the Nest of Students

The Federation of Piling Specialists and In Association with BGA ... 
642 pages
Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing; 2nd edition (January 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0727733583
ISBN-13: 978-0727733580

The new ICE Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls is designed to be used as the new technical specification for piling and embedded walling works either on land or near to shore. It documents the latest piling techniques and procurement methods used in the foundations sector whilst incorporating the changes introduced by the new European Standards.

C. W. W. Ng, N. Simons, B. Keith Menzies ... 
416 pages - Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing; (January, 2004) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0727732633 - ISBN-13: 978-0727732637 ...

The fourth in the highly respected Short Course Series, A Short Course in Soil-structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels, focuses on the three major geotechnical challenges of static soil-structure interaction problems. Deep foundations piles, barrettes, Multi-propped deep excavations and Bored and open face tunnels beneath cities. This book gives both students and practising civil engineers an authoritative review of the state-of-the-art of designing deep foundations, excavations and tunnels.

Shamsher Prakash, Hari D. Sharma ... This is a concise, systematic and complete treatment of the design and construction of pile foundations. Discusses pile behavior under various loadings and types of piles and their installation, including consideration of soil parameters. It provides step-by-step design procedures for piles subject to vertical loading and pullout, lateral, inclined and eccentric loads, or dynamic loads, and for piles in permafrost. Also describes load test procedures and their interpretation and buckling of long, slender piles with and without supported length. The closing chapter presents case histories of prediction and performance of piles and pile groups. Includes numerous solved problems.

Info-Details: 768 pages - Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1st edition (July, 1990) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0471616532 - ISBN-13: 978-0471616535 ...

Magued Iskander ... 
269 pages
Publisher: Springer; (January 13, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3642131077
ISBN-13: 978-3642131073

One of the major difficulties in predicting the capacity of pipe piles in sand has resulted from a lack of understanding of the physical processes that control the behavior of piles during installation and loading.

This monograph presents a detailed blue print for developing experimental facilities necessary to identify these processes. These facilities include a unique instrumented double-walled pipe-pile that is used to delineate the frictional stresses acting against the external and internal surfaces of the pile. The pile is fitted with miniature pore-pressure transducers to monitor the generation of pore water pressure during installation and loading. A fast automatic laboratory pile hammer capable of representing the phenomena that occur during pile driving was also developed and used. Finally, a pressure chamber; feedback control system; data acquisition system; loading frame; sand handling, pluviating, saturating, and drying apparatus have been integrated to allow convenient load testing of piles under simulated field conditions. The experimental apparatus is presented with sufficient details to allow readers to duplicate or modify the design to suit their own needs.

A number of load tests were carried out to identify the effects of inertia and build-up of pore water pressure on pile plugging. Continuous measurement of dynamic and static excess pore pressures, frictional and end bearing stresses, and the elevation of the soil inside the pile during installation and loading are presented. The results of the testing program validates the performance of the developed apparatus, and provide unique insights into soil-structure interaction during pile driving and subsequent loading. The work contributes to a better understanding of pile behavior.

Meinhard T. Schobeiri ... 
504 pages
Publisher: Springer; (October 8, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3642115934
ISBN-13: 978-3642115936

The contents of this book covers the material required in the Fluid Mechanics Graduate Core Course (MEEN-621) and in Advanced Fluid Mechanics, a Ph. D-level elective course (MEEN-622), both of which I have been teaching at Texas A&M University for the past two decades. While there are numerous undergraduate fluid mechanics texts on the market for engineering students and instructors to choose from, there are only limited texts that comprehensively address the particular needs of graduate engineering fluid mechanics courses. To complement the lecture materials, the instructors more often recommend several texts, each of which treats special topics of fluid mechanics. This circumstance and the need to have a textbook that covers the materials needed in the above courses gave the impetus to provide the graduate engineering community with a coherent textbook that comprehensively addresses their needs for an advanced fluid mechanics text. Although this text book is primarily aimed at mechanical engineering students, it is equally suitable for aerospace engineering, civil engineering, other engineering disciplines, and especially those practicing professionals who perform CFD-simulation on a routine basis and would like to know more about the underlying physics of the commercial codes they use. Furthermore, it is suitable for self study, provided that the reader has a sufficient knowledge of calculus and differential equations. In the past, because of the lack of advanced computational capability, the subject of fluid mechanics was artificially subdivided into inviscid, viscous (laminar, turbulent), incompressible, compressible, subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows.

American Concrete Institute (ACI) ...
68 pages
Publisher: American Concrete Institute; (2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0870317598
ISBN-13: 978-0870317590
ASIN: B007PCPUA6

This report presents recommendations to assist the design architect/engineer, manufacturer, construction engineer, and contractor in the design, manufacture, and installation of most types of concrete piles.

Contents:
Chapter 1-Introduction 1.1-General 1.2-Types of piles 1.3-Design considerations Chapter 2-Notation and definitions 2.1-Notation 2.2-Definitions Chapter 3-Geotechnical design considerations 3.1-General 3.2-Subsurface conditions 3.3-Bearing capacity of individual piles 3.4-Settlement 3.5-Group action in compression 3.6-Pile spacing 3.7-Lateral support 3.8-Batter piles 3.9-Axial load distribution 3.10-Long-term performance 3.11-Lateral capacity 3.12-Uplift capacity Chapter 4-Structural design considerations 4.1-General 4.2-Loads and stresses to be resisted 4.3-Structural strength design and allowable service capacities 4.4-Installation and service conditions affecting design 4.5-Other design and specification considerations Chapter 5-Seismic design and detailing considerations 5.1-Introduction 5.2-General seismic impacts on pile behavior 5.3-Seismic pile behavior 5.4-Geotechnical and structural design considerations 5.5-Seismic detailing of concrete piles 5.6-Vertical accelerations Chapter 6-Materials 6.1-Concrete 6.2-Grout 6.3-Reinforcement and prestressing materials 6.4-Steel casing 6.5-Structural steel cores and stubs 6.6-Splices Chapter 7-Manufacture of precast concrete piles 7.1-General 7.2-Forms 7.3-Placement of steel reinforcement 7.4-Embedded items 7.5-Mixing, transporting, placing, and curing concrete 7.6-Pile manufacturing 7.7-Handling and storage Chapter 8-Installation of concrete piles Chapter 9-References

Steven A. Jones ...
242 pages
Publisher: Intech; (March, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9535102419
ISBN-13: 978-9535102410

Whereas the field of Fluid Mechanics can be described as complicated, mathematically challenging, and esoteric, it is also imminently practical. It is central to a wide variety of issues that are important not only technologically, but also sociologically. This book highlights a cross-section of methods in Fluid Mechanics, each of which illustrates novel ideas of the researchers and relates to one or more issues of high interest during the early 21st century. The challenges include multiphase flows, compressibility, nonlinear dynamics, flow instability, changing solid-fluid boundaries, and fluids with solid-like properties. The applications relate problems such as weather and climate prediction, air quality, fuel efficiency, wind or wave energy harvesting, landslides, erosion, noise abatement, and health care.

Kaplan S. Basniev, Nikolay M. Dmitriev, George V. Chilingar ... 576 pages - Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener; 1st edition (October, 2012) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1118385063 - ISBN-13: 978-1118385067 ...

The mechanics of fluid flow is one of the most important fundamental engineering disciplines explaining both natural phenomena and human-induced processes. A group of some of the best-known petroleum engineers in the world give a thorough understanding of this important field, central to the operations of the oil and gas industry. The mechanics of fluid flow, specifically gas, oil, and water, is a fundamental engineering discipline explaining various natural phenomena and human-induced processes. It is of utmost importance in aviation, shipbuilding, petroleum industries, thermodynamics, meteorology, and chemical engineering. This basic applied scientific discipline enables one to understand and describe mathematically the movement of fluids (gas, oil, water) in various media: channels, subsurface formations, pipelines, etc. To describe various phenomena and applications associated with fluid dynamics, the writers used the unified systematic approach based on the continuity and conservation laws of continuum mechanics. There have been many books written on the basics of fluid flow or fluid mechanics, but this volume, written by some of the most well-respected engineers and scientists in the oil and gas industry, is the first of its kind to apply these fundamental concepts to problems encountered in the petroleum industry at this level of detail. Mathematical description of specific applied problems and their solutions are presented in the book, as well as the concepts behind them, both traditional and newly conceived ideas that will be of use to scientists and students alike. This book can be used as a textbook by the university student, or as a handbook for the engineer or scientist in the field. This groundbreaking new volume includes: More efficient oil & gas production for the petroleum engineer and petroleum geologist. * More accurate forecasting for the environmental engineer. * Real-world examples for the engineering student. * Valuable new information not available anywhere else.