MCE E-Books: Recent submissions

  • Soil Strength and Slope Stability Second Edition 
    J. Michael Duncan, Stephen G. Wright Thomas L. Brandon (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2014)
    In the nine years since the appearance of the first edition of Soil Strength and Slope Stability there have been significant developments in measurement of soil strength in the laboratory and the field, advances in methods ...
  • Examples in Structural Analysis Second Edition 
    William M. C. McKenzie (CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)
    Prior to the development of quantitative structural theories in the mid-18th century and since, builders relied on an intuitive and highly developed sense of structural behaviour. The advent of modern mathematical modelling ...
  • A Handbook of Human Management Practice 10th Edition 
    Michael Armstrong (Kogan Page Limited, 2006)
    his tenth edition of A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice contains many additions and revisions. It refers to major developments in HR practice in the last two to three years such as the development of the ...
  • Design Analysis in Rock Mechanics 
    William G. Pariseau (Taylor & Francis, 2007)
    A preface gives the author an opportunity to explain his work: what the objective is, what level of understanding is assumed, why some material is included and some not, and so forth. Like most experienced practitioners ...
  • Know Your Enemy 
    david c. engerman (Oxford University Press, 2009)
    When Winston Churchill ominously announced in March 1946 that an “Iron Curtain had descended over Europe,” the U.S. government was grossly unprepared for a world divided between East and West; it employed around two dozen ...
  • Disaster Risk Reduction 
    y Mark Pelling and Ben Wisner (Earthscan in the UK and USA, 2009)
    Africa is the world’s most rapidly urbanizing continent. Already there are more people living in urban settlements in Africa than all of Western Europe or North America (UN-HABITAT, 2006). Most of this urban growth is ...
  • Principles of Foundation Engineering Sixth Edition 
    Braja M. Das (THOMSON, 2007)
    Soil mechanics and foundation engineering have rapidly developed during the last fifty years. Intensive research and observation in the field and the laboratory have refined and improved the science of foundation design. ...
  • Hydrology Principle Analysis and Design 
    Raghunath H.M (New Age International, 2006)
    Hydrology is a branch of Earth Science. The importance of hydrology in the assessment, development, utilisation and management of the water resources, of any region is being increasingly realised at all levels. It was in ...
  • Movable Highway BridgE Design Specifications 2nd Edition 
    AASHTO LRFD (American Association of State Highway and Transportation, 2014)
    The first broadly recognized national standard for the design and construction of bridges in the United States was published in 1931 by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO), the predecessor to AASHTO. ...
  • Standard Method of Detailing Structural Concrete Third edition 
    The Institution of Structural Engineers (The Institution of Structural Engineers, 2006)
    The objective of this manual is to provide a working document on structural concrete that can be used to interpret the designer’s instructions in the form of drawings and schedules for communication to the site. The ...
  • Disaster Planning, Structural Assessment, Demolition and Recycling 
    Carlo De Pauw, Erik K.Lauritze (Taylor & Francis e, 2005)
    One of the greatest technological challenges of our time is to prevent and relieve damages to cities and to protect society from the causes of natural disasters. Another challenge involves the limitation and utilization of ...
  • Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Scienc 
    Gilbert M. Masters Wendell P. Ela (Pearson Education Limited, 2014)
    This chapter begins with a section on units of measurement. Engineers need to be familiar with both the American units of feet, pounds, hours, and degrees Fahrenheit as well as the more recommended International System ...
  • Demolition and Reuse of Concrete and Masonry 
    Erik K.Lauritzen (E & EN SPON An Imprint of Chapman & Hall, 1994)
    The first and second international symposia on Demolition and Recycling of Concrete and Masonry were held in Rotterdam in 1985 and in Tokyo in 1988 under the auspices of RILEM Technical Committee 37-DRC These earlier ...
  • Numerical Analysis and Its Applications 
    Ivan Dimov István Faragó, Lubin Vulkov (Eds.) (3, 2013)
    The 5th International Conference Numerical Analysis and Applications was held in the hotel ‘Ambelitz’, Lozenetz, Bulgaria, June 15–20, 2012. The conference was organized by the Department of Applied Mathematics and ...
  • Econometric Analysis 
    William H. Green (Pearson Education Limited, 2012)
    Econometric Analysis provides a broad introduction to the field of econometrics. This field grows continually—a list of journals devoted at least in part, if not completely, to econometrics now includes The Journal of ...
  • Mechanics of Materials Sixth Edition 
    James M. Gere (Thomson Learning Academic Resource Center, 2004)
    Mechanics of materials is a basic engineering subject that must be understood by anyone concerned with the strength and physical performance of structures, whether those structures are man-made or natural. The subject ...
  • Fundamentals of Ethics 
    Edmund G.Seebauer, Robert L. Barry (New York • Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001)
    Ethics in science and engineering has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Several well-publicized incidents, like the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger and the accusations surrounding the ...
  • Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency 
    DeMond Shondell Miller • Jason David Rivera (CRC Press Taylor & Francis Grou, 2011)
    The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed some of the most devastating disasters in recent history. In our globalized world, communities are connected. What happens locally can impact others globally. ...
  • Steel Reinforced Concrete Structures 
    Mohamed A. El-Reedy, Ph.D. (CRC Press Taylor & Francis Grou, 2008)
    The civilization of any country is measured by the advanced techniques used in constructing its buildings. Concrete is the main element used in construction materials and its development in any country means that there ...
  • Long-Term Community Recovery from Natural Disasters 
    Lucy A. Arendt and Daniel J. Alesch (CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, 2015)
    We are and have been deeply concerned with understanding and facilitating community disaster recovery. We have understood for a long time that an extreme natural hazard event is not synonymous with a disaster; a community ...

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