Entries from November 2008
Product Description
A simple, practical, and concise guide to timber design
To fully understand structural design in wood, it is not sufficient to consider the individual components in isolation. Structural Wood Design: A Practice-Oriented Approach Using the ASD Method offers an integrative approach to structural wood design that considers the design of the individual wood members in the context of the complete wood structure so that all of the structural components and connectors work together in providing strength. Holistic, practical, and code-based, this text provides the reader with knowledge of all the essentials of structural wood design:
- Wood structural elements and systems that occur in wood structures
- Structural loads—dead, live, snow, wind, and seismic—and how to calculate loads acting on typical wood structures
- Glued-laminated lumber and allowable stresses for sawn lumber and Glulam
- The design and analysis of joists and girders
- Floor vibrations
- The design of wood members subjected to axial and bending loads
- Roof and floor sheathing and horizontal diaphrams
- Exterior wall sheathing and wood shear walls
- The design of connections and how to use the connection capacity tables in the NDS code
- Several easy-to-use design aids for the preliminary sizing of joists, studs, and columns
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Categories: Engineering Book
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Incentives and Disincentives Analysis for Improving Policy for Seismic Risk Management of Homeowners in Japan
Masayuki Kohiyama, Anne S. Kiremidjian, Kimiro Meguro, and Miho Yoshimura Ohara
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World Earthquake Fatalities from the Past: Implications for the Present and Future
John M. Nichols and James E. Beavers
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Orographical Effects of Heavy Rainfall by Typhoon 0514 (NABI)
Kenji Tanaka, Sayaka Kamohara, Fumihiko Yamada, Terunori Ohmoto, and Satoru Sugio
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Spatial Model of Forest Management Strategies and Outcomes in the Wildland–Urban Interface
R. V. Platt, T. T. Veblen, and R. L. Sherriff
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Effects of Urban Sprawl on the Vulnerability to a Significant Tornado Impact in Northeastern Illinois
Soren G. Hall and Walker S. Ashley
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Categories: Engineering Journal
November 28, 2008 · 1 Comment
- Paperback: 584 pages
- Publisher: Longman Group United Kingdom; 7 edition (March 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0130311804
- ISBN-13: 978-0130311801
- Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
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Categories: Engineering Book
November 28, 2008 · 1 Comment
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The Eurocode for Earthquake-Resistant Design: An Outline
Maria A. Parisi
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Design and Use of Wood–Concrete Composites
Peggi Clouston and Alexander Schreyer
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Base Isolation for Seismic Retrofitting of Structures
Vasant A. Matsagar and R. S. Jangid
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Determination of Actual Design Moment in Ultradeep Reinforced Concrete Rafts
Muhammad Tariq Amin Chaudhary
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Seismic Screening of Public Facilities in Oregon’s Western Counties
Nathan M. Wallace and Thomas H. Miller
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Cold-Formed Steel Reinforcement for Improperly Cut Wood Composite I-Joists
Daniel P. Hindman and Joseph R. Loferski
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Review of Design of Highway Bridges: An LRFD Approach, 2nd Ed., by Richard M. Barker and Jay A. Puckett
A. Longinow, Reviewer
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Categories: Engineering Journal
Product Description
Complete, practical coverage of the evaluation, analysis, and design and code requirements of seismic isolation systems.
Based on the concept of reducing seismic demand rather than increasing the earthquake resistance capacity of structures, seismic isolation is a surprisingly simple approach to earthquake protection. However, proper application of this technology within complex seismic design code requirements is both complicated and difficult.
Design of Seismic Isolated Structures provides complete, up-to-date coverage of seismic isolation, complete with a systematic development of concepts in theory and practical application supplemented by numerical examples. This book/CD-ROM set helps design professionals navigate and understand the ideas and procedures involved in the analysis, design, and development of specifications for seismic isolated structures. It also provides a framework for satisfying code requirements while retaining the favorable cost-effective and damage control aspects of this new technology. An indispensable resource for practicing and aspiring engineers and architects, Design of Seismic Isolated Structures includes:
* Isolation system components.
* Complete coverage of code provisions for seismic isolation.
* Mechanical characteristics and modeling of isolators.
* Buckling and stability of elastomeric isolators.
* Examples of seismic isolation designs.
* Specifications for the design, manufacture, and testing of isolation devices.
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Categories: Engineering Book
- Analysis of Factors Influencing Soil Classification Using Normalized Piezocone Tip Resistance and Pore Pressure Parameters
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Reliability Index for Serviceability Limit State of Building Foundations
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Cyclic Softening of Low-Plasticity Clay and Its Effect on Seismic Foundation Performance
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Liquefaction-Induced Settlement of Pile Groups in Liquefiable and Laterally Spreading Soils
- Shear Strength and Shear-Induced Volume Change Behavior of Unsaturated Soils from a Triaxial Test Program
- Soil Vibrations Caused by Underground Moving Trains
- Analysis of the Deformation of Embankments on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway
- Thermal Analysis of Cover Systems in Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
- Crushed Glass-Dredged Material (CG-DM) Blends: Role of Organic Matter Content and DM Variability on Field Compaction
- Aging of Crushed Glass-Dredged Material Blend Embankments
- Note on the Interaction Factor for Two Laterally Loaded Piles
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Categories: Engineering Journal
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Steel frames are used in many commercial high-rise buildings, as well as industrial structures, such as ore mines and oilrigs. Enabling construction of ever lighter and safer structures, steel frames have become an important topic for engineers.
This book, split into two parts covering advanced analysis and advanced design of steel frames, guides the reader from a broad array of frame elements through to advanced design methods such as deterministic, reliability, and system reliability design approaches. This book connects reliability evaluation of structural systems to advanced analysis of steel frames, and ensures that the steel frame design described is founded on system reliability.
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Categories: Engineering Book
FRP Composites for Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Structures: a guide to fundamentals and design for repair and retrofit
Product Description
High strength fibre composites (FRPs) have been used with civil structures since the 1980s, mostly in the repair, strengthening and retrofitting of concrete structures. This has attracted considerable research, and the industry has expanded exponentially in the last decade. Design guidelines have been developed by professional organizations in a number of countries including USA, Japan, Europe and China. Until now designers have had no publication which provides practical guidance or accessible coverage of the fundamentals.
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Categories: Engineering Book
Reinforced Concrete Design with FRP Composites
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Although the use of composites has increased in many industrial, commercial, medical, and defense applications, there is a lack of technical literature that examines composites in conjunction with concrete construction. Fulfilling the need for a comprehensive, explicit guide, Reinforced Concrete Design with FRP Composites presents specific information necessary for designing concrete structures with fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites as a substitute for steel reinforcement and for using FRP fabrics to strengthen concrete members. In a reader-friendly, design-oriented manner, this book discusses the analysis, design, durability, and serviceability of concrete members reinforced with FRP.
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Categories: Engineering Book
