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“michael john smith”

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  • Soil Mechanics

    by Michael John Smith ...
    First published in 1989. This series was originally designed as an aid to students studying for technical examinations, the aim of each book being to provide a clear concise guide to the basic principles of the subject, reinforced by worked examples carefully selected to illustrate the text. This book has been prepared with the object both of helping the student pass an examination, and for the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas

    by Caird Ramsay, Lisle Rudolph ...
    Shortlisted in TAFE Vocational Education category in the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. The devastation wreaked by bushfires on Australian homes and landscapes is an all too familiar scenario. Yet, why do we often see one house burn, whilst an apparently similar house on an adjacent block can endure? Research has shown that many factors affect the chances of a ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Life Cycle Assessment

    Principles, Practice and Prospects

    Edited by Ralph E Horne, Tim Grant, Karli Verghese ...
    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provision of products and services. Interest in LCA has accelerated alongside growing demand to assess and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across different manufacturing and service sectors. Life Cycle ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Fire-Resistant Geopolymers

    Role of Fibres and Fillers to Enhance Thermal Properties

    by Les Vickers, Arie van Riessen, William D. A. Rickard ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    The book covers the topic of geopolymers, in particular it highlights the relationship between structural differences as a result of variations during the geopolymer synthesis and its physical and chemical properties. In particular, the book describes the optimization of the thermal properties of geopolymers by adding micro-structural modifiers such as fibres and/or fillers into the geopolymer ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Design of Electrical Services for Buildings

    by Barrie Rigby ...
    Electrical services are a vital component in any building, so it is necessary for construction professionals to understand the basic principle of services design. Design of Electrical Services for Buildings provides a basic grounding for students and graduates in the field. It covers methods of wiring, schemes of distribution and protection for lighting and power installations. Systems such as ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Interior Design: Conceptual Basis

    by Anthony Sully ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Maximizing reader insights into interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated. The major themes of this book are the seven concepts of planning, circulation, 3D, construction, materials, colour and lighting, which covers the entire spectrum of a designer’s activity. Analysing design concepts from the view of the range of possibilities that the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Concrete: Microstructure, Properties, and Materials

    by Paulo J. M. Monteiro, P. Kumar Mehta ...
    THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND CURRENT GUIDE TO THE PROPERTIES, BEHAVIOR, AND TECHNOLOGY OF CONCRETEThis thoroughly updated edition contains new information on:Recently built construction projects worldwideShrinkage-reducing admixturesSelf-consolidating concrete, pervious concrete, internal curing, and other cutting-edge innovationsModeling of ice formation and alkali-aggregate reaction in ... Read more

    $144.89 USD

  • Fire Science and Technology 2015

    The Proceedings of 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology

    Edited by Kazunori Harada, Ken Matsuyama, Keisuke Himoto, Yuji Nakamura, Kaoru Wakatsuki ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book focuses on topics in the entire spectrum of fire safety science, targeting research in fires, explosions, combustion science, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, risk analysis, structural engineering, and other subjects. The book contributes to a gain in advanced scientific knowledge and presents or advances new ideas in all topics in fire safety science.Two decades ago, the 1st Asia-Oceania ... Read more

    $287.99 USD

  • Waste Materials in Construction

    Putting Theory into Practice

    Edited by G.J. Senden, H.A. van der Sloot, J.J.J.M. Goumans ...
    Series Book 71 - Studies in Environmental Science
    This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Waste Materials in Construction, held in June 1997. The papers presented give the state of the art on leaching of materials and products, demonstration projects and product development. Results of workshops on immobilisation and quality control are also presented. A good overview of the latest results on the application of ... Read more

    $391.49 USD

  • The Issues and Discussion of Modern Concrete Science

    by Wenke Yang ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is devoted to two primary objectives. The first is to present the errors, inadaptability and mistakes arising when the current theory on concrete is applied to explaining practical construction of concrete; the second is to put forward viewpoints in modern concrete science.Taking a number of engineering cases as examples, we experimentally studied and theoretically analyzed the errors, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sustainable Cities and Communities Design Handbook

    Green Engineering, Architecture, and Technology

    Edited by Woodrow W. Clark II ...
    Sustainable Communities Design Handbook: Green Engineering, Architecture, and Technology, Second Edition, brings together the major players responsible for sustainable development at both community and metropolitan scales. The book aims to explain and demonstrate the practice, planning, design, building and managing of the engineering, architectural and economic development of cities and ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Sustainable Building with Earth

    by Horst Schroeder ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book provides an insightful overview of the current state of earth building. The author approaches the subject from the perspective of the building material’s life cycle, featuring in-depth explanations of the cycle's individual steps: extraction and classification of construction soil; production of earth building materials and earthen structures; planning, construction and renovation of ... Read more

    $143.99 USD