Electronic Books

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 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 ...

Strand Corrosion in Prestressed Concrete Structures / Lei Wang

Focuses on the durability problems of existing prestressed concrete (PC) structures caused by strand corrosion, clarifies ...

Strengthening of Concrete Structures : Unified Design Approach, Numerical Examples and Case Studies / Amr Abdelrahman

Presents unified design approach for strengthening concrete members with different techniques such as concrete, steel, and ...

Stress Ribbon and Cable-supported Pedestrian Bridges

Stress-ribbon bridges' is the term used to describe structures formed by a very slender concrete deck in the shape of a ...

Structural Appraisal of Iron Framed Textile Mills

Begins with a broad overview of mill building structures and their development, illustrated with examples of mill construction ...

Structural Concrete: Theory and Design / M. Nadim Hassoun, Akthem Al-Manaseer

Covers the historical background of structural concrete; advantages and disadvantages; codes and practice; and design philosophy ...

Structural Concrete: Theory and Design, 7th Edition / M. Nadim Hassoun, Akthem Al-Manaseer

The leading structural concrete design reference for over two decades—updated to reflect the latest ACI 318-19 code A go-to ...

Structural Design of Buildings / Paul Smith

Covering common problems, likely failures and their remedies, this is an essential on-site guide to the behaviour of a building’s ...

Structural Dynamics / Martin Williams

This short, accessible introduction to structural dynamics is aimed at upper level civil engineering undergraduates and those ...