Local Agenda 21: Engineering the Future

Engineering & Transportation

Thomas Telford

Engineering

ICE Publishing

Design chains presents innovative new thinking in supply chain management. Springing from the work of the Integrated Collaborative Design (ICD) research project, a combined industry and academic initiative between Loughborough University and twelve construction companies, it presents a set of key principles and practices that provide a new approach to design management - the design chain. Design Chains describes how design can be understood, managed and optimised to add value to clients. The practices developed through ICD and described in Design Chains provide a timely response to the need to manage design complexity to help collaborating organisations deliver projects that meet client needs.

Design Chains: a Handbook for Integrated Collaborative Design

Arts & Photography

Austin, S, Baldwin, A, Hammond, J, Murray, M, Root, D, Thomson, D and Thorpe, A

History & Criticism

A detailed guide to Eurocode 6 Design of Masonry Structures: Part 1-1 Common rules for reinforced and unreinforced masonry structures, dealing with the various sections in EN1996-1-1: 
 1 General Introduction and Terminology 2 Basis of design 3 Materials 4 Durability 5 Structural analysis 6 Ultimate Limit State 7 Serviceability Limit State 8 Detailing 9 Execution
 A valuable insight is given into the code that addresses unreinforced masonry and reinforced masonry where the reinforcement is added to provide ductility, strength or improve serviceability and provides the structural rules for designing a composite material comprising masonry units and mortar. 
 This book complements the Eurocode standard by explaining the areas where change has overtaken the traditional approach used in the previous British Standard. Includes UK National Annex for EN 1996-1-1. 
 Readership: This guide is essential reading for: civil and structural engineers code-drafting committees clients designers and contractors structural-design students public authorities product manufacturers
 in fact, everyone who will be affected by the Eurocodes. 
 Geographical market: UK, Europe, Commonwealth countries 
 Related titles: ICE Manual of Construction Materials | 978 07277 3597 3 | $490.00 Designers Guide to Eurocode 1: Actions on Buildings | 978 07277 3156 2 | $140.00 Designers Guide to Eurocode 1: Actions on Bridges | 978 07277 3158 6 | $150.00

Designers' Guide to Eurocode 6: Design of Masonry Structures: EN 1996-1-1 (Designers' Guide to Eurocodes)

Roberts, John J.

Morton, John.

Gulvanessian, Haig

This series of "Designers' Guides to the Eurocodes" provides comprehensive guidance in the form of design aids, indications for the most convenient design procedures and worked examples. The books also include background information to aid the designer in understanding the reasoning behind and the objectives of the codes. All of the individual guides work in conjunction with the "Designers' Guide to EN 1990 Eurocode: Basis of Structural Design". The part of Eurocode 5 covered by this guide, EN 1995-1, addresses the common rules and rules for buildings, including structural fire design. This Designers' Guide looks specifically at timber buildings, including full explanation and commentary on the code with examples, and direction to the National Annex documents.

Designers' Guide to Eurocode 5: Design of Timber Buildings: EN 1995-1-1 (Designers' Guide to Eurocodes)

Ross, Peter

Porteous, Alexander

The creation of the UK motorway network in the second half of the 20th century facilitated a dramatic improvement in the mobility of people and goods and contributed greatly to the prosperity enjoyed today.Key coverage * Recounts the many attempts to promote substantial road improvement and new road planning in the first half of the 20th century* Includes a reprint of Sir Frederick Cook's seminal report along with other papers reflecting the altered attitude to motorways * An account of Harold Watkinson's contribution, who, though not the first to announce a motorway, did more than most Ministers of Transport to initiate the motorway programme * Economic appraisal and forecasting techniques used * The technical problems that had to be mastered in the persistent search for better value for money * How the Transport Research Laboratory contributed to better safety through its interest in engineering, materials and design * Chapter devoted to geometric design

The Motorway Achievement, Volume 1: Visualisation of the British Motorway System: Policy and Administration

Robert Baldwin

Sir Peter Baldwin

The tension structures discussed in this book are predominantly roofing forms created from pre-stressed cable nets, cable trusses, and continuous membranes (fabric structures). A unique feature in their design is form-finding an interactive process of defining the shape of a structure under tension. The book discusses the role of stable minimal surfaces (minimum energy forms occurring in natural objects, such as soap films) in finding optimal shapes of membrane and cable structures. The discussion of form-finding is extended to structural forms whose shape is supposedly known, such as suspension bridge cables.

Tension Structures: Form and Behaviour

LEWIS

With the conference's commemorative theme, the first volume reprints the Royal Society of London's short biographical memoir on ansi-Professor Sir Alec Skempton and offers a set of invited articles that reflect on his contributions to engineering geology, slope stability and the history of civil engineering. This comprehensive set reviews and discusses the most recent advances in geotechnics, focusing on Professor Sir Alec Skempton's favorite subjects, will be an invaluable resource for geotechnical engineers. The main body of the first volume is taken up by five major keynote papers written by a team of international experts, that survey the enormous advances that have taken place in geotechnical engineering since Skempton's pioneering early work. The second volume contains more than 80 articles that report recent research and advances in practice from around the world. The papers focus on the broad range of geotechnical issues, that most interested Professor Skempton, and are grouped under the headings of: Soil behavior; characterization and modeling; Foundations; Slopes and embankments; Ground performance; and Influence of geology on civil engineering. This two volume set presenting the proceedings of the Skempton Memorial Conference on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering held at the Royal Geographical Society, London, on 29-31 March 2004.

Advances in Geotechnical Engineering: The Skempton Conference

Science & Math

Jardine, Potts and Higgins (eds)

Earth Sciences

Cement Combinations for Durable Concrete forms the Proceedings of Event 1 and deals with issues such as materials processing technology. Portland and non-Portland cements, durability and environmental implications. The themes of the papers are: Processing, Materials and Characterisation, Blends for Specialist Concretes, Blends with Non-Portland Cements, Engineering Performance, Durability, Implications for Environmental Assessment

Cement Combinations for Durable Concrete

Dhir, Professor R K

This book assembles the practical rules and details for the efficient and economical execution of deep excavations. It draws together a wealth of experience of both design and construction from published work and the lifetime practice of the author.

Deep Excavations: A practical manual

Puller, Malcolm John

Effective Site Investigation provides an introductory guide to accepted best practice for site investigations, both for construction professionals such as civil and structural engineers, builders and architects, and for their clients. It has been prepared by the Site Investigation Steering Group, a multidisciplinary body representing those professional institutions, learned societies, trade organisations and government agencies involved or affected by site investigations. The second edition represents a major revision and extension of the series with the aim of bringing together the whole site investigation industry and is intended for general application to all ground investigation work.

Effective Site Investigation (Site Investigation in Construction)

Site Investigation Steering Group

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