Miscellaneous Publication No. 579 U. S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service The art of log construction is relatively simple, once a few basic principles are understood. The pioneers who opened the lands beyond the eastern seaboard did not have boards with which to build such shelter as they needed. Logs were so plentiful in the forested area of our country that, with...
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, UK, 2007. — 276 p. — ISBN: 0415386233, 0415386241. All students undertaking Level One undergraduate programmes in construction need to develop an understanding of basic building techniques. This up-to-date and dependable textbook takes the reader through the essential skills, concepts and methods of constructing a simple house to provide a solid...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2011, 338 p., ISBN: 9400714475 Current knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in topics related to the seismic performance and risk assessment of different types of structures and building stock are addressed in the book, with emphasis on probabilistic methods. The first part addresses the global risk components, as well as seismic hazard...
Birkhauser, 2017. — 176 p. Tall Wood buildings have been at the foreground of innovative building practice in urban contexts for a number of years. From London to Stockholm, from Vancouver to Melbourne timber buildings of up to 20 storeys have been built, are under construction or being considered. This dynamic trend was enabled by developments in the material itself,...
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2013. - 328 p. — ISBN: 0470657537. Язык: English To clarify the practical requirements of the Building Regs and help you meet their requirements first go, all the information contained in the building regulations 2010 and approved documents is presented here in an easy-to-understand format, clear, concise and fully illustrated. Guidance is given for...
IEEE Press, 1992. - 222 p. - ISBN: 0-87942-287-4. The principles behind electromagnetic shields have been known for over 50 years. Specially constructed modular rooms based on these principles have been commercially available for approximately 40 years. In the last 20 years, however, numerous applications have arisen where the traditional rectangular, double-walled,...
New Society Publishers, 2004. - 288 p. ISBN10: 0865715076 ISBN13: 978-0865715073 Earthbag Building is the first comprehensive guide to all the tools, tricks, and techniques for building with bags filled with earth-or earthbags. Having been introduced to sandbag construction by the renowned Nader Khalili in 1993, the authors developed this "Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique"...
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2010, 267 p., ISBN: 3642131077, 3642131093 One of the major difficulties in predicting the capacity of pipe piles in sand has resulted from a lack of understanding of the physical processes that control the behavior of piles during installation and loading. This monograph presents a detailed blue print for developing experimental facilities necessary to...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2019. — 1110 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-815963-7. This book provides practical advice on the selection, design, installation and testing of damping systems. Richly illustrated with images and schematics, this book presents expert commentary on different damping systems, giving readers a way to accurately compare between different device categories and gain and...
Hershey: IGI Global, 2012. — 456 p. — ISBN: 1466616407, 978-1-4666-1640-0, 978-1-4666-1641-7, 978-1-4666-1642-4. Throughout the past few years, there has been extensive research done on structural design in terms of optimization methods or problem formulation. But, much of this attention has been on the linear elastic structural behavior, under static loading condition. Such a...
Cham; Heidelberg; New York; Dordrecht; London: Springer, 2015. — XVI, 560 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-19490-5; ISBN: 978-3-319-19491-2 (eBook). This book provides an insightful overview of the current state of earth building. The author approaches the subject from the perspective of the building material’s life cycle, featuring in-depth explanations of the cycle's individual steps:...
Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, 2014. XIV, 288 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-01025-0 ISBN: 978-3-319-01026-7 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01026-7. This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in...
John Wiley&Sons Ltd, 2003. X, 446 p. — ISBN0-470-84469-8. Timber construction is one of the most prevalent methods of constructing buildings in North America and an increasingly significant method of construction in Europe and the rest of the world. Timber Engineering deals not only with the structural aspects of timber construction, structural components, joints and systems...
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