A Field Guide to Geophysics in Archaeology (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences)
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A Field Guide to Geophysics in Archaeology (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences)
By John Oswin
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 230
Publication Date: 2009-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 354076691X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540766919
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Geophysics operations in archaeology have become well known through exposure on television. However, the technique is presented as the action of specialists and something of a mystery, where people walk about with strange contraptions, and results appear from a computer. This is not the case, however. Some scientific knowledge is needed in order to understand how the machines work and what they detect but otherwise it is only necessary to know how to handle the instruments, how to survey a field and how to interpret the computer results. This book provides all the relevant information. It explains geophysics operations in archaeology, describes the science that gives the soil properties to measure and the means by which the instruments make their measurements. Dr. John Oswin is in charge of the geophysics operation of the Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society and his work has recently been the subject of a television programme. He has taught many students how to use geophysical equipment.
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Seismic design of bolted steel moment-resisting frames
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Seismic Design of Bolted Steel Moment-Resisting Frames
by: Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl
en | Structural Steel Educational Council
Seismic Design of Bolted Steel Moment-Resisting Frames
By Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl
Publisher: Structural Steel Educational Council
Number Of Pages: 82
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN-10 / ASIN: B0006QDRFI
ISBN-13 / EAN:
This report discusses some issues related to seismic behavior of various types of steel moment-resisting frames used in building structures. However, the emphasis of the report is on the seismic behavior and design of steel moment-resisting frames with bolted beam-to-column connections. A summary of relevant research and applicable code provisions is provided followed by design procedures that can be used to design steel moment-resisting frames. The appendices to the report provide typical details of bolted moment connections, a numerical example and photographs of structures designed and constructed recently using bolted steel moment-resisting frames.
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Earthquake Proof Design and Active Faults
By Y. Kanaori
(April 1, 1997)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Pub Co
Number Of Pages: 282
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0444825622
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780444825629
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Hardbound. On 17th January 1995 an inland earthquake of 7.2 magnitude occurred under Kobe city in central Japan. More than 5,500 people lost their lives. There was immense and serious damage to buildings. Researchers and engineers were shocked and astonished by the extent of the devastation and loss of life. Ground motions, generated by the event were far greater than the seismic standard for earthquake-proof designs in Japan.
Recent academic progress in the fields of geology and geophysics, which would help to reduce the severity of seismic disasters, has not been sufficiently applied to the development of earthquake-proof designs.
This book contains 13 original and innovative papers of interdisciplinary study spanning earthquake-proof technology and active fault science (seven of the papers cover topics concerning the 1995 Kobe earthquake).
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Seismic Interferometry
By Gerard Thomas Schuster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2009-05-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521871247
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521871242
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Seismic interferometry is an exciting new field in geophysics utilising multiple scattering events to provide unprecedented views of the Earth’s subsurface. This is the first book to describe the theory and practice of seismic interferometry with an emphasis on applications in exploration seismology. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter, and the text is supplemented by online MATLAB codes that illustrate important ideas and allow readers to generate synthetic traces and invert these to determine the Earth’s reflectivity structure. Later chapters reinforce these principles by deriving the rigorous mathematics of seismic interferometry. Incorporating examples that apply interferometric imaging to synthetic and field data, from applied geophysics and earthquake seismology, this book is a valuable reference for academic researchers and oil industry professionals. It can also be used to teach a one-semester course for advanced students in geophysics and petroleum engineering.
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Professor Olek C Zienkiewicz, widely regarded as the 'Father of the Finite Element Method', has died. Born in Surrey in 1921, he was one of the early pioneers of the Finite Element Method and is cited as being the first to recognise the general potential for using the method outside the area of solid mechanics.
His books on FEA were the first to present the subject and to this day remain standard reference texts for all those dealing with analysis. His own contribution to the Method's development made it the widely applicable tool of computational mechanics and engineering that it is today. He also founded the first journal dealing with computational mechanics in 1968 (International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering ), which is still the major journal in the field of Numerical Computations.
“Professor Zienkiewicz inspired a generation of eminent researchers and practitioners” , commented Tim Morris, NAFEMS CEO. “No-one who has made their career in FEA can have failed to hear of him, and all of us are indebted to him for the contributions that he made to establishing the technology that so many have been able to widely exploit. He will be correctly remembered as one of the leading forefathers of the finite element method."
Prof. Zenkiewicz attended primary and secondary schools in his native Poland, and obtained his BSc, PhD and DSc at Imperial College, London.
He was the recipient of many awards, including the title of Commander of the British Empire, the prestigious Royal Medal of the Royal Society from HM Queen Elizabeth II, the Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal of the West German Academy of Science, the Nathan Newmark Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Newton-Gauss Medal of the International Association for Computational Mechanics, the Gold Medal of the Institution for Mathematics and its Applications, a Gold Medal from the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Professor Zienkiewicz received honorary degrees from Ireland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, China, Poland, Scotland, Wales, France, England, Italy, Portugal, Hong Kong, Hungary and the United States.
He was elected to the Royal Society and The Royal Academy of Engineering in 1979 and was a Foreign Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, the Polish Academy of Science, the Italian National Academy of Sciences and the Chinese National Academy of Sciences
Professor Zienkiewicz passed away on Friday January 2nd 2009, and at that moment, the engineering community lost one of its true pioneers.
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Quantity Surveyor's Pocket Book
Duncan Cartlidge,
Butterworth-Heinemann
2009
ISBN: 0750687460
400 pages
PDF 2 MB
The Quantity Surveyor's Pocket Book outlines all the practical skills, contractual and management techniques needed by a student studying quantity surveying in a handy-sized format for quick reference. Arming you with a complete toolbox to each project stage, this book brings together both the measurement and consultancy aspect of QS in a compact pocket book. Covering material key topics such as forecasting, measurement, estimation and contracts in the order it arises in a typical surveying project cycle ensures understanding of key processes and techniques, as well as when and how to use them.
Recommended forms for reports, cost plans, final accounts and financial statements are also covered. A no-nonsense how-to approach makes this book an ideal companion to any course textbook. Perfect if you are on a quantity surveying degree, HNC/HND or 1-2 year post-graduate conversion course and require a simple guide to fundamental quantity surveying skills and procedures, also ideal if you are newly-qualified and need an on-site/on-the-job reference. This is a concise, affordable pocketbook bringing together practical, contractual and management techniques. It Covers skills and processes needed at each stage of a project and is ideal if you have just qualified as a quantity surveyor and need an on-site/on-the-job reference.
*A concise, affordable pocketbook bringing together practical, contractual and management techniques
*Covers skills and processes needed each stage in a project
*Ideal if you have just qualified quantity surveyors and need an on-site/on-the-job reference.
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