Advanced Materials in Smart Building Skins for Sustainability: From Nano to Macroscale / Julian Wang, Donglu Shi, Yehao Song
Demonstrates the importance of smart and dynamic building skins in in sustainable buildings Provides the scientific basis ...
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This book is a practical guide to the detection and remedy of faults in claddings and fixings on buildings. It sets out the ...
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Barry's Advanced Construction of Buildings, 4th Edition / Stephen Emmitt
Covers the construction of larger-scale buildings (primarily residential, commercial and industrial) constructed with load ...
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Barry's Introduction to Construction of Buildings, 4th Edition / Stephen Emmitt
Based mainly on domestic and residential buildings—and filled with extensive illustrations throughout—this concise text ...
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Building Skins / Werner Lang, Roland Krippner, Christian Schittich
Focuses on the wide-ranging aspects of facade design, from the selection and use of materials to the advanced technical possibilities ...
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Computer Network Security
As society becomes increasingly dependent on computers and computer networks, computer problems continue to rise in number. ...
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Construction Materials, Methods, and Techniques: Building for a Sustainable Future / Eva Kultermann, William P. Spence
Covers both traditional and contemporary materials, current industry standards and new and emerging technologies. The only ...
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Provides guidelines which can extend the existing standards and codes to cover these types of special works, especially those ...
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Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings for Seismic Performance : Practical Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches / Mark Aschheim, Enrique Hernández-Montes, Dimitrios Vamvatsikos
Presents an elegant, simple and theoretically coherent design framework. Required strength is determined on the basis of ...
Continue readingDynamics of soils and their engineering applications
Offers systematic dynamic analysis of soils and their engineering applications, including machine foundations, and aims to ...
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Foundations of Computer Security
Foundations of Computer Security provides a succinct, yet authoritative introduction to the underlying theory, history, vocabulary, ...
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Building Construction has been the go-to reference for thousands of professionals and students of architecture, engineering, ...
Continue readingICE Specification for piling and embedded retaining walls, 2nd edition
The new ICE Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls is designed to be used as the new technical specification ...
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Materials and Components of Interior Architecture / J.Rosemary Riggs
Offers a unique look at interior design,fully covering the exciting breadth of nonstructural materials available to interior ...
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Modern construction envelopes / Andrew Watts
Using current examples by renowned architects, Watts presents the constructive and material-related details. It is based ...
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Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures : Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors / Mayine Yu
Illuminates the theory and techniques of assembling exteriors. Six chapters organized by wall types, from hand-set monolithic ...
Continue readingStructural analysis of multi-storey buildings / Karoly A. Zalka
Relies on creating continuum models approach and presents the theoretical background and the governing differential equations ...
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The Plant Stem
This unique and attractive open access textbook combines the beauty of macroscopic pictures of plant stems with the corresponding ...
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