Civil engineering, surveying & building books

Multifunctional Metallic Hollow Sphere Structures are an emerging new material category. Written by the leading...  Read More >>

Transportation systems in buildings are part of everyday life: whether ferrying people twenty storeys up to the...  Read More >>

For example, the top 20 terminals in the world showed an average relative increase of 14% with respect to the number...  Read More >>

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The energy crises of the 1970s, persisting moisture problems, complaints about sick buildings, thermal, visual and...  Read More >>

Mortars based on lime were once fundamental to most construction in the United Kingdom. Over the course of the twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Structural damages during recent earthquakes demonstrate the need for developing a comprehensive model for earthquake...  Read More >>

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GPP 6 contains 11 papers presented at the 2010 Biennial Geotechnical Seminar, held in Denver, Colorado, November...  Read More >>

Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in...  Read More >>

This book is intended to give a general overview of reliability, faults, fault models, nanotechnology, nanodevices,...  Read More >>

The term “risk” is known from many fields, and we are used to references to contractual risk, economic risk, operational...  Read More >>

A solid introduction and overview of water quality sampling and analysis, this book covers water quality issues,...  Read More >>

Overcome and even grow amidst the challenges posed by a challenging economy. This title provides all the tools needed...  Read More >>

It includes differential dynamical models of granular shearing, dynamical strength characteristics and the excited...  Read More >>

Civil infrastructure systems are generally the most expensive assets in any country, and these systems are deteriorating...  Read More >>

The “extended enterprise” is a new emerging paradigm in the manufacturing arena. This dynamic is involving both...  Read More >>

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One of the plausible perceptions about safe and generally optimal geotechnical structure, leads to the conclusion...  Read More >>

Chapter 6 shows the application of the model in the fatigue life assessment in the complex state of loading (bending...  Read More >>

5 have killed as many as 20,000 people precisely because these earthquakes occurred directly beneath population...  Read More >>

The present book is based on the experience of the author. The selection of subjects is based in part by the questions...  Read More >>

Non destructive testing aimed at monitoring, structural identification and di- nostics is of strategic importance...  Read More >>