Технические науки

To deliver a construction project on time, at cost and of appropriate quality, it is critical to manage the design and construction process effectively… This book provides a comprehensive introdu…

Evolutionary Topology Optimization of Continuum Structures treads new ground with a comprehensive study on the techniques and applications of evolutionary structural optimization (ESO) and its la…

Building contract claims for more time on projects represent one of the largest sources of dispute within the industry. However, identifying the causes of delays, and the effects they have on the…

Изложен дидактический материал, отражающий современную проблематику водного хозяйства таких водоемких отраслей промышленности как нефтехимическая, целлюлозно-бумажная, теплоэнергетическая, пищева…

Изложены физико-технические основы и современное состояние технологии процесса борирования и изучения пластичности борированных слоев. Особое внимание уделено методам воздействия на структуру сло…

Machinability of Advanced Materials addresses the level of difficulty involved in machining a material, or multiple materials, with the appropriate tooling and cutting parameters. A variety of fa…

Книга посвящена фундаментальному физическому явлению – электрическому шуму в твердых телах. В отличие от существующей литературы в ней делается упор не на математические вопросы теории случайных …

Представлено современное состояние нелинейной теории взаимодействия электронных пучков с плазмой. Основное внимание уделено излучательным пучковым неустойчивостям типа коллективного и одночастичн…

В сборник включены работы за 2006–2008 гг., посвященные исследованиям фундаментального и прикладного характера в области нелинейной и хаотической динамики, управлению в условиях неопределенности,…

This book considers 150 problems that regularly arise in building contracts and provides a detailed explanation as to their answers. It cites key parts of legal decisions as authority. The new ed…

Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities examines how the two key issues of urban conservation and sustainability relate to each other in the context of historic cities, and how they ca…

The Minor Works Building Contract is the most widely used of the JCT forms of contact, not only for simple, short contracts of moderate price, for which it is intended, but also for much larger p…

This much-needed critical review of the main monitoring techniques conveys profound knowledge of their fundamentals, possibilities and limits, strengths and weaknesses when applied to membrane pr…

The Joint Contracts Tribunal issued a new Design and Build Form in 2005, a successor to the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Contractor’s Design. It looks substantially different from …

Ушбу қўлланмада шаҳарлар худудини тўла мухандислик ободонлаштириш ва турли ахамиятга молик худудларни ободонлаштириш: турар жой райони, микрорайон, кўча, майдонлар, скверлар, бульварлар, боғлар в…

Built upon the two original books by Mike Crisfield and their own lecture notes, renowned scientist René de Borst and his team offer a thoroughly updated yet condensed edition that retains and bu…

Изложены простейшие прикладные варианты теории неупругости, которые могут быть использованы для исследования закономерностей деформирования и разрушения материала при сложном неизотермическом наг…

There are probably 20-25 subcontracts entered into for every major building contract. However, despite this, there are relatively few books that discuss the problems particular to the subcontract…

Spectral Element Method in Structural Dynamics is a concise and timely introduction to the spectral element method (SEM) as a means of solving problems in structural dynamics, wave propagations, …

Risk and reliability analysis is an area of growing importance in geotechnical engineering, where many variables have to be considered. Statistics, reliability modeling and engineering judgement …