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“qingyan chen”

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  • Inverse Design Methods for the Built Environment

    by Qingyan Chen, Zhiqiang Zhai, Xueyi You, Tengfei Zhang ...
    The inverse design approach is new to the built environment research and design community, though it has been used in other industries including automobile and airplane design. This book, from some of the pioneers of inverse design applications in the built environment, introduces the basic principles of inverse design and the specific techniques that can be applied to built environment systems. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Property Investment

    by David Isaac, John O'Leary ...
    Series series Building and Surveying Series
    This textbook brings together three important aspects of property investment - strategies for investment, markets and appraisal - and explains many difficult concepts in a readable and understandable way. The authors outline the developments in investment and finance theory that have had such an impact on the property investment sector. Concepts are explained with great clarity and worked examples ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Building Systems in Interior Design

    by Sam Hurt ...
    Building Systems in Interior Design takes an entirely new approach to teaching this essential topic for Architects, Designers and Building Engineers. Written to prepare students for the real world and packed with practical examples, the book will foster an understanding of specific issues that are critical to those features of technical systems that most directly affect design. The book stresses ... Read more

    $145.99 USD

  • Plumbing

    by Steve Muscroft ...
    Students setting out for a career in plumbing need a clear, concise and comprehensive textbook to help them study for their Technical Certificate and Level 2 NVQ – and this book meets all those needs. Steve Muscroft expertly guides you through each of the key areas and processes in plumbing, from the basics through cold and hot water systems to health and safety and best practice on site. The best ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Structural Engineering

    by Jerome J. Connor, Susan Faraji ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Fundamentals of Structural Engineering provides a balanced, seamless treatment of both classic, analytic methods and contemporary, computer-based techniques for conceptualizing and designing a structure. The book?s principle goal is to foster an intuitive understanding of structural behavior based on problem solving experience for students of civil engineering and architecture who have been ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Earthquake Resistant Buildings

    Dynamic Analyses, Numerical Computations, Codified Methods, Case Studies and Examples

    by M.Y.H. Bangash ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This concise work provides a general introduction to the design of buildings which must be resistant to the effect of earthquakes. A major part of this design involves the building structure which has a primary role in preventing serious damage or structural collapse. Much of the material presented in this book examines building structures. Due to the recent discovery of vertical components, it ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Nonlinear Vibration with Control

    For Flexible and Adaptive Structures

    by David Wagg, Simon Neild ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive discussion of nonlinear multi-modal structural vibration problems, and shows how vibration suppression can be applied to such systems by considering a sample set of relevant control techniques. It covers the basic principles of nonlinear vibrations that occur in flexible and/or adaptive structures, with an emphasis on engineering analysis and relevant control ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Axiomatic Design in Large Systems

    Complex Products, Buildings and Manufacturing Systems

    Edited by Amro M. Farid, Nam P. Suh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides a synthesis of recent developments in Axiomatic Design theory and its application in large complex systems. Introductory chapters provide concise tutorial materials for graduate students and new practitioners, presenting the fundamentals of Axiomatic Design and relating its key concepts to those of model-based systems engineering. A mathematical exposition of design axioms is ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Discrete Optimization in Architecture

    Architectural & Urban Layout

    by Machi Zawidzki ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents three projects that demonstrate the fundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition – the layout design, evaluation and optimization. Part I describes the functional layout design of a residential building, and an evaluation of the quality of a town square (plaza).The algorithm for the functional layout design is based on backtracking using a constraint ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Construction Contract Administration for Project Owners

    by Claude G. Lancome ...
    Construction Contract Administration for Project Owners is aimed at public and private owners of real estate and construction projects. The book is intended to assist owners in their contractual dealings with their designers and their contractors. Most owners are not primarily in the business of designing and building facilities. The fact that their primary business is not design and construction ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Statics of Historic Masonry Constructions

    by Mario Como ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Masonry constructions are the great majority of the buildings in Europe’s historic centres and the most important monuments of its architectural heritage. Given the age of these constructions, the demand for safety assessments and restoration projects is pressing and constant; still within the broad studies in the subject it is not yet recognised, in particular within the seismic area, a unitary ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Advances in Characterization and Analysis of Expansive Soils and Rocks

    Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures

    Edited by Laureano R. Hoyos, John McCartney ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume includes a collection of technical papers covering two important research topics in geotechnical engineering: (1) the behavior and treatment of expansive soils, and (2) the characterization of rock properties. The twelve studies on expansive soils include investigations into novel stabilization techniques for expansive soils using different admixtures or mechanical consolidation ... Read more

    $89.09 USD