Bøger udgivet af American Society of Civil Engineers

The design of turbine-generator foundations requires advanced technical expertise in structural engineering and soil dynamics, as well as close collaboration with manufacturers, mechanical and electrical engineers, and plant designers. This volume provides the practical assistance needed to meet these challenges with the most up-to-date and reliable information available.

Reports findings from a survey and literature review to capture and quantify the expenses associated with operating and maintaining sustainable stormwater-management technologies. Green infrastructure practices use processes found in the natural environment to manage stormwater with the end goal of reducing stormwater runoff volumes and corresponding pollutant loading from urban surfaces.

An essential resource to assist candidates who are preparing for the Principles and Practice of Engineering (P.E.) examination in architectural engineering. This book presents a complete sample examination, listing all questions inthe actual test format. Each answer is accompanied by a solution that provides examinees with strategies to complete the exam successfully.

A primer on greenhouse gas emissions for the structural engineering community, focusing on the impact of structural materials and systems. This report explains the science behind climate change and practical ways structural engineers can help reduce the carbon footprint of buildings.

Provides a framework for regulatory agencies to create verification and certification programs for stormwater treatment systems. This book assists regulators and end users in assessing the efficiency of manufactured treatment devices. It also provides guidelines to help regulators establish certification programs for these devices.

Provides a detailed, authoritative description of the snow load provisions of Standard ASCE/SEI 7-16. With clear, concise language, Michael O'Rourke explains the theory and research that underpin the provisions and shows how to apply them to the design of new and existing structures that could collect falling or drifting snow.

Introduces valuable techniques for weighing and evaluating alternatives in decision making with a focus on risk analysis for identifying, quantifying, and mitigating risks associated with construction projects. Intended for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students, each topic is accompanied by numerous examples, drawings, and exercises to illustrate and reinforce concepts.

Presents current thinking on the environmental, social, and political dimensions of sustainably managing the water supply at local, regional, or basin levels. Written by leading experts from around the world, the 33 chapters in this book provide comprehensive information about different aspects of sustainable water resources management.

A manual of practice covering the design and installation of utility pipelines of various types under roads, railroads, constructed and natural structures, and other surface obstacles using pilot tubes and other guided boring methods. MOP 133 provides a detailed description of the pilot tube and guided boring methods.

Provides the accurate, authoritative explanations and recommendations required by civil engineers who are building and maintaining the structures used to berth, moor, and repair ocean-going vessels. John Gaythwaite provides comprehensive technical discussions on a variety of loads and design issues relevant to ports and harbours.

Describes the minimum design requirements for construction loads, load combinations, and load factors affecting buildings and other structures that are under construction. it addresses partially completed structures as well as temporary support and access structures used during construction.

This is the fourth standard in a series that enhances the probabilistic characterization and understanding of the behavior of a key groundwater parameter, the saturated hydraulic conductivity. Standard ANSI/ASCE/EWRI 65-17 provides guidelines for calculating saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat), permeability, and porosity of fine-grained soils.

Contains 30 peer-reviewed papers that survey the entire breadth of research and practice in geotechnical engineering. About half the papers present the state of the art by describing current challenges for geotechnical researchers. The other half demonstrate the state of the practice by reporting on issues tackled by geotechnical engineers in the field.

Aims to describe the approach and process involved in a program designed to assist faculty in acquiring technology skills and to apply these skills in constructing meaningful learning-centered applications. This book is intended for educators who are working to lead the integration of technology into higher education and K-12 environments.

Ravina High is seen as a ""good school"" largely because of its comfortable middle-class catchment. This book talks about how class interests shape not only this school, but the whole education system around it, public and private. It shows the massive influence of social class inequalities in Australian society.

This standard provides current minimum functionality requirements for earthquake-actuated automatic gas shutoff devices. These devices contain both a means of sensing seismic activity and a way of shutting off the flow of gas. Applicable to systems carrying natural gas and propane, the devices are used in piping, equipment, and the appliances typically found in structures of three stories or less.

Provides water utilities with an appropriate path for determining the structural status of an individual pipeline or pipeline system. This manual focuses on the larger diameter transmission pipelines of water utilities. It provides technical information and recommendations to set priorities and obtain an accurate determination of the condition of the individual pipelines and pipeline systems.

Provides common-sense management practices that are easy to implement to avoid events leading to productivity and schedule degradation. With more than 70 years of combined experience, Thomas and Ellis have monitored more than 200 active construction projects measuring labour productivity, calculating losses of productivity, and documenting the events leading to those losses.

Establishes guidelines for controlling accelerated erosion caused by human activities at construction sites. Uncontrolled erosion is costly and accompanied by a host of financial, legal, and environmental problems. This Standard provides tools to ensure that the discharge of sediment does not significantly increase at a construction site compared with preconstruction conditions.

Nobody explains the ingenious ways that the ancient Incas engineered their cities better than Ken Wright and his colleagues. These four books open a unique window on the everyday life of the Incas by showing how they collected, used, disposed of, and worshipped precious water resources. Each book provides original engineering and scientific research.

Presents classic papers from the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), the world's leading event for the development of offshore resources in the fields of exploration, drilling, production, and environmental protection. Volume 11 contains six papers inducted into the OTC Hall of Fame in 2016.

Starting, managing, and owning an engineering firm can be a daunting experience. Engineer to Entrepreneur: Success Strategies to Manage Your Career and Start Your Own Firm provides practical steps at key career points to reach your professional goals in any engineering discipline.

During 2010 and 2011, a sequence of strong earthquakes affected two communities in the province of Canterbury, New Zealand. This TCLEE Monograph discusses the following lifelines with recommendations for improving performance: electric power; telecommunications; water and wastewater infrastructure; gas and liquid fuel facilities; the port of Lyttelton; and transportation infrastructure.

Supplies the practical details for implementing a cloud seeding project to enhance precipitation efficiency. This revised and updated Manual of Practice incorporates pertinent background on the science and practice of weather modification through the use of cloud seeding that has developed over the past 10 years. It also presents additional methods of evaluation for such programmes.

Provides a detailed resource on planning, design and construction of trenchless rehabilitation technologies for pipelines carrying drinking water. Trenchless renewal, rather than open-cut pope replacement, offers a variety of benefits, including lower risk of damage to surrounding area, fewer traffic disruptions, better public safety, and shorter completion times.

Offers a comprehensive reference to estimating the water quantities needed for irrigation of crops based on the physics of evaporation and evapotranspiration (ET). This new edition of MOP 70, which updates and expands the 1990 original, provides improved and standardized methods to estimate evaporation and ET and to apply and evaluate calculations.

Describes basic principles and recent advances for handling solid waste in an environmentally sustainable way. This volume uses a global lens to examine all aspects of the solid waste, including waste minimization, waste as a resource, appropriate disposal, and efficient systems fostered by effective public policy.

Presents the principles and implementation challenges of low-energy desalination technology for producing potable and nonpotable water. Written by leading experts from around the world, this book describes the basic concepts of forward osmosis (FO) technology and discusses modelling and element design. Different types of draw solution are explored, and recently developed FO membranes are assessed.