Foundation engineering has been practiced as an art, without help of science, since time immemorial up to 1920 when it had achieved a considerable amount of refinement. It was in the earlier 1920s that a concerted effort was made to study and understand the physical laws governing the behavior of sub surface materials, i.e.. soil … Read more
This book is intended to guide practicing structural engineers familiar with ear-lier ACI building codes into more profitable routine designs with the ACI 1995 Building Code (ACI 318-95). Each new ACI Building Code expresses the latest knowledge of reinforced concrete in legal language for safe design application. Beginning in 1956 with the introduction of ultimate … Read more
A transportation system may be defined as consisting of the fixed facilities, the flow entities, and the control system that permit people and goods to overcome the friction of geographical space efficiently in order to participate in a timely manner in some desired activity. At first glance this definition may appear to be either trivial … Read more
The purpose of this book is to provide background information and criteria that can be used as a guide to the improvement of existing design procedures and specifications for bolted and riveted joints. To achieve this goal, extensive research work performed in the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, the Nether-lands, England, Norway, Japan, and elsewhere … Read more
The interest in seismic stratigraphic techniques to interpret seismic datasets is expanding continuously. The advent of sophisticated subsurface reservoir studies and 4D monitoring, for optimizing the hydrocarbon production in existing fields, do demonstrate the importance of the 3D seismic methodology. The added value of reflection seismic has clearly been proven in the last decades and … Read more