Structural Engineering

This book contains select green building, materials, and civil engineering papers from the 5th International Conference on Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering (GBMCE), held in Hong Kong, April 26-27, 2016. This volume of proceedings aims to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, ..

This book contains select green building, materials, and civil engineering papers from the 4th International Conference on Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering (GBMCE), which was held in Hong Kong, August 21-22, 2014. This volume of proceedings aims to provide a platform for researchers, ..

Handbook of Mathematical Techniques for Wave/Structure Interactions effectively bridges the gap between the heavy computational methods preferred by some engineers and the more mathematical approach favored by others. Each chapter deals with a different technique, often illustrated by applications t..

Detailed and clearly written, this book contains a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the buckling and postbuckling behavior of perfect and imperfect thin plates. The authors study in detail the factors that influence critical buckling loads, initial mode shapes, and postbuckling behavior for th..

This book aids concrete producers in improving the quality of ready mixed concrete. It quantifies the benefits of improved quality in terms of cost savings, increased efficiency and consistency, and sustainability. It shows the relation between concrete quality and concrete strength variability, and..

Understanding engineering structural health is vital for making informative decisions in maintaining and renewing infrastructure to meet increasing demands. The two volumes of Infrastructure Health in Civil Engineering discuss the importance of linking the decision-making concept to damage identific..

Prior to investment in an infrastructure project, it is necessary to establish its feasibility, both in monetary and nonmonetary terms. Nonmonetary considerations include social and environmental. Future demand and operating and maintenance costs for infrastructure are uncertain; lifetime and invest..

Innovation and Application of Engineering Technology will be be useful for researchers, engineers and graduate and Ph.D. students in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mining Engineering, Risk and Occupational Engineering and other fields related to engineering...

Innovative Shear Design presents a new, rational and economical design procedure that offers increased protection against shear for all types of structures...

This volume covers the whole internal erosion process of embankment dams and their foundations, from initiation of erosion, continuation, progression to form a pipe, and formation of a breach, and will be most valuable to dam engineers, researchers and students who are involved in assessing the safe..

This book focuses on classical approximate solution techniques such as the finite difference method, the method of weighted residuals, and variation methods, culminating in an introduction to the finite element method (FEM). It describes the approximate solution of ordinary and partial differential ..

This is a concise book that provides the reader with the necessary background on terminology used in design. It is largely a qualitative treatment of the subject matter with little mathematics...