This introduction to the principles of concrete mechanics and design focuses on the fundamentals - from very basic, elementary to the very complicated concepts and features an easy-to-follow yet thorough step-by-step design methodology. *emphasizes basic principles of the mechanics aspects of concrete design and avoids explanations of the detail requirements which can be found in the ACI Code and Commentary. *surveys modern design philosophies and features an amply illustrated tour of the world of concrete. *carefully lays out the various design procedures step-by-step - for flexural design, shear design, column design, etc, prepares and encourages students to program procedures for computer solution. Instructors, at their own discretion, can suggest follow-up coding assignment. *goes beyond the traditional description of materials to provide substantive coverage of concrete, current concrete technology, and the durability of materials - especially since many engineers will find themselves repairing, rehabilitating, and strengthening existing structures, rather than designing new ones. *explores the interrelationship between design and analysis - a typical problem area for students, especially in relation to statically indeterminate structures, reviews some structural analysis methods for continuous beams and frames, especially those methods that designers will find useful for checking purposes - e.g., moment distribution, explains how the behavior of structures can be controlled through design decisions. *includes sections on basic plate theory and yield line theory as supplements to the common design procedures of the ACI Code. *contains important optional topics that students can master through self-study after understanding the basics such as torsion, slab design, footings, and retaining walls. *includes many easy-to-follow examples worked out in great detail. *contains a large number of illustrations. *features very carefully designed problem sets that require students to think and appreciate various physical aspects of what they are doing. *contains a comprehensive glossary of terms common in concrete engineering and the construction industry. Definitions are based largely on The Cement and Concrete Terminology Report of ACI Committee 116.

Design of Concrete Structures

Engineering & Transportation

Meyer, Christian

Engineering

Pearson College Div

The long and distinguished tradition of tracking dinosaurs and other extinct animals in Europe dates back to the 1830s. Yet this venerable tradition of scientific activity cannot compare in magnitude and scope with the unprecedented spate of discovery and documentation of the last few years. Now, following on the heels of his Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States, Martin Lockley teams up with Christian Meyer to present an up to date synthesis of the recent findings in the field of European fossil footprints. Drawing extensively on their own research results from studies in Britain, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, and elsewhere, the authors create a dynamic picture of mammal, reptile, bird, and amphibian "track-makers" throughout more than 300 million years of vertebrate evolution, placed in the context of Europe's changing ancient environments. Beginning with an introduction to tracking and a history of the European tracking tradition, Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe then charts a broad path of evolutionary proliferation from the proto-dinosaurs of the Early Triassic period to the dinosaurs' decline and disappearance in the Upper Cretaceous. The survey continues into the age of mammals and birds, ending with the cave art of our Paleolithic ancestors.

Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe

Science & Math

Lockley, Martin

Biological Sciences

Columbia University Press

Two volumes, slipcased. A complete overview of Schönberg's pictorial works, his related writings, and his contemporaries' comments.Arnold Schönberg, composer, musical theoretician, teacher, inventor, and mentor of classical modernism in music, was also an accomplished painter. A special significance can be ascribed to his painting, which he used to express tones other than those that could be expressed only in the musical idiom. The emotional intensity of his paintings and drawings impressed his contemporaries such as Kokoschka, Kandinsky, and Max Oppenheimer, and the work remains highly relevant to us today.In addition to reproductions of all his paintings and drawings, this two-volume catalogue raisonné documents Schönberg's exhibiting of his paintings and the contemporary media reaction, analyzes his paints, and presents new discoveries in painting technique, naming, and dating. A series of previously unpublished writings, letters, and contemporary documents provides insight into Schönberg's friendships with fellow artists. Over 500 illustrations, 420 in color.

Arnold Schönberg: Catalogue Raisonné

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures: Proceedings of the Seminar

Amer Society of Civil Engineers

This international state-of-the-art report surveys the past decade of research progress on finite element analysis of reinforced concrete and how this technology is used in engineering practice. Researchers from Europe, Japan, Canada, and the United States review the latest information concerning computational aspects, generic problems, fracture mechanics, time-dependent behavior, dynamic loading, and finite-element analysis as a design tool.

Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures II: Proceedings of the International Workshop

Geschichte Der Provinz Posen (German Edition)

History

Europe

Nabu Press

The treatise on musica plana and musica mensurabilis written by Lambertus/Aristoteles is our main witness to thirteenth-century musical thought in the decades between the treatises of Johannes de Garlandia and Franco of Cologne. Most treatises on music of this century - except for Franco’s treatise on musical notation - survive in only a single copy; Lambertus’s Ars musica, extant in five sources, is thus distinguished by a more substantial and long-lasting manuscript tradition. Unique in its ambitions, this treatise presents both the rudiments of the practice of liturgical chant and the principles of polyphonic notation in a dense and rigorous manner like few music treatises of its time - a conceptual framework characteristic of Parisian university culture in the thirteenth century. This new edition of Lambertus’s treatise is the first since Edmond de Coussemaker’s of 1864. Christian Meyer’s meticulous edition is displayed on facing pages with Karen Desmond’s English translation, and the treatise and translation are prefaced by a substantial introduction to the text and its author by Christian Meyer, translated by Barbara Haggh-Huglo.

The 'Ars musica' Attributed to Magister Lambertus/Aristoteles (Royal Musical Association Monographs)

Desmond, translated by Karen

Music

Routledge

Que faire sans vétérinaire (French Edition)

Medical Books

Forse, Bill

Veterinary Medicine

QUAE

Human sociality is shaped and realized most notably in embodied practices of interpersonal interaction. At the same time, the social nature of human beings is open for cultural influences. This book inspects the foundations of human sociality theoretically drawing on recent debates in sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, and empirically by the example of interactions on the central square of a Wolof village in Northwestern Senegal.Menschliche Sozialität gestaltet und realisiert sich zuallererst in den vielfältigen verkörperten Praktiken zwischenmenschlicher Interaktionen. Die Sozialnatur des Menschen ist dabei offen für kulturelle Einflüsse. Dieses Buch inspiziert die Grundlagen menschlicher Sozialität theoretisch anhand jüngerer Diskussionen in der Soziologie, Ethnologie, Anthropologie und Linguistik und empirisch am Beispiel von Interaktionen auf dem zentralen Platz eines Dorfes der Wolof Nordwestsenegals.

Culture, Practice, and the Body: Conversational Organization and Embodied Culture in Northwestern Senegal (Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Springer

Die Formierung Der Fruhen Religionswissenschaft in China (1890-1949): Diskurse, Kontexte, Akteure (German Edition)

Asia

Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

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