Electronic Books

Rock Slope Engineering : Civil Applications / Duncan C. Wyllie

Covers the investigation, design, excavation and remediation of man-made rock cuts and natural slopes, primarily for civil ...

SELECTED PAPERS ON SOIL MECHANICS

This volume of selected papers by Professor A W Skempton is published to mark his 70th birthday on 4th June 1984. In making ...

Seismic Retrofit of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings / Stelios Antoniou

Seismic Retrofit of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings readers will also find: Detailed treatment of each available strengthening ...

Shifts in compensation between private and public systems

This volume addressing, on the one hand, the issues relating to ‘shifts’ in compensation systems at a more general level, ...

Site Investigation in Construction Part 1: Without Site Investigation Ground is a Hazard

This document has been written for Client's and their professional technical advisers in the consturction industry. It aims ...

Site Investigation in Construction Part 2: Planning, Procurement and Quality Management

It is written for the Client's Principal Technical Adviser on a construction project, since this professional is responsible ...

Site Investigation in Construction Part 3: Specification for Ground Investigation

Includes associated Schedules and a Bill of Quantities, and is intended for general application to ground investigation work. ...

Site Investigation in Construction Part 4: Guidelines for the Safe Investigation by Drilling of Landfills and Contaminated Land

These guidelines seek to promote the use of safe working practices in the investigation of landfills and contaminated land. ...

Slope stability engineering developments and applications: Proceedings of the international conference on slope stability organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers and held on the Isle of Wight on 15–18 April 1991

Draws on the experience and extensive research of an international authorship to bring together details on slope stability, ...

Slopes and Excavations : Design and Calculation / Bernhard Wietek

Approaches the problems of slopes and excavations with technical knowledge and helps to better control the dangers and thus ...

Smart Cement : Development, Testing, Modeling and Real-Time Monitoring / Cumaraswamy Vipulanandan

Over three billion metric tons of cement are produced annually worldwide, making concrete the most extensively used construction ...

Solving Complex Problems for Structures and Bridges using ABAQUS Finite Element Package / Farzad Hejazi, Hojjat Mohammadi Esfahani

Aims to present specific complicated and puzzling challenges encountered for application of the Finite Element Method (FEM) ...

Stainless Steel Wires-Engineered Multifunctional Ultra-High Performance Concrete / Sufen Dong, Xinyue Wang, Baoguo Han

Delivers both fundamentals and applications about multifunctional concrete, covering basic principles, properties, mechanisms, ...

Static Analysis of Determinate and Indeterminate Structures / Kenneth Derucher, Chandrasekhar Putcha

Presents students with the key fundamental elements of structural analysis and covers as much material as is needed for a ...

Static and Dynamic Analysis of Engineering Structures : Incorporating the Boundary Element Method / Levon G. Petrosian, Vladimir A. Ambartsumian

Illustrates the modern methods of static and dynamic analysis of structures; Provides methods for solving boundary value ...

Steel Corrosion and Degradation of its Mechanical Properties / Chun-Qing Li, Wei Yang

Presents the state-of-the-art-knowledge on corrosion of steel, cast iron and ductile iron with a focus on corrosion-induced ...

Steel Designers' Handbook / Branko E. Gorenc, A. Syam, Ron Tinyou

Steel Plate Shear Walls with Gravity Load : Theory and Design / Yang Lv

Establishes a vertical stress distribution of the walls under compression and in-plane bending load and an inclination angle ...

Steel-Reinforced Concrete Structures : Assessment and Repair of Corrosion / By Mohamed Abdallah El-Reedy

Examines the corrosion of reinforced concrete from a practical point of view, highlights protective design and repair procedures, ...

Steel–concrete composite bridges

Steel Concrete Composite Bridges outlines the various forms that modern steel-concrete composite bridges take, from simple ...