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Port Maintenance Handbook
Author(s): George Steele
Publication date: 11 August 2021
ISBN: 9780727764133
Stock level: In stock
£73.00
Port Maintenance Handbook is the ultimate guide to maintaining port structures and understanding the tasks and equipment needed to undertake essential repair work. Written with the practising engineer in mind, this book covers common maintenance problems for new and refurbished port structures and equipment with solutions for troubleshooting explai
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Humanitarian Civil Engineering: Practical solutions for an interdisciplinary approach
Author(s): Georgia Kremmyda
Publication date: 04 August 2021
ISBN: 9780727764683
Stock level: In stock
£41.25
Humanitarian Civil Engineering demonstrates the pivotal role of civil engineering in tackling global humanitarian challenges. It identifies what a humanitarian engineer does and offers practices that are tangible to ensure safe engineering. It combines concepts and tools traditionally used by practitioners and development agencies with civil engine
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Design of Vertical Gravity Sea and Quay Walls
Author(s): Marisa Ackhurst
Publication date: 12 May 2020
ISBN: 9780727763617
Stock level: In stock
£96.00
This essential book offers a comprehensive guide to the design of vertical gravity concrete sea and quay wall structures for practitioners in the field.
Design of Vertical Gravity Sea and Quay Walls covers the complete process from structure type selection through to detail design. Based on the British Standard 6349 as well as design codes inclu
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Port Designer's Handbook, Fourth edition
Author(s): Carl A Thoresen
Publication date: 03 April 2018
ISBN: 9780727763075
Stock level: In stock
£137.50
Now in its fourth edition, Port Designer's Handbook is the definitive guide to the layout, design and construction of harbours and port structures. Fully in line with the latest PIANC recommendations, this book covers all aspects of port planning and design from the impact of environmental on harbours, health and safety, maintenance and repair of p
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Civil Engineering Special Issue: Hong Kong
Author(s): Editor: Simon Fullalove
Publication date: 01 November 2016
ISBN: 9780727762047
Stock level: Low stock
£40.50
This Civil Engineering special issue showcases the recent innovative work in Hong Kong and how the technical problems presented by a densely populated modern city can be overcome by the ingenuity of civil engineers. As can be seen from the eight papers, the challenges vary significantly, but ultimately they come down to how civil engineers can meet
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Piers, Jetties and Related Structures Exposed to Waves - Guidelines for Hydraulic Loading
Author(s): Kirsty McConnell, William Allsop and Ian Cruickshank
Publication date: 06 August 2004
ISBN: 9780727732651
Stock level: Low stock
£81.00
Jetties, piers and other marine structures constructed in exposed locations require careful assessment of their hydraulic loads. Increasingly trade economics are leading to larger ship sizes and existing and new port locations for these vessels require longer jetties in significantly deeper water. In these instances construction of protective break
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Planning and Design of Ports and Marine Terminals, 2nd edition
Author(s): Hans Agerschou
Publication date: 23 February 2004
ISBN: 9780727734983
Stock level: Low stock
£128.50
Following from the success of the first edition, written by a collection of eminent figures in the field, this new edition continues to look at the rational planning for port facilities requirements (berths, storage and cargo handling equipment), organisations, management and operations with relation to planning and design of ports and marine termi
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Dynamics of Marine Sands
Author(s): Richard Soulsby
Publication date: 01 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727725844
Stock level: Low stock
£100.00
The practical engineer looking for an urgent solution to a sediment-related project often finds that the results of the relevant academic research are published in unfamiliar language in publications that are not easily available. Dynamics of marine sands bridges the gap between academic research and practical applications by summarising the resear
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