Some Research Results on Bridge Health Monitoring, Maintenance and Safety III
Author: Yang Liu | Size: 15 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd | Year: 2014 | pages: 214 | ISBN: 978-3-03785-817-2
The amount of deteriorating bridges is increasing gradually, and the costs of maintenance, repair and rehabilitation of these bridges often far exceed available budgets. To alleviate this issue, the bridge engineering profession continues to take positive steps towards developing more comprehensive bridge monitoring and management systems. This collection of invited papers encompasses some aspects of bridge health monitoring, maintenance and safety. Specifically, it deals with: bridge health monitoring; bridge repair and rehabilitation issues; bridge related safety and other implications.
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The BS 9999 handbook: Effective fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings
Author: Michael Green and Jonathan Joinson | Size: 2 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: British Standards Institution | Year: 2010 | pages: 143 | ISBN: 9780580675089
Getting to grips with BS 9999, the key standard for fire safety in buildings.
BS 9999 Code of practice for fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings is the essential code of practice that gives the recommendations and guidance on the design, management and use of buildings to achieve acceptable levels of fire safety for all people in and around buildings.
This new guide delivers the tools needed to use the standard effectively, plus sets out a methodology for successfully deploying its flexible design recommendations.
Bringing together the key information on BS 9999, including learning points and background information, this easy-to-use and practical handbook can help you quickly and effectively prepare or evaluate designs to the requirements of the Building Regulations.
Read it to get recommendations on how to achieve acceptable levels of fire safety for all people in and around buildings, including escape for disabled people.
Each chapter starts with key learning points to summarize what you need to know. Tools such as the Decision Chart on Designing for Means of Escape, and the Key Factors for Assessing Management Levels will make planning easier.
The book also includes the most commonly used data, tables and figures, as well as recommendations for shopping complexes, theatres, cinemas and similar public venues as well as process plant and outdoor venues.
The book on BS 9999 will give you insights into fire safety guidance for the following:
Risk profiles including occupancy characteristics
Management levels
Additional fire protection measures
Travel distances, door and stair widths
Escape for disabled people
Considerations for fire fighting
Building structure
Theatres and cinemas
Shopping complexes
Plant buildings and outdoor structures.
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Chief Vincent Dunn, a 42-year fire service veteran, has updated his best-selling book which examines the dangers of structural failure caused by fire. This is the second edition of the first textbook written to warn firefighters, company officers, and fire chiefs about exactly how structures collapse when destroyed by fire � and examines the subject of burning building collapse in great detail. More importantly, this book, unlike any other publication, instructs firefighters and fire officers in how to survive burning building collapse.
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The ICE manual of highway design and management is a one-stop reference for all practicing engineers working in the field of highway engineering. Written and edited by a wide selection of leading specialists, this manual covers each of the key aspects of highway engineering projects – from funding, procurement and transport planning to traffic engineering, materials and design – as well as the management and maintenance of existing highways assets.
Key features:
> Over sixty highly illustrated chapters covering all areas of highway engineering
> Includes case studies, common problems and practical advice throughout
> Useful references to further reading and websites at the end of each chapter
Part of the ICE manuals series, the ICE manual of highway design and management is an invaluable resource for engineers in design and engineering consultancies, government agencies, research institutes, universities and colleges. Its highly practical approach will guide and train readers towards achieving expertise in all aspects of this important field of engineering.
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Size: 12.4 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Scanner | Publisher: Florida Department of Transportation | Year: 1989 | pages: 171
A segmental bridge is a bridge built in short sections (called segments), i.e., one piece at a time, as opposed to traditional methods that build a bridge in very large sections. The bridge is made of concrete that is either cast-in-place (constructed fully in its final location) or precast concrete (built at another location and then transported to their final location for placement in the full structure).
These bridges are very economical for long spans (over 100 meters), especially when access to the construction site is restricted. They are also chosen for their aesthetic appeal.
This guide will help you to give some rules for design and construction of a segmental bridge
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The book covers entropy-based techniques for parameter estimation in hydrology. The techniques are presented for twenty distributions used in hydrology, including the distributions of the normal family, the extreme-value family, the Pareto family, and the logistic family. A comparative assessment of the entropy-based techniques is made with traditional methods of parameter estimation, such as the methods of moments, maximum likelihood estimation, probability-weighted moments, L-moments, and least squares, using field data as well as Monte Carlo simulation experiments.
The book is the first attempt to comprehensively present the entropy-based techniques for most distributions of interest in hydrology.
Audience: The material covered in the book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and teachers, as well as practitioners of agricultural engineering, civil engineering, agricultural sciences, earth sciences, environmental sciences, and forest and range sciences.
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In recent years, bridge engineers and researchers are increasingly turning to the finite element method for the design of Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges. However, the complexity of the method has made the transition slow. Based on twenty years of experience, Finite Element Analysis and Design of Steel and Steel-Concrete Composite Bridges provides structural engineers and researchers with detailed modeling techniques for creating robust design models. The book's seven chapters begin with an overview of the various forms of modern steel and steel-concrete composite bridges as well as current design codes. This is followed by self-contained chapters concerning: nonlinear material behavior of the bridge components, applied loads and stability of steel and steel-concrete composite bridges, and design of steel and steel-concrete composite bridge components.
Constitutive models for construction materials including material non-linearity and geometric non-linearity.
The mechanical approach including problem setup, strain energy, external energy and potential energy), mathematics behind the method
Commonly available finite elements codes for the design of steel bridges.
Explains how the design information from Finite Element Analysis is incorporated into Building information models to obtain quantity information, cost analysis,
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Author: Lyesse Laloui | Size: 10.4 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons | Year: 2010 | pages: 386 | ISBN: 9781848212664
This book provides a sound basis in the challenging area of the mechanics of unsaturated geomaterials. The objective is to supply the reader with an exhaustive overview starting from the basics and covering the most recent theories and applications (i.e. natural disasters, nuclear waste disposal, oil and agriculture productions). The presentation of the fundamental concepts is based on an interdisciplinary approach, in the areas of soil, rock and cement-based material mechanics.
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