Author: Cyril M. Harris | Size: 24.8 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: American Society of Plumbing Engineers | Year: 1998 | pages: 513 | ISBN: 978-1-891255-04-5
Here is a wealth of plumbing essentials for engineers, architects and plumbing professionals. Each chapter is written by an expert on the specific subject at hand. All aspects of plumbing engineering and design are covered - from the basics of water quality, treatment, supply, distribution and pressure - to the more sophisticated advances in earthquake protection and cross-connection control. More than nineteen chapters cover such important topics as piping insulation, water pumps, testing water systems, protecting water supply systems, fire sprinklers and storm water drainage systems.
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The theory of elasticity developed as a science due to the necessity of having theoretical methods for calculating the strength of parts of structures and machines. At present the theory of elasticity is a branch of mathematical physics that must be at the finger tips both of engineers and scientists studying the strength of structures and machines. The book Theory of Elasticity is a textbook for students of higher technical schools of the Soviet Union. It contains matter on the theory of stresses, the geometrical theory of strain, the torsion of prismatic bars and the bending of plates. It sets forth the theoretical fundamentals of the solution of elasticity problems in terms of displacement and stresses and shows the general methods of solving problems in the theory of elasticity. The book considers plane problems in Cartesian and in polar coordinates. In conclusion the author deals with the variational methods of elasticity.
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Life-Cycle and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructure Systems
Author: Alfred Strauss, Dan Frangopol, Konrad Bergmeister | Size: 8.26 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: CRC Press | Year: 2013 | pages: 516 | ISBN: 978-0-203-10336-4
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON LIFE-CYCLE CIVIL
ENGINEERING, HOFBURG PALACE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA, 3–6 OCTOBER 2012
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Provides up-to-date overview of the field of life-cycle and sustainability in civil engineering
Makes significant contributions to the decision-making process for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society
Addresses all major aspects of life-cycle civil engineering
A valuable source of information for anyone interested in life-cycle and sustainability of civil infrastructure systems
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Life-Cycle and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructure Systems contains the lectures and papers presented at the Third International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2012) held in one of Vienna’s most famous venues, the Hofburg Palace, October 3rd-6th, 2012. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts (516 pp) and a DVD-ROM with 344 full papers (2515 pp) presented at IALCCE 2012, including the Fazlur R. Khan Lecture, 10 Keynote Lectures, and 333 Technical Papers from 52 countries.
All major aspects of life-cycle civil engineering are addressed, including aging of structures, deterioration modeling, durable materials, earthquake and accidental loadings, sustainability, fatigue and damage, structure-environment interaction, design for durability, failure analysis and risk prevention, lifetime structural optimization, long-term performance analysis, performance-based design, service life prediction, time-variant reliability, uncertainty modeling, damage identification, field testing, health monitoring, inspection and evaluation, maintenance strategies, rehabilitation techniques, strengthening and repair, structural integrity, decisionmaking processes, human factors in life-cycle engineering, life-cycle cost models, project management, lifetime risk analysis and optimization, whole life costing, artificial intelligence methods, bridges and viaducts, high rise buildings, offshore structures, precast systems, runway and highway pavements, tunnels and underground structures.
This volume provides both an up-to-date overview of the field of life-cycle and
sustainability in civil engineering and significant contributions to the decisionmaking
process for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. The aim of the editors is to provide a valuable source of information for anyone interested in life-cycle and
sustainability of civil infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and
practitioners from all areas of engineering and industry.
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Despite significant advances in the understanding of earthquake generation processes and derivation of underlying physical laws, controversy remains regarding the constitutive law for earthquake ruptures and how it should be formulated. Laboratory experiments are necessary to obtain high-resolution measurements that allow the physical nature of shear rupture processes to be deduced, and to resolve the controversy. This important book provides a deeper understanding of earthquake processes from nucleation to their dynamic propagation. Its key focus is a deductive approach based on laboratory-derived physical laws and formulae, such as a unifying constitutive law, a constitutive scaling law, and a physical model of shear rupture nucleation. Topics covered include: the fundamentals of rock failure physics, earthquake generation processes, physical scale dependence, and large-earthquake generation cycles. Designed for researchers and professionals in earthquake seismology, rock failure physics, geology and earthquake engineering, it is also a valuable reference for graduate students.
Unique deductive approach: enables readers to engage with the physics of earthquakes as a truly quantitative science
Demonstrates the heterogeneity of real faults in the Earth's crust, making readers aware of the reality of seismogenic zone properties, leading in turn to rational formulation of the law governing earthquake ruptures
First book to show the constitutive law formulated as a unifying law governing both frictional slip failure and shear fracture, providing a new perspective on the significance of a unifying constitutive law
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Article/eBook Full Name: On the strength of reinforced concrete discs
Author(s): M. P. Nielsen
Publish Date: 1971
Published By: Acta polytechnica scandinavica. Civil engineering and building construction series no.70
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Article/eBook Full Name: Structural concrete: cracked membrane model
Author(s): KAUFMANN, W., MARTI, P.
Publish Date: 1998
Published By: J. Struc. Engrg., ASCE, 124 (12), pp. 1467-1475.
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Article/eBook Full Name: Analysis and design of structural concrete elements subjected to in- plane forces
Author(s): KAUFMANN, W.
Publish Date: 2002
Published By: Structural Concrete, 2002(3), pp. 155-158.
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Entropy Theory in Hydraulic Engineering: An Introduction
Author: Vijay P. Singh | Size: 21 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | Year: 2014 | Pages: 758 | ISBN: 9780784412725, 9780784478257
Entropy Theory in Hydraulic Engineering: An Introduction is the first book to explain the basic concepts of entropy theory from a hydraulic perspective and demonstrate the theory's application in solving practical engineering problems. In the hydraulic context, entropy is valuable as a way of measuring uncertainty or surprise—or even disorder or chaos—as a type of information. As hydraulic systems become more complex, entropy theory enables hydraulic engineers to quantify uncertainty, determine risk and reliability, estimate parameters, model processes, and design more robust and dependable water hydraulic systems.
Drawing on many years of experience applying and teaching hydraulics, Vijay Singh provides a clear introduction to the fundamentals of entropy theory as it has evolved over the past 40 years. He explores its application in five areas important to hydraulic engineers: velocity distributions, sediment concentration and discharge, hydraulic geometry, channel design, and water distribution systems. More than 170 solved examples illustrate these applications, and each chapter concludes with problem sets and plentiful references.
By illustrating the power, usefulness, and versatility of entropy theory, this book puts a valuable tool in the hands of practitioners. Graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and their professors will benefit from the lucid explanation of a complex theory and its applications.
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I am looking for the standard BS EN 50341-1:2012 .Overhead electrical lines exceeding AC 1 kV. General requirements. Common specifications
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