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This book presents an integrated systems approach to the evaluation, analysis, design, and maintenance of civil engineering systems. Addressing recent concerns about the world's aging civil infrastructure and its environmental impact, the author makes the case for why any civil infrastructure should be seen as part of a larger whole. He walks readers through all phases of a civil project, from feasibility assessment to construction to operations, explaining how to evaluate tasks and challenges at each phase using a holistic approach. Unique coverage of ethics, legal issues, and management is also included.
Broad coverage includes the latest thoughts on design for low probability and high consequence events like the failure of the World Trade Center as well as risk acceptability based on the Life Quality Index. Other chapters discuss the development of the performance-based design concept, and the generally overlooked area of the reliability evaluation of bridges and offshore structures. Since the finite element method is routinely used for structural analyses, emphasis is put on discussing reliability evaluation using finite elements including consideration of the mesh-free finite element method. Corrosion and fatigue reliability evaluation techniques are other urgent issues that are dealt with in depth.
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 3rd International Conference on Civil Engineering and Material Engineering (CEME 2014), December 27-28, 2014, Changsha, China. The 71 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Construction Technologies, Architecture and Urban Planning; Chapter 2: Materials Science and Chemical Technologies; Chapter 3: Environmental Engineering, Biofuel and Biotechnology; Chapter 4: Control Engineering; Chapter 5: Engineering Management and Engineering Assessment.