The extensive use of reinforced concrete for a variety of structural members has necessitated a proper understanding of the design in structural concrete members by the structural engineers. The wide spread use of reinforced concrete is the natural outcome of the rapid development in the theory and design procedures with the introduction of the philosophy … Read more
Motivated by a professional need to update changes in the reinforced masonry design philosophy that have occurred as a result of incorporation of strength design philosophy in the 2008 building code requirements for masonry structures reported by the masonry standards joint committee (referred to in this book as MSJC-08 code) and corresponding requirements of the … Read more
Through innovative ideas and professional skills, engineers can make the world a better place, in particular, fluid mechanics plays a very important role in the design, development and analysis of systems from micro scale applications to giant hydroelectric power generation. For this reason, the study of fluid mechanics is essential to the background of an … Read more
Soil mechanics and foundation engineering (geotechnical engineering) is a fast developing discipline of civil engineering. Considerable work has been done in the field in the last 6 decades. A student finds it difficult to have access to the latest literature in the field. The author has tried to collect the material from various sources and … Read more
The first edition of this popular book was published in August 1976. At that time, the book contained 25 chapters with 963 standard size pages, as compared with the 33 chapters and 1572 large sized pages in this 19th edition. Never, even in his dreams, the author thought at that time, that this book will … Read more