 7.1) earthquake severely shook the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions. The epicenter was located at 37.04° N. latitude, 121.88° W. longitude near Loma Prieta peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, approximately 14 km (9 mi) northeast of Santa Cruz and 96 km (60 mi) south-southeast of San Francisco. The earthquake occurred when the crustal rocks comprising the Pacific and North American Plates abruptly slipped as much as 2 meters (7 ft) along their common boundary-the San Andreas fault system. The rupture initiated at a depth of 18 km (11 mi) and extended 35 km (22 mi) along the fault, but it did not break the surface of the Earth .
About this Loma Prieta earthquake publication
Contents:
* I. San Francisco Sites
* II. Bay Bridge
* III. Oakland
* IV. San Francisco and San Mateo County Coast
* V. Fremont Baylands
* VI. Menlo Park
* VII. Los Altos
* VIII. Los Gatos
* IX. Summit Road Area, Santa Cruz Mountains
* X. Redwood Grove, Santa Cruz Mountains
* XI. Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz Mountains
* XII. Highway 17, Santa Cruz Mountains
* XIII. Santa Cruz Area
* XIV. Watsonville Area
* XV. Moss Landing
* XVI. Salinas
* Color Targets
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