Green Building: Project Planning & Cost Estimating
Author: R. S. Means | Size: 19 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: Wiley book on sustainable design | Year: 2011 | pages: 480 | ISBN: 0876292619, 9781118984048, 1118984048, 9781613446119, 161344611X, 9781118000755, 1118000757, 9781118030035, 1118030036, 9780876292617
A unique cost reference, updated and expanded, for architects, engineers, contractors, building owners, and managers Green building is no longer a trend. Since the publication of the widely read first edition of this book, green building has become a major advancement in design and construction. Building codes and standards have adopted much stricter energy efficiencies. Businesses, institutions, and communities have discovered huge savings, along with health and marketing advantages, in sustainable building. Private facilities, as well as public buildings for Federal, state, and local governments are increasingly required to design and build sustainably in both new construction and renovation. This Third Edition has been updated with the latest in green building tech–nologies, design concepts, standards, and costs. The chapters, case studies, and resources give you practical guidance on green building, including the latest on: Green building approaches, materials, rating systems, standards, and guidelines Energy efficiencies, implementing energy modeling tools Designing and specifying, as well as commissioning, green building projects Often–specified products and materials, as well as a sample spec Goals and techniques for health, comfort, and productivity Evaluating the cost versus value of green products over their life cycle Low–cost green strategies, and special economic incentives and funding Building deconstruction and cost considerations With a new chapter on greening of commercial real estate, this reference is a one–stop resource for the latest in green building approaches and implementation. The contributors, all prominent leaders in green building, include: Mark Kalin, FAIA, FCSI, author of the original GreenSpec Andy Walker, Ph.D., PE, senior engineer with NREL Joseph Macaluso, AACE, certified cost consultant
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This report summarizes currently available information about high strength concrete (HSC). Topics discussed include selection of materials, concrete mixture proportions, ordering, batching, mixing, transporting, placing, quality control, concrete properties, structural design, economic considerations, and applications.
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High-strength concrete (HSC) has emerged as a viable material to use as an alternative to conventional normal-strength concrete in infrastructure systems to reduce member cross section, extend member span length, reduce the number of system members, or enhance system sustainability. This guide offers general information on the quality control and testing of HSC. Recommendations are based on the current state of knowledge gained from worldwide experimental research, analytical work, and field applications of HSC systems used in concrete structures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1—Introduction and scope
1.1—Introduction
1.2—Scope
Chapter 2—Notation and definitions
2.1—Notation
2.2—Definitions
Chapter 3—Planning
3.1—Introduction
3.2—Preconstruction meeting
3.3—Trial batches
3.4—Prequalification of concrete suppliers and preconstruction testing
Chapter 4—Quality assurance and quality control
4.1—Introduction
4.2—Concrete plant
4.3—Delivery
4.4—Placing
4.5—Curing
Chapter 5—Testing
5.1—Introduction
5.2—Background
5.3—Sampling
5.4—Frequency of testing
5.5—Compressive strength specimens
5.6—Modulus of elasticity
5.7—Shrinkage and creep
5.8—Prequalification of testing laboratories
Chapter 6—Evaluation of compressive strength test results
6.1—Statistical concepts
6.2—Strength evaluation
Chapter 7—References
7.1—Referenced standards and reports
7.2—Cited references
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The following Enhancements have been implemented for CSiBridge 2015 v17.0.0:
The responsiveness of the user interface has been improved.
The DirectX graphics functionality has been enhanced.
A friction-spring hysteretic damper has been implemented as a new link property. The force-displacement relationship exhibits linear slipping stiffness when loading, but unloads with a smaller slipping stiffness. A pre-compression displacement and a displacement stop-limit may be specified.
A bilinear Maxwell damper has been implemented as a new link property. This device is a linear spring in series with a dashpot whose force-velocity relationship exhibits bilinear viscous behavior, typical of certain oil dampers having a relief valve.
Improved convergence behavior and increased speed for nonlinear static and direct-integration time-history analysis.
Increased speed of moving load analysis by parallelization.
Superstructure design checking has been extended to include composite bridge superstructures with steel U-girders according to the Canadian CAN/CSA-S6-06 code.
Superstructure design checking has been extended to include composite bridge superstructures with steel U-girders according to the Indian IRC-2011 code.
Superstructure design checking has been implemented for concrete superstructure sections according to the Russian SNiP 2.05.03-84 code. Superstructure types supported include prestressed concrete box girders and composite sections with precast I-girders and U-girders.
Superstructure design reports have been enhanced to include step-by-step detailed output, including equations and code references. These are currently available for AASHTO LRFD 2007 and 2012, for multi-cell concrete box shear and flexure checks and precast composite I-beam shear and flexure checks.
A traditional menu has been added as an alternative to the ribbon. Users can switch between the two options.
The ribbon style has been updated to be similar to current Microsoft applications.
Other minor enhancements.
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The following Enhancements have been implemented for SAP2000 v17.0.0:
The responsiveness of the user interface has been improved.
The DirectX graphics functionality has been enhanced.
Improved convergence behavior and increased speed for nonlinear static and direct-integration time-history analysis
Steel Detailing Neutral File (SDNF) version 3 file import is now supported.
Print preview is now available when printing images, design output, etc.
Other minor enhancements.
The same medicine that works for v16 works for this too!
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Structural Vibration: Exact Solutions for Strings, Membranes, Beams, and Plates offers an introduction to structural vibration and highlights the importance of the natural frequencies in design. It focuses on free vibrations for analysis and design of structures and machine and presents the exact vibration solutions for strings, membranes, beams, and plates.
This book emphasizes the exact solutions for free transverse vibration of strings, membranes, beams, and plates. It explains the intrinsic, fundamental, and unexpected features of the solutions in terms of known functions as well as solutions determined from exact characteristic equations. The book provides:
• A single-volume resource for exact solutions of vibration problems in strings, membranes, beams, and plates
• A reference for checking vibration frequency values and mode shapes of structural problems
• Governing equations and boundary conditions for vibration of structural elements
• Analogies of vibration problems
Structural Vibration: Exact Solutions for Strings, Membranes, Beams, and Plates provides practicing engineers, academics, and researchers with a reference for data on a specific structural member as well as a benchmark standard for numerical or approximate analytical methods.
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All the traces of historic heritage are a fundamental part of our environment and reward us in the form of cultural enrichment, with the ability to have a positive effect both on our lifestyle and economy.
Therefore, the preservation of ancient monuments, historic towns and sites has increasingly drawn the attention of public opinion, governmental agencies as well as consultants and contractors. This interest must be however carefully controlled and directed, since the conservation of monuments and historic sites is one of the most challenging problems of our age. Careless attempts at preservation can be detrimental not only to their iconic value (formal integrity), but even to their structural characteristics and the materials they are built with (material integrity).
Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites collects one opening address, four special lectures and 82 contributions from all over the world, giving a unique sample of the geotechnical problems to be tackled, the solutions currently being proposed, and the strategies being carried out to preserve the overall integrity of monuments and historic sites. It is clearly apparent that differences exist around the world not only in terms of the characteristics of the monuments or sites to be preserved, but also in the approaches adopted to achieve this aim. Hence, no unique solution is available to the geotechnical engineer dealing with the delicate structures and sites that represent our cultural heritage, and knowledge of previous experiences may be a unique guide in any technical decision-making process.
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This book will appeal to specialist engineers with enquiring minds and, in a broader sense, to all who live in buildings, especially those in a seismically active region. While the continual development of building codes permits the design of new construction to resist earthquake loads more effectively, a major problem is that buildings which may once have conformed to past seismic codes become structurally unacceptable according to today's codes and need upgrading or `retrofitting'. Poor construction methods also result in buildings that do not conform to any codes. Existing `vulnerable' buildings that require strengthening in earthquake-prone countries immensely outnumber all recent construction.
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Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering NUMGE 2014
Author: Michael A. Hicks, Ronald B.J. Brinkgreve and Alexander Rohe | Size: 44 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: CRC Press | Year: 2014 | pages: 1368 | ISBN: 1138001465, 9781315751825, 1315751828, 9781138001466
Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering contains the proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (NUMGE 2014, Delft, The Netherlands, 18-20 June 2014).
It is the eighth in a series of conferences organised by the European Regional Technical Committee ERTC7 under the auspices of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). The first conference was held in 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany and the series has continued every four years (Santander, Spain 1990; Manchester, United Kingdom 1994; Udine, Italy 1998; Paris, France 2002; Graz, Austria 2006; Trondheim, Norway 2010).
Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering presents the latest developments relating to the use of numerical methods in geotechnical engineering, including scientific achievements, innovations and engineering applications related to, or employing, numerical methods. Topics include: constitutive modelling, parameter determination in field and laboratory tests, finite element related numerical methods, other numerical methods, probabilistic methods and neural networks, ground improvement and reinforcement, dams, embankments and slopes, shallow and deep foundations, excavations and retaining walls, tunnels, infrastructure, groundwater flow, thermal and coupled analysis, dynamic applications, offshore applications and cyclic loading models. The book is aimed at academics, researchers and practitioners in geotechnical engineering and geomechanics.
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