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Innovative structural engineering enhances the functionality, serviceability and life-cycle performance of our civil infrastructure systems. As a result, it contributes significantly to the improvement of efficiency, productivity and quality of life.
The Structural Engineering: Mechanics and Design series builds an authoritative and comprehensive library of reference books presenting the state-of-the-art in structural engineering, for industry and academia.
Franklin Y. Cheng, Kevin Z. Truman
June 17, 2010
Today’s biggest structural engineering challenge is to design better structures, and a key issue is the need to take an integrated approach which balances control of costs with the requirement for handling earthquakes and other dynamic forces. Structural optimization is based on rigorous...
Perumalsamy Balaguru, Antonio Nanni, James Giancaspro
November 05, 2008
High strength fibre composites (FRPs) have been used with civil structures since the 1980s, mostly in the repair, strengthening and retrofitting of concrete structures. This has attracted considerable research, and the industry has expanded exponentially in the last decade. Design guidelines have...
Hrista Stamenkovic
February 21, 2002
Innovative Shear Design presents a new, rational and economical design procedure that offers increased protection against shear for all types of structures. The first part of the book describes the internal forces imposed on any flexurally bent member, and goes on to describe how these can interact...
Y-X. Hu, S-C. Liu, W. Dong
July 18, 1996
A unified presentation of engineering seismology and earthquake-resistant design, this book presents a wide ranging coverage of the whole subject of earthquake engineering so that the reader is given a clear appreciation of earthquakes before dealing with their effects on structures. In addition,...
D-H Kim
December 01, 1994
A thorough and understandable guide to the properties and design of structural composites. It derives from the author's many years of experience of research, industrial development and teaching....
