Civil Engineering: New Books 2018-19

Includes data and guidance on cooling, freezing, and storing food; industrial and medical applications of refrigeration; and low-temperature refrigeration.

A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.

Reflecting the latest codes, standards, and technical advances, this practical reference covers every aspect of highway bridge engineering and management.

Introduces new ideas in the design of wind turbine airfoils and blades based on functional integral theory and the finite element method, accompanied by results from wind tunnel testing.

An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car--an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone.

Explores how innovative management approaches are reshaping rivers and floodplains around the world.

Covers the main topics of engineering graphics, including tolerancing and fasteners, while also teaching students the fundamentals of AutoCAD 2019.

Heavy Construction Costs with RSMeans data offers costs for all types of heavy construction from highways, bridges, and utilities.

This handy guide gives you the building components required to develop accurate assemblies-level cost estimates, evaluate trade-off costs, and verify unit price estimates.

Explors the many complex questions surrounding the communication of scientific results to nonscientists.

This book argues that knowledge of both the visible and invisible components--information, energy, sustainability, transportation, housing, and social practices--are critical to understanding the urban environment.

Written both to support career success and to encourage leadership self-awareness, this is a book you'll turn to again and again for advice, for information, and most of all for inspiration.

A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway.

Focuses on the suitable methods to solve optimization problems in wireless network system utilizing digital sensors like Wireless Sensor Network.

Shows why plastics, in aggregate, have become a toxin to humans, wildlife, and the planet, and proposes novel solutions that involve neither traditional recycling nor giving up plastic.

Covers topics including regulatory approaches to managing air pollution, emissions calculations, and control technologies for various air pollutants.

Goes beyond a list of rules to help students and practitioners gain a better understanding of the creation, import, and use of standards.

Assists urban planners and designers, transportation engineers, city officials, ecologists, public works officials, and others interested in the role of the built urban landscape in protecting the climate, water quality, and natural environment.

Advances our understanding of what it takes to ensure the dependability of the intricate--and sometimes hazardous--systems on which we rely every day.

Pprovides insights on engineering education, practice, and careers that can inform educational institutions, funding agencies, and policy makers about the challenges facing the United States in developing its engineering workforce in the global economy.

Walks engineers through standard practice and basic principles needed to prepare quality design and construction documents for a successful infrastructure project.

Considers the role of structure, incentives, information, habit, and norms on behavior in order to formulate lessons about how these factors lead to environmentally problematic behavior, and what understanding their effects can tell us about ways to change behavior.

Transportation expert Dan Sperling, along with seven other leaders in the field, share research-based insights on potential public benefits and impacts of the three transportation revolutions.

Outlines five fundamental steps in a failure investigation and will assist forensic engineers in tailoring their investigations to their particular failure scenarios.