Geo.Engineerings

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).

John Eastwood ... 446 pages - Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (September, 1994) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0194313514 - ISBN-13: 978-0194313513 ...

The Oxford Guide To English Grammar specifically deals with British English, its correct usage and a systematic account of the grammatical forms used in standard British English format. This book which provides a broad set of details, is meant for intermediate and expert levels of learning.

Each chapter in this book starts with a simple, easy to grasp summary which forms a background for the latter material to follow. A wide range of grammatical nuances are provided as grammatical units, word classes, phrases and sentence elements. Since there is a rise in the use of informal language, the book also covers the acceptability and non-acceptability of informal language. Though this book focuses mainly on British English, it also covers the difference between American and British English.

Oxford Guide To English Grammar provides readers with authentic texts and examples. in addition to this, the sentences and examples are classified as formal or informal, literary or conversational. Emphasis is also laid on the meaning in the choice of grammatical pattern and on the use of patterns in texts and in conversations. The Oxford Guide To English Grammar was published by the Oxford University Press as the Tenth Impression edition (2003). This book is available as a paperback.

L. R. Kadiyali ... 408 pages - Publisher: Khanna Publishers; (September, 2016) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 9382609857 - ISBN-13: 978-9382609858 ...

Pascal Jean Frey, Paul-Louis George ... 848 pages - Publisher: Wiley-ISTE; 2nd edition (April, 2008) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1848210299 - ISBN-13: 978-1848210295 ...

The aim of the second edition of this book is to provide a comprehensive survey of the different algorithms and data structures useful for triangulation and meshing construction. In addition, several aspects are given full coverage, such as mesh modification tools, mesh evaluation criteria, mesh optimization, adaptive mesh construction and parallel meshing techniques. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and also includes a new chapter on mobile or deformable meshes.

Kenneth Leet, Dionisio Bernal ...
560 pages - Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 3rd edition (December, 1996) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0070371008 - ISBN-13: 978-0070371002 ...

The new edition of Reinforced Concrete Design includes the latest technical advances, including the 1995 American Concrete Institute Building Code. Review questions and problem sets at the end of every chapter are identical to those your civil engineering undergraduates will encounter in practice.