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Concrete Buildings Analysis for Safe Construction

By: W.F. Chen,Khalid H. Mosallam

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Concrete Buildings Analysis for Safe Construction

By: W.F. Chen,Khalid H. Mosallam

The most critical state of a structure's lifetime is during construction; many more disasters occur during construction than after projects have been completed. This book helps readers to determine construction loads; understand performance criteria during construction; prevent construction delays; maintain structural strength and stability; find relevant codes and standards; learn methods of shoring, reshoring, bracing and guying, and completing other temporary work; spot potential hazards; eliminate construction-created structural disaster; and maximize site safety. The book also covers concrete frame analysis and provides comprehensive treatment of topics such as construction procedures and shoring scheduling. Concrete Buildings: Analysis for Safe Construction also features a diskette that contains the computer program, SHORING2, a menu-driven, user-friendly program capable of calculating the loads imposed on shores, reshores, and slabs at every state of construction on high-rise reinforced concrete buildings. The program can also assess safety at each stage of construction. Concrete Buildings: Analysis for Safe Construction's "back to basics" approach, realistic detailed worked examples, and emphasis on safety through the use of computer programs, will benefit structural engineers, contractors, inspectors, construction managers, building officials, and construction safety specialists. The book is an important guide for safe analysis of concrete buildings during construction.

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CRC Press

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0849342139

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Advanced Analysis of Steel Frames

Theory, Software, and Applications

By: W.F. Chen

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Advanced Analysis of Steel Frames

Theory, Software, and Applications

By: W.F. Chen

The development of the limit state approach to design in recent years has focused particular attention on two basic requirements: accurate information regarding the behavior of structures throughout the entire range of loading up to the ultimate strength, and simple practical procedures to enable engineers to assess this behavior. This book satisfies these requirements by providing practical analysis methods for the design of steel frames. The book contains a wide range of second-order analyses: from elastic to inelastic, rigid to semi-rigid connections, and simple plastic hinge method to sophisticated plastic-zone method. Computer programs for each analysis are provided in the form of a floppy disk for easy implementation. Sample problems are described and user's manuals are well documented for each program developed in the book.

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CRC Press

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1351086413

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9781351086417

Plastic Design and Second-Order Analysis of Steel Frames

By: W.F. Chen,I. Sohal

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Plastic Design and Second-Order Analysis of Steel Frames

By: W.F. Chen,I. Sohal

Plastic Design of Steel Frames assesses the current status and future direction of computer-based analyses of inelastic strength and stability for direct frame design. It shows how design rules are used in practical frame design and provides an introduction to the second-order theory of inelastic frame design. The book includes two computer programs on a diskette: one for the first-order analyses and the other for the second-order plastic hinge analysis of planar frame design. The second-order program can be used to predict realistic strengths and stabilities of planar frames, thereby eliminating the tedious task of estimating factors for individual member capacity checks. Both programs include clear input instructions. The diskette also contains the Fortran source-code listing for the second-order plastic-hinge analysis, enabling the user to customize the program. The programs will run on an IBM PC-AT or equivalent machine with 640 kB of memory and 30 MB hard drive.

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519

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Springer

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1461384281

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9781461384281

Analysis and Software of Cylindrical Members

By: W.F. Chen,Shouji Toma

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Analysis and Software of Cylindrical Members

By: W.F. Chen,Shouji Toma

This book provides an in-depth look at the behavior, design, and construction of offshore structures. It describes the behavior of cylindrical members and suggests appropriate software, written by the contributors, to determine everything from loading up to the ultimate load, including post-buckling and cyclic inelasticity.

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CRC Press

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1000099261

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9781000099263

Stability Design of Semi-Rigid Frames

By: W. F. Chen,Yoshiaki Goto,J. Y. Richard Liew

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Stability Design of Semi-Rigid Frames

By: W. F. Chen,Yoshiaki Goto,J. Y. Richard Liew

Semi-rigid steel frames are revolutionizing structural design. This book is a practical professional reference, covering analytical methods for the evaluation of connection flexibility and its influence on the stability of the entire framework. The methods range from a simplified member-by-member design approach to a more sophisticated computer-based advanced analysis and design approach.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471076708

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9780471076704

Asian Marine Biology

By: Brian Morton,W. F. Perrin

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Asian Marine Biology

By: Brian Morton,W. F. Perrin

Asian Marine Biology 14, the most recent volume, is a memorial volume for the late James Stephen Leatherwood, with Guest Editors Brian D. Smith and William F. Perriu. There are ten papers on Marine mammal survey techniques and various studies of dolphins.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622094627

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9789622094628

Stability Design of Steel Frames

By: W.F. Chen,E.M. Lui

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Stability Design of Steel Frames

By: W.F. Chen,E.M. Lui

Stability Design of Steel Frames provides a summary of the behavior, analysis and design of structural steel members and frames with flexibly-jointed connections. The book presents the theory and design of structural stability and includes extensions of computer-based analyses for individual members in space with imperfections. It also shows how connection flexibility influences the behavior and design of steel frames and how designers must consider this in a limit-state analysis and design procedure. The clearly written text and extensive bibliography make this a practical book for advanced students, researchers and professionals in civil and structural engineering, as well as a useful supplement to traditional books on the theory and design of structural stability.

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CRC Press

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0849386063

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9780849386060

Limit Analysis in Soil Mechanics

By: W.F. Chen,X.L. Liu

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Limit Analysis in Soil Mechanics

By: W.F. Chen,X.L. Liu

During the last ten years, our understanding of the perfect plasticity and the associated flow rule assumption on which limit analysis is based has increased considerably. Many extensions and advances have been made in applications of limit analysis to the area of soil dynamics, in particular, to earthquake-induced slope failure and landslide problems and to earthquake-induced lateral earth pressures on rigid retaining structures. The purpose of the book therefore is in part to discuss the validity of the upper bound work (or energy) method of limit analysis in a form that can be appreciated by a practicing soil engineer, and in part to provide a compact and up-to-date summary of recent advances in the applications of limit analysis to earthquake-induced stability problems in soil mechanics.

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Elsevier

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0444598359

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9780444598356

Handbook of Structural Engineering

By: W.F. Chen

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Handbook of Structural Engineering

By: W.F. Chen

Covering the broad spectrum of modern structural engineering topics, the Handbook of Structural Engineering is a complete, single-volume reference. It includes the theoretical, practical, and computing aspects of the field, providing practicing engineers, consultants, students, and other interested individuals with a reliable, easy-to-use source of information. Divided into three sections, the handbook covers:

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CRC Press

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1439834350

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9781439834350

LRFD Steel Design Using Advanced Analysis

By: W.F. Chen,Seung-Eock Kim

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LRFD Steel Design Using Advanced Analysis

By: W.F. Chen,Seung-Eock Kim

LRFD Steel Design Using Advanced Analysis uses practical advanced analysis to produce almost identical member sizes to those of the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) method. The main advantage of the advanced analysis method is that tedious and sometimes confusing separate member capacity checks encompassed by the AISC-LRFD specification equations are not necessary. Advanced analysis can sufficiently capture the limit state strength and stability of a structural system and its individual member directly. While the use of elastic analysis is still the norm in engineering practice, a new generation of codes is expected to adopt the advanced analysis methodology in the near future, leading to significant savings in design effort. In recent years, the continued rapid development in computer hardware and software, coupled with an increased understanding of structural behavior, has made it feasible to adopt the advanced analysis techniques for design office use. Drs. Chen and Kim, both experienced and respected engineers, contribute their expertise to this text, which is intended for both the graduate student and the practicing engineer. Previous knowledge of the subject is not necessary, but familiarity with methods of elastic analysis and conventional LRFD design is expected. The advanced analysis in the book is presented in a practical and simple manner, with attention directed to both analysis and design, emphasizing the direct use of the methods in engineering practice. This is a great introduction to an exciting new trend in structural engineering!

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CRC Press

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0849374324

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9780849374326

Composition and Origin of Cometary Materials

Proceedings of an ISSI Workshop, 14–18 September 1998, Bern, Switzerland

By: K. Altwegg,P. Ehrenfreund,Johannes Geiss,W.F. Huebner

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Composition and Origin of Cometary Materials

Proceedings of an ISSI Workshop, 14–18 September 1998, Bern, Switzerland

By: K. Altwegg,P. Ehrenfreund,Johannes Geiss,W.F. Huebner

Comet nuclei are the most primitive bodies in the solar system. They have been created far away from the early Sun and their material properties have been altered the least since their formation. Thus, the composition and structure of comet nuclei provide the best information about the chemical and thermodynamic conditions in the nebula from which our solar system formed. In this volume, cometary experts review a broad spectrum of ideas and conclusions based on in situ measurement of Comet Halley and remote sensing observations of the recent bright Comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake. The chemical character of comet nuclei suggests many close similarities with the composition of interstellar clouds. It also suggests material mixing from the inner solar nebula and challenges the importance of the accretion shock in the outer nebula. The book is intended to serve as a guide for researchers and graduate students working in the field of planetology and solar system exploration. Several special indexes focus the reader's attention to detailed results and discussions. It concludes with recommendations for laboratory investigations and for advanced modeling of comets, the solar nebula, and the collapse of interstellar clouds.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401142114

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9789401142113

Solitude

A Necessary Pause from Company

By: David W.F. Wong

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Solitude

A Necessary Pause from Company

By: David W.F. Wong

A book to accompany you as you retreat to solitude and as you return to community.

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Graceworks

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9811819718

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9789811819711

Local Jet Bundle Formulation of Bäckland Transformations

With Applications to Non-Linear Evolution Equations

By: F.A.E. Pirani,D.C. Robinson,W.F. Shadwick

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Local Jet Bundle Formulation of Bäckland Transformations

With Applications to Non-Linear Evolution Equations

By: F.A.E. Pirani,D.C. Robinson,W.F. Shadwick

The aim of this paper is to show that the theory of jet bundles supplies the appropriate setting for the study of Backlund trans formations. These transformations are used to solve certain partial differential equations, particularly non-linear evolution equations. Of course jets have been employed for some time in the theory of partial differential equations, but so far little use has been made of them in applications. In the meanwhile, substantial progress has been made in the study of non-linear evolution equations. This work has been encouraged by the dis covery of remarkable properties of some such equations, for example the existence of soliton solutions and of infinite se quences of conservation laws. Among the techniques devised to deal with these equations are the inverse scattering method and the Backlund transformation. In our opinion the jet bundle formulation offers a unifying geometrical framework for under standing the properties of non-linear evolution equations and the techniques used to deal with them, although we do not consider all of these properties and techniques here. The relevance of the theory of jet bundles lS that it legitimates the practice of regarding the partial derivatives of field variables as independent quantities. Since Backlund trans formations require from the outset manipulation of these partial derivatives, and repeated shifts of point of view about which variables are dependent on which, this geometrical setting clari fies and simplifies the concepts involved, and offers the prospect of bringing coherence to a variety of disparate results.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400995113

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9789400995116

A monograph of the cartography of the province of New Brunswick

By: W.F. Ganong

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A monograph of the cartography of the province of New Brunswick

By: W.F. Ganong

From the transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Second series 1897-1898. Volume II. Section II. English History, Literature, Acheology, etc.

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Рипол Классик

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588406229X

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9785884062290

Book's by W.F. Chen

Concrete Buildings Analysis for Safe Construction

Concrete Buildings Analysis for Safe Construction

Advanced Analysis of Steel Frames

Advanced Analysis of Steel Frames

Plastic Design and Second-Order Analysis of Steel Frames

Plastic Design and Second-Order Analysis of Steel Frames

Analysis and Software of Cylindrical Members

Analysis and Software of Cylindrical Members

Stability Design of Semi-Rigid Frames

Stability Design of Semi-Rigid Frames

Asian Marine Biology

Asian Marine Biology

Stability Design of Steel Frames

Stability Design of Steel Frames

Limit Analysis in Soil Mechanics

Limit Analysis in Soil Mechanics

Handbook of Structural Engineering

Handbook of Structural Engineering

LRFD Steel Design Using Advanced Analysis

LRFD Steel Design Using Advanced Analysis

Composition and Origin of Cometary Materials

Composition and Origin of Cometary Materials

Solitude

Solitude

Local Jet Bundle Formulation of Bäckland Transformations

Local Jet Bundle Formulation of Bäckland Transformations

A monograph of the cartography of the province of New Brunswick

A monograph of the cartography of the province of New Brunswick

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