Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering: New Books 2023-24

Highlights innovative approaches to various fields of civil engineering, including microstructures for enhanced mechanical properties, offering insights into design strategies.

Covers the successful implementation of different artificial intelligence, machine learning, and simulation techniques in various areas of engineering focusing on common areas between mechatronics and civil engineering.

Examines substantial research that has been carried out in the domain of earthquake engineering for understanding the underlying phenomena as well as to employ innovative methods in mitigating disaster

A history of how urban travel demand modeling (UTDM) has helped cities accommodate the continuous rise in traffic since the 19502 and its enormous influence on American life from the 1920s to the present.

ourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion Demonstrates how marginalized and vulnerable groups with limited resources can benefit from advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain

Explores the state-of the-science on the health risks of exposure to fine particulate matter indoors along with engineering solutions and interventions to reduce health impacts on susceptible populations including the elderly, young children, and those with pre-existing conditions

The HCM is the fundamental reference for concepts, performance measures, and analysis techniques for evaluating the multimodal operation of streets, highways, freeways, and off-street paths. Includes updated methods for connected and automated vehicles and pedestrian operations

Brings together the essentials of bridge engineering across design, assessment, research and construction, including new topics such as foot bridges, new materials in bridge engineering and soil-foundation structure interaction

Provides an ontological foundation for the models and methods needed to design a set of systems, networks and assets that are essential for a society's functioning, and for ensuring the security, safety and economy of a nation.

Provides guidance for ongoing efforts to apply research that will strengthen capacities for hazard mitigation and resilience in communities, across the nation, and around the world

Climate change has fueled droughts that make it difficult to sustain the most fundamental natural resource on earth--drinking water. Annin.cuts through fearmongering and misinformation to make the case that recycled water is direly needed in the climate-change era.

Downer looks closely at civil aviation and how it has reckoned with the problem of failure. A unique and sobering exploration of technological reliability from an STS perspective, Rational Accidents is essential reading for understanding why our most safety-critical technologies are even more dangerous than we believe.

Provides an in-depth history of the ideas embedded in American transportation policy and offers new ideas and strategies for a diverse transportation ecosystem is essential for creating more just, sustainable communities, but getting there will take a dramatic shift in how we think about transportation

Shares stories and insights of women from a range of backgrounds working in various disciplines, illustrating the journeys that brought them to the sciences, the challenges they faced along the way, and the important contributions they have made to their fields.

Covers basic principles such as thermodynamics, psychrometrics, and heat transfer, and provide practical guidance on building envelope, indoor environmental quality, load calculations, duct and piping system design, refrigerants, energy resources, sustainability, a new chapter on climate change, and more.

In-depth analysis of methods used for constructing shallow foundations, deep foundations, excavation and lateral support systems, ground improvement techniques, and ground monitoring for proper site management, as well as new and innovative foundation construction methods.

Elaborates the fundamental principles of scale, construction, and assembly of building components of masonry construction using simple masonry structures as examples. The emphasis is on the overall systems and material-dependent properties.

Examines the rich history of how fortune-seekers used dowsing rods, dreams and psychics to detect underground minerals, oil, groundwater, or buried treasure.

The book offers systematic dynamic analysis of soils and their engineering applications, including machine foundations, and aims to develop a clear understanding of the subject

Presents transnational case studies of Latinas and Mexicanas pursuing a STEM degree/career from the United States and Mexico and provides insights into how to support successful Latinas and Mexicanas in STEM career pipelines and pathways.

Identifies sources of particulate plastics in the environment; distribution and characteristics of particulate plastics; and management strategies of particulate plastics

Situates our current climate emergency within historical processes of colonization, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy, while the editors' conclusion offers pathways forward through abolition, care, and reparations

Introduces innovators in the Slow Water movement. Using close observation, historical research, and cutting-edge science, these experts are already transforming our relationship with water.