The Civil Engineer Newsletter
Issue: #7 Editor: Dimitris P. Zekkos Date: September 2002
In this newsletter only NEW features are described. |
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STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Virtual Structural Engineer. Issues in Structural Engineering via photos, maps, diagrams and texts.
New additions:
Educational. Hyperlinks of web pages in the Network with entirely educational index. Purpose is to teach or inform students or professionalengineers on specific subjects.
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Online free papers and books. In this page are collected papers and books which are
available through the internet on Structural Engineering.
New additions:
Web applications. In this page will be announced any web applications, tools and programs in the Structural Geotechnical Engineering field.
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Structural Engineering Journals
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CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
Online free papers and books. In this page are collected papers and books which are available through the internet on construction management.
New additions:
Hyperlinks
More Hyperlinks have been added to the General Civil Engineering category, the Structural, the Geotechnical, and the Transport
directory.
Note: The Civil Engineer website aims to provide useful educational information in the Civil Engineering field with an effort to combine
theory with practice. Visitors are strongly encouraged to contribute to the site as many Professors and Professional Engineers did already.
Such contributions may include, photos, links, opinions, papers, programs or any other information useful for the visitors of the site.
The Civil Engineer Newsletter is sent to various civil engineering newsgroups and its subscribed members. Currently there are 606
members.
New additions:
Educational. Hyperlinks of web pages in the Network with entirely educational index. Purpose is to teach or inform students or professional engineers on specific subjects.
New additions:
Online free papers and books. In this page are collected papers and books which are available through the internet on Hydraulic Engineering
New additions:
Virtual Structural Engineer. Issues in Structural Engineering via photos, maps, diagrams and texts.
New additions:
 | Photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, from the land and sea. |
Educational. Hyperlinks of web pages in the Network with entirely educational index. Purpose is to teach or inform students or professional
New additions:
| Resources on Repair and Retrofit of structures: The site is currently in Greek, under the supervision of Professor Dritsos, University | |
| of Patras, Greece, and provides very useful resources on the subject. |
| How House Construction Works - A simple, nice article from "How Stuff works" about the construction of a house. |
Online free papers and books. In this page are collected papers and books which are
available through the internet on Structural Engineering.
New additions:
| Standard Practice for Shotcrete, Manual of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, 1993, EM 1110-2-2005. |
Web applications. In this page will be announced any web applications, tools and programs in the Structural Geotechnical Engineering
New additions:
| GBW32 v4.0 A 3D Finite Element Beam/Truss Program is available for download. Suggested by Erik Lukzak. |
| ELPLA (ELastic PLAte) is a program for analyzing slab foundation of arbitrary shape with the real subsoil model. Available for free. |
| A collection of Civil Engineering design programs is available in Italian (even though they can be easily understood). Programs are | |
| developped by Piero Gelfi, instructor of Steel design in the University of Brescia. |
Structural Engineering Journals
New additions:
| Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics |
| Progress in Structural Engineering and Materials |
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
Online free papers and books. In this page are collected papers and books which are available through the internet on construction
New additions:
| Project Management for Construction: This online textbook presents all the Fundamental Concepts that should know an Engineer, | |
| Architect, Builder or even Owner. Written by Chris Hendrickson, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1998. |
Hyperlinks
More Hyperlinks have been added to the General Civil Engineering category, the Structural, the Geotechnical, and the Transport
directory.
Note: The Civil Engineer website aims to provide useful educational information in the Civil Engineering field with an effort to combine
theory with practice. Visitors are strongly encouraged to contribute to the site as many Professors and Professional Engineers did already.
Such contributions may include, photos, links, opinions, papers, programs or any other information useful for the visitors of the site.
The Civil Engineer Newsletter is sent to various civil engineering newsgroups and its subscribed members. Currently there are 606
members.
New additions:
| The Spaulding Dam, California, USA |
Educational. Hyperlinks of web pages in the Network with entirely educational index. Purpose is to teach or inform students or professional
New additions:
| How water towers work. A nice simple overview by "How stuff works" with lot of links on the subject. |
Online free papers and books. In this page are collected papers and books which are available through the internet on Hydraulic
New additions:
| River Hydraulics, Manual of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, 1993, EM 1110-2-1416. |
| Hydrographic surveying, Manual of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, 1994, EM 1110-2-1416. |
| Hydraulic Design of Spillways, Manual of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, 1990 | |