Geo.Engineerings

Evelyn P. Altenberg, Robert M. Vago ... 
281 pages - Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (June, 2010) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0521732166 - ISBN-13: 978-0521732161 ...

This text is designed to help readers learn about English grammar in as simple and straightforward a way as possible. The authors use a friendly and encouraging tone and easy to understand language with a minimum of terminology, helping readers to overcome "grammar phobia." The book can be used alone or as part of a course. It assumes no prior knowledge of grammar. Using a workbook approach, the present information in small steps, with objective techniques to help readers apply new concepts. Numerous exercises, with answers, allow readers to test themselves after information is presented. "Quick Tips" provide convenient "tricks" to help readers master the material and also highlight the main concepts in each lesson. Short sections called "To Enhance Your Understanding" are for readers who are interested in more than basic information. Overall, the text provides readers with an important learning experience as well as a useful reference book.

Resources within the text: * numerous exercises with answers allow readers to test themselves after new information is presented; exercises gradually incorporate more knowledge while building on prior information; * "Quick Tips" that help mastery of the material and highlight the main points provide "tricks" to help readers master the material and help readers focus on the main points of each lesson; * "To Enhance Your Understanding" sections for readers who want more than the basics provide further information for readers interested in more than the basics; can be skipped by beginners; * an extensive glossary for easy reference; * answers to the "Getting Started" section of each exercise.

Christine Solnon ... 320 pages - Publisher: Wiley-ISTE; (May, 2010) - Language: English - ISBN-10: 1848211309 - ISBN-13: 978-1848211308.

Ant colony optimization is a metaheuristic which has been successfully applied to a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. The author describes this metaheuristic and studies its efficiency for solving some hard combinatorial problems, with a specific focus on constraint programming. The text is organized into three parts. The first part introduces constraint programming, which provides high level features to declaratively model problems by means of constraints. It describes the main existing approaches for solving constraint satisfaction problems, including complete tree search approaches and metaheuristics, and shows how they can be integrated within constraint programming languages.

The second part describes the ant colony optimization metaheuristic and illustrates its capabilities on different constraint satisfaction problems. The third part shows how the ant colony may be integrated within a constraint programming language, thus combining the expressive power of constraint programming languages, to describe problems in a declarative way, and the solving power of ant colony optimization to efficiently solve these problems.

Bill Mosley, John Bungey, Ray Hulse ... 424 pages - Publisher: Palgrave; 6th revised edition (2007) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0230500714 - ISBN-13: 978-0230500716 ..

.Reinforced Concrete Design provides a straightforward and practical introduction to the principles and methods used in the design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. Fully revised and updated to conform to the final version of the new Eurocode 2, students and practitioners alike will find it a concise guide both to the basic theory and to design procedures. Appropriate design charts, tables and formulae are included as design aids and, for ease of reference, an appendix contains a summary of important design information. Features of the sixth edition of this best-selling text: / Completely revised in line with the new and final Eurocode 2 / Numerous examples of the theory in practice / Important equations highlighted in the text / New section on seismic design All the authors are chartered engineers, each with more than twenty years of teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Muni Budhu ... 616 pages - Publisher: John Wiley; 1st edition (2000) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0005984505 - ISBN-13: 978-0005984505 ...

Introduction to Soil Mechanics and Foundations. Physical Characteristics of Soils and Soil Investigations. Stresses, Strains and Elastic Deformations of Soils. One-Dimensional Consolidation Settlement of Fine-Grained Soils. Shear Strength of Soils. A Critical State Model to Interpret Soil Behavior. Bearing of Capacity of Soils and Settlement of Shallow Foundations. Pile Foundations. Two-Dimensional Flow of Water Through Soils. Stability of Earth Retaining Structures. Slope Stability. Appendices. Answers to Selected Problems. References. Index.

M. J. N. Priestley, G. M. Calvi, M. J. Kowalsky ... 
721 pages - Publisher: IUSS Press; 1st edition (May, 2007) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 8861980007 - ISBN-13: 978-8861980006 ...

Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Structures is a book primarily directed towards practicing structural designers who are interested in applying performance-based concepts to seismic design. Since much of the material presented in the book has not been published elsewhere, it will also be of considerable interest to researchers, and to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of earthquake engineering who wish to develop a deeper understanding of how design can be used to control seismic response.

John Eastwood ... 446 pages - Publisher: Oxford University Press; 2nd edition (March, 1999) .
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0194313697 - ISBN-13: 978-0194313698 ...

This text gives clear explanations of English grammar with exercises on the facing page which provide practice in form and use. The revised edition provides additional grammar topics and expanded treatment of others, more exercises and progress tests at intervals throughout the book, and more illustrated dialogues and texts (the grammar presentations make frequent use of pictures and dialogues to establish contexts for use).