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Outlines the HITEC Technical Evaluation Plan for large seismic isolator and energy dissipation devices. This report describes a program of full-scale dynamic tests, the results of which should provide guidance to the transportation-engineering community regarding the performance of large seismic devices.

The field of structural optimization has experienced dramatic developments in both computational techniques and applications. This book documents these developments in computational methods, the role of optimization during the various stages of structural design, and the stochastic nature of design in relation to structural optimization.

Providing a survey of the drinking water treatment methods and technologies, this report examines the risks posed by microbes in drinking water, and their control through treatment and disinfection. It is designed to provide an overview of the subject for non-specialists, and a technical reference for experienced practitioners.

Provides the tools to better understand acceptable risk processes, and how those processes can enable to develop risk reduction strategies and implement mitigation actions to reduce lifeline losses from earthquakes. The topics in this title include technical issues, risk criteria issues, and communication, administration, and regulations issues.

Presents the methodologies and techniques for performing stochastic analysis of contaminant transport through porous media. This book includes perturbation methods, Green's functions, moment analysis, cumulant expansion methods, decomposition principles, and Kalman filtering approaches. It also represents Eulerian and Lagrangian viewpoints.

Takes a look at the relationship of the public to the civil engineering networks that define modern life. This illustrated book features chapters that explore a fundamental question behind infrastructure and the role it plays in individual lives. It examines the indivisible links between our private lives and public works.

Provides several techniques and guidance in developing quality assurance requirements for specifying fine-pore aeration equipment. Three methods for specifying compliance testing are described, including information on appropriate applications, advantages and disadvantages of each method, and the procedures to be followed.

Features 14 papers, documenting the results of research undertaken during Phase 2 of the FEMA/SAC research study to address various design and construction issues that resulted from the observed behavior of welded steel frames following the Northridge earthquake. This collection includes a number of experimental studies.

Constitutes Part 3 of a three-part standard that aims to establish the minimum set of requirements necessary to achieve an acceptable level of safety and performance for an Automated People Mover (APM) system. This standard provides information on electrical equipment, stations, and guideways.

Offers a collection of 110 papers documenting applied research and engineering experience in the subject area of deep foundations. This is a resource for both researchers and practitioners covering driven, jacked, and augered piles and drilled shafts. These papers address the topics of geotechnical design, structural design, and more.

Presents a step-by-step approach covering GIS application case studies, examples, and costs associated with hardware, software, data conversion, and implementation. This title addresses various GIS issues, from basic definitions to specific applications, teaching how to utilize GIS tools and implement them in a practical and cost-effective manner.

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Providing minimum design load requirements during construction for buildings and structures, this title addresses partially completed structures and temporary structures used in construction. The topics include loads and load combinations, dead and live loads, construction loads, lateral earth pressures, environmental loads, and safety criteria.

Weaves together three elements at the core of engineering: uncertainties in knowledge, inductive reasoning, and individual expertise. Written from a geotechnical and earth sciences perspective, this book emphasizes the cognitive processes used in conceptualizing uncertainty, with techniques and tools for subjective probability assessment.

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What does the increasing use of private security forces mean for governments? For individuals? This work offers a comprehensive analysis of the varieties, causes, and consequences of this growing phenomenon.

Through the lens of the Humaitarianism and War Project, this text explores what international humanitarians - from the UN, to the Red Cross and private relief and development agencies - have learned about how to do humanitarian work well, and the arguments which remain unresolved.

Lords of Things offers an interpretation of modernity in late 19th and early 20th century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion itself and its public image in the early stages of globalization.

This work combines historical, political, economic, geographical and urban planning analysis to provide a comprehensive overview of how and why urban sprawl occurs.

A history of Scottish Medieval churches