Category Archives: Civil Engineering

Advances in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering)

Performance-based Earthquake Engineering has emerged before the turn of the century as the most important development in the field of Earthquake Engineering during the last three decades. It has since then started penetrating codes and standards on seismic assessment and … Continue reading

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Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008

The international conference on “Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics”, held on February 27-29, 2008 at Wuppertal University in Germany, was the fourth in this series after successful meetings in Duisburg (2001), Greenwich (2003) and Vienna (2005). The conference was aimed at … Continue reading

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The Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008: A Photographic Atlas of Surface Rupture and Related Disaster

“The Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008: A Photographic Atlas of Surface Rupture and Related Disaster” focuses on the main deformation characteristics of co-seismic surface rupture, including rupture length and slip distribution of co-seismic surface rupture caused by the Wenchuan Earthquake … Continue reading

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Water Technology, Third Edition: An Introduction for Environmental Scientists and Engineers

Water and wastewater engineering is one of the world’s biggest and most interdisciplinary industries, employing chemists, microbiologists, botanists, zoologists as well as engineers, computer specialists and a range of different management professionals. This accessible student textbook provides a broad overview … Continue reading

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Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures

Since 1984 the EURO-C conference series (Split 1984, Zell am See 1990, Innsbruck 1994, Badgastein 1998, St Johann im Pongau 2003, Mayrhofen 2006, Schladming 2010) has provided a forum for academic discussion of the latest theoretical, algorithmic and modelling developments … Continue reading

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Geomechanics of Failures

The main goal of this introductory course is to demonstrate how basic concepts in soil mechanics can be used as a “forensic” tool in the investigation of geotechnical failures. This, in turn, provides a good opportunity to show how to … Continue reading

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Bridges: The science and art of the world’s most inspiring structures

The Brooklyn Bridge, London’s Tower Bridge, Sydney’s Harbour Bridge, San Francisco’s Golden Gate–bridges can be breathtakingly monumental structures, magnificent works of art, and vital arteries that make life vastly easier. In Bridges, eminent structural engineer David Blockley takes readers on … Continue reading

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Advances in Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Methods for Materials and Structures: The Jacob Aboudi Volume (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

This work presents a collection of papers, written by leading authors in honor of Professor Jacob Aboudi. Jacob Aboudi served as Head of the Department of Solid Mechanics, Materials and Structures, as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and as … Continue reading

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Methods of Analytical Dynamics

A balanced presentation that encompasses both formalism and structure in analytical dynamics, this graduate-level text discusses fundamentals of Newtonian and analytical mechanics, rigid body dynamics, behavior of dynamical systems, geometric theory, analytical solutions, transformation theory, problems in celestial mechanics and … Continue reading

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Bayesian Methods for Structural Dynamics and Civil Engineering

Bayesian methods are a powerful tool in many areas of science and engineering, especially statistical physics, medical sciences, electrical engineering, and information sciences. They are also ideal for civil engineering applications, given the numerous types of modeling and parametric uncertainty … Continue reading

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