"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Creep, Shrinkage, and Durability Mechanics (CONCREEP-9), held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 22-25, 2013.
This collection contains 59 invited and peer-reviewed papers on the deformation under load of concrete and concrete structures. These papers dissect the physical origin of creep and shrinkage of concrete and propel this knowledge from the scale of a few atoms to full-scale engineering applications.
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Prepared by the Special Project Committee on Advanced Analysis of the Technical Committee on Structural Members of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. This report presents formal guidelines for the use of second-order inelastic analysis in the design and assessment of steel framing systems. This advanced analysis methodology focuses on the strength of the structural system as a whole, rather than the design load levels producing the first member failure. The report includes design rules, background and commentary regarding the rules, and benchmarks for columns and frames. It provides specific recommendations regarding the rigor of analysis, minimum modeling requirements, consideration of limit states, serviceability, and live load reduction, yet allows latitude for the judgment of the design engineer. The recommendations presented in this report will be particularly valuable to structural engineers, specification developers, and developers of structural analysis software.
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This book reports from the leading edge of the world’s biggest infrastructure construction projects. Megaprojects, with costs of more than US $1 billion, are being surpassed by gigaprojects with price tags higher than US $10 billion. These enormous projects are critical to meeting the growing demands of global populations, yet they present daunting obstacles for effective planning, design, construction, and delivery. Not only do the challenges of a megaproject increase exponentially with its size, but these projects can span long time frames. Risk management alone poses unprecedented problems of scale and complexity. The editors have assembled a stellar group of financiers, owners, program managers, consultants, designers, contractors, and legal counsel, all of whom have frontline experience with megaprojects and gigaprojects. In the first part, these experts share lessons learned and best practices developed as they grappled with specific difficulties posed such large-scale projects. In the second part, construction professionals describe megaprojects undertaken in the Middle East, Brazil, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America with a view to highlighting strategies that lead to success. Engineers, construction managers, planners, and risk managers will find in this volume useful tools for the effective and efficient execution of megaprojects and gigaprojects. This book is also an indispensable guide for investors, senior executives, board members, and other participants involved in these large-scale projects.
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This book presents six case studies focused on the planning, engineering, and management of major construction projects at active airports. The construction or reconstruction of runways, aprons, ramps, or terminals while an airport is open for regular operations poses complex challenges, such as access to and from airport operating areas, logistics, staging, short-term lighting and signage, airline-airport communications, and staging and planning for short-term closures of taxiways and taxi lanes. Each case study describes the requirements, objectives, challenges, methodologies, and lessons learned from a recent project, offering unique insights into how complex projects can be managed successfully. These case studies are essential reading for those involved in planning, designing, and constructing capital improvements to airport facilities, including transportation and aviation engineers, construction engineers and project managers, and managers with airport authorities.
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Front Matter
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Table of Contents
1. New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport Runway Design and Construction
2. Reconstruction of Runway 16L-34R at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
3. Rehabilitation of Runway 09-27 at George Bush Intercontinental Airport
4. The Reconstruction of Runway 13R-31L at John F. Kennedy International Airport
5. Coordination and Logistics Management: Creating CALM at Los Angeles International Airport
6. Airfield Construction at Denver International Airport: Creating the Invisible Project
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> Latest research results in order to incorporate the lifetime of materials into the concept of buildings
> Emphasis on concrete and steel constructions
Safety and reliability are important for the whole expected service duration of an engineering structure. Therefore, prognostical solutions for different building types are needed and uncertainties have to be handled. Life-cycle strategies to control future structural degradations by concepts of appropriate design have to be developed, in case including means of inspection, maintenance, and repair. Aspects of costs and sustainability also matter.
The Cooperative Research Center for Lifetime-Oriented Design Concepts (SFB 398) at Ruhr University in Bochum combines the wide range of scientific topics between structural engineering, structural and soil mechanics and material sciences regarding structural lifetime management in this present extraordinary monolithic format.
The characterization and modeling of lifetime-related external actions of multiple origin are presented in this book as well as the physical description, the modeling and the validation of material degradation. Adaptive numerical methods and simulation techniques are provided for the lifetime-oriented design concepts to forecast material and structural degradation. Stochastic aspects, mathematical optimization methods and interactions between various influences are included. Thus, a solid basis is provided for future practical use and also for standardization of structural design with respect to lifetime-prediction.
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I'm searching for a textbook that will be beneficial for writing a Laboratory based undergraduate Thesis related to Pavement. Would appreciate any recommendations.
Author: Sidney Mindess, J. Francis Young, David Darwin | Size: 34.5 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Scanner | Publisher: Prentice Hall | Year: 2003 | pages: 657 | ISBN: 0130646326, 9780130646323
This book presents a unified view of concrete behavior in light of a body of chemical and physical principles. It provides the most up-to-date information available on new concrete materials. The most up-to-date information on new concrete materials. SI units used as primary system, keeping readers current to the unit system being adopted in the United States. Latest ASTM specifications are included. Exercises at the end of each chapter. An excellent resource for professionals in this industry.
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Health Assessment of Engineered Structures has become one of the most active research areas and has attracted multi-disciplinary interest. Since available financial recourses are very limited, extending the lifespan of existing bridges, buildings and other infrastructures has become a major challenge to the engineering profession world-wide. Some of its related areas are only in their development phase. As the study of structural health assessment matures, more new areas are being identified to complement the concept.
This book covers some of the most recent developments (theoretical and experimental) and application potentials in structural health assessment. It is designed to present currently available information in an organised form to interested parties who are not experts in the subject.
Each chapter is authored by the most active scholar(s) in the area. After discussing the general concept, various currently available methods of structural health assessment (such as the use of smart sensors) are presented. Health Assessment discusses the following: sensor types, platforms and data conditioning for practical applications; wireless collection of sensor data, sensor power needs and on-site energy harvesting; and long term monitoring of structures. Uncertainty in collected data is also extensively addressed. A chapter discussing future directions in structural health assessment is also included.
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Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide - A Manual of Practice
Author: AASHTO | Size: 14 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) | Year: 2008 | pages: 220 | ISBN: 9781560514237, 9780080522043, 9780750647182
This manual provides the highway community with a state-of-the-practice analysis tool for evaluating pavement structures using mechanistic-empirical principles, using project specific traffic, climate, and materials data for estimating damage accumulation over a specified pavement service life. This manual is applicable to designs for new, reconstructed, and rehabilitated flexible, rigid, and semi-rigid pavements. Performance and distress predictions models are used to aid the pavement designer in determining the desired pavement section.
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Front Matter
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Referenced Documents and Standards
3. Significance and Use of the MEPDG
4. Terminology and Definition of Terms
5. Performance Indicator Prediction Methodologies
6. Hierarchical Input Levels - Deciding on the Input Level
7. General Project Information
8. Selecting Design Criteria and Reliability Level
9. Determining Site Conditions and Factors
10. Pavement Evaluation for Rehabilitation Design
11. Determination of Material Properties for New Paving Materials
12. Pavement Design Strategies
13. Rehabilitation Design Strategies
14. Interpretation and Analysis of the Trial Design
Appendix: Getting Started with the MEPDG
Abbreviations and Terms
Index
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The new edition of Principles of Pavement Engineering is a crucial guide for those involved in the science of pavement design. It provides an in-depth analysis of the principles underlying material behaviour, pavement design and maintenance, making it essential reading for pavement engineers and infrastructure experts who are faced with practical design issues for which transient standards are insufficient. The new edition explores different construction types and levels of cost efficiency around the world and concentrates on an understanding of the behaviour of pavement materials and of the real meaning of tests carried out on those materials. Covering soils, granular materials, hydraulically-bound materials (including concrete), and asphalt, Principles of Pavement Engineering, explains their various properties and the way in which they are affected by such matters as compaction, water content and binder content.
Principles of Pavement Engineering offers an up-to date expansion on the fundamental principles of pavement engineering, including new information on
• warm-mix and cold-mix asphalt
• design against potholes
• stress absorbing membrane interlayers
• updated information on asphalt recycling, surface treatments, pavement edge issues and parking areas and the difficult issue of maintenance, strengthening and rehabilitation design.
This second edition offers a broad and applicable coverage of the subject, making it a key reference for practising pavement engineers at all levels as well as students and graduates.
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