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Port Maintenance Handbook

Author(s): George Steele
Publication date: 11 August 2021
ISBN: 9780727764133
£73.00
Port Maintenance Handbook is the ultimate guide to maintaining port structures and understanding the tasks and equipment needed to undertake essential repair work. Written with the practising engineer in mind, this book covers common maintenance problems for new and refurbished port structures and equipment with solutions for troubleshooting explai

Humanitarian Civil Engineering: Practical solutions for an interdisciplinary approach

Author(s): Georgia Kremmyda
Publication date: 04 August 2021
ISBN: 9780727764683
£41.25
Humanitarian Civil Engineering demonstrates the pivotal role of civil engineering in tackling global humanitarian challenges. It identifies what a humanitarian engineer does and offers practices that are tangible to ensure safe engineering. It combines concepts and tools traditionally used by practitioners and development agencies with civil engine

Design of Vertical Gravity Sea and Quay Walls

Author(s): Marisa Ackhurst
Publication date: 12 May 2020
ISBN: 9780727763617
£96.00
This essential book offers a comprehensive guide to the design of vertical gravity concrete sea and quay wall structures for practitioners in the field. Design of Vertical Gravity Sea and Quay Walls covers the complete process from structure type selection through to detail design. Based on the British Standard 6349 as well as design codes inclu

Port Designer's Handbook, Fourth edition

Author(s): Carl A Thoresen
Publication date: 03 April 2018
ISBN: 9780727763075
£137.50
Now in its fourth edition, Port Designer's Handbook is the definitive guide to the layout, design and construction of harbours and port structures. Fully in line with the latest PIANC recommendations, this book covers all aspects of port planning and design from the impact of environmental on harbours, health and safety, maintenance and repair of p

Civil Engineering Special Issue: Hong Kong

Author(s): Editor: Simon Fullalove
Publication date: 01 November 2016
ISBN: 9780727762047
£40.50
This Civil Engineering special issue showcases the recent innovative work in Hong Kong and how the technical problems presented by a densely populated modern city can be overcome by the ingenuity of civil engineers. As can be seen from the eight papers, the challenges vary significantly, but ultimately they come down to how civil engineers can meet

Piers, Jetties and Related Structures Exposed to Waves - Guidelines for Hydraulic Loading

Author(s): Kirsty McConnell, William Allsop and Ian Cruickshank
Publication date: 06 August 2004
ISBN: 9780727732651
£81.00
Jetties, piers and other marine structures constructed in exposed locations require careful assessment of their hydraulic loads. Increasingly trade economics are leading to larger ship sizes and existing and new port locations for these vessels require longer jetties in significantly deeper water. In these instances construction of protective break

Planning and Design of Ports and Marine Terminals, 2nd edition

Author(s): Hans Agerschou
Publication date: 23 February 2004
ISBN: 9780727734983
£128.50
Following from the success of the first edition, written by a collection of eminent figures in the field, this new edition continues to look at the rational planning for port facilities requirements (berths, storage and cargo handling equipment), organisations, management and operations with relation to planning and design of ports and marine termi

Dynamics of Marine Sands

Author(s): Richard Soulsby
Publication date: 01 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727725844
£100.00
The practical engineer looking for an urgent solution to a sediment-related project often finds that the results of the relevant academic research are published in unfamiliar language in publications that are not easily available. Dynamics of marine sands bridges the gap between academic research and practical applications by summarising the resear