The Civil Engineer Newsletter
Issue: #6                Editor: Dimitris P. Zekkos               Date: January 2002

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  • All updates related to Geotechnical Engineering are posted separately in The Geotechnical Engineer Newsletter. All
    members of the Civil Engineer Newsletter are automatically subscribed in the Geotechnical Engineer Newsletter. The
    third issue of the Geotechnical Engineer Newsletter will be published soon.


TRANSPORT-TRAFFIC ENGINEER

  • Educational: Educational Section is Hyperlinks of web pages in the Network with entirely educational index. Purpose is to
    teach or inform students or professional engineers on specific subjects.

Read about:

  • How Airports Work "Airports are amazing "mini-cities," serving thousands of people every day. Go behind the scenes at
    a busy airport."
  • How Intelligent Highways Will Work  -  "Drive on the freeway of tthe future and see how ubiquitous digital devices will aid
    in easing our traffic woes."



  • 2000 English Roadway And Traffic Design Standards booklet. Available from the Department of Transportation of the
    State of Florida


HYDRAULIC ENGINEER


Read about:

  • How flood works.  This is another article of the "How stuff works" web site. Contains basic information on this subject
    and very interesting photos.
  • Photos of dredging in the New Port of Patras, Greece

  • Educational: Educational Section is Hyperlinks of web pages in the Network with entirely educational index. Purpose is to
    teach or inform students or professional engineers on specific subjects.

Read about:

  • Dam Design, David Toll, Durham University


  • Design of Small water systems, Manual of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, 1999


STRUCTURAL  ENGINEER


No updates this time


  • The Desing Manual of the mbrace.com . The manual contains interesting theory regarding the FRP's use for
    strengthening of elements(columns, beams etc.).You need to register first for free. Just follow the link to "evaluation &
    design" and then "design guidelines”

  • How Building Implosions Work "To bring down a huge building, you need a whole lot of dynamite and guts. Learn how
    building implosion works"

  • 2.08, Blast Resistant Structures, 01 December 1986,NAVFAC military handbook, available from the NAVFAC website

  • IBC 2000 vs. UBC 1997 - Seismic Design Comparison,S. K. Ghosh, S. K. Ghosh Associates Inc.,available from the SEAINT
    website

  • EJSE - Electronic Journal in Structural Engiineering. A new international publication from the University of Melbourne.
    You may subscribe for free and download papers.  

  • Web applications. In this page will be announced any web applications, tools and programs  in the Structural  
    Geotechnical Engineering field.

  • Beam!2D, a program for linear analysis of plane frames, is available for free. Developed by Plevris Vagelis, Greece.


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Hyperlinks

More Hyperlinks have been added to the General Civil Engineering category, the Structural, the Geotechnical, and the
Transport directory.

New Book from Wiley & Sons: FRP-Strengthened RC Structures This text provides the first ever state-of-the-art summary of the
existing research on FRP strengthening of RC structure, with the emphasis being on structural behaviour and strength
models.

Principle topics covered in this leading edge text include:

  • Bond behavior
  • Flexural and shear strengthening of beams
  • Column strengthening
  • Flexural strengthening of slabs

For each area, the methods of strengthening are discussed, followed by a description of behavior and failure modes and then
the presentation of rational design recommendations, for direct use in practical design of FRP strengthening measures.

For further information, visit: www.catalog.wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn0471487066&country=826 or
contact Mr.Zoe Mitchell at engineering_uk@wiley.co.uk


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