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Data Driven Methods for Civil Structural Health Monitoring and Resilience : Latest Developments and Applications / Mohammad Noori, Carlo Rainieri, Marco Domaneschi, Vasilis Sarhosis

Provides a comprehensive overview of data-driven methods for structural health monitoring (SHM) and resilience of civil engineering ...

Debris-flow Hazards and Related Phenomena

Debris Flow Hazards and Related Phenomena is set to become the standard reference on debris flows, debris avalanches and ...

Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems

The long-term governance of radioactive waste continues to be a major complex and contentious socio-technical issue worldwide. ...

Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy, Tectonics, Volcanism, and Climate Change

During the last decades, measurements of various geodynamic processes have gained ever increasing importance. Temporal variations ...

Deltas in the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the ...

Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planning : Clean Air, Safe Water, Fertile Soils

This book brings together three topics that interact to affect the quality of life on Earth. First, it examines expanding ...

Demystifying Climate Models : A Users Guide to Earth System Models

This book demystifies the models we use to simulate present and future climates, allowing readers to better understand how ...

Desert Dust in the Global System

Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world’s drylands, are a vital component of the environment. ...

Desertification in the Mediterranean Region. A Security Issue

This book focuses on two basic concepts: security and desertification in the Mediterranean Region and their linkages. Desertification ...

Design and Construction of Tunnels : Analysis of controlled deformation in rocks and soils (ADECO-RS)

It uses the advance core (the core of ground ahead of the face) as a structural tool for the long and short term stabilisation ...

Design for Environmental Sustainability

Design for Environmental Sustainability is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "Decade on Education ...

Design of Hybrid Structures : Where Steel Profiles Meet Concrete / Andre Plumier, Herve Degee

Focuses on design approaches for concrete structures reinforced in an unconventional way by steel profiles. It explains force ...

Design of Industrial Structures : Reinforced Cement Concrete and Steel / Ashoke Kumar Dasgupta

Bridges the gap between academic and professional field pertaining to design of industrial reinforced cement concrete and ...

Design of Structural Elements : Concrete, Steelwork, Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes / Chanakya Arya

Topics include the philosophy of design, sustainable development, basic structural concepts, and material properties. After ...

Designed to perform : an illustrated guide to delivering energy efficient homes / Tom Dollard

The performance gap between predicted and actual energy use in new homes has been identified as key problem by government ...

Designers' Guide to EN 1991-1-4 Eurocode 1: Actions on structures, general actions part 1–4. Wind actions

EN1991-1-4, Eurocode 1: Actions on structures -General actions - Part 1-4: Wind actions, is the head code for wind actions ...

Designing Green Landscapes

This book presents the latest thinking in adaptive management for forest ecosystems. Based on the ‘multiple path’ principle, ...

Designing healthy and liveable cities : creating sustainable urban regeneration / Marichela Sepe

Aim of this book is, after the definition of the field of investigation concerning sustainable regeneration trough topics ...

Designing sustainable and resilient cities : small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management / Alessandro Melis, Julia Catherine Brown, Claire Coulter

Explores the link between the food-water-energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to ...

Developing Tsunami-Resilient Communities

Tsunamis remain an ever-present threat to lives and property along the coasts of most of the world’s oceans. Because of ...

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