Geo.Engineerings

Jiping Bai ... 
928 pages
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing; 1st edition (October 14, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0857094181
ISBN-13: 978-0857094186

Advanced fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have become essential materials for the building of new structures and for the repair of existing infrastructure. Advanced fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites for structural applications provides an overview of different advanced FRP composites and the use of these materials in a variety of application areas.

Part one introduces materials used in the creation of advanced FRP composites including polyester, vinylester and epoxy resins. Part two goes on to explore the processing and fabrication of advanced FRP composites and includes chapters on prepreg processing and filament winding processes. Part three highlights properties of advanced FRP composites and explores how performance can be managed and tested. Applications of advanced FRP composites, including bridge engineering, pipe rehabilitation in the oil and gas industry and sustainable energy production, are discussed in part four.

With its distinguished editor and international team of expert contributors, Advanced fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites for structural applications is a technical resource for researchers and engineers using advanced FRP composites, as well as professionals requiring an understanding of the production and properties of advanced FRP composites, and academics interested in this field.

• Provides an overview of different advanced FRP composites and the use of these materials in a variety of application areas
• Introduces materials used in the creation of advanced FRP composites including polyester, vinylester and epoxy resins
• Explores the processing and fabrication of advanced FRP composites and includes chapters on prepreg processing and filament winding processes.

C. R. Calladine ...
328 pages - Publisher: Woodhead Publishing; 2nd edition (September 15, 2000)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1898563705 - ISBN-13: 978-1898563709

This book focuses on the plastic property of materials, and the way in which structures made of such material behave under load. It is intended for civil, mechanical, electro-mechanical, marine, and aeronautical engineers for under-graduate or post-graduate courses or research, and professionals in industry. Professor Calladine, from long experience in teaching, research and industry, here delivers a readable and authoritative account of theory and applications. He presents the classical "perfect plasticity material" as a model of irreversible mechanical behaviour, using this perfect plasticity property to analyse a range of continuum structural problems and metal-forming processes relevant to engineering practice.

S. Rajasekaran ... 896 pages- Publisher: Woodhead Publishing; 1st edition (June 13, 2009)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1845695186 - ISBN-13: 978-1845695187

Given the risk of earthquakes in many countries, knowing how structural dynamics can be applied to earthquake engineering of structures, both in theory and practice, is a vital aspect of improving the safety of buildings and structures. It can also reduce the number of deaths and injuries and the amount of property damage.

The book begins by discussing free vibration of single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems, both damped and undamped, and forced vibration (harmonic force) of SDOF systems. Response to periodic dynamic loadings and impulse loads are also discussed, as are two degrees of freedom linear system response methods and free vibration of multiple degrees of freedom. Further chapters cover time history response by natural mode superposition, numerical solution methods for natural frequencies and mode shapes and differential quadrature, transformation and Finite Element methods for vibration problems. Other topics such as earthquake ground motion, response spectra and earthquake analysis of linear systems are discussed.

Structural dynamics of earthquake engineering: theory and application using Mathematica and Matlab provides civil and structural engineers and students with an understanding of the dynamic response of structures to earthquakes and the common analysis techniques employed to evaluate these responses. Worked examples in Mathematica and Matlab are given.

Explains the dynamic response of structures to earthquakes including periodic dynamic loadings and impulse loads + Examines common analysis techniques such as natural mode superposition, the finite element method and numerical solutions + Investigates this important topic in terms of both theory and practise with the inclusion of practical exercise and diagrams.