One of the principal challenges in structural engineering concerns the development of innovative design concepts to better protect structures, together with their occupants and contents, from the damaging effects of destructive environmental forces including those due to winds, waves and earthquakes. Passive energy dissipation devices, when incorporated into a structure, absorb or consume a portion of the input energy,thereby reducing energy dissipation demand on primary structural members and minimizing possible structural damage. This book is a unified treatment of passive energy dissipation systems. Basic principles, mathematical modeling, practical considerations, implementation issues and structural applications are discussed for each major device type. Numerous examples and case studies are included.
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Passive energy dissipation is one of the structural protective systems used to strengthen existing structures by incorporating devices that are intended to absorb or consume a port of the input energy, thereby reducing energy dissipation demand on primary structural members and minimising possible structural damage. All major types of energy dissipation device are presented and discussed in this book, including those currently installed in structures throughout the world as well as possible future developments in the field.
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Many sectors of industry, including engineering, appreciate the importance of good project management for delivering projects in accordance with predetermined objectives. As a result, industrialists and engineering institutions have called for the inclusion of a significant proportion of project management in higher level degrees and there has been a marked increase in Continuing Professional Development, CPD, courses for professionals.
This book provides a clear description of the aims of project management and discusses the theory and practice of project management, particularly in relation to multi-disciplinary engineering projects, both large and small, in the UK and overseas.
The new edition features:
* new chapters on stakeholders, on supply and value chain management, and on effective partnering, with revised sections on privately financed concessions
* updated and expanded information on risk management
? new chapter on the project management of design
* updated and new sections covering environmental impact and the interface with project management
The expertise of the authors gained from their promotion of effective project management through a combination of professional experience, research, consultancy, education and training should be beneficial to both students of project management and recently appointed or practising project managers. The material is appropriate to support Masters level teaching, MSc, MBA and MEng, either by universities or others, action or distance learning courses and self learning programmes.
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This review discusses the types of engineering adhesives in use, properties, advantages and disadvantages, and applications. It is very clearly written, well referenced and provides an excellent overview of a rapidly developing field. The author is an expert with many years of experience in adhesive research and development. The review is accompanied by around 400 abstracts from papers and books in the Polymer Library, to facilitate further reading on this subject.
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By Roger L Brockenbrough, Jr., Kenneth J. Boedecker
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
* Number Of Pages: 850
* Publication Date: 2003-01-24
* Sales Rank: 517164
* ISBN / ASIN: 007140080X
* EAN: 9780071400800
* Binding: Hardcover
* Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
* Studio: McGraw-Hill Professional
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Design and build more durable highways. Improve your highway engineering know-how with Highway Engineering Handbook, edited by Roger L. Brokenbrough and Kenneth J. Boedecker, Jr. This how-to guide helps you master all the latest techniques for designing, building, rehabilitating and maintaining highways. You'll see how to apply modern technology--and how to capitalize on state-of-the-art materials--to successfully deal with every major aspect of highway engineering: Environmental issues; Highway location, design, and traffic; Design and construction of subgrade and base course; Pavements; Bridge engineering; Culvers, drainage, and short span bridge repalcement; Safety systems; Retaining walls; Lighting, marking, and signing; Sound barriers and glare screens; Life cycle cost and value engineering.
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* Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
* Number Of Pages: 334
* Publication Date: 1994-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0393033562
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780393033564
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An examination of the failure of some architectural designs presents more than two hundred illustrations and takes readers on a journey through the history of architectural and structural disasters, from the Parthenon to the Tower of Pisa.
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"… a most important contribution from which both rock mechanics engineers and geophysicists will benefit immensely."
From: IJRMMS 44 (2007), 1172 - 1176
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Seismic measurements take many forms, and have a universal role in the earth sciences. There are huge rewards to be gained from ‘seeing’ below the earth’s surface. This unique book describes seismic behaviour at many scales, and provides the appropriate interpretation in terms of rock mechanics.
Reviewing examples of seismic measurements from numerous fields in civil, mining, petroleum, geophysics, and tectonophysics, and stretching over ten orders of magnitude, the book considers seismic measurements from microcrack compliance in laboratory tests samples to crustal and mid-ocean ridge measurements, where the emphasis is on velocity-depth-age models. Between these extremes, Dr Barton covers in situ block tests, borehole stability, dam and bridge foundations, quarry blasting, transportation tunnels, rock caverns, nuclear waste repository studies and mine openings. The approach is cross-disciplinary and deliberately non-mathematical and phenomenological in nature, with a wealth of figures and a wide review of the literature from many earth science fields.
Intended for consultants, practitioners, university teachers and senior students in geophysics, geology and engineering geology who are engaged with the interpretation of seismic measurements in rock and petroleum engineering.
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Examples for the Design of Structural Concrete with Strut-and-Tie Models (SP-208) contains selected papers presented at the 2002 ACI Fall Convention in Phoenix by members of ACI Subcommittee 445-A, Shear and Torsion: Strut-and-Tie Models. The publication's primary purpose is to show engineers how to apply strut-and-tie modeling according to Appendix A. These papers will also give you insight into the development of Appendix A of ACI 318-02 and summarize important tests that confirm strut-and-tie modeling as a rational basis for the design of structural concrete.
"Strut-and-tie models are an excellent analysis tool for many design problems in concrete structures, and especially for discontinuity regions (D-regions)," says Karl-Heinz Reineck, editor of SP-208 and Chair of Subcommittee 445-A. "Where not properly analyzed and detailed, these regions can show damage or even result in brittle failure of the structure, as demonstrated by many cases."
SP-208 presents examples ranging from classical D-regions to unusual design situations, including:
Deep beams (with and without openings)
Dapped-end T-beam supported by an inverted T-beam
Corbels (double and at column)
Beam with indirect support and loading
Prestressed beams
Cable-stayed bridge pier table
High wall with two openings
Pile caps
Most of the examples have been taken from practice. In addition to explaining the approach of determining a model, they point out where problems can occur in dimensioning or in detailing and anchoring of the reinforcement and how the design could be improved.
The implementation of strut-and-tie-models in ACI 318-02 is a significant step toward more consistent design of structural concrete. SP-208 expands on the rules and guidelines given in the commentary to Appendix A by showing engineers how to apply these models in a variety of situations.
Developing and disseminating information on the best use of concrete has been the mission of ACI International for nearly a century. Founded in 1904, the international technical and educational society, headquartered in Farmington Hills, Mich., has 30,000 members and 94 chapters in 30 countries. ACI offers 14 certification programs for concrete practitioners, conducts more than 200 educational seminars annually, and produces more than 400 technical documents for improving the design, construction, maintenance, and repair of concrete structures.
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A survey of manufacturing and installation methods, standards, and specifications of factory-made steel storage tanks and appurtenances for petroleum, chemicals, hydrocarbons, and other flammable or combustible liquids. It chronicles the trends towards aboveground storage tanks, secondary containment, and corrosion-resistant underground steel storage systems.
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Advanced Laboratory Stress-Strain Testing of Geomaterials
By F. Tatsuoka
* Publisher: Taylor & Francis
* Number Of Pages: 340
* Publication Date: 2001-01-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9026518439
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789026518430
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Developments in the measurement and interpretation of advanced laboratory stress-strain testing of geomaterials are discussed in this text, which includes a collection of case studies which apply the test results. Most of the articles were produced through the activities of the technical committee No 29 (TC-29) on "Stress-Strain Testing of Geomaterials in the Laboratory" of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) between the years 1994 and 2000. ;The volume includes coverage of: detailed testing procedures of the advanced laboratory stress-strain testing of geomaterials including the triaxial and torsional shear tests, which are relevant to the geotechnical design in general and the prediction of ground deformation and structural displacement; the results obtained from a series of international round robin tests (static and dynamic tests) on clay, sand and softrock and their interpretation; the link between the results from static tests (monotonic and cyclic loading) and dynamic tests (the resonant-column tests and the bender element tests); country reports on the stress-strain testing in the laboratory in several countries; country reports on case histories in which advanced laboratory stress-strain played an essential role in predicting ground deformation and structural displacement; and individual technical papers relating to the objectives of TC-29.
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With the authors experience of teaching the courses on Finite Element Analysis to undergraduate and postgraduate students for several years, the author felt need for writing this book. The concept of finite element analysis, finding properties of various elements and assembling stiffness equation is developed systematically by splitting the subject into various chapters.
The method is made clear by solving many problems by hand calculations. The application of finite element method to plates, shells and nonlinear analysis is presented. After listing some of the commercially available finite element analysis packages, the structure of a finite element program and the desired features of commercial packages are discussed.
About the Author:
Dr. S.S. Bhavikatti studied at BVB College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli for his BE (Civil) degree and graduated from Karnataka University, Dharwad in 1963, sharing first rank with another candidate. The same year he joined Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal (presently NITK, Surathkal), as a teacher. He secured ME degree in Structural Engineering in 1967 from University of Roorkee, Roorkee (presently IIT Roorkee) under Technical Teachers Training Programme and Ph.D. degree in 1977 from IIT Delhi under Quality Improvement Programme. He served at NITK, Surathkal in different capacities like Head of Civil Engineering Department, Chairman, Center for Continuing Education, Chairman, Central Computer Center and Dean (Administration). From November 2001 to November 2005, he served at SDM College of Engineering, Dharwad. He also served at RYMEC, Bellary as Principal for 1 year 9 months. Presently he is Emeritus Fellow, the Fellowship offered by AICTE, New Delhi and now is serving at BVB College of Engg. and Tech., Hubli. He has published more than 60 technical papers and 17 books. He has guided 62 students for M.Tech. thesis and 5 students for Ph.D. He was a member of organising/scientific committees of international seminars organised by IASS held at Taegue (South Korea) in 1990, Tokyo (Japan) in 1993 and Taipei (Taiwan) in 1997. He is also a member of several Indian and international professional bodies.
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