Concrete Structures: Protection, Repair and Rehabilitation

Concrete Structures: Protection, Repair and Rehabilitation

Concrete Structures: Protection, Repair and Rehabilitation
Publisher: Butterworth | Pages: 280 | 2009-07-27 | ISBN 1856175499 | PDF | 9 MB

The success of a repair or rehabilitation project depends on the specific plans designed for it. Concrete Structures: Protection, Repair and Rehabilitation provides guidance on evaluating the condition of the concrete in a structure, relating the condition of the concrete to the underlying cause or causes of that condition, selecting an appropriate repair material and method for any deficiency found, and using the selected materials and methods to repair or rehabilitate the structure. Guidance is also provided for engineers focused on maintaining concrete and preparing concrete investigation reports for repair and rehabilitation projects. Considerations for certain specialized types of rehabilitation projects are also given. In addition, the author translates cryptic codes, theories, specifications and details into easy to understand language. Tip boxes are used to highlight key elements of the text as well as code considerations based on the International Code Council or International Building Codes. The book contains various worked out examples and equations. Case Studies will be included along with diagrams and schematics to provide visuals to the book.



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Meteorological and Air Quality Models for Urban Areas

Meteorological and Air Quality Models for Urban Areas

Alexander Baklanov, Sue Grimmond, Alexander Mahura, Maria Athanassiadou, "Meteorological and Air Quality Models for Urban Areas"
Springer | 2009-06-01 | ISBN: 3642002978 | 150 pages | PDF | 4,6 MB

This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world. It discusses and makes recommendations on the best practice and strategy for urbanization of different types of meteorological and air quality models. Based on the selected presentations given at the COST728 workshop, the contributions are arranged in four parts: urban morphology and databases; parameterizations of urban canopy; strategy for urbanization of different types of models; and, evaluation and city case studies/field studies. The chapters treat either dynamic (on wind and turbulent) and thermal effects (on temperature and energy in general). The final chapter of this volume summarizes the discussion and conclusions from the four main topics and provides recommendations and future requirements. This monograph is oriented towards numerical weather prediction and air quality modelling communities.

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Domestic Building Surveys

Domestic Building Surveys

Domestic Building Surveys
Publisher: Spon Press | ISBN: 0419178007 | edition 1990| PDF | 280 pages | 3,75 mb

This is a practical guide showing how to undertake a domestic building survey. The text describes the practical aspects of surveying with a full description of the author's own experience, at the same time drawing out the important principles involved.

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David Stephenson - Pipeline Design for Water Engineers

David Stephenson - Pipeline Design for Water Engineers

David Stephenson - Pipeline Design for Water Engineers
Elsevier Science | 1981 | ISBN: 0444419918 | Pages: 244 | PDF | 7.36 MB

"... the book is at its best in the design and analysis sections and could stand on these alone as a well-stocked handbook with copious references for further study," commented the Journal of the National Water Council after publication of an earlier edition of Pipeline Design for Water Engineers.

This classic monograph has been revised and updated to take account of new developments in the field. Recent research in cavitation and flow control has prompted additional sections to be added. There are also new sections on supports to exposed pipes and secondary stress. Additional references and a new layout make up this edition. Some sections appearing in previous editions, noteably on pipe network systems analysis and optimization have been ommitted as they were considered more appropriate in the author's parallel book ``Pipeflow Analysis'' (Developments in Water Science, 19).

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Landscape Architecture 2009 / 02

Landscape Architecture 2009 / 02

Landscape Architecture 2009 / 02
American Socity for Landscape Architects | 2009 / 02 | ISSN 00238031 | PDF | 124 pages | 52.6 MB

The magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects.


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Environmental Engineering-Anil Kumar De

Environmental Engineering

Anil K. De, Arnab Kumar De, "Environmental Engineering"
New Age International | 2009-08-07 | ISBN: 8122426514 | 204 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB

This book is suitably designed for Polytechnic students of N-E; region in particular and in general for students all over India with the intention of fulfilling the mission of promoting environmental education and culture; as well serves as a textbook for full time courses in the educational institutions. The book introduces the basic concepts of environment; its physical features and human intervention factors in environment and also explains its various dimensions-ecology; air; water; soil and radioactive pollution; public health; resource conservation and management; environmental policies; etc.; Highlights of the book:; Exposure to basic concepts of environment in multidimensional aspects.; Subject matter is presented in a simple and lucid style throughout the book with less stress on technical bias.; Glossary of key terms (Appendix) is included for better comprehension.; Feedback exercises are included as a chapter to reinforce the understanding of the subject.

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Lee Bosher - Hazards and the Built Environment: Adaptating and Attaining Built-in Resilience

Lee Bosher - Hazards and the Built Environment: Adaptating and Attaining Built-in Resilience

Lee Bosher - Hazards and the Built Environment: Adaptating and Attaining Built-in Resilience
Taylor & Francis | 2008 | ISBN: 0415427290 0415427304 | Pages: 382 | PDF | 4.21 MB

Presenting a range of multi-hazard adaptation issues, this book illustrates that non-structural as well as structural adaptations need to be considered in order to reduce the threat, and impact, of disasters in the built environment.

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R. E. Featherstone, C. Nalluri - Civil Engineering Hydraulics: Essential Theory With Worked Examples

R. E. Featherstone, C. Nalluri - Civil Engineering Hydraulics: Essential Theory With Worked Examples

R. E. Featherstone, C. Nalluri - Civil Engineering Hydraulics: Essential Theory With Worked Examples
Blackwell Science | 1995 | ISBN: 0632038632 | Pages: 399 | PDF | 9.95 MB

The text provides an introduction to the theory of civil engineering hydraulics, backed up with a large number of worked examples and exercise problems, with answers, to help readers assess their understanding of the theory and methods of analysis and design. This revised edition features more information on uniform and non-uniform flow, sluice gates and some basic culvert flow problems.

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Vibration Control of Active Structures: An Introduction

Vibration Control of Active Structures: An Introduction

A. Preumont, "Vibration Control of Active Structures: An Introduction"
Springer | 2002 | ISBN: 1402004966 | 385 pages | PDF | 12,1 MB

This text is an introduction to the dynamics of active structures and to the feedback control of lightly damped flexible structures; the emphasis is placed on basic issues and simple control strategies that work. This book consists of 14 chapters. Chapters 2 and 3 are devoted to the dynamics of active structures; the open loop transfer functions are derived from the constitutive equations; the discussion includes active trusses with piezoelectric struts, and beams and shells with embedded laminar piezoelectric actuators and sensors. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss the virtues of collocated actuator/sensor configurations and how they can be exploited to develop active damping with guaranteed stability. Chapter 6 addresses vibration isolation for one and 6 d.o.f.. Chapter 7 discusses optimal control for SISO systems with symmetric root locus. Chapter 8 discusses the design tradeoffs for SISO systems in the frequency domain, including the Bode amplitude/phase relationship. Chapter 9 provides a more general discussion of optimal control using of optimal control using the Riccati equation; spillover is examined. Chapters 10 and 11 review briefly the concepts of controllability, observability and stability. Chapter 12 discusses the semi-active control, including some materials on magneto-rheological fluids. Chapter 13 describes various practical applications to active damping, precision positioning and vibroacoustics, and chapter 14 discusses the active damping of cable- structures. This book is intended for structural engineers who want to acquire some background in vibration control; it can be used as a textbook for a graduate course on vibration control or active structures. The text is supplemented with 113 problems; a solutions manual is available through the publisher to teachers using this book as a textbook.

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Tubes, Sheets and Singularities in Fluid Dynamics

Tubes, Sheets and Singularities in Fluid Dynamics

K. Bajer , H.K. Moffat, "Tubes, Sheets and Singularities in Fluid Dynamics"
Springer | 2003 | ISBN: 1402009801 | 382 pages | PDF | 11,7 MB

Modern experiments and numerical simulations show that the long-known coherent structures in turbulence take the form of elongated vortex tubes and vortex sheets. The evolution of vortex tubes may result in spiral structures which can be associated with the spectral power laws of turbulence. The mutual stretching of skewed vortex tubes, when they are close to each other, causes rapid growth of vorticity. Whether this process may or may not lead to a finite-time singularity is one of the famous open problems of fluid dynamics. This book contains the proceedings of the NATO ARW and IUTAM Symposium held in Zakopane, Poland, 2-7 September 2001. The papers presented, carefully reviewed by the International Scientific Committee, cover various aspects of the dynamics of vortex tubes and sheets and of their analogues in magnetohydrodynamics and in quantum turbulence. The book should be a useful reference for all researchers and students of modern fluid dynamics.


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Design of Structural Steelwork

Design of Structural Steelwork

P.R. Knowles, "Design of Structural Steelwork"
Routledge | 1998 | ISBN: 0903384590 | 208 pages | PDF | 8,5 MB

This second edition of Design of Structural Steelwork presents the essential design aspects of steel as a structural material. It has been carefully revised and updated to provide a modern introduction to the subject, assuming only a basic knowledge of structural analysis and solid mechanics.

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Introducing AutoCAD 2008-Submitted by Shakeel Ahmed Jokhio-09CS

Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Sybex (April 30, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0470121505
ISBN-13: 978-0470121504

Product Description
Quickly master AutoCAD 2008 using this practical guide—no matter your skill level. AutoCAD author and expert George Omura presents the basics of AutoCAD 2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008 and offers clear explanations, a task-based approach, and pages of real-world examples and exercises to make this thorough book more valuable and useful than ever. Whether you’re new to AutoCAD or just looking for a quick refresher, you’ll find this focused introduction to be all you need to get quickly up to speed.

This practical guide helps users of all skill levels learn the basics of AutoCAD 2008 and AutoCAD LT 2008 easily and efficiently. In this fresh new take on the popular Just Enough AutoCAD, bestselling AutoCAD author and expert George Omura offers clear explanations, a task-based approach, and pages of real-world examples and exercises to make this thorough book more valuable and useful than ever.

Whether you're new to AutoCAD or just looking for a quick refresher, you'll find the fast, focused introduction to AutoCAD you need to get quickly up to speed.

- Discover what's new in AutoCAD® 2008 and AutoCAD LT® 2008
- Master the basics of drawing and editing
- Add and edit notes and dimensions
- Learn the fundamentals of 2D drawings and 3D models
- Understand layers, blocks, groups, and external references
- Find areas and distances quickly
- Extract hidden data

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