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Fernando Schnaid ... 
354 pages - Publisher: T&F Books-UK; 1st edition (March 21, 2009)
Language: English - ASIN: B0023ZLEB4 - ISBN: 041543386X

Demanding a thorough knowledge of material behaviour and numerical modelling, site characterisation and in situ test interpretation are no longer just basic empirical recommendations.

Giving a critical appraisal of the understanding and assessment of the stress-strain-time and strength characteristics of geomaterials, this book explores new interpretation methods for measuring properties of a variety of soil formations.

Emphasis is given to the five most commonly encountered in situ test techniques: Standard penetration tests + cone penetration tests  + vane test  + pressuremeter tests  + dilatometer tests.

Ideal for practising engineers in the fields of geomechanics and environmental engineering, this book solves numerous common problems in site characterisation. It is also a valuable companion for students coming to the end of their engineering courses and looking to work in this sector.

Edward Allen, Joseph Iano ... 160 pages - Publisher: Wiley; 6th edition (October, 2013) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1118653289 - ISBN-13: 978-1118653289.

This essential companion to Fundamentals of Building Construction, Sixth Edition, involves students in the types of everyday issues faced by professional building architects. Exercises in Building Construction, Sixth Edition, offers students a hands-on way to apply material learned in the core book by featuring: * Forty-six real world construction problems * Clear instructions for each exercise * Informative, concise illustrations * Ample space to work out answers. Complete with online resources for students and instructors, Exercises in Building Construction, Sixth Edition provides expert developmental guidance from the industry's leading authorial team.

Jim Coulson ... 220 pages - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (April, 2012) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0470657774 - ISBN-13: 978-0470657775 ...

Wood in Construction – How to Avoid Costly Mistakes focuses on the basic principles and appropriate use of wood in construction and illustrates how to avoid or minimise problems, to ensure that wood performs as expected when used in a construction application. Based on the author’s extensive experience of manufacturing processes and practical applications in the timber, construction, joinery, shop-fitting and furniture industries, Wood in Construction provides a guide to using wood in building in the real world. It describes the main causes of difficulty when using wood, and shows how to avoid or minimise problems, reducing the difficulties for the architect, engineer or specifier, builder and building owner. Technical enough to explain why things should be done in specific ways, but also practical enough to demonstrate how to use wood correctly and avoid doing the wrong things, this is an invaluable resource for construction specifiers (architects, engineers), carpenters, structural engineers, building surveyors, small/medium sized builders.

Hoon Huh, C. G. Park, C. S. Lee, Y. T. Keum ... 
898 pages - Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc; (May, 2009)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 9814261564 - ISBN-13: 978-9814261562

The primary objective of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications (AEPA) is to provide a free forum for exchanging ideas and introducing the latest research findings in the field of engineering plasticity. This conference is unique among the related conferences in that it provides a forum for all fields of plasticity so that multi-disciplinary research works are encouraged. This proceedings volume consists of papers presented at AEPA2008, and covers the following categories in all fields of engineering plasticity: constitutive modeling; damage, fracture, fatigue and failure; dynamic loading and crash dynamics; engineering applications and case studies; experimental and numerical techniques; molecular dynamics; nano, meso, micro and crystal plasticity; phase transformations; plastic instability and strain localization; plasticity in advanced materials; plasticity in materials processing technology; plasticity in tribology; porous, cellular and composite materials; structural plasticity; superplasticity; and, time-dependent deformation. Ranging from nanoscale to macroscale applications of engineering plasticity, this book touches upon fields as diverse as mechanical engineering, materials science, physics, chemistry and civil engineering.

Alberto Carpinteri ... 512 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (September, 2013) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0415580323 - ISBN-13: 978-0415580328 ...

George T. Hahn, Carol A. Rubin, Kaushik A. Iyer ... 
280 pages - Publisher: Woodhead Publishing; (December, 2005) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1845691199 - ISBN-13: 978-1845691196 ...

Engineers employ shear connections - riveted and bolted butt and lap joints - in a wide range of structures and machines. Ordinary stress analyses of joints are unable to define the features that ultimately govern fatigue and fretting and provide bases for design. Detailed analyses have only become possible recently with advances in finite element methods and computing capabilities. This text places into context the results of over 150 detailed 2D and 3D finite element analyses of aluminum and steel shear connections so that engineers can optimize the design and reliability of shear joints.

Surya Patnaik, Dale Hopkins ... 
750 pages - Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1st edition (October 28, 2003)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0750674024 - ISBN-13: 978-0121820114

Strength of Materials provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory of strength of materials. The unified theory presented in this book is developed around three concepts: Hooke's Law, Equilibrium Equations, and Compatibility conditions. The first two of these methods have been fully understood, but clearly are indirect methods with limitations. Through research, the authors have come to understand compatibility conditions, which, until now, had remained in an immature state of development. This method, the Integrated Force Method (IFM) couples equilibrium and compatibility conditions to determine forces directly.

The combination of these methods allows engineering students from a variety of disciplines to comprehend and compare the attributes of each. The concept that IFM strength of materials theory is problem independent, and can be easily generalized for solving difficult problems in linear, nonlinear, and dynamic regimes is focused upon. Discussion of the theory is limited to simple linear analysis problems suitable for an undergraduate course in strength of materials. To support the teaching application of the book there are problems and an instructor's manual.

Provides a novel approach integrating two popular indirect solution methods with newly researched, more direct conditions  + Completes the previously partial theory of strength of materials  + A new frontier in solid mechanics

Michael Alexander, Dick Kusleika ... 816 pages - Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (January, 2016) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1119067863 - ISBN-13: 978-1119067863 ...