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Accelerated Bridge Construction – Best Practices and Techniques Free PDF

This textbook has been developed for the purpose of incorporating the latest developments in accelerated bridge construction (ABC) projects. Its objectives are to focus on creating awareness, educate, train, and inform bridge engineers in the art and science of effective rapid construction and delivery to the public.

It will entice the State Department of Transportations and its staff to select rapid construction techniques and save travel time of the public and money, especially during construction.

The applications of routine design procedures using AASHTO LRFD Specifications, State Design Manuals with specific reference to ABC, and the vast amount of bridge design software will not change except for new load combinations resulting from Lifting, transporting, erection, roll-in, slide-in, or float-in loads, etc.

Content :

Introduction to Modern Accelerated Bridge Construction
Recent Developments in ABC Concepts
Research and Training in ABC Structural Systems
Innovative ABC Techniques
Modular Bridge Construction Issues
Rapid Bridge Insertions Following Failures
ABC Planning and Resolving ABC Issues
Prefabrication of the Superstructure
Prefabrication of the Substructure and Construction Issues
Alternative ABC Methods and Funding Justification
A Review of Chapters, River Bridges, and Conclusions

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Tall Buildings Structural Design Of Concrete Buildings Up to 300m tall

Tall buildings are now a common feature on the skyline of many cities throughout the world with concrete as
the predominant building material used in their construction.

Concrete provides a strong, durable, economic and versatile material which can be engineered to respond to demands placed on it when used in the foundations, columns, walls and floors of tall buildings.

The design and detailing of tall buildings requires detailed knowledge, experience and expertise to properly understand their behaviour.

Guidance on the design of tall buildings is provided in many of the national codes and standards however as the clients, architects and engineers push the boundaries of what is possible our understanding of the structural behaviour is constantly being updated.

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Earthquake Resistant Design Of Structures Free PDF

This book introduces and explains all aspects of earthquake-resistant design of structures. Designed as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students of civil engineering, practising engineers and architects will also find the book equally useful.

It has been assumed that the reader is well acquainted with structural analysis, structural dynamics, and structural design.

The design of earthquake-resistant structures is an art as well as science. It is necessary to have an understanding of the manner in which a structure absorbs the energy transmitted to it during an earthquake.

The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the basic principles of earthquake-resistant design with special emphasis on the design of masonry, reinforced concrete, and steel buildings. The text is focussed on the design of structural and non-structural elements in accordance with the BIS codes.

Content :

1. Earthquakes and Ground Motion
2. Dynamics of Structures and Seismic Response
3. Dynamics of Soils and Seismic Response
4. Conceptual Design
5. Code-based Analysis Method and Design Approaches
6. Masonry Buildings
7. Timber Buildings
8. Reinforced Concrete Buildings
9. Steel Buildings
10. Non-structural Elements
11. Bhuj Earthquake 2001: A Case Study

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Seismic Design Of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Buildings Free PDF

CONTENT :

Causes and Effects of Earthquakes: Seismicity–Structural Response–Seismic Action.
Principles of Member Design.
Reinforced Concrete Ductile Frames.
Structural Walls.
Dual Systems.
Masonry Structures.
Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Restricted Ductility
Foundation Structures.

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345 Solved Seismic Design Problems Free PDF

This book introduces you to the seismic exam and tells you how to use 345 Solved Seismic Design Problem. It also explains how to relate this book to reference materials, such as the California Building Code, Seismic Design of Building Structure, and others.

Using this book as a study guide, you will be surprised to discover how effectively you can learn seismic principles and fundamental earthquake engineering of structure to successfully pass the special seismic exam.

This book gives you the opportunity to work problems of the same format and difficulty as those on the seismic portion of the California Special Civil Engineer exam. Every problem is fully solved.

Content:

Seismology principles, Earthquake Characteristics, and basiic structural dynamics.
Codes and regulatory provisions
Diaphragm theory
Details of structure
Design problems
A. useful conversion factors
B. reference and suggested reading

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Seismic Design Of Concrete Buildings To Eurocode 8 Free PDF

The main aim of this book, published at the time Eurocode 8 is starting its course as the only seismic design standard in Europe, is to support its application to concrete buildings – the most common type of structure – through education and training.

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Earthquake Engineering Mechanism, Damage Assessment And Structural Design Free PDF

This book is an expanded version of the earlier (first edition) text, Earthquake Engineering —Damage Assessment and Structural Design, here called EE-DA&SD.

Every chapter of the first edition has been altered and enlarged and new chapters have been added to include work done by the author and some of his graduate students, following the publication of EE-DA&SD.

Some remarks concerning the modus operandi of the two texts may be in order. In accordance with currently accepted methods of scientific inquiry, the procedures used in EE-DA&SD and in this bode for developing the rational earthquake engineering theory.

Content :

A Tensile Rupture Instability Similarity Earthquake Mechanism
The Canonical Accelerogram and Its Parameters
The Canonical Isoseismal Chart and Its Parameters
The Earthquake Engineering Damage Assessment and Structural Design Charts and Curves
Efficiency -Focal Depth and Figure 4.5
Superposition of Canonical Accelerograms
Superposition of Canonical Isoseismal Contour Maps
Approximate Analytical Damage (Intensity Number) Assessment Procedures
Special Topics in Earthquake Structural Engineering
Some Non-Structural Applications of the Rational Theory
Some Structural Applications of the Rational Theory

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Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures Free PDF

By PANKAJ AGARWAL

The vast devastation of engineered systems and facilities during the past few earthquakes has exposed serious deficiencies in the prevalent design and construction practices. These disasters have created a new awareness of disaster preparedness and mitigation.

With increased awareness came the demand of learning resource material which directly addresses the requirements of professionals without any circumlocution. While the recommended codes of practice for earthquake resistant design do exist but those only specify a set of criteria for compliance. These design codes throw little light on the basic issue of how to design.

The problem! Jl becomes more acute as students graduate with degrees in civil/structural engineering without any exposure to earthquake engineering in most of the universities/institutes. The short-term refresher courses routinely offered by various institutes and universities for professionals achieve little more than mere familiarization with the subject matter.

Content :

1. Engineering Seismology
2. Seismic Zoning Map of India
3. Strong Motion Studies in India
4. Strong Motion Characteristics
5. Evaluation of Seismic Design Parameters
6. Initiation into Structural Dynamics
8. Theory of Seismic Pickups
9. Numerical Evaluation of Dynamic Response
10. Response Spectra
11. Dynamics of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems
12. Earthquake and Vibration Effect on Structures

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Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design Free PDF

This chapter provides a basic understanding of earthquakes, by first discussing the causes of earthquakes,
then defining commonly used terms, explaining how earthquakes are measured, discussing the distribution
of seismicity, and, finally, explaining how seismicity can be characterized.

Earthquakes are broad-banded vibratory ground motions, resulting from a number of causes including tectonic ground motions, volcanism, landslides, rockbursts, and man-made explosions.

Of these, naturally occurring tectonic-related earthquakes are the largest and most important.

These are caused by the fracture and sliding of rock along faults within the Earth’s crust. A fault is a zone of the
earth’s crust within which the two sides have moved — faults may be hundreds of miles long, from one to over one hundred miles deep, and are sometimes not readily apparent on the ground surface.

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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Free PDF

By Ikuo Towhata

The main aim of this book is a collection of data which is useful in understanding the state-of-art technology and its application to new topics. Understanding the fundamental issues is important because practice makes use of many assumptions, hypotheses, and ways of thinking.

It has been my policy to show reasons why practice employs those ideas by showing experimental and field backgrounds. This idea does not change even today. Collecting background information is not very easy for an individual person.

It is necessary to read many publications; some were published in the first half of the 20th Century, and others in domestic publications. Not being impossible, this information collection is firstly a time-consuming business.

Secondly, access to old publications may not be easy to everybody. I am therefore attempting in this book to collect information as much as possible so that the new generation of readers can save time in studying.

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