Electronic Books

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Digital Transformation of the Design, Construction and Management Processes of the Built Environment

This book focuses on the development of methods, interoperable and integrated ICT tools, and survey techniques for optimal ...

Drying and Wetting of Building Materials and Components / J.M.P.Q. Delgado

Discusses important topics of heat and mass transfer in particulate materials Includes a set of new developments in the science ...

Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures : From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas / Xinzheng Lu , Hong Guan

Covers a range of numerical modeling approaches, higher performance computation methods, and high fidelity visualization ...

Ecological and Health Effects of Building Materials / Junaid Ahmad Malik, Shriram Marathe

Deals with the present adverse effects of using precarious building materials on the ecology and human health. Also, the ...

Engineered Bamboo Structures / Yan Xiao

Bamboo is in the spotlight as a potential building material in the current pursuit of a CO2-neutral society, due to its rapid ...

Finite Elements in Structural Analysis : Theoretical Concepts and Modeling Procedures in Statics and Dynamics of Structures / Horst Werkle

Introduces the basic concepts of the finite element method in the static and dynamic analysis of beam, plate, shell and solid ...

Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings : Engineering Guide / International Code Council

Provides information on special topics that affect the fire safety performance of very tall buildings, their occupants and ...

Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics : Theory and Computation / Keith D. Hjelmstad

Closes the gap between traditional textbooks on structural dynamics and how structural dynamics is practiced in a world driven ...

Fundamentals of building construction: materials and methods

Building Construction has been the go-to reference for thousands of professionals and students of architecture, engineering, ...

Glass Construction Manual / Christian Schittich, Gerald Staib, Dieter Balkow, Matthias Schuler, Werner Sobek

Presents the current state of the art on planning and building with glass, from the history through the technical foundations ...

Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture

Providing computer support for tasks in civil engineering and architecture is hard. Projects can be complex, long and costly. ...

Introduction to Intelligent Construction Technology of Transportation Infrastructure / Guanghui Xu , Dongsheng Wang

Expounds on the related technologies of intelligent transportation infrastructure construction. Based on the essential characteristics ...

Light earth building : a handbook for building with wood and earth / Franz Volhard, Julian Reisenberger

Light clay, which is light in weight and easy to work, is presented here as a versatile and forward-looking building material ...

Materials encyclopedia for creatives / Elodie Ternaux, Daniel Kula, Fiona Donaghey

Materials and the myriad technologies that have been developed to manipulate them are of essential relevance to product designers, ...

Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms in Civil Engineering: New Applications / Ali Kaveh , Armin Dadras Eslamlou

Discusses the application of metaheuristic algorithms in a number of important optimization problems in civil engineering. ...

Methods of Measuring Moisture in Building Materials and Structures: State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 248-MMB /

Provides the most recent overview of methods for measuring moisture Covers major applications in civil engineering Gives ...

Move: Architecture in Motion - Dynamic Components and Elements / Michael Schumacher, Oliver Schaeffer, Michael-Marcus Vogt, Anna Scheuermann

Dynamic components and adaptive elements are becoming increasingly important in contemporary architecture, and not just because ...

Problems in Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics / Sandro Longo , Maria Giovanna Tanda , Luca Chiapponi

The exercises are organized by subject, covering forces on planes and curved surfaces; floating bodies; exercises that require ...

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering

This book is a collection of accepted papers from the 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering (ICCE2021). Researchers ...

Progressive Collapse Resilience of Concrete Structures : Mechanisms, Simulations and Experiments / Kai Qian , Qin Fang

The book introduces the comprehensive analysis methodology regarding progressive collapse, and the critical issues may happen ...

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