Hydraulic Engineering

London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transfo...

From muddy creek to naval-industrial powerhouse; from constructing wooden walls to building Dreadnoughts; from maintaining King Johns galleys to se...

Do you remember the docks? In its heyday, the Port of London was the biggest in the world. It was a sprawling network of quays, wharves, canals and...

First came the awful news that 12 boys and their football coach were missing. Then came the flickering video of the boys found by a pair of British...

An updated edition of a classic: an indispensable companion for a new era in cycling. The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines ...

An introductory engineering textbook by an award-winning MIT professor that covers the history of dynamics and the dynamical analyses of mechanical...

Strategic Management of Flood Risk offers a proven approach for flood risk management in communities internationally. This supports the practical c...

Flood risk is increasing across the UK and globally. This book provides a highly visual guide to flood resilience, and the ways in which the built ...

One-third of the annual natural disasters and economic losses, and more than half of the associated victims are flood related. A burgeoning global ...

Floods remain a significant hazard in the United States. Developing and investing in flood-prone areas represents a trade-off between the location'...

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

Ask yourself this: Are my home and loved ones safe from floods? Most people know that levees are structures built near rivers and lakes to reduce t...

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...

The history of the Clyde and the great ships that were built there is well known. Less familiar and equally important, however, is the story of how...

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...

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...

An unparalleled reference resource, the Dictionary Geotechnical Engineering consists of more than 70.000 unique entries. Many of the entries are ...

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 ...

Dr Boucher describes Brindleys engineering pupils as a college of engineers, among them talented individuals such as Hugh Henshall, Thomas Dadford,...