Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low-cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design.
This requires engineers to search for optimal and robust design options to address design problems that are commonly large in scale and highly nonlinear, making finding solutions challenging. In the past two decades, metaheuristic algorithms have shown promising power, efficiency and versatility in solving these difficult optimization problems.
This book examines the latest developments of metaheuristics and their applications in structural engineering, construction engineering and earthquake engineering, offering practical case studies as examples to demonstrate real-world applications. Topics cover a range of areas within engineering, including big bang-big crunch approach, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, harmony search, swarm intelligence and some other metaheuristic methods. Case studies include structural identification, vibration analysis and control, topology optimization, transport infrastructure design, design of reinforced concrete, performance-based design of structures and smart pavement management. With its wide range of everyday problems and solutions, Metaheursitic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures can serve as a supplementary text for design courses and computation in engineering as well as a reference for researchers and engineers in metaheuristics, optimization in civil engineering and computational intelligence.
• Review of the latest development of metaheuristics in engineering.
• Detailed algorithm descriptions with focus on practical implementation.
• Uses practical case studies as examples and applications.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: .or their hold, to prevent the generation of such action. Indeed it does not appear but that a system of vertical timber bracing between the sills and curbs of the roadway and the main chains, commencing by an abuttal on the podium of the piers or suspension towers, may be introduced in connexion with transverse bracing from main chain to main chain in the deep parts, or where the head-way would not be affected by it, with economy and advantage. Such a system as that here suggested would adapt itself readily and without derangement to the expansion and contraction of the chains and rods, and tend materially to stiffen the road-way, whilst it would check any approach to the undulations, which, without a system of vertical bracing, are found to follow the vibration of the road-way in tempests. Vertical bracing under the road-way occupies head-way below, or renders it necessary to raise the bridge so much higher to preserve it, without assisting in any degree to steady the chains and give them the aid of the road-way in resisting impulses to motion.
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Pelikan Software priPrinter Professional v5.6.0.2060 ML
Size: 10.0 MB
priPrinter is a printer driver that allows you to manipulate printer output before it is printed. priPrinter is installed and selected in the same way as other printer drivers. After printing it automatically displays print preview where you can preview your printings, change layout, reposition pages, crop them and many more. After that you print it to the real printer or save your document for later using. With priPrinter you always will be sure how your printings will look. You may measure items on the paper, define margins and pages layout. There is no need to print again and again trying to achieve desired placement.
Features:
• Provides every feature you need to make your print easy and simple.
• Preview your printing in many ways. Explore content of your jobs.
• Print to images. You may save your prints to various image formats.
• Booklet and posters.
• Duplex printing.
• Measurements.
• Print themes
• Loupe tool.
• Margins and gutters. Change margins and gutters with mouse click and drag.
• Crop and Cut. Remove blank space and redundant information.
• Undo/Redo
• Small and fast.
• Save jobs to file.
• Tray control
change log v5.6.0.2060 (13 June 2013 )
• Now priPrinter is able to restore images divided into bands by print application. It should help to avoid white lines in print preview and output images. Related to Adobe Lightroom and other applications.
• Added an ability to revert changes made in print preview pane: printer, duplex mode, ink saving settings. This option is in pane properties dialog.
• priPrinter Server in offline mode is able to display some job information: for instance computer and user name.
• Print in bitmap mode is very much optimized. As result spooler queue/files must be smaller. Important for huge documents printing. Related to ink saving mode, contrast/brightness controls.
• Text in main print button and in few items in print preview pane should be displayed with correct font now - related to Arabic, Persian, Korean and Japan localizations.
• New script functions are added (PRO).
• Improved installer for priPrinter Server. Now it is possible to skip driver installation if compatible driver is installed already (SERVER).
• Minor improvement in patterns rendering.
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Ideal for those who have been commissioned, or are in competition, who want to learn about the very latest developments and trends in the area. New introductions to each section focus the remit of the book and make it a complete and comprehensive guide to the topic.
* Learn about the current and future developments in the field from the authority on portable architecture
* Understand the technology behind a wide range high profile projects from the Liebeskind exhibition space in London to the NASA inflatable airlock
* Highly illustrated to give full coverage of all the technical aspects in detail
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Book is in form of scanned images in Jepg format (Not complete book)
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Analysis and design of structures - A practical guide to modeling
Published by Bentley.
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Author: Julio F. Davalos, An Chen, and Pizhong Qiao | Size: 12.48 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: CRC Press | Year: 2013 | pages: 333 | ISBN: 9781439877616
Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) decks have been increasingly used for new construction and rehabilitation projects worldwide. The benefits of using FRP bridge decks, such as durability, light weight, high strength, reduced maintenance costs, and rapid installation, outweigh their initial in-place material costs when implemented in highway bridge projects. FRP Deck and Steel Girder Bridge Systems: Analysis and Design compiles the necessary information to facilitate the development of the standards and guidelines needed to promote further adoption of composite sandwich panels in construction. It also, for the first time, proposes a complete set of design guidelines.
Providing both experimental investigations and theoretical analyses, this book covers three complementary parts: FRP decks, shear connectors between the deck and steel girders, and the behavior of bridge systems. The text presents stiffness and strength evaluations for FRP deck panels and FRP deck-girder bridge systems. While the FRP deck studies focus on honeycomb FPR sandwich panels over steel girder bridge systems, they can be adapted to other sandwich configurations. Similarly, the shear connection and bridge system studies can be applied to other types of FRP decks. Chapters discuss skin effect, core configuration, facesheet laminates, out-of-plane compression and sheer, mechanical shear connectors, and FRP deck–steel girder bridge systems.
Based on the findings described in the text, the authors propose design guidelines and present design examples to illustrate application of the guidelines. In the final chapter, they also provide a systematic analysis and design approach for single-span FRP deck-stringer bridges. This book presents new and improved theories and combines analytical models, numerical analyses, and experimental investigations to devise a practical analysis procedure, resulting in FRP deck design formulations.
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PRACTICAL MODELLING OF HIGH-RISE DUAL SYSTEMS WITH REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB-COLUMN FRAMES
Author: MYOUNGSU SHIN1, THOMAS H.-K. KANG2* AND JACOB S. GROSSMAN1 | Size: 0.7 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: THE STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF TALL AND SPECIAL BUILDINGS (Wiley Interscience) | Year: 2009 | pages: 22 | ISBN: -
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