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This book is a personal anthology of the author's utmost academic works and accomplishments with his former students and colleagues intended as an enduring record for the engineering community for many years to come.The author's forty-year professional career and academic life journey is first briefly sketched in Chapter 1 and more details are elaborated in three chapters that follow: Chapter 2: The first ten years at Lehigh - beginning to show; Chapter 3: Twenty=three years at Purdue - the high...

Das zunehmend schwierige Branchenumfeld am Bau fordert von mittelstandischen Unternehmern vermehrt Kenntnisse in den Bereichen Recht, Betriebswirtschaft, Finanzierung, Unternehmensfuhrung in der Krise, Beschaftigung auslandischer Arbeitnehmer usw. Hat ein Unternehmer hier Wissensdefizite, kann dies schnell zu existenzgefahrdenden Schaden fur das Unternehmen fuhren. Das praxiserfahrene Autorenteam - drei Baujuristen, eine Wirtschaftsstrafrechtlerin, ein Unternehmensfuhrer eines grossen mittelstan...

Im Herbst 1978 wurde vom erstgenannten Verfasser das Buch "Statik der Stab- tragwerke" veroeffentlicht. Beispiele wurden dort nur gebracht, wenn dies fur die anschauliche Darstellung der theoretischen Zusammenhange erforderlich schien. Im vorliegenden Buch werden Beispiele dargestellt, die mehr auf die Proble- me der praktischen Rechnung eingehen sollen. Jedes dieser Beispiele wird bis zur endgultigen numerischen Loesung vorgerechnet, um anhand dieser Berech- nung die auftretenden Schwierigkeite...

This book was collected by results of the 7th International Conference on Nano and Macro Mechanics 2016 (NMM 2016) which was hold of September 22, 2016, Prague, Czech Republic and devoted to contemporary analytical, numerical and experimental methods in mechanics for design and research in area of present-day construction and of materials for building.

This volume contains new and advanced ideas in soil dynamics and earthquake engineering in theory and practice, and also covers the excitation and propagation of dynamic waves in the ground, determination of dynamic properties of soils and rocks, and behaviour of structures under dynamic loading. The combined efforts of geophysics, soil, rock and structural dynamics research has aided the reduction of risks to people and structures in civil and mining engineering.

The Boundary Element Method is a simple, efficient and cost effective computational technique which provides numerical solutions - for objects of any shap- for a wide range of scientific and engineering problems. In dealing with the development of the mathematics of the Boundary Element Method the aim has been at every stage, only to present new material when sufficient experience and practice of simpler material has been gained. Since the usual background of many readers will be of differential...

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Containing 370 papers, this volume reflects the current research and developments in the fields of geomechanics and geotechnical engineering.

Flood based irrigation in particular spate irrigation relies on variable flood scenarios occurring every year. Management of spate flood for spate irrigation must cope with the variability and uncertainty of water supply. Coping with water supply risks is often the only way to harness the opportunities for a productive use of water in arid environment. Integrating and strengthening community responses into irrigation policies and improvement plans could ensure sustainable and productive spate ir...

This book is dedicated to the study of an aeroelastic phenomenon of cable-supported long-span bridges known as flutter, and proposes very innovative design methodologies, such as sensitivity analysis and optimization techniques, already utilized successfully in automobile and aerospace industries. The topic of long-span suspension and cable-stayed bridges is currently of great importance. These types of bridge pose great technical difficulties due to their slenderness and often great dimension....

This volume and its companion volume includes the edited versions of the principal lectures and selected papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Optimization and Decision Support Systems in Civil Engineering. The Institute was held in the Department of Civil Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh from June 25th to July 6th 1989 and was attended by eighty participants from Universities and Research Institutes around the world. A number of practising civil and structural...

Hydraulic, hydrologic and water resources engineers have been concerned for a long time about failure phenomena. One of the major concerns is the definition of a failure event E, of its probability of occurrence PtE), and of the complementary notion of reliability. However, as the stochastic aspects of hydraulics and water resources engineering were developed, words such as "failure," "reliability," and "risk" took on different meanings for different specialists. For example, "risk" is defined i...