Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook (Repost)

Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook
by Robert Ratay
McGraw-Hill Professional | 2009 | ISBN: 0071498842 | Pages: 688 | PDF | Size: 25,7 MB
Thoroughly revised and featuring contributions from leading experts, this definitive handbook offers comprehensive treatment of forensic structural engineering and expert witness delivery. From exploring the possible origins of errors, through investigating and analyzing failures, to working with the legal profession for assigning responsibilities, Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook, Second Edition covers every important topic in the field.

* The design and construction process
* Design and construction safety codes, standards, and regulations
* Standard of care and duty to perform
* First steps and legal concerns after a failure
* Engineering investigation of failures
* Origins and causes of failures
* Loads and hazards
* Design errors, construction defects, and project miscommunication
* Defects, deterioration, and durability
* Mechanisms and analyses of failures in steel, concrete, masonry, timber, and temporary structures; building envelope; and structural foundations
* Litigation and dispute resolution
* The expert consultant and witness

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The Genius of Archimedes – 23 Centuries of Influence on Mathematics, Science and Engineering (Repost)

Stephanos A. Paipetis, Marco Ceccarelli, "The Genius of Archimedes – 23 Centuries of Influence on Mathematics, Science and Engineering: Proceedings of an International Conference held at Syracuse, Italy, June 8–10, 2010"
Publisher: S/r | ISBN: 9048190908 | September 11, 2010 | 696 pages | PDF | 15.9 MB
Archimedes is held in high esteem by mathematicians, physicists and engineers as one of the most brilliant scientists of all time. These proceedings contain original, unpublished papers with the primary emphasis on the scientific work of Archimedes and his influence on the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering. There are also papers dealing with archaeological aspects and the myths and legends about Archimedes and about the Archimedes Palimpsest. Papers on the following subjects form part of the book: Hydrostatics (buoyancy, fluid pressure and density, stability of floating bodies); Mechanics (levers, pulleys, centers of gravity, laws of equilibrium); Pycnometry (measurement of volume and density); Integral Calculus (Archimedes as the father of the integral calculus, method of exhaustion, approximation of pi, determination of areas and volumes); Mathematical Physics (Archimedes as the father of mathematical physics, Law of the Lever, Law of Buoyancy, Axiomatization of Physics); History of Mathematics and Mechanics (Archimedes’ influence in antiquity, the middle ages, the Renaissance, and modern times; his influence on Leonado da Vinci, Galileo, Newton, and other giants of science and mathematics); Ancient Machines and Mechanisms (catapults, water screws, iron hands, compound pulleys, planetaria, water clocks, celestial globes, the Antikythera Mechanism); Archimedean Solids (their rediscovery in the Rennaisance and their applications in materials science and chemistry); Archimedean Legends (how stories of golden crowns, eureka moments, naked runs, burning mirrors, steam cannons, etc., have influenced us through the ages, whether true or not); The Cattle Problem (how its 18th century rediscovery inspired the study of equations with integer solutions); Teaching the Ideas of Archimedes (how his life and works have influenced the teaching of science, mathematics, and engineering).

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Up and Running with Autodesk Inventor Simulation 2010: A Step-by-Step Guide to Engineering Design Solutions (Repost)

Wasim Younis, "Up and Running with Autodesk Inventor Simulation 2010: A Step-by-Step Guide to Engineering Design Solutions"
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann | 2009 | ISBN: 1856176940 | 352 pages | PDF | 21.8 MB
Inventor Simulation is an essential part of the Autodesk Digital Prototyping process. It allows engineers and designers to explore and test components and products virtually, visualizing and simulating real-world performance.
Up and Running with Autodesk Inventor Simulation 2010 is dedicated to the requirements of Inventor users who need to quickly learn or refresh their skills, and apply the dynamic simulation, assembly analysis and optimization capabilities of Inventor Simulation 2010.
Step-by-step approach gets you up and running fast
Discover how to convert CAD models to working digital prototypes, enabling you to enhance designs, reduce over design, failure, and the need to create physical prototypes
Extensive real-world design problems explore all the new and key features of the 2010 software, including assembly stress analysis; parametric optimization analysis; creating joints effectively; avoiding redundant joints; unknown force; logic conditions; and more.
Tips and guidance you to tackle your own design challenges with confidence
Companion site (elsevierdirect.com/companions) provides Simulation datasets for the design problems in the book that enable you to apply, experiment and manipulate solutions, and move on to solving your own design problems. Inventor Simulation is an essential part of the Autodesk Digital Prototyping process. It allows engineers and designers to explore and test components and products virtually, visualizing and simulating real-world performance.

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Web Engineering: Modelling and Implementing Web Applications

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Web Engineering: Modelling and Implementing Web Applications
Springer | 2007-10-17 | ISBN:184628922X | 464 pages | PDF | 5,5 Mb

Web Engineering: Modelling and Implementing Web Applications presents the position of the art approaches for obtaining a correct and complete Web software harvest from conceptual schemas, represented via well-known design notations.Describing prepared and consolidated approaches to developing complex applications, this edited volume is divided into three intellect and covers the challenges web application developers face; design issues in favor of web applications; and how to measure and evaluate web applications in a consistent way.
With contributions from leading researchers in the field this main division will appeal to researchers and students as well as to software engineers, software architects and employment analysts.

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