Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building

It is widely acknowledged that there is an increasing problem in maintenance of the American civil infrastructure. Highways, bridges, sewers, railr...

If you've ever been asked to calculate the live load for a herd of elephants...If you've ever built a sand castle to study soil mechanics...If you'...

The United States has approximately 607,000 bridges on public roads subject to the National Bridge Inspection Standards mandated by Congress. The s...

As geological threats become more imminent, society must make a major commitment to increase the resilience of its communities, infrastructure, and...

Most people remember the flooding of Cork in 2009 and the tremendous damage that was caused. Less well-known is that this was not the first time th...

Tension Structures, Second edition delivers a unique coverage of the topic of tension structures ranging from a variety of pre-stressed cable net a...

A high proportion of commercial, industrial and housing developments are now built on fills, that is ground that has been deposited by human activi...

Rock dynamics studies the response of rock materials and rock masses under dynamic loading conditions. In the last a couple of decades, the develop...

INTRODUCTION TO SOIL MECHANICS Introduction to Soil Mechanics covers the basic principles of soil mechanics, illustrating why the properties of soi...

Develop an understanding of the matrix method of structural analysis with the contemporary, reader-friendly approach found in Kassimali's MATRIX AN...