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Tall Buildings: The New Space Race - a Civil Engineering Special Issue
Author(s): Editor: Simon Fullalove
Publication date: 01 November 2010
ISBN: 9780727741356
£14.05
Despite the recent global construction downturn, tall buildings are still erected in city centres because they provide economical, prestigious, comfortable, safe and sustainable solutions to urbanisation and urban regeneration. Increasingly clients' demands for taller buildings with enhanced performance requirements can only be met by engineering i
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Planning Major Projects
Author(s): Roger J. Allport
Publication date: 27 October 2010
ISBN: 9780727741103
£81.00
Planning Major Projects is a new, practical guide to developing resilient infrastructure and offers insight and guidance for planners seeking to deliver major projects on time, within budget and in line with operational goals. Planning Major Projects advocates a new approach for planning based on the author's international experience of working on
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Structural systems: behaviour and design Volume 2: Spatial structural systems, foundations and dynamics
Author(s): Leonidas Stavridis
Publication date: 08 October 2010
ISBN: 9780727741073
£88.25
Promoting and underlining the importance of structural thinking, Structural Systems: Behaviour and Design will provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of a wide range of structural systems based on the load-carrying mechanisms involved. Bringing together a wide array of structural types and covering the behaviour and des
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Structural systems: behaviour and design Volumes 1 & 2 (2 BOOK SET)
Author(s): Leonidas Stavridis
Publication date: 08 October 2010
ISBN: 9780727741332
£128.50
Promoting and underlining the importance of structural thinking, Structural Systems: Behaviour and Design will provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of a wide range of structural systems based on the load-carrying mechanisms involved.
Bringing together a wide array of structural types and covering the behaviour and
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Structural systems: behaviour and design Volume 1: Plane structural systems
Author(s): Leonidas Stavridis
Publication date: 08 October 2010
ISBN: 9780727741066
£76.25
Promoting and underlining the importance of structural thinking, Structural Systems: Behaviour and Design will provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of a wide range of structural systems based on the load-carrying mechanisms involved. Bringing together a wide array of structural types and covering the behaviour and des
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ICE Manual of Construction Materials: Polymers and Polymer Fibre Composites
Author(s): L.C. Hollaway
Publication date: 21 July 2010
ISBN: 9780727741202
£46.50
This book is a specially published section of the larger work ICE manual of construction materials. Polymers and Polymer Fibre Composites are sections 6 and 7 of the two volume work. ICE manual of construction materials is an invaluable resource for practising civil and structural engineers in consulting firms, government agencies, research institu
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Structural Analysis with Finite Elements
Author(s): Paolo Rugarli
Publication date: 11 June 2010
ISBN: 9780727740939
£81.00
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 and errors found in everyday structural modelling with finite element software. Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience as a structural engineer and FE
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Waterborne Transport - a Civil Engineering special issue
Author(s): Editor: Simon Fullalove
Publication date: 01 May 2010
ISBN: 9780727741042
£22.00
Waterborne transport remains fundamental to the global economy. While the proportion of freight carried by inland waterways is relatively modest - with 6% in Europe, 9% in the USA and 11% in China - the unrivalled efficiency of sea transport means that 90% of all world trade is moved on water. In Britain, 20% of domestic freight and 95% of internat
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Designers' Guide to Eurocode 1: Actions on bridges
Author(s): J-A Calgaro, M Tschumi, and H Gulvanessian
Publication date: 15 March 2010
ISBN: 9780727731586
£119.00
This series of Designers Guides to the Eurocodes provides comprehensive guidance in the form of design aids, indications for the most convenient design procedures and worked examples. The books also include background information to aid the designer in understanding the reasoning behind and the objectives of the codes. All of the individual guides
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Specification for Tunnelling, 3rd edition
Author(s): The British Tunnelling Society
Publication date: 12 March 2010
ISBN: 9780727734778
£88.25
The BTS Specification for Tunnelling has become the standard industry document for tunnelling contracts, and forms the basis of tunnelling specifications for projects throughout the world. The specification has been revised in this third edition to reflect current industry best practice and to take account of the many advances in the field of tunne
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