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The testing of unsaturated soils requires greater care and effort than that of saturated soils. Although unsaturated soil mechanics has been embraced by geotechnical engineering, engineering practice has not yet caught up as the characterization of...

This textbook is intended for the first course of engineering dynamics for undergraduate students. Engineering dynamics is a rigorous topic that typically involves the intensive use of vector mathematics and calculus. This book, however, uses plain...

This book compiles the latest strategies and information regarding civil engineering education, and the necessary skills for success that are tangential to engineering, including global perspectives, critical and design thinking skills, leadership...

Integrated operation of hydropower stations and reservoirs has become a trend of hydropower exploitation, as an effective technical measure, integrated operation can improve the utilization efficiency of water resources, reduce the risks of flood and...

Structured with a practical approach, Engineering Capstone Design guides engineering students to successfully manage capstone design projects. The book addresses the challenge of open-ended design projects, often in a team-based format, discussing team...

Earthen levees are extensively used to protect the population and infrastructure from periodic floods and high water due to storm surges. The causes of failure of levees include overtopping, surface erosion, internal erosion, and slope instability...

This book contains auxiliary calculation tools to facilitate the safety assessment of reinforced concrete sections. Essential parameters in the design to the ultimate limit state of resistance such as the percentage of reinforcement and the position of...

Have you ever wondered how NASA designs, builds, and tests spacecrafts and hardware for space? How is it that wildly successful programs such as the Mars Exploration Rovers could produce a rover that lasted over ten times the expected prime mission...

The endurance time method (ETM) is a seismic analysis procedure in which intensifying dynamic excitations are used as the loading function, and it provides many unique benefits in the design of structures. It can largely reduce the computational effort...

Segmental concrete bridges have become one of the main options for major transportation projects world-wide. They offer expedited construction with minimal traffic disruption, lower life cycle costs, appealing aesthetics and adaptability to a curved...

Written to complement civil engineers’ technical knowledge, this book explains the sociocultural contextual knowledge that civil engineers need if they are to be effective in their professions. Civil engineers design and build the world in which we all...

Today, raw data on any industry is widely available. With the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning, this data can be used to gain meaningful insights. In addition, as data is the new raw material for today's world, artificial intelligence...

This open access book presents research and evaluation results of the Austrian flagship project "Connecting Austria," illustrating the wide range of research needs and questions that arise when semi-automated truck platooning is deployed in Austria. The...

Master an Approach Based on Fire Safety Goals, Fire Scenarios, and the Assessment of Design AlternativesPerformance-Based Fire Safety Design demonstrates how fire science can be used to solve fire protection problems in the built environment. It also...

A showcase of research and case studies on what civil engineers can do to address climate-change risks, the challenges of assessing whole-life climate impacts and risks, and a look at new design approaches that enable projects to be both more sustainable...

This is a blend of biography and bibliography that traces the emergence and development of the specialist book literature on concrete at a time when reinforced concrete was a new technology. From 1897, and the first complete building of reinforced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781260466928Author Indranil GoswamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill Education

A considerable amount of scientific evidence has been collected leading to the conclusion that urban wastewater components should be designed as one integrated system, in order to protect the receiving waters cost-effectively. Moreover, there is a need...

This book reviews the developments that have taken place in the field of geotechnical engineering since the first international conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering was held in Harvard University in 1936 until the January 1994...

This volume comprises papers presented at the China-US Millennium Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, held in Beijing, China, on November 8-11, 2000. This conference provides a forum for advancing the field of earthquake engineering through...

An important part of the risk management of natural hazards in mountain regions concerns the hazard assessment and the planning of protection measures in steep headwater catchments, i.e. torrent control and slope stabilization. Torrent processes in steep...

This book contains twelve invited lectures from the Third International Symposium on Structural Crashworthiness. Particular emphasis is given to the failure predictions for ductile metal structures under large dynamic loads and to the behaviour of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786308528Author BrunettiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint ISTE LtdPublisher ISTE LtdWeight(grams) 492g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786308511Author BrunettiFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint ISTE LtdPublisher ISTE LtdWeight(grams) 625g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138491229Author CIGB ICOLDFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint CRC PressPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630574635Author Randy H. ShihFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint SDC PublicationsPublisher SDC PublicationsWeight(grams) 210g

Covering the subject of ground control in mining, this volume looks at such topics as: rock-slab theory of ground pressure in work and practice, the role of in situ-stress in mine planning, and the status of the art of cable bolting.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604270167Author Nagaratnam SivakuganPage Count 420Imprint J Ross PublishingPublisher J Ross Publishing

This book provides an overview of asphalt pavement maintenance, highlighting the key asphalt pavement maintenance technologies in China. It analyzes the trend toward preventive maintenance technologies and proposes technical guidelines and implementation...

The chapters in this book show that a careful blend of engineering judgement and advanced principles of engineering mechanics may be used to resolve many complex geotechnical engineering problems. It is hoped that these...

A comprehensive review of the most recent applications of intelligent multi-modal data processing Intelligent Multi-Modal Data Processing contains a review of the most recent applications of data processing. The Editors and contributors – noted experts...

Advances in Measurement Technology, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation collects papers resulting from the conference on Measurement Technology, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (MTDPM 2022), Zhengzhou, China, 27–29 May, 2022. The primary goal is to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786307774Author DhouibFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint ISTE LtdPublisher ISTE LtdWeight(grams) 803g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630574819Author Shahin S. NudehiFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint SDC PublicationsPublisher SDC PublicationsWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630574789Author David PlanchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint SDC PublicationsPublisher SDC PublicationsWeight(grams) 210g

Terramechanics is the broad study of terrain-vehicle systems. In this book, all physical processes associated with the static and dynamic interplay between powered and tooled wheeled or tracked vehicles with natural and man-made surfaces are analysed and...

The volumes deal with the newly emerging field ofRisk and Hazard Assessment and its application to science and engineering. These volumes deal with issues such as short-and long-term hazards, setting priorities in safety, fault analysis for process...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786308542Author BrunettiFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint ISTE LtdPublisher ISTE LtdWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781264257829Author M Rashad IslamFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill Education

This work describes the role of sediment transport in the operation and maintenance of demand-based downstream controlled irrigation canals. Sediment deposition in these irrigation canals severely affects the operation of the automatic flow control...