Geo.Engineerings

Victor Gioncu, Federico M. Mazzolani ... 720 pages- Publisher: CRC Press; (June, 2002) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0419225501 - ISBN-13: 978-0419225508 ...

This book is a state-of-the-art report on the ductility of steel structures, containing a comprehensive review of the technical literature available, and presenting the results of the authors' own extensive research activities in this area. Analytical and numerical methods are described, and a wealth of practical information is provided. Ductility of Seismic-Resistant Steel Structures will be of great use to advanced students, researchers, designers and professionals in the field of civil, structural and earthquake engineering.

M. Nadim Hassoun, Akthem Al-Manaseer ... 
1072 pages - Publisher: Wiley; 6th edition (March 30, 2015)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1118767810 - ISBN-13: 978-1118767818

Structural Concrete is the bestselling text on concrete structural design and analysis, providing the latest information and clear explanation in an easy to understand style. Newly updated to reflect the latest ACI 318-14 code, this sixth edition emphasizes a conceptual understanding of the subject, and builds the student's body of knowledge by presenting design methods alongside relevant standards and code. Numerous examples and practice problems help readers grasp the real-world application of the industry's best practices, with explanations and insight on the extensive ACI revision. Each chapter features examples using SI units and US-SI conversion factors, and SI unit design tables are included for reference.

Exceptional weather-resistance and stability make concrete a preferred construction material for most parts of the world. For civil and structural engineering applications, rebar and steel beams are generally added during casting to provide additional support. Pre-cast concrete is becoming increasingly common, allowing better quality control, the use of special admixtures, and the production of innovative shapes that would be too complex to construct on site. This book provides complete guidance toward all aspects of reinforced concrete design, including the ACI revisions that address these new practices.

Review the properties of reinforced concrete, with models for shrink and creep + Understand shear, diagonal tension, axial loading, and torsion + Learn planning considerations for reinforced beams and strut and tie + Design retaining walls, footings, slender columns, stairs, and more.

The American Concrete Institute updates structural concrete code approximately every three years, and it's critical that students learn the most recent standards and best practices. Structural Concrete provides the most up to date information, with intuitive explanation and detailed guidance.

Carlo Viggiani, Alessandro Mandolini, Gianpiero Russo ... Piled foundations are generally designed using empirical methods, in particular the traditional capacity based approach on which the majority of codes of practice are based. However in recent years the analysis of pile groups and piled rafts has undergone substantial development in the light of new research and the mechanisms for the interactions between piles, soil and rafts or caps have been largely clarified. Paradoxically, with relatively large piled rafts it has been found that a design based on the criterion of serviceability, with the limitation of absolute and/or differential settlement, not only allows a more rational and economical design, but is also simpler and more reliable than one based on the traditional approach. This book provides an overview of present design practice of piled foundations, under both vertical and horizontal loads, and then a presentation of recent advances in the analysis and design of piled rafts. Altogether it forms a thorough guide to the design and analysis of efficient and effective piled rafts, and it also serves as a useful design handbook for traditional pile foundations.

Info-Details: 296 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (November, 2011) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0415490669 - ISBN-13: 978-0415490665 ...

W. F. Chen, E. M. Lui ...
394 pages
Publisher: CRC Press; (July 24, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0849386063
ISBN-13: 978-0849386060

Stability Design of Steel Frames provides a summary of the behavior, analysis and design of structural steel members and frames with flexibly-jointed connections. The book presents the theory and design of structural stability and includes extensions of computer-based analyses for individual members in space with imperfections. It also shows how connection flexibility influences the behavior and design of steel frames and how designers must consider this in a limit-state analysis and design procedure. The clearly written text and extensive bibliography make this a practical book for advanced students, researchers and professionals in civil and structural engineering, as well as a useful supplement to traditional books on the theory and design of structural stability.

M. P. Nielsen, L. C. Hoan ... 
816 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 3rd edition (December 13, 2010)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 143980396X  - ISBN-13: 978-1439803967

First published in 1984, Limit Analysis and Concrete Plasticity explains for advanced design engineers the principles of plasticity theory and its application to the design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, providing a thorough understanding of the subject, rather than simply applying current design formulas.

Updated and revised throughout, Limit Analysis and Concrete Plasticity, Third Edition adds: Reinforcement design formulas for three-dimensional stress fields that enable design of solid structures (also suitable for implementation in computer-based lower bound optimizations) + Improved explanations of the crack sliding theory and new solutions for beams with arbitrary curved shear cracks, continuous beams, lightly shear reinforced beams and beams with large axial compression + More accurate treatment of and solutions for beams with circular cross-section + Applications of crack sliding theory to punching shear problems + New solutions that illustrate the implication of initial cracking on load-carrying capacity of disks + Yield condition for the limiting case of isotropically cracked disk.

The authors also devote an entirely new chapter to a recently developed theory of rigid-plastic dynamics for seismic design of concrete structures. In comparison with time-history analyses, the new theory is simpler to use and leads to large material savings. With this chapter, plasticity design methods for both statical and dynamical loads are now covered by the book.

Andrew Y. T. Leung ... 242 pages - Publisher: Springer; Reprint of the original 1st (1993) edition (December 4, 2011)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1447120280 - ISBN-13: 978-1447120285

Dynamic Stiffness and Substructures models a complex dynamic system and offers a solution to the advanced dynamical problem associated with the effects of wind and earthquakes on structures. Since the system matrices are inevitably frequency dependant, those are exclusively considered in this publication. The relation between the frequency matrices by the Leung's theorem is most important in the development of efficient algorithms for the natural modes. This new approach was developed by the author over the past 15 years. It offers practising engineers and researchers a wide choice for structural modelling and analysis. Abundant numerical examples enable the reader to understand the theorem and to apply the methods.