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Author: J. Rostron, R. Hardy-Pickering, L. Tatham, L. Wright | Size: 1.41 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: Routledge | Year: 2001 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0419261001, 0419261109
This is a dictionary which provides a clear and concise explanation of terms used in land, property and construction law and management. The four key areas of coverage are: planning/construction law, land law, equity/trusts and finance and administration. It will be a useful reference for property and building professionals and a personal purchase for students of property and construction law on building, construction management, estate management and law courses.
Jack Rostron is an experienced author and editor whose 1997 Spon title Sick Building Syndrome has been well received and widely reviewed. His co-authors contribute the necessary specialist knowledge from their respective fields of teaching and legal practice.
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The numerical optimization of practical applications has been an issue of major importance for the last 10 years. It allows us to explore reliable non-trivial configurations, differing widely from all known solutions. The purpose of this book is to introduce the state-of-the-art concerning this issue and many complementary applications are presented.
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Author: Joseph B. Kadane | Size: 2.8 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC | Year: 2011 | pages: 499 | ISBN: 9781439861615
An accessible, comprehensive guide to the theory of Bayesian statistics, Principles of Uncertainty presents the subjective Bayesian approach, which has played a pivotal role in game theory, economics, and the recent boom in Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Both rigorous and friendly ...
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Author: P. Lascaux | Size: 940 KB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Year: 1976 | pages: 162 | ISBN: B000UG5PH2
The solution of time dependent equations of hydrodynamics is a subject of great importance. This book is mainly concentrated on the study of the stability of the various schemes. We have considered only the stability for linearized problems.
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Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2012
Series: Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series, Vol. 26
Topics on the Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 1, Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2012, the first volume of six from the Conference, brings together 45 contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on:
Human Induced Vibrations
Bridge Dynamics
Operational Modal Analysis
Experimental Techniques and Modeling for Civil Structures
System Identification for Civil Structures
Method and Technologies for Bridge Monitoring
Damage Detection for Civil Structures
Structural Modeling
Vibration Control Method and Approaches for Civil Structures
Modal Testing of Civil Structures
Content Level » Research
Keywords » Damage Detection and Modeling - Dynamics of Civil Structures - IMAC - Shock and Vibration - Society of Experimental Mechanics - Structural Health Modeling - Structural Reliability
Related subjects » Civil Engineering - Mechanical Engineering - Mechanics
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Contains practical, easy-to-read explanations regarding the issues and problems encountered in designing for these natural disasters. This edition includes important code updates from the 1994 Uniform Building Code as well as more detailed information on engineering computations and lateral force construction. Increased attention is paid to the relationship between building design and seismic response. Features a discussion of the latest CAD products for lateral design work. Serves as a major reference for anyone preparing for seismic and wind design test sections of State Board Examinations (for licensing purposes).
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Contains practical, easy-to-read explanations regarding the issues and problems encountered in designing for these natural disasters. This edition includes important code updates from the 1994 Uniform Building Code as well as more detailed information on engineering computations and lateral force construction. Increased attention is paid to the relationship between building design and seismic response. Features a discussion of the latest CAD products for lateral design work. Serves as a major reference for anyone preparing for seismic and wind design test sections of State Board Examinations (for licensing purposes).
From the Back Cover
"I would highly recommend the inclusion of this text in the office libraries of our member companies and those involved in the construction arena."--C. R. Wagus, Technical Director American Architectural Manufacturers Association.
This updated edition of Simplified Building Design for Wind and Earthquake Forces brings attention to the serious need for building design and construction that can withstand extreme forces of nature. It presents a practical introduction to the fundamentals and explores problems encountered in designing for these natural disasters.
Offers practical, easy-to-read explanations of design and construction practices
* Includes information from the Uniform Building Code
* Incorporates lessons learned from the recent Northridge earthquake
* Helps candidates prepare for the seismic and wind design test sections of state board licensing examinations
Featuring a simplified, accessible style with numerous example problems and solutions, as well as references and practical aids for home study, this is an excellent handbook for working architects, general engineers, and professionals in related fields. It is also a first-rate primer for architecture students. He is Editor of the Parker/Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides. He has practiced as an architect in California and Illinois, and as a structural engineer in Illinois. He recently retired as professor of architecture at the University of Southern California. He is a practicing structural engineer who teaches part-time at the University of Southern California.
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This book has been ripped from GoogleBooks and total of 66 pages are missing.
Missing pages are:
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fast guide to solving common design problems in building foundations, now in a new edition. Includes new material on settlements, soil modification, pole foundations, braced excavations, waterfront foundations, and slope stabilization. Written for those without full training as structural or design engineers, covering all the basics, including soil mechanics, design of common foundation elements, and the relations between building and foundation design, all supported by extensive illustrations. Mathematics is kept to a minimum, being generally restricted to simple algebra, plane geometry, and plane trigonometry.
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From the Back Cover
Maximize Efficiency, Output, and Quality with RCM
RCM (Reliability-Centered Maintenance) can save millions of dollars in repair and equipment failure costs -- but it can be difficult to implement without proper guidance. Written by an expert with more than thirty years' experience, this resource offers innovative approaches and practical advice to simplify and facilitate the introduction and management of the RCM process.
Measurable, real-world, benefits:
Maximize maintenance operations
Improve accuracy and organization of reliability data
Decrease maintenance costs
Enhance manufacturing operations
Reduce work order backlog
With this guide, readers will be able to implement a maintenance strategy that will maximize their plant and equipment life-cycle while increasing safety, quality, and output. Readers will find clear, real-world coverage of essential RCM topics such as:
Single vs. multiple failure analysis
Cost considerations
Hidden failures
Critical components
Run-to-failure
An explanation of redundant, standby, and backup functions
Develop an effective, dollar-saving maintenance strategy: Why RCM Has Been So Difficult to Implement; RCM: The Next Plateau – Fundamental RCM; Classical RCM Implementation Made Simple; The Implementation Process; Typical Examples of "Golden Nuggets"; A RCM Living Program.
About the Author
Neil Bloom received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Miami, where he also minored in economics. He has a unique depth of experience as a practitioner of RCM and preventive maintenance programs having worked in close association for over 30 years with the two leading-edge federal agencies most responsible for reliability and safety, namely the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). His RCM experience in commercial aviation and nuclear power has been in both Engineering and Maintenance, where the RCM process meets its most formidable challenges for successful implementation. RCM can be a powerful reliability tool but unfortunately, and unjustly, it has become what is greatly perceived as a complex, difficult, and costly undertaking. As a result, the author has introduced innovative concepts allowing the classical RCM process to reach a new plateau for the average layperson, thusly making the entire process less daunting, more straightforward and simpler. He explains what can and what cannot be done - what works and what doesn’t work - he understands where the pitfalls are and how to avoid them. Mr. Bloom has been a guest speaker on RCM at national and international conferences including the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Nuclear Society (ANS), the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) which is operated by the University of Chicago for the Department of Energy (DOE), the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria.
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Due to the presence of sharp stress gradients, traditional finite element analysis using uniform meshes for the solution of shear lag problems for thin-walled structures is inefficient and will result in inaccurate values of effective breadth ratio. By using the adaptive finite element analysis, it is possible to obtain results with predetermined accuracy with a minimum amount of computational cost. An adaptive finite element analysis procedure is used to deal with the problem of shear lag effects of plated structures with arbitrary dimensions and geometry. This study consists of two parts. In Part 1 of the study, shear lag effects in simple plated structures, such as straight rectangular, single-cell box girders are studied. In Part 2 of the study, the adaptive refinement procedure will be extended to the shear lag analysis of complex plated structures such as core walls with openings, multi-cell box girders and box girders with curve flanges.
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The adaptivefiniteelementanalysis procedure proposed in Part 1 of this study is employed to solve shear lag problems for complex plated structures with more general and complex geometries, including core walls with openings, multi-cell box girders and box girders with curved flanges. By using the adaptivefiniteelementmethod, parametric studies were carried out to investigate the influence of some key geometrical parameters on the shear lag effect for these types of structure. In addition, it is found that the adaptivefiniteelementmethod is a convenient tool for the shear laganalysis of structures with complicated geometry and multiple loading conditions, and could be used in day-to-day analyses.
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A new method for the determination of membrane forces acting on box girder bridges considering shear lag effect is proposed in this paper. A box girder is divided into four thin plate elements: top plate, bottom plate, cantilever and web. Using the equilibrium conditions of the plates, the membrane force equation for each plate element is established. The analytical formulas for calculating the membrane normal, transverse and shear forces of each plate element considering shear lag effect are derived. The proposed method is easy to implement in the design of thin-walled box girders considering shear lag effect.
Through examples using the high order finite strip element method and the experiment, the results obtained by the proposed method are examined and the accuracy of the proposed method is verified. The discussions on the shear lag effect on the membrane forces acting on cantilever box girders are given considering the variations of span to width ratio, width to height ratio and various loading conditions.
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