Principles of Foundation Engineering (7th SI Edition)

Principles of Foundation Engineering (7th SI Edition)

2010 | 815 pages | PDF | 15MB

Originally published in the fall of 1983, Braja M. Das' Seventh Edition of Principles of Foundation Engineering continues to maintain the careful balance of current research and practical field applications that has made it the leading text in foundation engineering courses. 

Featuring a wealth of worked-out examples and figures that help students with theory and problem-solving skills, the book introduces civil engineering students to the fundamental concepts and application of foundation analysis design. 

Throughout, Das emphasizes the judgment needed to properly apply the theories and analysis to the evaluation of soils and foundation design as well as the need for field experience.

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Principles of Architectural Detailing

Principles of Architectural Detailing

 264 pages | PDF | 6.7 mb

* Why are buildings detailed the way they are?
 

* Why do architects and engineers seem to come to the same kind of solutions to their detailing problems?
 

* Are we satisfied with such a situation?
 

With environmental concerns so high on designers' agendas, the answer to this third question has to be 'no'. Collectively architects, engineers and specifiers need to revisit how they detail the built environment, and address the most important and potentially difficult area of the joint between materials and components.

In Principles of Architectural Detailing the authors question the way in which buildings are detailed and in particular challenge familiar joint solutions. 

They offer practical guidance and a number of tools to help the student of architectural detailing in the decision-making process.

 The emphasis throughout is on using knowledge of construction in a creative and productive way to contribute towards a built environment that enhances our well-being and which is also sustainable

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100 Restaurant Design Principles

100 Restaurant Design Principles

English/Chinese | 2012 | 413 pages | PDF | 39 MB

Restaurant design aims to create an elegant dining environment for customers, and to satisfy customers' physiological and psychological needs at one time. The principles proposed in this book summarize design rules, which should be followed during the interior space design of restaurants. This book includes 100 most characteristic restaurant design cases from many countries.
 

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Landscaping Principles and Practices

Landscaping Principles and Practices

592 Pages | PDF | 62 MB 

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The Design of Prestressed Concrete Bridges

The Design of Prestressed Concrete Bridges

Concepts and Principles

PDF | 608 pages | 14 MB

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Stability of Structures: Principles and Applications

Stability of Structures: 

Principles and Applications

529 pages | PDF | 10,4 MB

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The Design of Prestressed Concrete Bridges

The Design of Prestressed Concrete Bridges :

Concepts and Principles

2008 | PDF | 608 pages | 14 MB

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Stability of Structures

Stability of Structures :

Principles and Applications

2011 | 529 pages | PDF | 10,4 MB 

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Landscaping Principles and Practices

Landscaping 

Principles and Practices

592 Pages |  | PDF | 62 MB  

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Principles of Foundation Engineering, 7th edition

Principles of Foundation Engineering, 7th edition

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Principles of Structural Design Wood, Steel, and Concrete

Principles of Structural Design Wood, Steel, and Concrete, 2nd ed, 2014

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Design Matters: The Organisation and Principles of Engineering Design

Design Matters : The Organisation and Principles of Engineering Design

James Armstrong 

This book demonstrates the need to understand the context, process and delivery of engineering projects and services by focusing on engineering design. It highlights the cultural, economic, political and social parameters and illustrates the importance of their understanding. The book benefits from a unique combination of academic rigour and the experience gained from decades of designing some of the world’s most important civil engineering projects.

Design is the essential component of engineering. Design Matters demonstrates the need to understand the context, process and delivery of engineering projects and services by focusing on the nature and practice of engineering design. The book specifically highlights the cultural, economic, political and social parameters and illustrates the importance of their understanding as demonstrated by successful designers.

Unique to Design Matters are case studies that demonstrate the principles described in the book and the importance of using multidisciplinary teams to achieve effective design development. Contributions are included from key professionals involved in several high-profile and innovative civil and industrial engineering projects, including:

• A Diagnostic Analyser, Northern Ireland
• A Foot Prosthesis, UK
• The Channel Tunnel Terminal, UK
• The Channel Tunnel Rail Link, UK
• The London Eye, London
• The Lesotho Hydro-electric Project, Natal
• An Australian Timber Arch Bridge, Melbourne
• The Bahaii Temple, New Delhi, India
• The Hampden Gurney Primary School, London
• The Bridge Academy Secondary School, London
• The Harris-Manchester College, Oxford
• The Angel of the North, Gateshead, UK

Design Matters is an ideal text for graduate students in all branches of engineering looking to gain a practical introduction to the breadth and depth of the design process as well as to practicing engineers who wish to gain further insight into how design engineering works strategically.

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Architectural Thought : the design process and the expectant eye

Architectural Thought : the design process and the expectant eye

Michael Brawne

An introduction to architectural thought, this text is a thorough and accessible discussion in search of the principles of the design process.

Documenting the non-verbal processes and decisions that architects and designers make is a difficult task, but one that is important when trying to understand the development of architectural design through the ages. Michael Brawne uses his experience as a practicing architect, academic and educator to provide an overview of the subject. By looking at the practices and buildings of architects past and present he incorporates history and philosophy in the search for a theory of design.

* Provides a well-rounded look at the development of architectural thought. 

* Written at a level that is accessible for professionals and students. 

* Illustrates how the design process has developed from antiquity to the present day.

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Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems : Principles and Practices 

By Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings

Publisher: Island Press | 2008 | PDF | 296 pages | 2,9 mb

Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents, and their waste ends up in places beyond their city boundaries.

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems shows how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate into their bioregional environment, and how cities themselves can be planned with nature’s organizing principles in mind. Taking cues from living systems for sustainability strategies, Newman and Jennings reassess urban design by exploring flows of energy, materials, and information, along with the interactions between human and non-human parts of the system.

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Principles of Architectural Detailing

Principles of Architectural Detailing

By Stephen Emmitt, John Olie, Peter Schmid

Blackwell | 2004-04-16 |  | 264 pages | PDF | 6.7 mb

• * Why are buildings detailed the way they are?
• * Why do architects and engineers seem to come to the same kind of solutions to their detailing problems?
• * Are we satisfied with such a situation?

With environmental concerns so high on designers' agendas, the answer to this third question has to be 'no'. Collectively architects, engineers and specifiers need to revisit how they detail the built environment, and address the most important and potentially difficult area of the joint between materials and components.

In Principles of Architectural Detailing the authors question the way in which buildings are detailed and in particular challenge familiar joint solutions. They offer practical guidance and a number of tools to help the student of architectural detailing in the decision-making process. The emphasis throughout is on using knowledge of construction in a creative and productive way to contribute towards a built environment that enhances our well-being and which is also sustainable 

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100 Restaurant Design Principles

100 Restaurant Design Principles

Arthur Gao, 

English |  | 2012 | 413 pages | PDF | 39 MB

Restaurant design aims to create an elegant dining environment for customers, and to satisfy customers' physiological and psychological needs at one time. The principles proposed in this book summarize design rules, which should be followed during the interior space design of restaurants. This book includes 100 most characteristic restaurant design cases from many countries.

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Landscaping Principles and Practices

Landscaping Principles and Practices

By Jack E. Ingels
Publisher: Del mar Ce  2009 | 592 Pages |  | PDF | 62 MB

Landscaping : Principles & Practices, 7th Edition, provides students and practitioners with the information needed to be successful in the classroom and the workplace. Focusing on three areas of professional practice; design, contracting, and management, the reader is provided the basic knowledge integral to the industry in straightforward, easy-to-read chapters. It also addresses traditional topics such as design, plant installation, and pricing, as well as topics not found in most other texts, such as interior landscaping, xeriscaping, water gardens, and safety. Extensive color illustrations and photos aid in visually understanding the concepts and industry specific insight allows the reader to tune into topics traditionally overlooked in other texts.

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The Design of Prestressed Concrete Bridges : Concepts and Principles

The Design of Prestressed Concrete Bridges : Concepts and Principles

Robert Benaim,

2008 |  | PDF | 608 pages | 14 MB

Examining the fundamental differences between design and analysis, Robert Benaim explores the close relationship between aesthetic and technical creativity and the importance of the intuitive, more imaginative qualities of design that every designer should employ when designing a structure.

Aiding designers of concrete bridges in developing an intuitive understanding of structural action, this book encourages innovation and the development of engineering architecture. Simple, relevant calculation techniques that should precede any detailed analysis are summarized. Construction methods used to build concrete bridge decks and substructures are detailed and direct guidance on the choice and the sizing of different types of concrete bridge deck is given. In addition guidance is provided on solving recurring difficult problems of detailed design and realistic examples of the design process are provided.

This book enables concrete bridge designers to broaden their scope in design and provides an analysis of the necessary calculations and methods.

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Stability of Structures : Principles and Applications

Stability of Structures : Principles and Applications

Chai H Yoo, Sung Lee, 

But worth-Heine ann | 2011 |  | 529 pages | PDF | 10,4 MB

The current trend of building more streamlined structures has made stability analysis a subject of extreme importance. It is mostly a safety issue because Stability loss could result in an unimaginable catastrophe. Written by two authors with a combined 80 years of professional and academic experience, the objective of Stability of Structures: Principles and Applications is to provide engineers and architects with a firm grasp of the fundamentals and principles that are essential to performing effective stability analysts.

Concise and readable, this guide presents stability analysis within the context of elementary nonlinear flexural analysis, providing a strong foundation for incorporating theory into everyday practice. The first chapter introduces the buckling of columns. It begins with the linear elastic theory and proceeds to include the effects of large deformations and inelastic behavior. In Chapter 2 various approximate methods are illustrated along with the fundamentals of energy methods. The chapter concludes by introducing several special topics, some advanced, that are useful in understanding the physical resistance mechanisms and consistent and rigorous mathematical analysis. Chapters 3 and 4 cover buckling of beam-columns. Chapter 5 presents torsion in structures in some detail, which is one of the least well understood subjects in the entire spectrum of structural mechanics. Strictly speaking, torsion itself does not belong to a topic in structural stability, but needs to be covered to some extent for a better understanding of buckling accompanied with torsional behavior. Chapters 6 and 7 consider stability of framed structures in conjunction with torsional behavior of structures. Chapters 8 to 10 consider buckling of plate elements, cylindrical shells, and general shells. Although the book is primarily devoted to analysis, rudimentary design aspects are discussed.

The accompanying website will include additional formulas and problems based on the author's on software which is currently being used in corporations. The website will also include equations and examples based on there personal experiences. In addition, the website will include a solutions manual for those who wish to use the book as a text book for a two-semester course. Engineers, Architects, designers, and researcher will find this print/website combination a valuable guide both in terms of its applications of verification of design of structures.

Key Features

• Balanced presentation for both theory and practice

• Well-blended contents covering elementary to advanced topics

• Detailed presentation of the development

• Computer programs will be made available through the senior author's web page

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Stability of Structures : Principles and Applications

Stability of Structures : Principles and Applications

Chai H Yoo, Sung Lee,
But worth-Heine ann | 2011 | 529 pages | PDF | 10,4 MB

The current trend of building more streamlined structures has made stability analysis a subject of extreme importance. It is mostly a safety issue because Stability loss could result in an unimaginable catastrophe. Written by two authors with a combined 80 years of professional and academic experience, the objective of Stability of Structures: Principles and Applications is to provide engineers and architects with a firm grasp of the fundamentals and principles that are essential to performing effective stability analysts.

Concise and readable, this guide presents stability analysis within the context of elementary nonlinear flexural analysis, providing a strong foundation for incorporating theory into everyday practice. The first chapter introduces the buckling of columns. It begins with the linear elastic theory and proceeds to include the effects of large deformations and inelastic behavior. In Chapter 2 various approximate methods are illustrated along with the fundamentals of energy methods. The chapter concludes by introducing several special topics, some advanced, that are useful in understanding the physical resistance mechanisms and consistent and rigorous mathematical analysis. Chapters 3 and 4 cover buckling of beam-columns. Chapter 5 presents torsion in structures in some detail, which is one of the least well understood subjects in the entire spectrum of structural mechanics. Strictly speaking, torsion itself does not belong to a topic in structural stability, but needs to be covered to some extent for a better understanding of buckling accompanied with torsional behavior. Chapters 6 and 7 consider stability of framed structures in conjunction with torsional behavior of structures. Chapters 8 to 10 consider buckling of plate elements, cylindrical shells, and general shells. Although the book is primarily devoted to analysis, rudimentary design aspects are discussed.
The accompanying website will include additional formulas and problems based on the author's on software which is currently being used in corporations. The website will also include equations and examples based on there personal experiences. In addition, the website will include a solutions manual for those who wish to use the book as a text book for a two-semester course. Engineers, Architects, designers, and researcher will find this print/website combination a valuable guide both in terms of its applications of verification of design of structures.

Key Features
• Balanced presentation for both theory and practice
• Well-blended contents covering elementary to advanced topics
• Detailed presentation of the development
• Computer programs will be made available through the senior author's web page

Download