Sports Turf: Science, Construction and Maintenance

Author(s):     V.I. Stewart
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Date: 1993-11-01    
Format: PDF    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 0419149503    
Pages: 304    
ISBN13:9780419149507

A detailed, practical guide (with the backing of the main UK authorities) to the construction and maintenance of sports grounds.

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Guided Explorations of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures (Cambridge Aerospace Series)

Author(s):     James F. Doyle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2009-09-21    
Format:pdf    
Language:English    
ISBN10: 0521896789    
Pages: 460
Quality: excellent    
ISBN13:9780521896788

This book tackles the question, How can an engineer with a powerful finite element program but modest background knowledge of mechanics solve unfamiliar problems? Engineering educators will find this book to be a new and exciting approach to helping students engage with complex ideas. Practicing engineers who use finite element methods to solve problems in solids and structures will extend the range of problems they can solve as well as accelerate their learning on new problems. This book's special strengths include: • A thoroughly modern approach to learning and understanding mechanics problems • Comprehensive coverage of a large collection of problems ranging from static to dynamic and from linear to nonlinear, applied to a variety of structures and components • Accompanying software that is sophisticated and versatile and is available for free from the book's Web site • Ability to complement any standard finite element textbook

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Analysis of Concrete Structures by Fracture Mechanics: Proceedings of a RILEM Workshop dedicated to Professor Arne Hillerborg, Abisko, Sweden 1989 (Rilem Proceedings)

Author(s):     L. Elfgren
Publisher: Spon Press
Date:1990-12-31    
Format: pdf    
Language: English    
ISBN10:041236980X    
Pages: 320    
Quality: excellent    
ISBN13: 9780412369803

This book presents the latest research findings of the fast developing applications of fracture mechanics to concrete structures. Key papers from leading experts in the field describe existing and new modelling techniques in the analysis of materials and structures. The book explains the practical application of fracture mechanics to structural modelling, bending, shear, bond and anchorage. The proceedings of this RILEM Workshop will be an important reference for those engaged in design, development, research and teaching in the field of concrete structures.

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Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics II

Author(s):     Susan Gourvenec
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 2010-10-05    
Format: pdf    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 0415584809    
Pages: 934    
ISBN13:9780415584807

Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics II comprises the Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG), organised by the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS) and held at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth from 8 – 10 November 2010. The volume addresses current and emerging challenges facing those working in offshore geotechnics, spanning construction, design and research. Keynote papers with authors from industry and academia describe the state-of-the-art of practice and theory. A further 117 peer-reviewed papers describe emerging research, new design techniques and recent case studies related to the frontiers of offshore geotechnical engineering. The themes of the papers include geohazards, gas hydrates, in situ site characterisation and pore pressure measurement, site investigation, soil characterisation, foundations for renewable energy, shallow foundations, jack-up units, piled foundations, anchoring systems, pipelines and risk and reliability. New and established design methods representing industry best practice are discussed alongside new construction technologies and emerging research ideas. Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics II provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art reference for professionals and researchers in offshore, civil and maritime engineering and for soil mechanics specialists. 

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Blueprint Reading: Construction Drawings for the Building Trade

Author(s):     Sam Kubba
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Date:2008-09-30    
Format: PDF    
Language:English    
ISBN10: 0071549862    
Pages: 384    
ISBN13: 9780071549868

Improve Your Ability to Read and Interpret All Types of Construction Drawings

Blueprint Reading is a step-by-step guide to reading and interpreting all types of construction drawings. Filled with hundreds of illustrations and study questions, this easy-to-use resource offers a complete overview of construction drawing basics for every aspect of the construction process- from site work, foundations, and structural systems to interior work and finishes.

Covering all the latest technological advances, noted architect Sam Kubba offers detailed information on:
 * Blueprint standards-ANSI, ISO, AWS, and ASME
 * Computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided design and drafting (CADD)
 * Lines, views, elevations, and dimensions
 * Layouts of all construction drawing types-architectural, structural, mechanical, and electrical
 * Specifications-MasterFormat and UniFormat
 * Symbols-materials, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and others
 * How to avoid costly pitfalls on construction projects

You'll also find a glossary of terms for quick reference, convenient tables and charts for identifying symbols and abbreviations, and much more.

Inside This Skills-Building Guide to Construction Drawing Basics • Blueprint Standards • Blueprints and Construction Drawings: A Universal Language • Understanding Lines • Types of Views • Understanding Dimensions • Layout of Construction Drawings • Understanding Industrial Blueprints • The Meaning of Symbols • Understanding Schedules • Specifications • ISO Issues, Codes, and Building Regulations • Construction Business Environment

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In Search of Sustainability

Author(s):     Jenny Goldie, Bryan Furnass and Bob Douglas
Date: 2004-12-01    
Format: pdf    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 0643090622    
Pages: 200    
OCR: Y    
ISBN13: 9780643090620

What must we do to achieve a sustainable society? There is no one answer. The first steps towards sustainability cover a whole spectrum of economic, social and environmental issues.

In this volume Australian leaders from a wide range of fields discuss the key issues we must address if we are to move towards a more just and sustainable future. They identify the major concerns and challenges for achieving sustainability in the areas of:

human health
 water resources
 land use and natural ecosystems
 energy
 equity and peace
 economic systems
 climate change
 labour forces and work
 urban design and transport
 population

Achieving sustainability will require major changes in our current approaches. The thought-provoking chapters in this book provide a solid introduction to the issues in the search for a genuine path to sustainability.

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Foundation Engineering Handbook 2/E

Author(s):     Robert Day
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Date: 2010-08-12    
Format:pdf    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 0071740090    
Pages: 1008
ISBN13: 9780071740098

A fully up-to-date, practical guide to foundation engineering

Revised to cover the 2009 International Building Code, Foundation Engineering Handbook, Second Edition presents basic geotechnical field and laboratory studies, such as subsurface exploration and laboratory testing of soil, rock, and groundwater samples. The book then discusses the geotechnical aspects of foundation engineering, including conditions commonly encountered by design engineers--settlement, expansive soil, and slope stability. Details on the performance or engineering evaluation of foundation construction and the application of the 2009 International Building Code are included in this valuable resource.

FOUNDATION ENGINEERING HANDBOOK, SECOND EDITION COVERS:
 * Subsurface exploration
 * Laboratory testing
 * Soil mechanics
 * Shallow and deep foundations
 * Bearing capacity and settlement of foundations
 * Foundations on expansive soil
 * Slope stability
 * Retaining walls
 * Foundation deterioration and cracking
 * Geotechnical earthquake engineering for soils, foundations, and retaining walls
 * Grading and other soil improvement methods
 * Foundation excavation, underpinning, and field load tests
 * Geosynthetics and instrumentation
 * 2009 International Building Code regulations for soils and foundations

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Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

Author(s):     Amy E. Slaton
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Date:2001-05-23    
Format: PDF    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 080186559X    
Pages: 272    
OCR: Y    
Quality: Good    
ISBN13: 9780801865596

Examining the proliferation of reinforced-concrete construction in the United States after 1900, historian Amy E. Slaton considers how scientific approaches and occupations displaced traditionally skilled labor. The technology of concrete buildings -- little studied by historians of engineering, architecture, or industry -- offers a remarkable case study in the modernization of American production.

The use of concrete brought to construction the new procedures and priorities of mass production. These included a comprehensive application of science to commercial enterprise and vast redistributions of skills, opportunities, credit, and risk in the workplace. Reinforced concrete also changed the American landscape as building buyers embraced the architectural uniformity and simplicity to which the technology was best suited.

Based on a wealth of data that includes university curricula, laboratory and company records, organizational proceedings, blueprints, and promotional materials as well as a rich body of physical evidence such as tools, instruments, building materials, and surviving reinforced-concrete buildings, this book tests the thesis that modern mass production in the United States came about not simply in answer to manufacturers' search for profits, but as a result of a complex of occupational and cultural agendas.

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Earthquake Proof Design and Active Fault

Author(s):     Y. Kanaori
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Date: 1997-04-01    
Format: PDF    
Language: English    
ISBN10:0444825622    
Pages: 282    
ISBN13: 9780444825629

On 17th January 1995 an inland earthquake of 7.2 magnitude occurred under Kobe city in central Japan. More than 5,500 people lost their lives. There was immense and serious damage to buildings. Researchers and engineers were shocked and astonished by the extent of the devastation and loss of life. Ground motions, generated by the event were far greater than the seismic standard for earthquake-proof designs in Japan.

Recent academic progress in the fields of geology and geophysics, which would help to reduce the severity of seismic disasters, has not been sufficiently applied to the development of earthquake-proof designs.

This book contains 13 original and innovative papers
of interdisciplinary study spanning earthquake-proof technology and active fault science (seven of the papers cover topics concerning the 1995 Kobe earthquake).

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Handbook Of Interior Lighting Design

Author(s):     Rodney R. Ganslandt, H. Hofman
Publisher: ERCO
Date: 1992    
Format: PDF    
Language:English    
ISBN10: 0851880134    
Pages: 289    
OCR: Y    
ISBN13:9780851880136

The Handbook of Lighting Design covers the basic principles and practice of architectural lighting. It exists as much as a teaching aid, e.g. for students of architecture, as a reference book for lighting designers. The Handbook does not intend to compete with the existing comprehensive range of specialist literature on lighting engineering, nor to be added to the limited number of beautifully illustrated volumes containing
finished projects. The Handbook aims to approach and deal with the subject of architectural lighting in a practical.

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Model Driven Architecture for Reverse Engineering Technologies: Strategic Directions and System Evolution (Premier Reference Source)

Author(s): Liliana Favre
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2010-01-31    
Format:pdf    
Language:English    
ISBN10: 1615206493    
Pages: 386    
ISBN13:9781615206490

The demand for modernization of legacy systems has created the need for new architectural frameworks that improve interoperability, productivity, process quality, and maintenance costs involved with model driven architecture.

Model Driven Architecture for Reverse Engineering Technologies: Strategic Directions and System Evolution emphasizes the importance of validation and verification in the modernization of systems that are critical to safety, security, and economic profits. Containing integration analyses to control the evolution of legacy systems towards object oriented technologies, this innovative publication provides critical research for those that have adopted reverse production practices or are considering an investment in system modernization.

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Prefabs: The history of the UK Temporary Housing Programme (Studies in History, Planning, and the Environment)

Author(s):     Brenda Vale
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 1995-08-01    
Format:PDF    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 0419188002    
Pages: 200
Quality: Good    
ISBN13:9780419188001

The book looks at the emergence of the prefab as a unique housing form. It examines the reasons prefabs have survived way beyond their design life of fifteen years, when other post-war housing types have been demolished. There is no other single text that sets the temporary housing programme in context.

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Civil Engineering Formulas (Pocket Guide)

Author(s): Tyler Hicks
Publisher:    McGraw-Hill Professional
Date: 2001-09-30    
Format:PDF    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 0071356126    
Pages: 350    
ISBN13:9780071356121

 Indispensable portable reference for all practicing civil engineers and students

 Now you can get a single compilation of all essential civil engineering formulas and equations in one easy-to-use portable reference. More than three-quarters of the material in Tyler Hicks Civil Engineering Formulas Pocket Guide is in the form of formulas, tables, and graphs, presented in SI and USCS formats. Each chapter, offering collections of problems and calculations, gives you quick reference to a well-defined topic:

Conversion Factors for Civil Engineering Practice
Beam Formulas
Column Formulas
Piles and Piling Formulas
Concrete Formulas
Timber Engineering Formulas
Surveying Formulas
 Soil and Earthwork Formulas
 Building and Structures Formulas
 Bridge and Suspension-Cable Formulas
 Highway and Road Formulas
 Hydraulics and Waterworks Formulas

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Urban Space And Representation

Author(s):      Maria Balshaw
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date: 2000-01-01   
Format: PDF   
Language:English   
ISBN10: 0745313493   
Pages: 256
Quality: Good   
ISBN13:     9780745313498

Theories of urban space have become the focus of a great deal of work by scholars in cultural geography, urban studies and critical theory. This volume contributes to that debate by analysing the relationship between theories of urban space and literary and visual representations of the city – an emergent area of confluence in literary, film and cultural studies. The contributors address themes such as visual culture and spectacle; class and capital; community and public space; and nation, diaspora and belonging. Cities covered include New York, Chicago, Jerusalem, Paris, London, Birmingham and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Artists and writers discussed include Piet Mondrian, Nella Larsen, Rudolph Fisher, Amos Oz, David Grossman, Sarah Schulman, Jonathan Larsen, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Paul Auster and Wayne Wang.

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Air Quality and Comfort in Airliner Cabins

Author(s): Niren Laxmichand Nagda
Date: 2000-11    
Format:pdf    
Language: English    
ISBN10: 0803128665    
Pages: 290    
OCR: Y    
ISBN13: 9780803128668

This significant, new ASTM publication provides a valuable insight into the numerous issues and challenges associated with air quality in airliner cabins. It examines 15 peer-reviewed papers, written by professionals known worldwide for scientific investigations of the aircraft cabin environment. Specific attention is give to potential causes of adverse health symptoms and discomfort reported in airliners. These concerns include air pollutants such as aldehyedes, bioaerosols, carbon monoxide, ozone, and VOCs, as well as carbon dioxide, cabin barometric pressure, vibration, temperature, and humidity.

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Sustainable Urban Housing in China: Principles and Case Studies for Low-Energy Design (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries)

							Author(s):  Leon Glicksman, Juintow Lin Publisher: Springer Date: 2006-12-28     Format: PDF     Language: English     ISBN10: 1402054122     Pages: 292     OCR: Y     ISBN13: 9781402054129 This book features case studies and recommendations for new approaches to environmentally responsive sustainable building, illuminating many principles of sustainability and energy efficiency applicable to buildings worldwide, and in developing countries in particular. These projects identify practical technologies, new and existing, that will yield energy-efficient, healthy, and comfortable designs. Individual chapters address ventilation, controls, materials, and daylighting. Design guidelines and organizational methods suited to urban projects are also discussed.
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