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David Pratt ... 496 pages - Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 3rd edition (June, 2010) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1439059640 - ISBN-13: 978-1439059647 ...

FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATING 3rd edition presents estimating procedures in a clear and precise manner explaining all the procedures of estimating the cost of construction work such as quantity takeoff, pricing of the contractor's work, pricing sub-trade work, pricing site overhead and compiling bid documents. This book offers readers thorough instruction on the principles of construction estimating and the skills to become a professional estimator by using drawings for two complete projects - one residential and one commercial, thereby leading the reader through the complete estimating process which can be used in various trades on many different types of construction projects.

Bentley STAAD.Pro Connect Edition v21.00.00.57 [Size: 486 MB] ... Bentley Systems Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, has released the 21.00 version of STAAD.Pro CONNECT Edition, is a comprehensive and integrated finite element analysis and design offering, including a state-of-the-art user interface, visualization capabilities, and international design codes. It is capable of analyzing any structure exposed to static loading, a dynamic response, wind, earthquake, and moving loads. STAAD.Pro provides FEM analysis and design capabilities for any type of project including towers, culverts, plants, bridges, stadiums, and marine structures. Design any type of structure and share your synchronized model data with confidence among your entire design team, using STAAD.Pro. Ensure on time and on budget completion of your steel, concrete, timber, aluminum, and cold-formed steel projects, regardless of complexity. You can confidently design structures anywhere in the world using over 80 international codes, reducing your team’s need to learn multiple software applications. Thanks to the flexible modeling environment and advanced features such as dynamic change revisions and management, you can: - Lower total cost of ownership: Design any type of structure including culverts, petrochemical plants, tunnels, bridges, and piles - Increase design productivity: Streamline your workflows to reduce duplication of effort and eliminate errors- Reduce project costs and delays: Provide accurate and economical designs to your clients and quickly turnaround change requests.

Geoff Eckold ... 400 pages - Publisher: Woodhead Publishing; 1st edition (January, 1994) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1855730510 - ISBN-13: 978-1855730519 ...

A practical book of value to those in the automotive, chemical, aerospace and offshore industries. Case studies are included and as well as covering flexible manufacturing systems and non-destructive evaluation, the author looks ahead to metal matrix composites and ceramic matrix composites.

Andre Heck ... 828 pages - Publisher: Springer; 3rd edition (April, 2003) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0387002308 - ISBN-13: 978-0387002309 ...

The fully revised edition of this best-selling title presents the modern computer algebra system Maple. It teaches the reader not only what can be done by Maple but also how and why it can be done. It provides the necessary background for those who want the most of Maple or want to extend its built-in knowledge, and it includes both elementary and more sophisticated examples as well as many exercises.

Walter Gander, Martin J. Gander, Felix Kwok ... 905 pages - Publisher: Springer; (April, 2014) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 3319043242 - ISBN-13: 978-3319043241 ...

Scientific computing is the study of how to use computers effectively to solve problems that arise from the mathematical modeling of phenomena in science and engineering. It is based on mathematics, numerical and symbolic/algebraic computations and visualization. This book serves as an introduction to both the theory and practice of scientific computing, with each chapter presenting the basic algorithms that serve as the workhorses of many scientific codes; we explain both the theory behind these algorithms and how they must be implemented in order to work reliably in finite-precision arithmetic. The book includes many programs written in Matlab and Maple – Maple is often used to derive numerical algorithms, whereas Matlab is used to implement them. The theory is developed in such a way that students can learn by themselves as they work through the text. Each chapter contains numerous examples and problems to help readers understand the material “hands-on”.

Alfio Quarteroni, Fausto Saleri ... 450 pages - Publisher: Springer; 4th edition (August, 2016) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 3662517582 - ISBN-13: 978-3662517581 ...

This textbook is an introduction to Scientific Computing, in which several numerical methods for the computer-based solution of certain classes of mathematical problems are illustrated. The authors show how to compute the zeros, the extrema, and the integrals of continuous functions, solve linear systems, approximate functions using polynomials and construct accurate approximations for the solution of ordinary and partial differential equations. To make the format concrete and appealing, the programming environments Matlab and Octave are adopted as faithful companions. The book contains the solutions to several problems posed in exercises and examples, often originating from important applications. At the end of each chapter, a specific section is devoted to subjects which were not addressed in the book and contains bibliographical references for a more comprehensive treatment of the material.

Pamela W. Adams, K. Smith, Rudolf Vyborny ... 544 pages - Publisher: Wspc; (June, 2004) - Language: English - ISBN-10: 9812560092 - ISBN-13: 978-9812560094 ...

The principal aim of this book is to introduce university level mathematics - both algebra and calculus. The text is suitable for first and second year students. It treats the material in depth, and thus can also be of interest to beginning graduate students. New concepts are motivated before being introduced through rigorous definitions. All theorems are proved and great care is taken over the logical structure of the material presented. To facilitate understanding, a large number of diagrams are included. Most of the material is presented in the traditional way, but an innovative approach is taken with emphasis on the use of Maple and in presenting a modern theory of integration. To help readers with their own use of this software, a list of Maple commands employed in the book is provided. The book advocates the use of computers in mathematics in general, and in pure mathematics in particular. It makes the point that results need not be correct just because they come from the computer. A careful and critical approach to using computer algebra systems persists throughout the text.