the Nest of Students

Donald F. Young, Bruce R. Munson, Theodore H. Okiishi, Wade W. Huebsch ... 
528 pages - Publisher: Wiley; 5th edition (November 23, 2010)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0470596791 - ISBN-13: 978-0470596791

A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 5th Edition is designed to cover the standard topics in a basic fluid mechanics course in a streamlined manner that meets the learning needs of today?s student better than the dense, encyclopedic manner of traditional texts. This approach helps students connect the math and theory to the physical world and practical applications and apply these connections to solving problems. The text lucidly presents basic analysis techniques and addresses practical concerns and applications, such as pipe flow, open-channel flow, flow measurement, and drag and lift. It offers a strong visual approach with photos, illustrations, and videos included in the text, examples and homework problems to emphasize the practical application of fluid mechanics principles

Terry L. Patterson ... 
1280 pages - Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; (November 16, 2000)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0070494371 - ISBN-13: 978-0070494374

Architects, builders and related design professionals are required to design any structure to the minimum requirements set by applicable codes. Failure to do so can mean expensive change orders during construction, delays, loss of client trust and even litigation. This work explains the standard building code for the entire United States, which replaces the regional UBC, BOCA and SBCCI codes. It explains building code requirements pictorially, with the aim of facilitating comprehension.

Building code solutions at a glance: Now the job of understanding and applying the new building code is easier. Though codes setting legal standards for the health, safety, and welfare performance of buildings are notoriously complex, this one-of-a-kind reference almost makes the new code simple. It brings you not only expert interpretation, but -- better yet -- design and detail drawings that show you how the code is applied.

From code to plain English: Based on the author's own practice and on interviews with other architects and code officials, noted architect, writer, and teacher Terry Patterson's Illustrated 2000 Building Code Handbook translates the dry and often obscure legal prose of the code into understandable language, helping you both absorb rules and apply them correctly. What's more, this book turns convoluted paragraphs into simple lists and converts equations into tables, saving you time and enhancing your ability to meet the standards' intention. Finally, Patterson's array of drawings makes comprehension and application even easier.
pass the design exam-- get ahead at work

A big help to those studying for the design portion of the architectural licensing exam -- now increasingly code-centered -- Illustrated 2000 Building Code Handbook is also ideal for those just starting in practice or preparing to embrace the new code. This unique guide: Provides orthographic and pictorial drawings for visualizing solutions * Interprets arcane and complicated code requirements with illustrations, examples, explanations, and experience * Helps solve nonstandard as well routine situations with case-study examples * Is the ideal tool for bringing recent graduates up to speed on real-world design requirements.

There's never been a building code resource like Illustrated 2000 Building Code Handbook. It's a book that deserves a convenient spot near your work station, because you'll turn to it often.

Decipher complex standards, such as for common path of egress travel, fire separation distance, and horizontal exit with noted drawings * Get more positive response on plan submissions to the building department * Skip costly revisions, and redesign  * Increase confidence in the health, safety, and welfare standards of your buildings. 

Paulo J. da Sousa Cruz ... 618 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (July, 2010) ... Language: English - ASIN: B00UVBRGTG by Amazon Digital Services ...

Although Architecture and Structural Engineering have both had their own historical development, their interaction has led to many fascinating and delightful structures over time. To bring this interaction to a higher level, there is the need to stimulate the inventive and creative design of architectural structures and to persuade architects and structural engineers to work together in this process, exploiting constructive principles and aesthetic and static values. Structures and architecture presents over 250 selected contributions and addresses all major aspects of structures and architecture, including comprehension of complex forms, computer and experimental methods, concrete and masonry structures, emerging technologies, glass structures, innovative architectural and structural design, lightweight and membrane structures, special structures, steel and composite structures, the borderline between architecture and structural engineering, the tectonic of new solutions, the use of new materials, timber structures,  the history of the relationship between architects and structural engineers, among others. This book of abstracts and the searchable CD-ROM with full papers contain the contributions presented at the 1st International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA2010). This event was organized by the School of Architecture of the University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal (July 2010), to promote the synergy between both disciplines. The contributions on creative and scientific aspects in the conception and construction of structures, on advanced technologies and on complex architectural and structural applications represent a fine blend of scientific, technical and practical novelties in both fields. This set is intended for both researchers and practitioners, including architects, structural and construction engineers, builders and building consultants, constructors, material suppliers, product manufacturers and other experts and professionals involved in the design and realization of architectural, structural and infrastructural projects.

Michel Bruneau, Chia-Ming Uang, Rafael Sabelli ... 
928 pages - Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 2nd edition (August 4, 2011)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0071623957 - ISBN-13: 978-0071623957

Comprehensive coverage of the background and design requirements for plastic and seismic design of steel structures: Thoroughly revised throughout, Ductile Design of Steel Structures, Second Edition, reflects the latest plastic and seismic design provisions and standards from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Canadian Standard Association (CSA). The book covers steel material, cross-section, component, and system response for applications in plastic and seismic design, and provides practical guidance on how to incorporate these principles into structural design.

Three new chapters address buckling-restrained braced frame design, steel plate shear wall design, and hysteretic energy dissipating systems and design strategies. Eight other chapters have been extensively revised and expanded, including a chapter presenting the basic seismic design philosophy to determine seismic loads. Self-study problems at the end of each chapter help reinforce the concepts presented. Written by experts in earthquake-resistant design who are active in the development of seismic guidelines, this is an invaluable resource for students and professionals involved in earthquake engineering or other areas related to the analysis and design of steel structures.

COVERAGE INCLUDES: Structural steel properties + Plastic behavior at the cross-section level + Concepts, methods, and applications of plastic analysis + Building code seismic design philosophy + Design of moment-resisting frames + Design of concentrically braced frames + Design of eccentrically braced frames + Design of steel energy dissipating systems + Stability and rotation capacity of steel beams.

Bent Thagesen ...
504 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; (November 1, 1995)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0419205306 - ISBN-13: 978-0419205302

This book provides a complete text on highway and traffic engineering for developing countries. It is aimed principally at students and young engineers from the developed world who have responsibility for such work in the third world, but will also be valuable for local highway engineers.

Jon Rogawski, Colin Adams ... 
1050 pages - Publisher: W. H. Freeman; 3rd edition (January 15, 2015)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1464114889 - ISBN-13: 978-1464114885

The most successful calculus book of its generation, Jon Rogawski’s Calculus offers an ideal balance of formal precision and dedicated conceptual focus, helping students build strong computational skills while continually reinforcing the relevance of calculus to their future studies and their lives.

Guided by new author Colin Adams, the new edition stays true to the late Jon Rogawski’s refreshing and highly effective approach, while drawing on extensive instructor and student feedback, and Adams’ three decades as a calculus teacher and author of math books for general audiences.W. H. Freeman/Macmillan and WebAssign have partnered to deliver WebAssign Premium – a comprehensive and flexible suite of resources for your calculus course.

Combining the most widely used online homework platform with the authoritative and interactive content from the textbook, WebAssign Premium extends and enhances the classroom experience for instructors and students.

W. M. C. McKenzie ...
288 pages - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; (October, 2001) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0333792378 - ISBN-13: 978-0333792377 ...

"Design of Structural Masonry" provides a comprehensive source of information on practical masonry design, introduces the nature and inherent characteristics of masonry given in relation to the requirements of BS 5628 and introduces the use of Eurocode EC6 in structural masonry design. The book's content ranges from an introduction to masonry as a material to the design of realistic structures.

Mario Faliva, Maria Grazia Zoia ... 
218 pages - Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. 2009 edition (December 12, 2008)
Language: English - ISBN-10: 3540859950 - ISBN-13: 978-3540859956

This second edition sees the light three years after the first one: too short a time to feel seriously concerned to redesign the entire book, but sufficient to be challenged by the prospect of sharpening our investigation on the working of econometric dynamic models and to be inclined to change the title of the new edition by dropping the “Topics in” of the former edition. After considerable soul searching we agreed to include several results related to topics already covered, as well as additional sections devoted to new and sophisticated techniques, which hinge mostly on the latest research work on linear matrix polynomials by the second author. This explains the growth of chapter one and the deeper insight into representation theorems in the last chapter of the book. The rôle of the second chapter is that of providing a bridge between the mathematical techniques in the backstage and the econometric profiles in the forefront of dynamic modelling. For this purpose, we decided to add a new section where the reader can find the stochastic rationale of vector autoregressive specifications in econometrics. The third (and last) chapter improves on that of the first edition by re- ing the fruits of the thorough analytic equipment previously drawn up.

From the Back Cover: This monograph provides an insightful analysis of dynamic modelling in econometrics by bridging the structural with the time series approaches, and by focusing on representation theorems of integrated processes. The book provides mainly a self-contained, rigorous as well as innovative, analytic setting to guide formulation and solution in closed form of vector autoregressive (VAR) models with unit roots. The second edition implements the latest research work by the second author on linear matrix polynomials whence a further breakthought on the topic is gained. Its emphasis is placed on representation theorems, conjugating an elegant reappraisal of classical results with original insights which widen their information content. A unified representation theorem of new conception is established, which duly shapes the contours of the cointegration features of VAR solutions, providing not only a contribution to clarity but also new stimuli in this fascinating field of research as a spin-off.

V. V. S. Rao, G. L. Sivakumar Babu ... 552 pages - Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (August, 2015) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 8132223764 - ISBN-13: 978-8132223764 ...

In this edited volume on advances in forensic geotechnical engineering, a number of technical contributions by experts and professionals in this area are included. The work is the outcome of deliberations at various conferences in the area conducted by Prof. G.L. Sivakumar Babu and Dr. V.V.S. Rao as secretary and Chairman of Technical Committee on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMGE). This volume contains papers on topics such as guidelines, evidence/data collection, distress characterization, use of diagnostic tests (laboratory and field tests), back analysis, failure hypothesis formulation, role of instrumentation and sensor-based technologies, risk analysis, technical shortcomings. This volume will prove useful to researchers and practitioners alike.