The purpose of this manual is to describe the various procedures for subsurface investigation applicable to the transportation field. An outline of a sequence of operations for conducting an investigation is presented. Data obtained at each operational step should be interpreted and the findings applied to optimize each successive work step. These geotechnical data should be considered as influential or even critical in all planning, design and construction stages of the project.
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Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Subsurface Data Requirements
3. Conduct of Investigations
4. Field Mapping
5. Geologic Constraints
6. Engineering Geophysics
7. Subsurface Exploration (Soil and Rock Sampling)
8. Hydrogeology
9. Laboratory Testing of Soil and Rock
10. Compilation and Presentation of Geotechnical Information
Appendices
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This manual is intended for those early in their career in roadway and bridge maintenance and will assist in understanding the various processes, methods, and materials that are applied to maintain bridge and highway systems effectively. This 2007 Edition is based on information gleaned from recent highway transportation literature on maintenance and from NCHRP SP20-07, Task 170, and includes a new chapter on Systems Operation and Management. (Supersedes the 1999 Edition of this title.)
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• Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. Maintenance Management
2. Roadway Maintenance and Management
3. Bridge Maintenance and Management
4. Equipment Systems
5. Maintenance Research and Development
6. Tort Litigation
7. Systems Operation and Management
Index
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Earthquake Engineering: Proceedings of the Tenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 19-24 July, 1992, Madrid, Spain
Author: Alberto Bernal | Size: 1 KB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: January 1, 1992 by CRC Press | Year: 1992 | pages: 7000
The official proceedings of the 10th world conference on earthquake engineering in Madrid. Coverage includes damage in recent earthquakes, seismic risk and hazard, site effects, structural analysis and design, seismic codes and standards, urban planning, and expert system application.
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I I This book is intended to guide practicing structural engineers into more profitable routine designs with the AISC Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification (LRFD) for structural steel buildings. LRFD is a method of proportioning steel structures so that no applica ble limit state is exceeded when the structure is subjected to all appro priate factored load combinations. Strength limit states are related to safety, and concern maximum load carrying capacity, Serviceability limit states are related to performance under service load conditions such as deflections. The term "resistance" includes both strength states and serviceability limit states. LRFD is a new approach to the design of structural steel for buildings. It involves explicit consideration of limit states, multiple load factors and resistance factors, and implicit probabilistic determination of relia bility. The type of factoring used by LRFD differs from the allowable stress design of Chapters A through M of the 1989 Ninth Edition of the AISC Specifications for Allowable Stress Design, where only the resistance is divided by a factor of safety to obtain an allowable stress, and from the plastic design provisions of Chapter N, where the loads are multi plied by a common load factor of 1.7 for gravity loads and 1.3 for gravity loads acting with wind or seismic loads. LRFD offers the structural engineer greater flexibility, rationality, and economy than the previous 1989 Ninth Edition of the AISC Specifications for Allowable Stress Design.
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This volume strives to give complete information about the main aspect of the stability behaviour of steel structures and their members. In following this objective, the volume presents a complete scientific background (profiting from the fact that the authors of the individual parts of the publication have personally been very active in the corresponding field of research for an extended period of time now), but also establishes recommendations, procedures and formulae for practical design. The significance of the volume may be seen in its challenging current concepts of stability analysis, encouraging progress in the field and thereby establishing an advanced basis for more reliable and economical design.
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Article/eBook Full Name: Assessment of EC8 Provisions for Seismic Design Steel Structures
Author(s): Raffaele Landolfo
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-92-9147-112-6
Published By: ECCS
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Full title: Introduction to Process Geomorphology
Author: Vijay K. Sharma
Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (April 21, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439803374
ISBN-13: 978-1439803370
The 3rd International Conference on Boundary Element Methods held in California during July 1981 constituted a forum for the presentation of the most advanced research in BEM. When comparing the Proceedings - published in this book - with those of previous meetings it is evident that rapid advances have been made in important fields. Regarding applications of BEM, this book contains several important papers dealing with time dependent and vibrations problems, fluid flow and material non-linearities. Several types of non-linearity are discussed, i.e. elastoplasticity, viscoelasticity and notension type materials. A substantial number of papers deals with stress analysis, including treatment of body forces, higher order models, crack problems, cyclic symmetry and sliding and other types of conditions. One of the papers even extended the BEM to deal with shell analysis opening a promising new area of research. Geomechanical applications are also well represented and for these problems the advantages of using BEM which can include radiation as well as material damping are obvious.
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This volume strives to give comprehensive information about the main aspects of the behaviour and limit states of steel plated structures. In following this objective, the volume presents a complete scientific background (profiting from the fact that the authors of the individual parts of the publication have personally been very active in the corresponding fields of research for an extended period of time), but also establishes design recommendations, procedures and formulae. The significance of the volume may be seen in its challenging current concepts of the analysis of steel plated structures, encouraging progress in the field, and thereby establishing an advanced basis for a more reliable and economical design.
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