Dams and Appurtenant Hydraulic Structures, now in its second edition, provides a comprehensive and complete overview of all kinds of dams and appurten ...
Once again, Thomas Lengauer has succeeded in creating a comprehensive and immensely useful bioinformatics resource that meets even the high standards ...
Applications of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites as reinforcement for concrete structures have been growing rapidly in recent years. ACI Comm ...
Over the last two decades, functional heads have been one of the privileged objects of research in generative linguistics. However, within this line o ...
An innovative concept, smart structural systems have proven to be extremely effective in absorbing damaging energy and/or counteracting potentially de ...
Many more people are coming to live in earthquake-prone areas, especially urban ones. Many such areas contain low-rise, low-cost housing, while little ...
The catastrophic earthquakes of the last decades (Mexico City, 1985; Loma Prieta, 1989; Northridge, 1994; Kobe, 1995) have seriously undermined there ...
This book examines and presents essential aspects of the behavior, analysis, design and detailing of reinforced concrete buildings subjected to strong ...
Geophysicists use seismic signals to image structures in the Earth's interior, to understand the mechanics of earthquake and volcanic sources, and to ...
In the past, facilities considered to be at the end of their useful life were demolished and replaced with new ones that better met the functional req ...
Seismic Design of Building Structures provides essential background instruction for the seismic problems on the civil PE exam. Using relevant codes, t ...
Tools to Safeguard New Buildings and Assess Existing Ones Nonlinear analysis methods such as static pushover are globally considered a reliable tool f ...
Irregular engineering structures are subjected to complicated additional loads which are often beyond conventional design models developed for traditi ...
Structural irregularities are one of the most frequent causes of severe damages in buildings, as evidenced by the numerous earthquakes in recent years ...
While numerous books have been written on earthquakes, earthquake resistance design, and seismic analysis and design of structures, none have been tai ...
While numerous books have been written on earthquakes, earthquake resistance design, and seismic analysis and design of structures, none have been tai ...
This standard provides requirements for performing analyses of new structure design or existing structure evaluation to determine the reliability of s ...
