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This book provides an in-depth look at the behavior, design, and
construction of offshore structures. It describes the behavior of
cylindrical members and suggests appropriate software, written by
the contributors, to determine everything from loading up to the
ultimate load, including post-buckling and cyclic inelasticity.
The Principles and Application in Engineering Series is a series of
convenient, economical references sharply focused on particular
engineering topics and subspecialties. Each volume in this series
comprises chapters carefully selected from CRC's bestselling
handbooks, logically organized for optimum convenience, and
thoughtfully priced to fit every budget. From the award-winning
Bridge Engineering Handbook, Bridge Engineering: Construction and
Maintenance takes an in-depth look at the construction engineering
and maintenance aspects of steel and concrete bridges. Topics
include effective project management, construction procedures and
practices, construction and maintenance inspections and ratings,
and bridge strengthening and rehabilitation.
Many important advances in designing modern structures have
occurred over the last several years. Structural engineers need an
authoritative source of information that thoroughly and concisely
covers the foundational principles of the field. Comprising
chapters selected from the second edition of the best-selling
Handbook of Structural Engineering, Principles of Structural Design
provides a tightly focused, concise, and valuable guide to the
theoretical, practical, and computational aspects of structural
design. This book systematically explores the fundamental concepts
underlying structural design for each major type of structural
material. Expert contributors authoritatively discuss steel
structures, steel frame design using advanced analysis, cold-formed
steel structures, reinforced concrete structures, prestressed
concrete, and masonry, timber, and aluminum structures. For each
construction material, the chapter explores the material
properties, design considerations, and structural principles
affecting overall design. Reflecting recent advances, the book
includes two chapters devoted to reliability-based structural
design and structure configuration based on wind engineering.
Computational methods and simulation techniques illustrate the
concepts of reliability-based design, while examples of real
bridges highlight the application of wind engineering principles
and methods. Principles of Structural Design couples fundamental
concepts with advanced practices. It is an ideal introduction for
newcomers to the field as well as a perfect review and
quick-reference guide for seasoned engineers.
Many important advances in designing earthquake-resistant
structures have occurred over the last several years. Civil
engineers need an authoritative source of information that reflects
the issues that are unique to the field. Comprising chapters
selected from the second edition of the best-selling Handbook of
Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering for Structural
Design provides a tightly focused, concise, and valuable guide to
the theoretical, practical, and computational aspects of earthquake
engineering. In chapters contributed by renowned experts from
around the world, this book supplies the latest concepts, design
methodologies, and analytical techniques for mitigating the effects
of seismic damage to structures. It discusses the fundamentals of
earthquake engineering, explaining the causes of earthquakes and
faulting, measurement of earthquakes, and characterization of
seismicity. Subsequent chapters discuss the various types of
earthquake damage to structures including recent improvements in
earthquake performance, seismic design of buildings and bridges
considering various types of construction materials, and
performance-based seismic design and evaluation of building
structures. The book introduces probabilistic approaches to
performance-based methodologies as well as an application example
of performance-based design. Earthquake Engineering for Structural
Design offers practical tools gathered together in a convenient
reference for immediate implementation. It is an ideal resource for
civil and structural engineers specializing in earthquake
engineering.
The development of the limit state approach to design in recent
years has focused particular attention on two basic requirements:
accurate information regarding the behavior of structures
throughout the entire range of loading up to the ultimate strength,
and simple practical procedures to enable engineers to assess this
behavior. This book satisfies these requirements by providing
practical analysis methods for the design of steel frames. The book
contains a wide range of second-order analyses: from elastic to
inelastic, rigid to semi-rigid connections, and simple plastic
hinge method to sophisticated plastic-zone method. Computer
programs for each analysis are provided in the form of a floppy
disk for easy implementation. Sample problems are described and
user's manuals are well documented for each program developed in
the book.
Theory of Adaptive Structures provides the basic theory for
controlling adaptive structures in static and dynamic environments.
It synthesizes well-established theories on modern control as well
as statics and dynamics of deformable bodies. Discussions
concentrate on the discrete parameter adaptive structures dealing
with actuator placement, actuator selection, and actuation
computation problems - keeping these structures at close proximity
of any chosen nominal state with the least energy consumption. An
introduction to the distributed parameter adaptive structures is
also provided.
The book follows that modern trend in research and industry
striving to incorporate intelligence into engineered products
through microprocessors that are becoming smaller, faster, and
cheaper at astounding rates. Not using them in engineered products
may become an enormous liability.
Resulting from the advances in materials technology on sensors and
actuator technologies as well as the availability of very powerful
and reliable microprocessors, there is an ever-increasing interest
in actively controlling the behavior of engineering systems.
Engineers and engineering scientists must revive and broaden their
activities to maximize applications for predicting and controlling
the behavior of deformable bodies.
Topics include:
An introduction to adaptive structures
Incremental excitation-response relations in static and dynamic
cases
Active control of response in static case
Statically determinate adaptive structures
Statically indeterminate adaptive structures
Active vibration control for autonomous and non-autonomous
cases
Active control against wind
Active control against seismic loads
Distributed parameter adaptive structures
The technology of adaptive structures has created an environment
where the analysis, not the computation, of structural response -
due to actuator-inserted deformations - has become important.
Problems related to the placement, the operation in real time, and
the energy consumption of the actuators require the review and
broadening of the theories long dormant due to the emphasis placed
in the numerical simulations of structural behavior by the
displacement finite element method.
This book furnishes the basic theory needed by modern engineers in
the design and control of discrete parameter adaptive structures .
Despite tremendous advances made in fracture mechanics of concrete
in recent years, very little information has been available on the
nature of fracture processes and on reliable test methods for
determining parameters for the different models. Moreover, most
texts on this topic discuss numerical modeling but fail to consider
experimentation. This book fills these gaps and synthesizes
progress in the field in a simple, straightforward manner geared to
practical applications.
This book provides an in-depth look at the behavior, design, and
construction of offshore structures. It describes the behavior of
cylindrical members and suggests appropriate software, written by
the contributors, to determine everything from loading up to the
ultimate load, including post-buckling and cyclic inelasticity.
This book provides a comprehensive presentation of artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies and tools valuable for solving a wide spectrum of engineering problems. What's more, it offers these AI tools on an accompanying disk with easy-to-use software. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers details the AI-based methodologies known as: Knowledge-Based Expert Systems (KBES); Design Synthesis; Design Critiquing; and Case-Based Reasoning. KBES are the most popular AI-based tools and have been successfully applied to planning, diagnosis, classification, monitoring, and design problems. Case studies are provided with problems in engineering design for better understanding of the problem-solving models using the four methodologies in an integrated software environment. Throughout the book, examples are given so that students and engineers can acquire skills in the use of AI-based methodologies for application to practical problems ranging from diagnosis to planning, design, and construction and manufacturing in various disciplines of engineering. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers is a must-have reference for students, teachers, research scholars, and professionals working in the area of civil engineering design in particular and engineering design in general.
Plastic Design of Steel Frames assesses the current status and
future direction of computer-based analyses of inelastic strength
and stability for direct frame design. It shows how design rules
are used in practical frame design and provides an introduction to
the second-order theory of inelastic frame design.
The book includes two computer programs on a diskette: one for the
first-order analyses and the other for the second-order plastic
hinge analysis of planar frame design. The second-order program can
be used to predict realistic strengths and stabilities of planar
frames, thereby eliminating the tedious task of estimating factors
for individual member capacity checks. Both programs include clear
input instructions. The diskette also contains the Fortran
source-code listing for the second-order plastic-hinge analysis,
enabling the user to customize the program. The programs will run
on an IBM PC-AT or equivalent machine with 640 kB of memory and 30
MB hard drive.
This book is designed for use as a supplement to the textbook
"Plasticity for Structural Engineers" by W.F. Chen and D.J. Han
(Springer-Verlag, 1988) or other plasticity texts. The purpose is
to help students and structural engineers learn and practice how to
solve typical engineering plasticity problems in general and, more
importantly, how to use computers to solve plasticity problems in
structural engineering in particular. To this end, specific
numerical algorithms in the computer software implementation of the
theory together with actual code development are given. A number of
solved and supplementary problems are provided, as well as two
computer-aided-education (CAE) programs, to enhance the students'
understanding of these subjects.
Many important advances in designing modern structures have
occurred over the last several years. Structural engineers need an
authoritative source of information that thoroughly and concisely
covers the foundational principles of the field. Comprising
chapters selected from the second edition of the best-selling
Handbook of Structural Engineering, Principles of Structural Design
provides a tightly focused, concise, and valuable guide to the
theoretical, practical, and computational aspects of structural
design. This book systematically explores the fundamental concepts
underlying structural design for each major type of structural
material. Expert contributors authoritatively discuss steel
structures, steel frame design using advanced analysis, cold-formed
steel structures, reinforced concrete structures, prestressed
concrete, and masonry, timber, and aluminum structures. For each
construction material, the chapter explores the material
properties, design considerations, and structural principles
affecting overall design. Reflecting recent advances, the book
includes two chapters devoted to reliability-based structural
design and structure configuration based on wind engineering.
Computational methods and simulation techniques illustrate the
concepts of reliability-based design, while examples of real
bridges highlight the application of wind engineering principles
and methods. Principles of Structural Design couples fundamental
concepts with advanced practices. It is an ideal introduction for
newcomers to the field as well as a perfect review and
quick-reference guide for seasoned engineers.
First published in 1995, the award-winning Civil Engineering Handbook soon became known as the field's definitive reference. To retain its standing as a complete, authoritative resource, the editors have incorporated into this edition the many changes in techniques, tools, and materials that over the last seven years have found their way into civil engineering research and practice.
The Civil Engineering Handbook, Second Edition is more comprehensive than ever. You'll find new, updated, and expanded coverage in every section. In fact, more than 1/3 of the handbook is new or substantially revised. In particular you'll find increased focus on computing reflecting the rapid advances in computer technology that has revolutionized many aspects of civil engineering.
You'll use it as a survey of the field, you'll use it to explore a particular subject, but most of all you'll use The Civil Engineering Handbook to answer the problems, questions, and conundrums you encounter in practice.
Continuing the tradition of the best-selling Handbook of Structural
Engineering, this second edition is a comprehensive reference to
the broad spectrum of structural engineering, encapsulating the
theoretical, practical, and computational aspects of the field. The
authors address a myriad of topics, covering both traditional and
innovative approaches to analysis, design, and rehabilitation. The
second edition has been expanded and reorganized to be more
informative and cohesive. It also follows the developments that
have emerged in the field since the previous edition, such as
advanced analysis for structural design, performance-based design
of earthquake-resistant structures, lifecycle evaluation and
condition assessment of existing structures, the use of
high-performance materials for construction, and design for safety.
Additionally, the book includes numerous tables, charts, and
equations, as well as extensive references, reading lists, and
websites for further study or more in-depth information.
Emphasizing practical applications and easy implementation, this
text reflects the increasingly global nature of engineering,
compiling the efforts of an international panel of experts from
industry and academia. This is a necessity for anyone studying or
practicing in the field of structural engineering. New to this
edition -Fundamental theories of structural dynamics -Advanced
analysis -Wind and earthquake-resistant design -Design of
prestressed concrete, masonry, timber, and glass structures
-Properties, behavior, and use of high-performance steel, concrete,
and fiber-reinforced polymers -Semirigid frame structures
-Structural bracing -Structural design for fire safety
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