Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building

Even with all the advances in technologies, humans continue to suffer from the consequences of flooding century after century. This book covers two...

Federal spending on highways totaled $46 billion in 2014, roughly a quarter of total public spending on highways. About 95 percent of that amount w...

The research this book is grounded on started with the ambitious intent to understand why FEWSs may fail. However, from the beginning, the objectiv...

This book describes the practical aspects necessary to design, manage, monitor, and assess these hydraulic structures. The approaches, used to deve...

This book explains the application of ergonomics in three different areas of design, namely product, space, and communication. The book is written ...

Hydraulic engineering of dams and their appurtenant structures counts among the essential tasks to successfully design safe water-retaining reservo...

Throughout history, the need to cross the changing British landscape has always driven innovation. Natural valleys, rivers and mountainous features...

Over the last two decades environmental hydraulics as an academic discipline has expanded considerably, caused by growing concerns over water envir...

Where will the water come from to sustain the great desert cities of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix? In a provocative exploration of the past,...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used to free oil and natural gas trapped underground in low-permeability rock formations by injecting a fluid u...

This is not an ordinary book on rainfall and runoff. All the general and working formulas in this book are theoretically derived. The formulas are ...

This book introduces 53 bridges that the author designed during his period teaching at Dalian University of Technology (1984-2014). The bridges hav...

Rock Engineering provides a comprehensive explanation of the geological principles and ground investigations involved with the geotechnical design ...

The bridge construction industry has moved with great speed towards mechanised construction solutions using specialised bridge deck erection equipm...

Bridges, the least known and understood of China's many wonders, are one of its most striking and resilient feats of architectural prowess.Chinese ...