The Civil Engineering Handbook
2nd Edition
Published on 29. August 2002
2904 pages
978-1-4200-4121-7 (ISBN)
Description
Providing extensive coverage of all major areas of civil engineering, the second edition of this award-winning handbook features contributions from leading professionals and academicians and is packed with formulae, data tables, and definitions, vignettes on topics of recent interest, and additional sources of information. It includes a wealth of material in areas such as coastal engineering, polymeric materials, computer methods, shear stresses in beams, and pavement performance evaluation. Its wide range of information makes it an essential resource for anyone working in civil, structural, or environmental engineering.
Reviews / Votes
"The handbook is generally written with the practicing engineer in mind, but it can also be a resource for engineering students and faculty. It should be available in any library that supports a civil engineering program. Summing Up: Recommended."-CHOICE
More details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Students, professors, practitioners, and researchers in civil engineering, structural engineering, and environmental engineering.
Short TOC
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
1228 s/w Abbildungen, 462 s/w Tabellen, 200 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
1228 b/w images, 462 tables, 200 halftones and 4284 equations
File size
48,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4200-4121-7 (9781420041217)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
W.F. Chen | J.Y. Richard Liew
The Civil Engineering Handbook
Book
08/2002
2nd Edition
CRC Press
€284.74
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Persons
W. F. Chen is presently Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii. He was a George E. Goodwin Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Purdue University from 1976 to 1999. J. Y. Richard Liew is presently associate professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He received his B.Eng. and M. Eng in Civil Engineering from the National University of Singapore, in 1986 and 1988, respectively, and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1992.
Content
Engineering Construction. Environmental Engineering. Geotechnical Engineering. Hydraulic Engineering. Structural Engineering. Transportation Engineering. Offshore Engineering. Appendices: Mathematics, Symbols, and Physical Constants. Associations and societies. Ethics. Index.
