Journal of Structural Engineering; Vol. 120 No. 10 October 1994

Engineering & Transportation

Watwood, Vernon B.

Engineering

American Society of Civil Engineers

Civil Engineering Procedure: Institution of Civil Engineers

Institute of Civil Engineers

Specification for Piling & Contract Documentation & Measurement

Institution of Civil Engineers

This volume for concrete users provides an authoritative explanation of the alkali-silica reaction (ASR), its effects and methods of minimizing the risk of danger in new construction.

Alkali-Silica Reaction in Concrete

Hobbs, D.W.

The financial control of engineering projects depends on achieving time and cost criteria with the availabale manpower. The three variables of time, cost and manpower - in itself the work of many groups in various organizations - must be kept in harmony if effective control is to be realized. This book provides a clear and accessible account of the performance of these three variables in the planning, controlling and monitoring of a new engineering project.

Control of Engineering Projects (Engineering Management Series)

Wearne, Stephen, Ed.

Metric Units in Engineering: Going SI provides guidance for practicing engineers, students, and educators who are adopting and using the International System of Units in their engineering work. Wandmacher and Johnson examine how to use SI units to solve standard engineering problems. Chapters reflect a combination of views on engineering practice in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries. This revised edition of a classic work includes a bibliography of the resources on the metric system and a new appendix on the history and progress of metrication since the 1960 adoption of SI units by the General Conference on Weights and Measures. Numerous worked examples on dynamics, strength of materials, fluid mechanisms, thermodynamics, electricity, and magnetism, among other topics, are provided throughout the text. Metric Units in Engineering is an essential guide for understanding the implications of metric conversion in the everyday work of practicing engineers. It is also an excellent instructional book, ideal for independent study or classroom use.

Metric Units in Engineering: Going Si, Revised Edition

Cornelius Wandmacher

A. Ivan Johnson

Business & Money

Today, the designer of a hydroelectric facility has to take a variety of issues into consideration including the protection of and mitigation for fish and wildlife, the protection of recreational opportunities, and the general preservation of environmental quality. This results in the need for accurate, continuously-regulated bypass flows, fish entrainment prevention, and other environmental mitigation. These can reduce the amount of head and flows available for power generation. Therefore, power plants have to operate at maximum efficiency to make the most of the available head and flows in order to be economically viable. Under the Energy Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a multi-discipline task committee was formed to develop a state-of-the-art guidelines document for the sound environmental design of hydropower intakes. This document, "ASCE Guidelines Design of Intakes for Hydroelectric Plants", includes over 400 pages, many of which are graphics and photos, that provide information on intake types and features, hydraulic design considerations, forebay, trashrack and gate design, structural design, fisheries considerations, ice, sedimentation, environmental factors, hydraulic models, and evaluation of existing intakes. These guidelines factor in years of experience of specialists from the engineering and biological communities, and is intended for use by new planners and designers of intake structures for hydroelectric plants, as well as provide specialized information on a variety of topics related to intake design.

Guidelines for Design of Intakes for Hydroelectric Plants

Summarizes the mechanisms of sinkhole formation in limestone terrain, and provides methods for overcoming sinkhole-related structural failures and for avoiding or minimizing future sinkhole collapses that impact human activity. Describes site investigation as well as design and construction methods suitable where sinkholes might occur. Addressed to engineers and geologists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Building on Sinkholes: Design and Construction of Foundations in Karst Terrain

Sowers, George F.

Presenting a printout of screen shots from the CD, this title allows students the freedom to study wherever they prefer. It is useful as a study-aid complement to the CD-ROM. Each page includes 4-up screen shots.

Fluid Mechanics: An Interactive Text

James A. Liggett

Contains papers on CD ROM that provide contemporary technical and scientific developments affecting hydropower. This work contains sections including: civil construction; environmental and cultural issues; mechanical and electrical; water resources; economics; and policies.

Waterpower '99

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