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This open access book focuses on the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic in civil engineering. The book features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to civil and structural engineering. Subjects in this book include Engineering Structure and Seismic Resistance Structural Mechanics Analysis Components and Materials Structural Seismic Design 3D Printing Concrete.

This book provides a collection of recent research works related to new trends and pathologies associated with concrete structures, in order to contribute to the systematization and dissemination of knowledge related to moisture transport, durability, construction pathology, diagnostic techniques, and the most recent advances in this domain. The book is divided into five chapters that intend to be a resume of the current state of knowledge for benefit of professional colleagues, scientists, students, practitioners, lecturers, and other interested parties to network. At the same time, these topics will be going to the encounter of a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, such as civil, mechanical, and materials engineering.

Understanding how gravity loads and wind and earthquake loads flow through a building is of utmost importance to all structural engineers and architects. Paradoxically, this critical idea is practically not addressed in any textbook on the market. Meant as a companion to the author's Structures: A Geometric Approach, this textbook fills that need with qualitative techniques as well as quantitative tools that use state of the art visual representation of forces and deformations in structures. Structures: A Studio Approach reaches out to both structural engineers and designers by presenting structural engineering topics in an interdisciplinary studio environment. Using many graphical techniques, it offers a very rigorous approach, but also enables creativity. Cutting edge finite element as well as parametric modeling tools are used, and state of the art visual representations of force flow help both groups of students realize that understanding three dimensional load flow in a building is a requirement for channeling that flow in a structurally efficient and visually expressive manner. Ultimately, the reader is able to develop a unique structural sensibility; an ethos that places structural design on an equal footing with the design of program, skin, massing and site.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory of structural dynamics, highlighting practical issues and illustrating applications with a large number of worked out examples. In the spirit of “learning by doing” it encourages readers to apply immediately these methods by means of the software provided, allowing them to become familiar with the broad field of structural dynamics in the process.The book is primarily focused on practical applications. Earthquake resistant design is presented in a holistic manner, discussing both the underlying geophysical concepts and the latest engineering design methods and illustrated by fully worked out examples based on the newest structural codes. The spectral characteristics of turbulent wind processes and the main analysis methods in the field of structural oscillations due to wind gusts and vortex shedding are also discussed and applications illustrated by realistic examples of slender chimney structures. The user‐friendly software employed is downloadable and can be readily used by readers to tackle their own problems.

This updated textbook provides a balanced, seamless treatment of both classic, analytic methods and contemporary, computer-based techniques for conceptualizing and designing a structure. New to the second edition are treatments of geometrically nonlinear analysis and limit analysis based on nonlinear inelastic analysis. Illustrative examples of nonlinear behavior generated with advanced software are included. The book fosters an intuitive understanding of structural behavior based on problem solving experience for students of civil engineering and architecture who have been exposed to the basic concepts of engineering mechanics and mechanics of materials. Distinct from other undergraduate textbooks, the authors of Fundamentals of Structural Engineering, 2/e embrace the notion that engineers reason about behavior using simple models and intuition they acquire through problem solving. The perspective adopted in this text therefore develops this type of intuition by presenting extensive, realistic problems and case studies together with computer simulation, allowing for rapid exploration of how a structure responds to changes in geometry and physical parameters. The integrated approach employed in Fundamentals of Structural Engineering, 2/e make it an ideal instructional resource for students and a comprehensive, authoritative reference for practitioners of civil and structural engineering.

This volume on structural fire resistance is for aerospace, structural, and fire prevention engineers; architects, and educators. It bridges the gap between prescriptive- and performance-based methods and simplifies very complex and comprehensive computer analyses to the point that the structural fire resistance and high temperature creep deformations will have a simple, approximate analytical expression that can be used in structural analysis and design. The book emphasizes methods of the theory of engineering creep (stress-strain diagrams) and mathematical operations quite distinct from those of solid mechanics absent high-temperature creep deformations, in particular the classical theory of elasticity and structural engineering. Dr. Razdolsky's previous books focused on methods of computing the ultimate structural design load to the different fire scenarios. The current work is devoted to the computing of the estimated ultimate resistance of the structure taking into account the effect of high temperature creep deformations. An essential resource for aerospace structural engineers who wish to improve their understanding of structure exposed to flare up temperatures and severe fires, the book also serves as a textbook for introductory courses in fire safety in civil or structural engineering programs, vital reading for the PhD students in aerospace fire protection and structural engineering, and a case study of a number of high-profile fires (the World Trade Center, Broadgate Phase 8, One Meridian Plaza; Mandarin Towers). Probability Based High Temperature Engineering: Creep and Structural Fire Resistance successfully bridges the information gap between aerospace, structural, and engineers; building inspectors, architects, and code officials.

Das gut eingeführte Werk Ebene Flächentragwerke erscheint nun in der 2. Auflage. Ausgehend von einer Klassifikation der Modelle ebener Flächentragwerke und den Grundgleichungen der linearen Elastizitätstheorie werden zunächst systematisch die Gleichungen für isotrope Scheiben und Platten abgeleitet. Dabei wird ein didaktisch einheitliches Konzept eingesetzt. Die Gleichungen werden in kartesischen Koordinaten, Polarkoordinaten und schiefwinkligen Koordinaten formuliert. In Ergänzung der ersten Auflage wird auch eine Plattentheorie in koordinatenfreier Schreibweise behandelt, so dass der Leser einen leichteren Zugang zu modernen Konzepten der Formulierung von Flächentragwerkstheorien erhält. Die Diskussion der Plattenmodelle nach Kirchhoff, Mindlin und von Kármán zeigt die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen dieser Strukturmodelle.Für schubstarre und schubelastische Platten mit kleinen Durchbiegungen wird auch anisotropes Materialverhalten einbezogen, und es werden die Strukturgleichungen der klassischen Laminattheorie und der Schubdeformationstheorie erster Ordnung angegeben. Es folgt ein kurzer Einblick in Theorien zur Analyse dreischichtiger Platten. Die Berücksichtigung vorgegebener Temperaturfelder erfolgt für alle Plattenmodelle im Rahmen der entkoppelten Thermoelastizität.Der Leser erhält einen umfassenden Überblick über die Anwendung bedeutsamer Strukturmodelle ebener Flächentragwerke. Die nach Aufgabenklassen geordneten zahlreichen Beispiele können als Referenzlösungen zur Testung numerischer Verfahren genutzt werden. Die Aufnahme der sogenannten Reduktionsverfahren von Wlassow und Kantorowitsch soll ihre Leistungsfähigkeit für die Ableitung einfacher und analytischer Näherungslösungen durch die Reduktion der Strukturgleichungen auf eindimensionale Formulierungen verdeutlichen.

Für die Berechnung von Baukonstruktionen sind Lastannahmen zu treffen und die Einwirkungen auf das Bauwerk zu untersuchen. Je nach verwendetem Material unterscheidet man Stahlbeton- und Spannbetonbau nach DIN, Beton nach EN, Stahlbau, Holzbau und Mauerwerk. Hierfür werden die gültigen Normen und Richtlinien erläutert.

This innovative volume provides a systematic treatment of the basic concepts and computational procedures for structural motion design and engineering for civil installations. The authors illustrate the application of motion control to a wide spectrum of buildings through many examples. Topics covered include optimal stiffness distributions for building-type structures, the role of damping in controlling motion, tuned mass dampers, base isolation systems, linear control, and nonlinear control. The book's primary objective the satisfaction of motion-related design requirements such as restrictions on displacement and acceleration and seeks the optimal deployment of material stiffness and motion control devices to achieve these design targets as well as satisfy constraints on strength. The book is ideal for practicing engineers and graduate students.

Many more people are coming to live in earthquake-prone areas, especially urban ones. Many such areas contain low-rise, low-cost housing, while little money is available to retrofit the buildings to avoid total collapse and thus potentially save lives. The lack of money, especially in developing countries, is exacerbated by difficulties with administration, implementation and public awareness. The future of modern earthquake engineering will come to be dominated by new kinds of measuring technologies, new materials developed especially for low-rise, low-cost buildings, simpler and thus lower cost options for retrofitting, cost cutting and raising public awareness. The book covers all the areas involved in this complex issue, from the prevention of total building collapse, through improvement techniques, to legal, financial, taxation and social issues. The contributors have all made valuable contributions in their own particular fields; all of them are or have been closely involved with the issues that can arise in seismic zones in any country. The recent research results published here offer invaluable pointers to practicing engineers and administrators, as well as other scientists whose work involves saving the lives and property of the many millions of people who live and work in hazardous buildings.

Dieses Werk hat Generationen von Studenten und Bauingenieuren in der Praxis durch die klare Formulierung der Theorie und anhand von detaillierten Beispielen die Grundlagen der Baustatik vermittelt. Obwohl das Buch im technischen Maßsystem gehalten ist, hat es seinen didaktischen Wert als Lehr- und Nachschlagewerk behalten, weil die Aussagen der Statik durch die Wahl der Krafteinheiten nicht berührt werden. Die anhaltende Nachfrage hat den Verlag bewogen, diesen Klassiker durch eine unveränderte Neuauflage lieferbar zu halten.