Author: N.K. Srivastava
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1044

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Contains complete proceedings of SEWC '98 held in San Francisco, July 19-23, 1998.

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Category : Concrete construction
Languages : en
Pages : 1004

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Author: Federico Mazzolani
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482289075
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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An unexpected brittle failure of connections and of members occurred during the last earthquakes of Northridge and Kobe. For this reason a heightened awareness developed in the international scientific community, particularly in the earthquake prone countries of the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe, of the urgent need to investigate this topic. This volume results from a European project dealing with the 'reliability of moment resistant connections of steel frames in seismic areas' It is a must have for engineerse who want to be at the cutting edge of design in seismic areas.

Author: Asko Sarja
Publisher: RILEM Publications
ISBN: 9789517584081
Category : Building materials
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: Federico Mazzolani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351413783
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 868

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Presenting a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of seismic resistant steel structures, this volume reports upon the latest progress in theoretical and experimental research into the area, and groups findings in the following key sections: · performance-based design of structures · structural integrity under exceptional loading · material and member behaviour · connections · global behaviour · moment resisting frames · passive and active control · strengthening and repairing · codification · design and application

Author: Z Y Shen
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080526324
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1400

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This two volume proceedings contains 11 invited keynote papers, 33 invited papers, and 225 contributed papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures (ICASS '05) held on 13-15 June 2005 in Shanghai, China. ICASS provides a forum for discussion and dissemination by researchers and designers of recent advances in the analysis, behaviour, design and construction of steel structures. Contributions to the papers came from 22 countries around the world and cover a wide spectrum of topics including: Constructional Steel, Hybrid Structures, Nonferrous Metals, Analysis of Beams and Columns, Computations, Frames, Design, Space Structures, Fabrication, along with a variety of other key subjects presented at the conference.

Author: Dan M. Frangopol
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482262932
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Focussing on structural reliability methods, reliability-based optimization, structural system reliability and risk analysis, lifetime performance and various applications in civil engineering. Invaluable to all concerned with structural system reliability and optimization, especially students, engineers, and workers in research and development.

Author: J.J Jensen
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080535569
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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Load and Global Response of Ships gives an introductory background to naval architecture statistics and strength of materials. Each subject is treated in detail; starting from the first principle. The aim of this title was to derive and present the necessary theoretical framework for predicting the extreme loads and the corresponding hull girder stresses that a ship may be subjected to during its operational lifetime.Although some account is given to reliability analysis, the present treatment has to be supplemented with methods for detailed stress evaluation and for structural strength assessment before a complete structural reliability analysis can be carried out.The classification societies have issued rules and regulations for a proper structural analysis of a ship and selection of the scantlings. Previously, those rules rather explicitly gave formulae for the thickness of the hull plantings, the size of the stiffeners etc. Such empirical rules must necessarily be rather conservative in order to apply to a large variety of ships. With the advent of powerful computers, the rules have changed. Today, the naval architect can perform the structural analysis using mainly rational methods based on first principles. The classification society may then specify proper safety factors against local global failure modes, taking into account the consequences of failure and the analysis procedure used. A cruder method of analysis then necessitates a larger safety factor. Therefore the effort made by the experienced naval architect to perform a detailed structural analysis will be returned not just by a rational structural arrangement but also often in lower weight of the ship and thus a higher payload throughout the operational lifetime of the ship.This analysis has attempted to make explicit one way in which designers limit the design space by creating rules to which they expect users to adhere. It is also an attempt to encourage designers to reconsider the 'rules of use' that they have used in their designs, so as to reconceptualise potential usage. This can help design behaviour where rule use is not blindly followed.By making these rules visible, it is possible to expose the limitations of current technology, and development design solutions that do not restrict use to the 'normal' case of action. Rules are useful to designers because they are simplifications of activity. Rules encode the normal case, and these are simplistic representations of work that are, in many cases, accurate enough for the purpose of design. However, encoding behaviour in rules has dangers in that they do not encompass the whole range of behaviours that can be performed. Using examples, this title shows that being able to break rules means that people are able to engage in a richer more flexible set of actions (and therefore more appropriate to contingency) than when they are constrained to a limited range.

Author: Lars Boström
Publisher: RILEM Publications
ISBN: 9782912143105
Category : Building, Wooden
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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