The only modern guide to interpreting and writing real property descriptions for surveyors
Technical land information is no longer the exclusive domain of professional surveyors. The Internet now houses a multitude of resources that nontechnical professionals—such as attorneys and realtors—access and implement on a daily basis. However, these professionals are trained in aspects of law and commerce that do not provide the proper education and experience to interpret and evaluate their land boundary information discoveries correctly. As a result, their analysis is often erroneous and the data misapplied—ultimately leading to confusion and costly litigation.
Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions attempts to bridge the ever-widening gap between the users of land boundary information and the land surveyors who produce it. An expert team of authors integrates the historic and legal background of real property interests with fundamental concepts of the surveying profession in a manner accessible for average readers. These provide the basics for both properly comprehending older descriptions and competently constructing complete and modern real property descriptions that foster better communication. Highlights in this book include:
An in-depth exploration of historic descriptions and how to read them
Coverage of the widely accepted ALTA/ACSM Land Boundary Survey standards and associated property descriptions
A diverse collection of examples and practice scenarios
An overview of the latest issues related to the use of GPS and GIS
Written in easy-to-understand language, this practical resource assists nontechnical professionals in understanding exactly what a surveyor does and does not do, and serves as a valuable tool for obtaining the most satisfactory, accurate, and complete real property descriptions.
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As mankind continues to push back the boundaries and begins to explore other worlds and the ocean depths, a thorough understanding of how structures behave when subjected to extremes in temperature, pressure, and high loading rates will be essential. This symposium provided the perfect forum for presenting research into structures subjected to such extreme loads. There were a large number of papers presented under topics of impact, blast and shock loading, indicating a strong research interest in high rates of loading. Similarly new topics have been added to the traditional symposium list such as fire loading, earthquake loading, and fatigue and connection failures. It is clear now that fundamental knowledge of plastic deformation of structures to various extreme loads is coming of age. Each full paper was peer reviewed by at least two experts in the field.
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Author: Charles Walker, Adrian Smith | Size: 7.3 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing | Year: 1995 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0727720538, 9780727720535
The worldwide championing of the privatization concept has led many governments to look for new ways of identifying and funding their infrastructure needs. The Build Operate/Own Transfer arrangement for infrastructure procurement has subsequently evolved, which, it is said, provides a 'win-win' scenario for all involved.
Privatized infrastructure: The BOT approach explains how, where and why the BOT concept evolved and to highlight the possible pitfalls as well as the potential windfalls.
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SCI P363 Steel building design - design data - blue book (amended may 2011)
Author: The Steel Construction Institute | Size: 4.97 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: The Steel Construction Institute | Year: 2011 | pages: 591 | ISBN: 978-1-85942-186-4
This publication presents design data derived in accordance with the following Parts of Eurocode 3
and their National Annexes:
BS EN 1993-1-1:2005: Design of steel structures. Part 1-1: General rules and rules for
buildings.
BS EN 1993-1-5:2006: Design of steel structures. Part 1-5: Plated structural elements.
BS EN 1993-1-8:2005: Design of steel structures. Part 1-8: Design of joints.
Where these Parts do not give all the necessary expressions for the evaluation of data, reference is
made to other published sources.
The resistances in this publication have been calculated using the partial factors for resistance
given in the UK National Annexes for the Eurocodes (NA to BS EN 1993-1-1:2005 as published in
December 2008, NA to BS EN 1993-1-5:2006 aspublished in May 2008 and NA to BS EN 1993-1-8:2005 as published in November 2008). The partial factors are listed in Section 5.1. The other
parameters given in the National Annex that have been used when calculating member resistances
are given in the relevant section of this publication.
The following structural sections are covered in this publication:
Universal beams, universal columns, joists, bearing piles, parallel flange channels and
structural tees cut from universal beams and universal columns to BS 4-1
Universal beams and universal columns produced by Tata Steel* but not included in BS 4-1
Asymmetric Slimflor® beams (ASB) produced by Tata Steel*
Equal and unequal angles to BS EN 10056-1
Hot-finished structural hollow sections to BS EN 10210-2
Cold-formed structural hollow sections to BS EN 10219-2
Section ranges listed cover sections that are readily available at the time of printing.
Reprint - May 2011
Several corrections have been made, including clarification in the explanatory notes. Ratios used
for the classification of tees and cold formed sections have been corrected. The only changes to
tabulated member resistances are the shear resistances of parallel flange channels. A few minor
formatting errors have been corrected in the design tables.
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Rock Mechanics: An Introduction
Author: Nagaratnam Sivakugan, Sanjay Kumar Shukla and Braja M. Das | Size: 20 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: CRC Press | Year: December 6, 2012 | pages: 254 | ISBN: 978-0415809238
Rock Mechanics: An Introduction presents the fundamental principles of rock mechanics in a clear, easy-to-comprehend manner for readers with little or no background in this field.
The text includes a brief introduction to geology and covers stereographic projections, laboratory testing, strength and deformation of rock masses, slope stability, foundations, and more. The authors—academics who have written several books in geotechnical engineering—have used their extensive teaching experience to create this accessible textbook. They present complex material in a lucid and simple way with numerical examples to illustrate the concepts, providing an introductory book that can be used as a textbook in civil and geological engineering programs and as a general reference book for professional engineers.
Soil and Rock Description in Engineering Practice enables the practitioner to record and present features of the ground that conveys a data portrait that will be of use to subsequent users of the land. As the description of soils and rocks is fundamental, the book covers variations in agronomy and geology that are worthy of note, including color, texture, density, and weatherization.
The log must record the materials and strata seen in any sample in a timely fashion, as samples tends to deteriorate quickly. This book provides an invaluable guide for both the novice and practiced engineer. It covers geological formations, classification schemes; and an approach to the description process itself that is as fundamental and thorough as possible.
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Waves and Vibrations in Soils: Earthquakes, Traffic, Shocks, Construction works
Author: Jean-François Semblat, Alain Pecker | Size: ? MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: IUSS Press - Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia | Year: January 23, 2009 - First Edition | pages: 499 | ISBN: 978-88-6198-030-3
The main scientific and engineering goal of this book is to deal simultaneously with soil dynamics/vibrations and wave propagation in soils (including seismic waves). These various fields are generally considered separately and the important links between them, both from scientific and practical points of view, are unfortunately not investigated. They are usually considered in separate disciplines such as earthquake geotechnical engineering, civil engineering, mechanics, geophysics, seismology, numerical modelling, etc. The objective of the book is to offer in a single publication an overview of soil dynamics and wave propagation in soils with emphasis on engineering applications. It starts from a wide variety of practical problems (e.g. traffic induced vibrations, dynamic compaction, vibration isolation), then deals with 1D and 2D/3D wave propagation in heterogeneous and attenuating media (with application to laboratory and in situ dynamic characterization of soils), gives an overview of various numerical methods (e.g. FEM, BEM) to simulate wave propagation (including numerical errors, radiation/absorbing conditions, etc) and finally investigates seismic wave propagation and amplification in complex geological structures (e.g. irregular topographies, alluvial deposits).
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ASM Handbook (Volume 13A): Corrosion : Fundamentals, Testing, and Protection
Author: Jr. Covino, Bernard S., Stephen D. Cramer | Size: 79 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: - | Year: 2003 | pages: 2597 | ISBN: 0871707055
SM Handbook, Vol. 13A: Corrosion: Fundamentals, Protection and Prevention
The purpose of ASM Handbook, Volume 13A: Corrosion: Fundamentals, Testing, and Protection is to help engineers and designers understand corrosion so that they can solve existing corrosion problems and prevent future ones. It should be the first book you select when researching a corrosion problem. The coverage of the volume has been completely revised to ensure that it is the most comprehensive, practical, and up-to-date resource available. Each article is indexed to other appropriate sections of the Handbook, and each provides a road map to the thousands of individual bibliographical references that were used to compile the information.
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A handy reference for use in geotechnical analysis and design
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