Author: Ashraf Mahtab, Piergiorgio Grasso, Shulin Xu, Vittorio Guglielmetti ISBN: 0415420105 / 9780415420105 Year: 2007 Availability: 15-30 days
Internationally, the mechanized excavation of tunnels has intensified in the last two decades, as the number of tunnels being constructed for subways and railway underpasses increases. The subject o...
Author: Jacek M. Czaplicki ISBN: 0415877318 / 9780415877312 Year: 2010 Availability: 15-30 days
It has been almost fifty years since the first papers on the application of reliability theory to mining problems were published in the United States. Developing rapidly in the late 1950s and 1960s,...
Author: Jinrong Zhu ISBN: 041561516X / 9780415615167 Year: 2010 Availability: 15-30 days
In recent years the theory and technology of modelling and computation in engineering has expanded rapidly, and has been widely applied in various kinds of engineering projects. Modelling and Comput...
Author: Masafumi Inoue, Shyam K. Paudel, Yan Xiao ISBN: 041547597X / 9780415475976 Year: 2008 Availability: 15-30 days
Modern Bamboo Structures is the first of its kind covering the applications of bamboo materials in modern structures. These proceedings of the First International Conference on Modern Bamboo Structu...
Author: C.F. Mathiesen, John Johansen ISBN: 9058093115 / 9789058093110 Year: 2000 Availability: 15-30 days
A review of modern blasting techniques used in tunnelling, chamber excavations and lake-tap blasting. The scope of this book includes geological implications, cut design and smooth blasting techniqu...
Author: Fransje Hooimeijer, Wout Toorn Vrijthoff ISBN: 0415453585 / 9780415453585 Year: 2007 Availability: 15-30 days
The perceptibly changing climate has resulted in more precipitation in a small number of short periods. As most urban water management systems were developed at a time when precipitation was distrib...
Author: Andrzej Tor, Artur Dyczko, Jerzy Kicki, Michal Myszkowski, Zbigniew Stopa ISBN: 0415689384 / 9780415689380 Year: 2011 Availability: Out of Stock
Provides an up to date overview of the Polish and international experience in the area of thin coal seam mining with an emphasis on implementation of the plow technology in mining.
The implementa...
Author: J.S. Jensen, L.J. Vincentsen ISBN: 9054109637 / 9789054109631 Year: 1998 Availability: 15-30 days
Exploring the many facets of major infrastructure projects, this symposium concentrated on developments within organisational, strategic and policy areas and both traffic and o & m management. Contr...
Author: E. Alaphia Wright ISBN: 9054106131 / 9789054106135 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
This work deals with the background to linear programming (LP) using a largely non-mathematical treatment. It covers several planning cases and the LP-tools suite of programs. Copies of the programs...
Author: Bjorn Akesson ISBN: 0415431956 / 9780415431958 Year: 2007 Availability: 15-30 days
Covers theory and background of local buckling, presenting simple design calculations which address this intriguing phenomenon. Attempts to master the process of buckling are described, citing both ...
Author: Paul Lecomte ISBN: 9054107847 / 9789054107842 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This is a translation of "Les sites pollues: traitement des sols et des eaux souterraines", second edition. It covers: contaminated sites; environmental diagnosis; assessment of hazard; remediaiton;...
Author: Frits A. van Tol, Henk Brassinga, Maarten Profittlich, Michael Brown, Paul Holscher, Peter Middendorp ISBN: 0415695201 / 9780415695206 Year: 2011 Availability: 15-30 days
A Rapid Load Test (RLT), developed to determine the initial stiffness and bearing capacity, is an economical and practical alternative to a Static Load Test (SLT). The broad application of RLT, howe...
Author: Daniel Straub ISBN: 041588179X / 9780415881791 Year: 2010 Availability: 15-30 days
This volume is drawn from the proceedings of the Working Conference on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems. Selected contributions from expert authors focus on the reliability and opt...
Author: Chul W. Kim, Mitsuo Kawatani ISBN: 0415406552 / 9780415406550 Year: 2007 Availability: 15-30 days
Focussing on structural reliability methods, reliability-based optimization, structural system reliability and risk analysis, lifetime performance and various applications in civil engineering. Inva...
Author: Ben J.M. Ale, Enrico Zio, Ioannis A. Papazoglou ISBN: 0415604273 / 9780415604277 Year: 2010 Availability: 15-30 days
Reliability, Risk and Safety : Back to the Future covers topics on reliability, risk and safety issues, including risk and reliability analysis methods, maintenance optimisation, human factors, and ...
Author: C. Guedes Soares, Radim Bris, Sebastian Martorell ISBN: 0415555094 / 9780415555098 Year: 2009 Availability: 15-30 days
Containing papers presented at the 18th European Safety and Reliability Conference (Esrel 2009) in Prague, Czech Republic, September 2009, Reliability, Risk and Safety – Theory and Application...
Author: Guylaine Desmarais, Hua Ge, Jiwu Rao, Paul Fazio ISBN: 0415416752 / 9780415416757 Year: 2006 Availability: 15-30 days
Buildings influence people. They account for one third of energy consumption across the globe and represent an annual capital expenditure of 7%-10% of GNP in industrialized countries. Their lifetime...
Author: Scira Menoni ISBN: 0415580722 / 9780415580724 Year: 2010 Availability: 15-30 days
The contributions in Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Government looks at risks not just as a technical, social, political or economic matter, but as originating and challenging the various...
Author: Meifeng Cai ISBN: 0415620805 / 9780415620802 Year: 2011 Availability: 15-30 days
Rock Mechanics : Achievements and Ambitions contains the papers accepted for the 2nd ISRM International Young Scholars’ Symposium on Rock Mechanics, which was sponsored by the ISRM and held on...
Author: John F. Unsworth ISBN: 1498734103 / 9781498734103 Year: 2017 Availability: 15-30 days
This new edition encompasses current design methods used for steel railway bridges in both SI and Imperial (US Customary) units. It discusses the planning of railway bridges and the appropriate type...
Author: Francis D. K. Ching ISBN: 0470087811 / 9780470087817 Year: 2008 Availability: Out of Stock
The classic visual guide to the basics of building construction, now with the most current information
For nearly three decades, Building Construction Illustrated has offered an outstanding intro...
Author: Indranil Goswami ISBN: 0071777113 / 9780071777117 Year: 2012 Availability: 15-30 days
Presented in the Breadth and Depth format of the actual exam, this comprehensive guide is filled with hundreds of realistic practice questions based on the Principles and Practice of Civil Engineeri...
Author: James Edzwald, Johannes Haarhoff ISBN: 0071745629 / 9780071745628 Year: 2011 Availability: 15-30 days
The definitive work on Dissolved Air Flotation Systems (DAF) for clarification of drinking water
Dissolved Air Flotation for Water Clarification is a complete design and application source for th...
Author: R.K. Michael Thambynayagam ISBN: 007175184X / 9780071751841 Year: 2011 Availability: In Stock
The Diffusion Handbook: Applied Solutions for Engineers is the 2011 recipient of the R.R. Hawkins Award, the top prize of the Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Awards and one of the hi...
