MCE E-Books: Recent submissions

  • Design and Applications of Raft Foundations 
    J.A. Hemsley (Thamas and telefods, 2000)
  • Detection Methods for Algae, Protoza and Helminths in Fresh and Drinking Water 
    Franca Palumbo, GIULIANO ZIGLIO (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2002)
    Water is a fundamental constituent of life and is essential to a wide range of economic activities. It is also a limited resource, as we are frequently reminded by the tragic effects of drought in certain parts of the ...
  • Development, Security and Unending War Governing the World of Peoples 
    Mark Duffield (Polity Pres, 2007)
    For some years I have been aware that development and security interconnect. It is only now, however, after completing this book, that I fully realize how enduring and essential this relationship is. Usually experienced ...
  • Land Development Handbook: Planning, Engineering, and Surveying 
    Dewberry (McGraw Hill, 2008)
    When this business was launched more than 50 years ago, land development planning, engineering, and surveying was largely a backwater branch of civil engineering and not respected as a legitimate engineering field. Other ...
  • Displacement Based Seismic Design of Structures 
    M.J.N. Priestley, G.M. Calvi (IL SS Press, 2007)
    Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Structures is a book primarily directed towards practicing structural designers who are interested in applying performance-based concepts to seismic design. Since much of the material ...
  • Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications Seventh Edition 
    Kenneth H. Rosen (McGraw Hill, 2007)
    In writing this book, I was guided by my long-standing experience and interest in teaching discrete mathematics. For the student, my purpose was to present material in a precise, readable manner, with the concepts and ...
  • Disturbed Soil Properties and Geotechnical Design 
    Andrew Schofield (Thomas Telford Publishing, 2005)
    This book originated with seminars that I gave in November 1999 at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. I outlined their intended content in the following three paragraphs: There is a fundamental error in the ...
  • Urban Planning Theory Since 1945 
    Nigel Taylor (SAGE Publications Ltd, 1998)
    This book describes the history of town planning theory since the end of the Second World War (1945). Over this fifty-year period ideas about town planning have changed significantly. Yet students of town planning lack a ...
  • Politics, Planning and Homes in a World City 
    Duncan Bowie (Routledg, 2010)
    This work draws on some thirty years’ experience working for public sector agencies on housing strategy and spatial planning in London. I must, however, first acknowledge the work of my colleagues in the Mayor’s London ...
  • Dynamic Soil Structure Interaction 
    John P. Wolf (Prentice Hall, 1985)
  • Dynamics of Structure and Foundation – A Unified Approach 1. Fundamentals 
    Indrajit Chowdhury, Shambhu P. Dasgupta (Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, 2009)
    The idea of writing this book first took its root, while I was working with Bechtel way back in 1996–97. The company was building a power plant in India and it was my first interaction with US engineers sitting across ...
  • Dynamics of Thin Walled Elastic Bodies 
    J.D. Kaplunov (Academic Press, 1998)
  • Constructing and Controlling Compaction of Earth Fills 
    Donald W. Shanklin, Keith R. Rademacher (AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CIVIL ENGINEER, 2000)
    This book represents the efforts of a number of authors who presented papers at the Symposium tifled, Constructing and Controlling Compaction of Earth Fills, held in Seattle, Washington, on July 1 and 2, 1999. The book ...
  • Earth and Rockfill Dams 
    Christian Kutzner (Balkema publisher, 1997)
  • Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design 
    Victor Gioncu, Federico M. Mazzolani (Spon Press, 2011)
    Earthquakes were the cause of more than 1.5 million deaths worldwide during the 20th Century. During the beginning of the 21st Century the number of deaths was about half a million. This is an unacceptable finding, because ...
  • Earthquake Engineering: New Research 
    Takumi Miura (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2009)
    This new book deals with earthquake engineering including seismology, tsunamis, ground motion characteristics, soil and foundation dynamics, wave propagation, probabilistic and deterministic methods of dynamic analysis, ...
  • Earthquake Engineering 
    Halil Sezen (Marijan Polic, 2012)
    Recent major earthquakes around the world have shown the vulnerability of infrastructure and the need for research to better understand the nature of seismic events and their effects on structures. As a result, earthquake ...
  • Earthquake Geotechnical Case Histories for Performance-Based Design 
    Takaji Kokusho (Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK, 2009)
    Performance-Based Design (PBD) is increasingly employed recently in structural design of buildings and infrastructural facilities in many countries. However, PBD has not yet been established sufficiently in geotechnical ...
  • Construction Administration for Architects 
    Greg Winkle, Gary C. Chiumento (he McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, 2009)
    A rchitecture is a noble profession, but can be a diffi cult vocation. Despite the pure joy of design and the satisfaction of seeing those ideas come to fruition, the work is demanding. Owners often expect to receive fl ...
  • Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering 
    Kyriazis D. Pitilakis (Springer, 2007)
    Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, as well as their interface with Engineering Seismology, Geophysics and Seismology, have all made important progress over the past 15 years, mainly due to the development ...

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