Author: Mukesh C Limbachiya, Ravindra K Dhir, Thomas D Dyer ISBN: 0727729942 / 9780727729941 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
The necessity for adopting sustainable practices is becoming increasingly clear, and the recovery of maximum value from surplus glass cullet is a key component in this. The concrete construction ind...
Author: Mukesh C. Limbachiya, Ravindra K. Dhir ISBN: 0727729950 / 9780727729958 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Substantial quantities of used tyres are being discarded annually throughout the world and this is likely to increase in line with the growth in road traffic. Given the environmental economic implic...
Author: George Fleming ISBN: 0727713183 / 9780727713186 Year: 1990 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides practising engineers with a firm basis on which to classify types of derelict land and alert them to the range of environmental and legal considerations involved.
The book exam...
Author: British Nuclear Energy Society ISBN: 0727719319 / 9780727719317 Year: 1993 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume covers the practical application of remote technology to all types of nuclear plant, both experimental and commercial. It concentrates on the remote inspection, refurbishment and decommi...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727719327 / 9780727719324 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
The past 10 years have seen considerable advances in the practice of retaining wall design and construction.
This book makes a valuable and significant contribution to the literature available to...
Author: B. O. Skipp ISBN: 0727719866 / 9780727719867 Year: 1993 Availability: Out of Stock
Risk, the management of risk, reliability and related issues are coming increasingly to the fore in civil engineering. There is growing awareness that most decisions are made under uncertainty, and ...
Author: , Ian Mockett ISBN: 0727731645 / 9780727731647 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
The cost of ever more freguent floods, landslides and erosion on coastal and fluvial structures is considerable. Through more detailed consideration of the risks and their acceptability, the enginee...
Author: Health and Safety Executive ISBN: 0727720635 / 9780727720634 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume contains the proceedings from the recent major conference on risk management in civil, mechanical and structural engineering, which was organized by the Health and Safety Executive in co...
Author: Arild Palmstrom, Hakan Stille ISBN: 0727740830 / 9780727740830 Year: 2010 Availability: Out of Stock
The first book to focus on risk and uncertainty, Rock engineering explains the geological principles and concepts required for successful geotechnical design and engineering of underground excavatio...
Author: Laszlo J. Csetenyi, Moray D. Newlands, Ravindra K. Dhir ISBN: 0727732463 / 9780727732460 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume presents the proceedings of the symposia organised under the umbrella of Celebrating Concrete: People and Practice, an international meeting organised by the University of Dundee's Concr...
Author: , , Michael J. McCarthy ISBN: 072773248X / 9780727732484 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume presents the proceedings of the symposia organised under the umbrella of Celebrating Concrete: People and Practice, an international meeting organised by the University of Dundee's Concr...
Author: Kevin A. Paine, Moray D. Newlands, Ravindra K. Dhir ISBN: 0727732471 / 9780727732477 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume presents the proceedings of the symposia organised under the umbrella of Celebrating Concrete : People and Practice, an international meeting organised by the University of Dundee's Conc...
Author: ODPM and Home Office ISBN: 0727732617 / 9780727732613 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
Sustainable communities are communities which succeed now economically, socially and environmentally, and respect the needs of future generations. They are also well-designed places where people fe...
Author: Gareth Parry, McGrigor Donald, Scott Johnston ISBN: 0727729993 / 9780727729996 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Numerous books have been written on construction law, but very few focus entirely on engineering law in Scotland. Yet there are very separate and distinct features of Scots law, which affect all tho...
Author: Comite Euro-international Du Beton ISBN: 0727735462 / 9780727735461 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
This detailed guide will enable the reader to understand the relative importance of the numerous parameters involved in seismic design and the relationships between them, as well as the motivations ...
Author: Imperial College and GCG Peter Vaughan Commitee ISBN: 0727736205 / 9780727736208 Year: 2009 Availability: Out of Stock
This book brings together twenty of the most important papers by the late Professor Peter Rolfe Vaughan on geotechnical engineering. Selected by Peter's closest colleagues at Imperial College and th...
Author: John Bennett, Sarah Jayes ISBN: 0727726900 / 9780727726902 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
This report describes current best practice in partnering in the construction industry and identifies what needs to be done to meet the new demands arising from a rapidly changing market and from ne...
Author: John Knapton ISBN: 0727727346 / 9780727727343 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
The advent of automatically laser controlled screeding machines has led to the use of fibre reinforced concrete, a technical innovation which has changed the design as well as the construction of co...
Author: Trevor Holroyd ISBN: 0727727362 / 9780727727367 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
Newly qualified engineers often find that the skills required when they enter the workplace are different from the skills they learnt throughout their education and training. This may result in them...
Author: R J Chandler ISBN: 0727716603 / 9780727716606 Year: 1991 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume draws on the experience and extensive research of an international authorship to bring together details on slope stability, causes of landslides, landslide prevention, new techniques for...
Author: J. Pascoe, P. Culley ISBN: 072773217X / 9780727732170 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
The extraordinary global revolution in stadium development has seen no fewer than 35 brand-new stadiums recently constructed in the UK alone.
The authors state that creating and running a stadium...
Author: J H M Tah, R Howes ISBN: 0727732110 / 9780727732118 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
The past 50 years has seen a steady increase in the number of construction businesses operating on a global basis. However, in recent years, there has been a total transformation of the internationa...
Author: Andrew Cox ISBN: 0727725998 / 9780727725998 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
This book explores the appropriateness of procurement strategies in certain situations. It argues that organisations should develop strategically aligned supply chains to deliver predictable and sus...
Author: , ICE ISBN: 0727734679 / 9780727734679 Year: 2006 Availability: Out of Stock
The success of enterprises can often be attributed to their successful management of strategic risk. Conversely, failure to manage strategic risk can lead to often catastrophic consequences - Enron,...
Author: Paolo Rugarli ISBN: 0727740938 / 9780727740939 Year: 2010 Availability: In Stock
Structural Analysis with Finite Elements reveals the theory behind the finite element (FE) method as it relates to structural engineering and explains how to overcome commonly encountered problems a...
