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# Full title: Finite Elements in Geotechnical Engineering
# Authors: Naylor DJ, Pande GN, Simpson B and Tabb R
# Publisher: Pineridge Press; 2nd edition (1984)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 09066 74115
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Advances in Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Water Waves (Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering)
Author: Qingwei Ma | Size: 21.7 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company | Year: 2010-04-15 | pages: 700 | ISBN: 9812836497
Most of the Earth's surface is covered by water. Many aspects of our everyday lives and activities may be affected by water waves in some way. Sometimes, the waves can cause disaster. One of the examples was the tsunami that occurred in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004. This indicates how important it is for us to fully understand water waves, in particular the very large ones. One way to do so is to perform numerical simulation based on the nonlinear theory.
Considerable research advances have been made in this area over the past decade by developing various numerical methods and applying them to emerging problems; however, until now there has been no comprehensive book to reflect these advances. This unique volume aims to bridge this gap. This book contains 18 self-contained chapters written by more than 50 authors from 12 different countries, many of whom are world-leading experts in the field. Each chapter is based mainly on the pioneering work of the authors and their research teams over the past decades. The chapters altogether deal with almost all numerical methods that have been employed so far to simulate nonlinear water waves and cover many important and very interesting applications, such as overturning waves, breaking waves, waves generated by landslides, freak waves, solitary waves, tsunamis, sloshing waves, interaction of extreme waves with beaches, interaction with fixed structures, and interaction with free-response floating structures. Therefore, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research and key achievements in numerical modeling of nonlinear water waves, and serves as a unique reference for postgraduates, researchers and senior engineers working in industry.
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China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth has propelled a construction boom unlike anything the world has ever seen, radically transforming both city and countryside in its wake. The speed and scale of China's urban revolution challenges nearly all our expectations about architecture, urbanism and city planning. China's ambition to be a major player on the global stage is written on the skylines of every major city. This is a nation on the rise, and it is building for the record books.
China is now home to some of the world's tallest skyscrapers and biggest shopping malls; the longest bridges and largest airport; the most expansive theme parks and gated communities and even the world's largest skateboard park. And by 2020 China's national network of expressways will exceed in length even the American interstate highway system. China's construction industry, employing a workforce equal to the population of California, has been erecting billions of square feet of housing and office space every year. But such extensive development has also meant demolition on a scale unprecedented in the peacetime history of the world. Nearly all of Beijing's centuries-old cityscape has been bulldozed in recent years, and redevelopment in Shanghai has displaced more families than 30 years of urban renewal in the United States. China's cities are also rapidly sprawling across the landscape, churning precious farmland into a landscape of superblock housing estates and single-family subdivisions laced with highways and big-box malls. In a mere generation, China's cities have undergone a metamorphosis that took 150 years to complete in the United States.
The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World sheds light on this extraordinary chapter in world urban history. The book surveys the driving forces behind the great Chinese building boom, traces the historical precedents and global flows of ideas and information that are fusing to create a bold new Chinese cityscape, and considers the social and environmental impacts of China's urban future.
The Concrete Dragon provides a critical overview of contemporary Chinese urbanization in light of both China's past as well as earlier episodes of rapid urban development elsewhere in the world-especially that of the United States, a nation that itself once set global records for the speed and scale of its urban ambitions.
The Concrete Dragon provides a critical overview of contemporary Chinese urbanization in light of both China's past as well as earlier episodes of rapid urban development elsewhere in the world especially that of the United States, a nation that itself once set global records for the speed and scale of its urban ambitions. -- Places Journal, May 2008
If you want to better understand the role China will play in the future, you might want to start with The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What It Means for the World by Thomas J. Campanella. -- Worldchanging.net, July 30, 2008
Just in time for the Beijing Olympics, Thomas J. Campanella tackels what he calles 'the greatest building boom in human history': the creation of whole new cities throughout China, where superhighways, theme parks, and engineering projects light up the night sky. Campanella is an able guide to the dusty haze of China's ever-growing construction sites. -- Dwell, August 1, 2008
One of the most attention-grabbing and thought-provoking books on China I have read in a long time. -- David Frum's National Review, May 11, 2008
a powerful overview of China's huge building boom and its social and environmental consequences. -- The Washington Post, June 22, 2008
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These Proceedings embrace many of the world’s petroleum provinces in a two-volume set. There are sections on Europe, which still provides the heart of the Proceedings; Russia, the former Soviet Union and Circum-Arctic; North Africa and the Middle East; Passive Margins; and Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources.
Contents VOLUME 1
The Technical and Editorial Committee
Preface
Global petroleum systems in space and time
The GeoControversies debates
Virtual fieldtrips for petroleum geoscientists
Colin Oakman core workshop
Session: Europe
Europe overview
Exploration
North Sea hydrocarbon systems: some aspects of our evolving insights into a classic hydrocarbon province
The search for a Carboniferous petroleum system beneath the Central North Sea
Channel structures formed by contour currents and fluid expulsion: significance for Late Neogene development of the central North Sea basin
Source rock quality and maturity and oil types in the NW Danish Central Graben: implications for petroleum prospectivity evaluation in an Upper Jurassic sandstone play area
From thrust-and-fold belt to foreland: hydrocarbon occurrences in Italy
Upper Jurassic reservoir sandstones in the Danish Central Graben: new insights on distribution and depositional environments
Architecture of an Upper Jurassic barrier island sandstone reservoir, Danish Central Graben: implications of a Holocene–Recent analogue from the Wadden Sea
Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the Hugin Formation, Quadrant 15, Norwegian sector, South Viking Graben
Reappraisal of the sequence stratigraphy of the Humber Group of the UK Central Graben
The Huntington discoveries: efficient exploration in the UK Central North Sea
The Jasmine discovery, Central North Sea, UKCS
Prospectivity of the T38 sequence in the Northern Judd Basin
Can stratigraphic plays change the petroleum exploration outlook of the Netherlands?
Field Development and Production
Laggan; a mature understanding of an undeveloped discovery, more than 20 years old
Managing the start-up of a fractured oil reservoir: development of the Clair field, West of Shetland
Overcoming multiple uncertainties in a challenging gas development: Chiswick Field UK SNS
The Ensign enigma: improving well deliverability in a tight gas reservoir
Maximizing production and reserves from offshore heavy oil fields using seismic and drilling technology: Alba and Captain Fields, UKNS
Locating the remaining oil in the Nelson Field
The Buzzard Field: anatomy of the reservoir from appraisal to production
The Scott Field: revitalization of a mature field
Predicting production behaviour from deep HPHT Triassic reservoirs and the impact of sedimentary architecture on recovery
Sedimentology and unexpected pressure decline: the HP/HT Kristin Field
An old field in a new landscape: the renaissance of Donan
Techniques in Exploration and Exploitation
A road map for the identification and recovery of by-passed pay
Tilting oil–water contact in the chalk of Tyra Field as interpreted from capillary pressure data
A holostratigraphic approach to the chalk of the North Sea Eldfisk Field, Norway
Role of the Chalk in development of deep overpressure in the Central North Sea
Investigating fault-sealing potential through fault relative seismic volume analysis
4D acquisition and processing: a North Sea case study on the relative contributions to improved 4D repeatability
Applying time-lapse seismic methods to reservoir management and field development planning at South Arne, Danish North Sea
3D seismic mapping and porosity variation of intra-chalk units in the southern Danish North Sea
Seismic imaging of variable water layer sound speed in Rockall Trough, NE Atlantic and implications for seismic surveying in deep water
New aeromagnetic and gravity compilations from Norway and adjacent areas: methods and applications
VOLUME 2
Session: Russia, Former Soviet Union and the Circum-Arctic
Russia, FSU and the Circum-Arctic: ‘the final frontier’
Tectonic history and petroleum geology of the Russian Arctic Shelves: an overview
Assessment of undiscovered petroleum resources of the north and east margins of the Siberian craton north of the Arctic Circle
Synchronous exhumation events around the Arctic including examples from Barents Sea and Alaska North Slope
Offset and curvature of the Novaya Zemlya fold-and-thrust belt, Arctic Russia
Charging the giant gas fields of the NW Siberia basin
Session: North Africa and Middle East
Middle East and North Africa: overview
From Neoproterozoic to Early Cenozoic: exploring the potential of older and deeper hydrocarbon plays across North Africa and the Middle East
Palaeohighs: their influence on the North African Palaeozoic petroleum systems
Stratigraphic trapping potential in the Carboniferous of North Africa: developing new play concepts based on integrated outcrop sedimentology and regional sequence stratigraphy (Morocco, Algeria, Libya)
Integrated petroleum systems and play fairway analysis in a complex Palaeozoic basin: Ghadames–Illizi Basin, North Africa
Biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and thermal maturity of the A1-NC198 exploration well in the Kufra Basin, SE Libya
Exploring subtle exploration plays in the Gulf of Suez
The hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Egyptian North Red Sea basin
A regional overview of the exploration potential of the Middle East: a case study in the application of play fairway risk mapping techniques
Appraisal and development of the Taq Taq field, Kurdistan region, Iraq
Sedimentology, geochemistry and hydrocarbon potential of the Late Cretaceous Shiranish Formation in the Euphrates Graben (Syria)
Session: Passive Margins
Passive margins: overview
Constraints on volcanism, igneous intrusion and stretching on the Rockall–Faroe continental margin
Properties and distribution of lower crustal bodies on the mid-Norwegian margin
The breakup of the South Atlantic Ocean: formation of failed spreading axes and blocks of thinned continental crust in the Santos Basin, Brazil and its consequences for petroleum system development
Structural architecture and nature of the continent–ocean transitional domain at the Camamu and Almada Basins (NE Brazil) within a conjugate margin setting
New compilation of top basement and basement thickness for the Norwegian continental shelf reveals the segmentation of the passive margin system
Some emerging concepts in salt tectonics in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: intrusive plumes, canopy-margin thrusts, minibasin triggers and allochthonous fragments
Source-to-sink systems on passive margins: theory and practice with an example from the Norwegian continental margin
An integrated study of Permo-Triassic basins along the North Atlantic passive margin: implication for future exploration
Sedimentology, sandstone provenance and palaeodrainage on the eastern Rockall Basin margin: evidence from the Pb isotopic composition of detrital K-feldspar
Cretaceous revisited: exploring the syn-rift play of the Faroe–Shetland Basin
Timing, controls and consequences of compression in the Rockall–Faroe area of the NE Atlantic Margin
Episodic uplift and exhumation along North Atlantic passive margins: implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity
New methods of improving seismic data to aid understanding of passive margin evolution: a series of case histories from offshore west of Ireland
WATS it take to image an oil field subsalt offshore Angola?
Sub-basalt hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Rockall, Faroe–Shetland and Møre basins, NE Atlantic
Intra-basalt units and base of the volcanic succession east of the Faroe Islands exemplified by interpretation of offshore 3D seismic data
Exploring for gas: the future for Angola
Session: Unconventional Hydrocarbons Resources
Unconventional oil and gas resources and the geological storage of carbon dioxide: overview
Bulk composition and phase behaviour of petroleum sourced by the Bakken Formation of the Williston Basin
Shale gas in Europe: a regional overview and current research activities
UK data and analysis for shale gas prospectivity
The Western Canada Foreland Basin: a basin-centred gas system
Tight gas exploration in the Pannonian Basin
Natural fractures in some US shales and their importance for gas production
Athabasca oil sands: reservoir characterization and its impact on thermal and mining opportunities
Resource potential of gas hydrates: recent contributions from international research and development projects
King coal: restoring the monarchy by underground gasification coupled to CCS
Geological storage of carbon dioxide: an emerging opportunity
History-matching flow simulations and time-lapse seismic data from the Sleipner CO2 plume
Differences between flow of injected CO2 and hydrocarbon migration
Preparing for a carbon constrained world; overview of the United States regional carbon sequestration partnerships programme and its Southwest Regional Partnership
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This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach and instead gives us an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recent avant-garde period. Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient Egypt to the present day.
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Author: ISO | Size: 1,31 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: ISO | Year: 2005 | pages: 60
Ergonomics of the thermal
environment — Analytical determination
and interpretation of thermal comfort
using calculation of the PMV and PPD
indices and local thermal comfort criteria
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Gravity load designed (GLD) reinforced concrete (RC) buildings represent a common type of construction in the Mid-America Region. These buildings have limited lateral resistance and are susceptible to story mechanisms during earthquake loading. Fragility estimates are developed to assess the seismic vulnerability of GLD RC buildings in the Mid-America Region. Fragility is defined as the conditional probability of reaching or exceeding a performance level for a given earthquake intensity measure. Five sample buildings of various story heights (1, 2, 3, 6, and 10 stories) are used to represent generic RC frame buildings of 1 to 10 stories tall. A Bayesian methodology is used to develop probabilistic demand models to predict the maximum inter story drift given the spectral acceleration at the fundamental period of the building. The unknown parameters of the demand models are estimated using the simulated response data obtained from nonlinear time history analyses of the structural models for a suite of synthetic ground motions, developed for Memphis, Tennessee. Seismic structural capacity values are selected corresponding to the performance levels or damage states as specified in FEMA-356 and as computed by nonlinear pushover analyses.
For the sample buildings, fragility estimates are developed using the predicted drift demands and structural capacity values. Confidence bounds are developed to represent the epistemic uncertainty inherent in the fragility estimates. In addition, bivariate fragility estimates, formulated as a function of spectral acceleration and the fundamental building period, are developed from the fragility estimates of the individual buildings. The bivariate fragilities can be used to quantify the seismic vulnerability of GLD RC frame buildings of 1 to 10 stories. Using the Bayesian approach, a framework is developed to update the analytical fragility estimates using observed damage data or experimental test data. As an illustration of the updating framework, the analytical bivariate fragility estimates for the sample buildings in the Mid-America Region are updated using the damage data obtained from 1994 Northridge, California earthquake.
Furthermore, to investigate and demonstrate the increase in seismic performance of the GLD RC frame buildings, the columns of the 2 and 3 story buildings are retrofitted by column strengthening. Fragility estimates developed for the retrofitted buildings show the effectiveness of the retrofit technique by the improved seismic performance of GLD RC frame buildings.
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