Civil engineering, surveying & building books

Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline born of the needs of the Industrial Revolution, is once again...  Read More >>

This text covers entropy-based techniques for parameter estimation in hydrology. The techniques are presented for...  Read More >>

Essential to anyone involved in the planning, design, construction, operation or finance of infrastructure assets,...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Sea-Dumped Chemical Munitions', Kaliningrad (Moscow Region),...  Read More >>

The last few years have witnessed an enormous interest in application of GIS in hydrology and water resources. The...  Read More >>

Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries. Unless urban seismic...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Global Engineering Education  Read More >>

MOX fuel, a mixture of weapon-grade plutonium and natural or depleted uranium, may be used to deplete a portion...  Read More >>

Ice dynamics, on the other hand, deals with the movement of broken ice: descriptions of an aggregate of ice floes...  Read More >>

Reanalysis is needed in many areas such as structural optimization, analysis of damaged structures, nonlinear analysis,...  Read More >>

National and European transport models become increasingly important. The broadening of national transport policy...  Read More >>

In the same region, close to the Turini Pass, a real large scale hydrody­ namic experiment is taking place -a source...  Read More >>

Attempts to develop the hydrodynamic theory of upscaling for complex flows through highly heterogeneous porous media....  Read More >>

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A series of recent major industrial accidents and the effect of poUution highlighted, once again, the need for better...  Read More >>

A good microstructural model must describe the pores and other phases at ascale appropriate to the properties that...  Read More >>

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This book provides a comprehensive insight into precast concrete construction today. The reader learns of the many...  Read More >>

This book contains the lectures given in the International Course ""Improving efficiency and reliability in water...  Read More >>

The present volume offers a state-of-the-art report on the various recent sci­ entific developments in the Theory...  Read More >>

Topics include a critical classification of models for highway traffic, new technological applications, friction...  Read More >>

email: nezheng@ucla.edu fax: 1--310--825--5435 ... This book systematically discusses basic concepts, theory,...  Read More >>