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Forthcoming Books

  1. Structural Design in Building Conservation

    By Dimitris Theodossopoulos

    No building is properly conserved if it is not structurally sound. Consequently architects, engineers and conservation officers need an adequate grounding in the technology as well as in the materials and the historic origins of the building. Structural interventions to historic buildings are...

    To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Water Loss Management: Tools and Methods for Developing Countries

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    By Harrison E. Mutikanga

    Water losses occur in all water distribution systems worldwide and high levels are indicative of poor governance and poor physical condition of the system. Water losses vary from 3% of system input volume in the developed countries to 70% in the developing countries. This high contrast suggests...

    To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by CRC Press

  3. Rammed Earth Conservation

    Edited by C. Mileto, F. Vegas, V. Christini

    The rammed earth technique, in all its variants, is widespread all over the world. This enormously prevalent building technique harbours an important richness of varieties both in application and in materials used. Interventions on historical rammed earth buildings have also been carried out in all...

    To Be Published June 4th 2012 by CRC Press

  4. Applying the flood vulnerability index as a knowledge base for flood risk assessment

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    By Stefania-Florina Balica

    Floods are one of the most common and widely distributed natural risks to life and property worldwide. There is a need to identify the risk of flooding in flood prone areas to support decisions for flood management from high level planning proposals to detailed design. An important part of...

    To Be Published June 5th 2012 by CRC Press

  5. An approach towards generic coastal geomorphological modelling with applications

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    By Qinghua YE

    This thesis presents the development a generic morphological model for both structured and unstructured grid. An online coupling model frame is set up by modularizing a proven 3d hydrodynamic module, a bed state description module, a sediment transport module, a bed update module, and a...

    To Be Published June 5th 2012 by CRC Press

  6. Performance-Based Fire Engineering of Structures

    By Yong Wang, Ian Burgess, František Wald, Martin Gillie

    Major events—notably the Broadgate fire in London, New York’s World Trade Center collapse, and the Windsor Tower fire in Madrid—as well as the enlightening studies at the Cardington fire research project have given international prominence to performance-based structural fire engineering. As a...

    To Be Published June 11th 2012 by CRC Press

  7. Marine Engineering and Technology

    Edited by Carlos Guedes Soares

    To Be Published June 11th 2012 by CRC Press

  8. Shaking the Foundations of Geo-engineering Education

    Edited by Bryan McCabe, Marina Pantazidou, Declan Phillips

    This book comprises the proceedings of the international conference Shaking the Foundations of Geo-engineering Education (NUI Galway, Ireland, 4-6 July 2012), a major initiative of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee (TC306) on...

    To Be Published June 13th 2012 by CRC Press

  9. Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Resilience and Sustainability

    Proceedings of the Sixth International IABMAS Conference, Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy, 8-12 July 2012

    Edited by Fabio Biondini, Dan M. Frangopol

    Series: Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management

    Drawn from the proceedings of the Sixth International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety Conference held in Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Italy in 2012, this collection of reviewed and state-of-the art contributions by leading experts in the field explores the most recent advances in bridge...

    To Be Published June 14th 2012 by CRC Press

  10. Environmental Consulting Fundamentals

    Investigation and Remediation

    By Benjamin Alter

    Written by an environmental consultant with more than 20 years of experience, and based on a course he taught for 10 years, Environmental Consulting Fundamentals: Investigation and Remediation introduces the basic building blocks of environmental consulting. Rather than formulas and equations, it...

    To Be Published June 19th 2012 by CRC Press