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Prediction and Simulation Methods for Geohazard Mitigation: including CD-ROM by Fusao Oka 9781138118072
RRP: $151.18$132.41The last decades have shown a remarkable increase in the number of heavy rains, typhoons and earthquakes. These natural phenomena are the main causes for geohazards. As a result the mitigation of geohazards has become a major research topic in... -
Power and Energy: Proceedings of the International Conference on Power and Energy (CPE 2014), Shanghai, China, 29-30 November 2014 by Richard Kong 9781138027824
RRP: $115.48$102.31Power and Energy contains 86 selected papers from the International Conference on Power and Energy (CPE 2014, Shanghai, China, 29-30 November 2014), and presents a wide range of topics: - Energy management, planning and policy-making - Energy... -
Offshore Compliant Platforms: Analysis, Design, and Experimental Studies by Srinivasan Chandrasekaran 9781119669777
RRP: $249.80$216.55A guide to the analysis and design of compliant offshore structures that highlights a new generation of platforms Offshore Compliant Platforms provides an authoritative guideto the analysis and design of compliant offshore structures and puts the focus... -
Building Collaborative Trust in Construction Procurement Strategies Jason Challender (University of Salford, UK) 9781119492269
RRP: $228.80$198.70Provides a practical framework and toolkit for improved construction project outcomes based on trust and collaboration This book explores the concept of trust as a tool in improved construction procurement strategies, and provides important insight into... -
Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources: Techniques for Reservoir Engineering Analysis by Reza Barati Ghahfarokhi 9781119420323
RRP: $226.70$196.92Unconventional shale oil and shale gas plays have gained more attention since they are the sole cause of improvements in making the oil and gas business in US and some other companies getting closer to become independent. There is not one comprehensive... -
Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil (GRS) Walls Jonathan T. H. Wu 9781119375845
RRP: $220.40$191.58The first book to provide a detailed overview of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Walls Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil (GRS) Walls deploy horizontal layers of closely spaced tensile inclusion in the fill material to achieve stability of a soil mass. GRS walls... -
Principles of Forensic Engineering Applied to Industrial Accidents Luca Fiorentini 9781118962817
RRP: $216.20$189.25An introductory text on the investigation of industrial accidents Forensic engineering should be seen as a rigorous approach to the discovery of root causes that lead to an accident or near-miss. The approach should be suitable to identify both the... -
Practical Field Robotics: A Systems Approach by Robert H. Sturges 9781118941140
RRP: $182.60$158.59Practical Field Robotics: A Systems Approach is an introductory book in the area of field robotics. It approaches the subject with a systems design methodology, showing the reader every important decision made in the process of planning, designing,... -
Durability Design of Concrete Structures: Phenomena, Modeling, and Practice by Kefei Li 9781118910092
RRP: $243.50$210.38Comprehensive coverage of durability of concrete at both material and structural levels, with design related issues * Links two active fields in materials science and structural engineering: the durability processes of concrete materials and design... -
Modernisation, Mechanisation and Industrialisation of Concrete Structures by Kim S. Elliott 9781118876497
RRP: $216.20$189.25Modernisation, Mechanisation and Industrialisation of Concrete Structures discusses the manufacture of high quality prefabricated concrete construction components, and how that can be achieved through the application of developments in concrete... -
Advanced Modelling Techniques in Structural Design Feng Fu 9781118825433
RRP: $193.10$168.36The successful design and construction of iconic new buildings relies on a range of advanced technologies, in particular on advanced modelling techniques. In response to the increasingly complex buildings demanded by clients and architects, structural... -
Reconnecting the City: The Historic Urban Landscape Approach and the Future of Urban Heritage by Francesco Bandarin 9781118383988
RRP: $149.00$129.34Historic Urban Landscape is a new approach to urban heritage management, promoted by UNESCO, and currently one of the most debated issues in the international preservation community. However, few conservation practitioners have a clear understanding of... -
Vehicle Safety Communications: Protocols, Security, and Privacy by Tao Zhang 9781118132722
RRP: $222.50$193.35Provides an up-to-date, in-depth look at the current research, design, and implementation of cooperative vehicle safety communication protocols and technology Improving traffic safety has been a top concern for transportation agencies around the world... -
Rock Reinforcement and Rock Support by OEmer Aydan 9781032095875
RRP: $109.18$94.90The stability of underground and surface geotechnical structures during and after excavation is of great concern as any kind of instability may result in damage to the environment as well as time-consuming high cost repair work. The forms of instability,... -
Rock Engineering Risk by Xia-Ting Feng 9781032098678
RRP: $123.88$107.27This book provides a new, necessary and valuable approach to the consideration of risk in underground engineering projects constructed within rock masses. There are Chapters on uncertainty and risk, rock engineering systems, rock fractures and rock... -
Discontinuous Deformation Analysis in Rock Mechanics Practice by Guowei Ma 9781032096650
RRP: $136.48$117.89The numerical, discrete element, Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) method was developed by Dr. Gen-hua Shi while he was working at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Prof. Richard E. Goodman in the late 1980s... -
Back Analysis in Rock Engineering by Shunsuke Sakurai 9781032096506
RRP: $130.18$112.58This book provides practicing engineers working in the field of design, construction and monitoring of rock structures such as tunnels and slopes with technical information on how to design, how to excavate and how to monitor the structures during their... -
Design of High Strength Steel Reinforced Concrete Columns: A Eurocode 4 Approach by Yan-Qing Cai 9781032095592
RRP: $46.18$40.61This book is the companion volume to Design Examples for High Strength Steel Reinforced Concrete Columns - A Eurocode 4 Approach. Guidance is much needed on the design of high strength steel reinforced concrete (SRC) columns beyond the remit of... -
Design Examples for High Strength Steel Reinforced Concrete Columns: A Eurocode 4 Approach by Yan-Qing Cai 9781032095585
RRP: $46.18$40.61This book is the companion volume to Design of High Strength Steel Reinforced Concrete Columns - A Eurocode 4 Approach. This book provides a large number of worked examples for the design of high strength steel reinforced concrete (SRC) columns. It is... -
Design Guide for Concrete-filled Double Skin Steel Tubular Structures by Dennis Lam 9781032094496
RRP: $46.18$40.61This is the first design guide on concrete filled double skin steel tubular (CFDST) structures. It addresses in particular CFDST structures with plain concrete sandwiched between circular hollow sections, and provides the relevant calculation methods and... -
Sustainable Approaches to Urban Transport by Dinesh Mohan 9781032091761
RRP: $94.48$82.49As cities become increasingly congested, current transport patterns are unsustainable: heavy in energy use, high in economic and environmental cost, and exacerbating inequity between those who can access high-speed travel and those who cannot. Good urban... -
Transport and Interactions of Chlorides in Cement-based Materials by Qiang Yuan 9781032090962
RRP: $94.48$82.49Chloride-induced corrosion is the most important durability issue of reinforced concrete structures, and the prediction and prevention of chloride-induced corrosion has attracted considerable interest all over the world. Given that chloride... -
Longwall Mining, 3rd Edition by Syd Peng 9781032086002
RRP: $123.88$107.27In the past 13 years since the publication of Longwall Mining, 2nd edition in 2006, although there have been no major changes in longwall mining technology and operations, many incremental developments in the whole system as well as various subsystems of... -
Quantifying and Modeling Soil Strucure Dynamics by Sally Logsdon 9780891189565
RRP: $123.80$107.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891189565Author Sally LogsdonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint American Society of AgronomyPublisher American Society of AgronomyWeight(grams) 666g -
Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering: Theory and Components by Mohammed M. Ettouney 9780849320408
RRP: $262.50$228.61Continually increasing demands on infrastructures mean that maintenance and renewal require timely, appropriate action that maximizes benefits while minimizing cost. To be as well informed as possible, decision-makers must have an optimal understanding... -
Analysis and Design of Structural Bonded Joints by Liyong Tong 9780792384946
RRP: $377.98$237.97254 7. 2 AEROSPACE 261 7. 3 MARINE 265 7. 4 GROUND TRANSPORTATION 268 7. 5 CNIL 270 References 285 Index Preface Most structures consist of an assembly of a number of individual components that must be connected to form an integral load transmission path... -
Don't Throw This Away!: The Civil Engineering Life by Brian Brenner 9780784408889
$122.14This is one engineer's personal take on what it's like to be a civil engineer in the 21st century - the life, the practice, the profession. As accomplished an essayist as he is an engineer, Mr. Brenner rages from serious discussions of suburban sprawl,... -
Understanding Traffic Systems: Data Analysis and Presentation by Mr. Michael A. P. Taylor 9780754612483
RRP: $283.50$247.13Road traffic and its impacts affect all aspects of modern life, leisure and industry, with safety, congestion and pollution being of greatest public concern. Transport planning increasingly emphasises travel demand management (TDM) and traffic calming -... -
Dam Hydraulics by D. L. Vischer 9780471972891
RRP: $146.90$127.55Dam Hydraulics D. L. Vischer W. H. Hager VAW, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland This book develops the main themes of water flow in dam structures, emphasizing the hydraulic principles governing the design, construction and refurbishment of dams. Opening with an... -
Stochastic Processes and Random Vibrations: Theory and Practice Julius Solnes (University of Iceland, Reykjavik) 9780471971924
RRP: $188.90$164.79Beginning with the basics of probability and an overview of stochastic process, this book goes on to explore their engineering applications: random vibration and system analysis. It addresses extreme conditions such as distribution of large vibration... -
Structural Design for Fire Safety Andrew H. Buchanan (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) 9780471890607
RRP: $109.10$95.68Presenting a comprehensive overview of the fire resistance of building structures, this key text brings together a large volume of material from many sources on this increasingly important topic. Opening with the fundamentals of fires and fire safety,... -
Security Risk Assessment and Management: A Professional Practice Guide for Protecting Buildings and Infrastructures by Betty E. Biringer 9780471793526
RRP: $195.20$170.14Proven set of best practices for security risk assessment and management, explained in plain English This guidebook sets forth a systematic, proven set of best practices for security risk assessment and management of buildings and their supporting... -
Landforming: An Environmental Approach to Hillside Development, Mine Reclamation and Watershed Restoration by Horst J. Schor 9780471721796
RRP: $266.60$230.85The first hands-on instruction guide to landform grading and revegetation Landform grading provides a cost-effective, attractive, and environmentally compatible way to construct slopes and other landforms that are stable and that blend in with the... -
Construction of Fills by Edward J. Monahan 9780471585237
RRP: $277.10$238.92The compaction guide to greater profits, less hassle. Boost your bottom line with the expert, efficient soil compaction techniques and technological solutions in this fully updated Second Edition. This revision will provide the contractor, fill... -
Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics And Prediction (2nd Edition) by Stanislaw R. Massel 9789814460118
RRP: $153.30$135.79New Edition: Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (3rd Edition)The book is an extended and updated edition of the book published in 1996 under the same title (World Scientific, ISBN 9810216866). It contains a very comprehensive and extensive... -
Computational Wave Dynamics Hitoshi Gotoh (Kyoto Univ, Japan) 9789814449700
RRP: $94.50$83.77This book provides a comprehensive description of the latest theory-supported numerical technologies, as well as scientific and engineering applications for water surface waves. Its contents are crafted to cater to a step-by-step learning of... -
Coastal And Ocean Engineering Practice by Young C. Kim 9789814360562
RRP: $252.00$218.82Successful coastal and ocean engineering projects rely on practical experience with technical tools and knowledge available to the engineer. Often, problems arise from projects that are too complex for theoretical description, which require that... -
Tensor Analysis With Applications In Mechanics Leonid P Lebedev (National Univ Of Colombia, Colombia) 9789814313124
RRP: $252.00$218.82The tensorial nature of a quantity permits us to formulate transformation rules for its components under a change of basis. These rules are relatively simple and easily grasped by any engineering student familiar with matrix operators in linear algebra... -
Design For Maintainability: Benchmarks For Quality Buildings by Sheila Maria Arcuino Conejos 9789813232952
RRP: $73.50$65.00With the motto of 'doing it right the first time', this book focuses on spearheading the integration of designers, constructors and Facility Management, by providing easy-to-read tables summarising knowledge learned from past mistakes and maintainability... -
Design For Maintainability: Benchmarks For Quality Buildings by Sheila Maria Arcuino Conejos 9789813230590
RRP: $115.50$100.86With the motto of 'doing it right the first time', this book focuses on spearheading the integration of designers, constructors and Facility Management, by providing easy-to-read tables summarising knowledge learned from past mistakes and maintainability...