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Book reviews
Addis, Bill, Building with reclaimed components and materials: a design handbook for reuse and recycling, London: Earthscan, 2006, ISBN 1-84407-274-6, £49.95
This book is currently with a reviewer Addis, Bill, Building: 3,000 years of design, engineering and construction, London: Phaidon, 2007, ISBN 9780714841465 , £45
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 17 July 2007 Ahmad, Zaki, Principles of corrosion engineering and corrosion control, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, ISBN 0-7508-5924-6, £69.99 Alves, M. and Jones, N. eds, Impact loading of lightweight structures, Southampton: WIT Press, 2005, ISBN 1845641590, £218
Reviewed published in The Structural Engineer, 15 August 2006 ASHRAE, ASHRAE green guide: the design, construction, and operation of sustainable buildings. 2nd ed, Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, ISBN 978-1-933742-07-6, £39.99 Bangash, M.Y.H. and Bangash, T., Lifts, elevators, escalators and moving walkways/travelators, London: Taylor & Francis, 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-36437-9, £79
This book is currently with a reviewer Baura, Gail D, Engineering ethics: an industrial perspective, Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 2006, ISBN 012088531X, £24.99
This book is currently with a reviewer Bennett, D, Metro: the story of the underground railway, London: Mitchell-Beazley, 2004, ISBN 1-84000-838-5, £20
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 6 September 2005 Binda, L ed, Learning from failure: long-term behaviour of heavy masonry structures, Southampton: WIT Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84564-057-6, £84
This book is currently with a reviewer Binder, Georges ed, 101 of the world's tallest buildings, Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-86470-173-0, £35 Blight, Geoffrey, Assessing loads on silos and other bulk storage structures: research applied to practice, London: Taylor & Francis, 2006, ISBN 0-415-39237-3, £69
This book is currently with a reviewer Blockley, David, New dictionary of civil engineering, London: Penguin, 2005, ISBN 0-140-51526-7, £15.99 Bohni, Hans. ed, Corrosion in reinforced concrete structures, Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-85573-768-X, £115
This book is currently with a reviewer Booth, Edmund and Key, David, Earthquake design practice for buildings. 2nd ed, London: Thomas Telford, 2006, ISBN 0-7277-2947-0, £65
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 March 2007 Brebbia, C.A. and Torpiano, A. eds, Structural studies, repairs and maintenance of heritage architecture XI, Southampton: WIT Press, 2005, ISBN 1-84564-021-7, £235 Brenner, Brian, Don't throw this away! The civil engineering life, Reston, VA: ASCE Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7844-0888-9, £21
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 17 July 2007 Brookes, A.J. and Poole, D, Innovation in architecture, London: Spon Press, 2004, ISBN 0-415-24133-2, £36
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007
Key architects and engineers in Europe, Australia, and the USA describe the ideas and development behind the innovative technology in their chosen projects, with the emphasis being on the means of production and the links between design and the manufacturing process. Broomfield, John P, Corrosion of steel in concrete. 2nd ed, Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-33404-4, £75 Burkinshaw, R. and Parrett, M, Diagnosing damp, Coventry: RICS Books, 2003, ISBN 1-84219-097-0, £45
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 20 July 2004
Comprehensive guide to the subject aimed and the surveying practicioner. Butcher, A P and other eds, Reuse of foundations for urban sites [RuFUS]: proceedings of the international conference, Garston, 19-20 October 2006, Bracknell: IHS BRE Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86081-938-4, £95 Butcher, A P and other eds, Reuse of foundations for urban sites [RuFUS]: a best practice handbook, Bracknell: IHS BRE Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-86081-938-4, £75 Chandrashekhara, K, Theory of plates, Hyderabad: Universities Press, 2001, ISBN 81-7371-253-0, £19.95
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 20 July 2004
Provides mathematical analysis of plate theories and their application to plate bending problems. Charleson, Andrew W, Structure as architecture: a sourcebook for architects and structural engineers, Oxford: Elsevier / Architectural Press, 2005, ISBN 0750665270, £25.99 Cheng, Franklin Y. and others, Smart structures: innovative systems for seismic response control, Boca Raton, FL.: CRC Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8493-8532-2, £67.99 Christy, Craig T, Engineering with the spreadsheet: structural engineering templates using Excel, Reston, VA: ASCE Press, 2006, ISBN 0-7844-0827-0, $75 Cleary, Richard, Bridges, New York: W.W. Norton, 2007, ISBN 978-0-393-73136-1, £43
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 November 2007 Clements-Croome, D. ed, Intelligent buildings: design, management and operation, London: Thomas Telford, 2004, ISBN 0-7277-3266-8, £49.50
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 19 July 2005 Collepardi, Mario, The New concrete, Treviso: Grafiche Tintoretto, 2006, ISBN 88-901469-4-X, £75
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 November 2007 Construction Project Information Committee, Production Information: a code of procedure for the construction Industry, [s.l.]: Construction Project Information Committee, 2003, ISBN 0-9512662-6-8, £17.50
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007 Croft, Catherine, Concrete architecture, London: Laurence King, 2005, ISBN 1-85669-364-3, £35
This book is currently with a reviewer Crosbie, Michael, J, Curtain walls: recent developments by Cesar Pelli & Associates, Basel: Birkhauser, 2005, ISBN 3764370831, £44.50
Reviewed published in The Structural Engineer, 15 August 2006 Curtin, W G and others, Structural foundation designers' manual. 2nd ed, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-3044-8, £89.50
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007
Second edition revised by Norman Seward Curtin, W.G. and others, Structural masonry designers' manual. 3rd ed, Oxford: Blackwell Science, 2006, ISBN 0-632-05612-6, £89.50
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007
Third edition revised by David Easterbrook Dawber, Andrew, The site, Bloomington, Indiana: Unlimited Publishing , 2007, ISBN 978-1-58832-182-4, NYP
This book is currently with a reviewer
Novel Dawson, Susan, Cast in concrete: a guide to the design of precast concrete and reconstituted stone, Leicester: Architectural Cladding Association, 2003, ISBN 0-9536773-3-8, £25
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 2 November 2004 Deplazes, Andrea. ed, Constructing architecture: materials, processes, structures. A handbook, Basel: Birkhauser, 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7189-7, £38
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007 Doran, D. and Cockerton, C. eds, Principles and practice of testing in construction, Caithness: Whittles Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-870325-22-2, £60 Doran, David ed, Site engineers manual, Latheronwheel: Whittles Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-870325-24-9, £50
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 19 July 2005 Eaton, Leonard K, Hardy Cross: American engineer, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006, ISBN 0-252-02989-5, £20.95
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 17 July 2007 Eaton, Richard B, Building construction drawing: a class-book for the elementary student and artisan, Shaftesbury: Donhead Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-873394-71-3, £45
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 1 August 2006
Facsimile reproduction of a book originally published by E. & F.N. Spon in 1921. Eckel, Edwin C, Cements, limes and plasters: their materials, manufacture and properties, Shaftesbury: Donhead, 2005, ISBN 1-873394-73-X, £60
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 1 August 2006
Facsimile reproduction of a book originally published by John Wiley in 1928. Edgell, G.J. ed, The testing of ceramics in construction, Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-870325-43-5, £60 Eggert, Helmut and Kauschke, Wolfgang, Structural bearings, Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 2002, ISBN 4-0433-01238-5, £105
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 20 July 2004 Fajfar, Peter and Krawinkler, Helmut, Performance-based seismic design concepts and implementation: proceedings of an international workshop, Richmond, Ca: Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, 2004, ISBN 0-9762060-0-5, £? Ford, C.R, Dunkeld: Telford’s finest Highland bridge, Perth: Perth & Kinross Libraries, 2004, ISBN 0-905452-43-7, £6.95
This book is currently with a reviewer
Describes the possible 16th century bridge and the masonry bridge designed by Thomas Telford and John the 4th Duke of Atholl Foster, B. and Mollaert, M, European design guide for tensile surface structures, Brussels: TensiNet, 2004, ISBN 90-8086-871-X, EUR100
This book is currently with a reviewer Ganju, T.N., Matrix structural analysis using spreadsheets, New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill, 2002, ISBN 0-07-463856-4, £38.70
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 March 2007 Garrison, Philip, Basic structures for engineers and architects, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-4051-2053-3, £22.50
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 1 August 2006 Guo, Z Xiao, The deformation and processing of structural materials, Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-85573-738-8, £125
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007 Hargroves, Karlson and Smith, Michael H eds, The Natural advantage of nations: business opportunities, innovation and governance in the 21st century, London: Earthscan, 2006, ISBN 1-84407-340-8, £19.99 Harris, B. ed, Fatigue in composites, Cambridge: Woodhead, 2004, ISBN 1-85573-608-X, £175
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 20 July 2004 Harvey, L D Danny, A handbook on low-energy buildings and district-energy systems: fundamentals, techniques and examples, London: Earthscan, 2006, ISBN 978-184407-243-9, £150
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 March 2007 Head, K.H., Manual of soil laboratory testing. Vol 1: soil classification and compaction tests. 3rd ed, Caithness: Whittles Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-904445-36-5, £90 Henry, Alison ed, Stone conservation: principles and practice , Shaftesbury: Donhead Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-873394-78-0, £42
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 November 2007 Hill, Jim and others, Car park designers' handbook, London: Thomas Telford, 2005, ISBN 0727734385, £75
This book is currently with a reviewer Holmes, John D, Wind loading of structures. 2nd ed, London: Taylor & Francis, 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-40946-9, £90 Hore-Lacy, Ian, Nuclear energy in the 21st century, London: World Nuclear University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-12-373622-2, £14.95
This book is currently with a reviewer Houghton-Evans, Robert William, Well built? A forensic approach to the prevention, diagnosis and cure of building defects, London: RIBA Enterprises, 2005, ISBN 1-85946-122-0, £59.95
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007 Hughes, Phil and Ferrett, Ed, Introduction to health and safety in construction, Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005, ISBN 075066343X, £39.99
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 19 April 2005 Iles, David C, Design guide for composite highway bridges, London: Spon Press, 2001, ISBN 0-415-27453-2, £85
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 2 November 2004 Jennings, A, Structures: from theory to practice, Abingdon: Spon Press, 2004, ISBN 0-415-26843-5, £29.99
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 19 April 2005
Entry-level text-book, focusing on structures and how they behave rather than structural analysis. Supported by worked examples, questions and answers and extensive references to further reading. Johnson, R.P, Composite structures of steel and concrete: beams, slabs, columns, and frames for buildings. 3rd ed, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, ISBN 1-4051-0035-4, £39.50
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 19 April 2005 Johnson, R.P. and Anderson, D, Designers' guide to EN1994-1-1 Eurocode 4: Design of composite steel and concrete structures. Part 1.1: General rules and rules for buildings, London: Thomas Telford, 2004, ISBN 0-7277-3151-3, £50
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007 Kausel, Eduardo, Fundamental solutions in elastodynamics: a compendium, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-521-85570-5, £45 Kemp, Emory L. ed, American bridge patents: the first century (1790-1890), Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2005, ISBN 1-933202-06-8, $40
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007 Khan, Yasmin Sabina, Engineering architecture: the vision of Fazlur R. Khan, London: W.W. Norton, 2004, ISBN 0-393-73107-3, £35
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 19 July 2005
Written by his daughter, this is a biography of Fazlur Khan (1929-1982), pioneering designer of high-rise buildings around the world. His framed tube (for the John Hancock Center), bundled tube (Sears Tower) and Superframe (Chicago World Trade Center) designs form the basis for much of contemporary tall building design today. Kliment, Stephen A, Writing for design professionals. 2nd ed, New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, ISBN 0-393-73185-5, £27 Koch, Klaus-Michael, Membrane structures: innovative building with film and fabric, Munich: Prestel, 2004, ISBN 3791330497, £55
This book is currently with a reviewer Kronenburg, Robert, Flexible: architecture that responds to change, London: Laurence King, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85669-461-2, £30 Kurrer, Karl-Eugen, The History of the theory of structures: from arch analysis to computational mechanics, Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 2008, ISBN 978-3-433-01838-5, £90 Lakshminarayana, H.V, Finite element analysis: procedures in engineering, Hyderabad: Universities Press, 2004, ISBN 81-7371-476-2, £16.95 Lehmann, Christine and Maurer, Bertram, Karl Culmann und die graphische Statik: Zeichnen, die Sprache des Ingenieurs, Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 2006, ISBN 3-3433-01815-4, £32.50 Lester, Albert, Project management, planning and control. 5th ed, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7506-6956-6, £39.99 Lowe, P.G, Basic principles of slabs and plates: for safer and more cost-effective structures, Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-870325-44-3, £45
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007 Lynch, Gerard C J, Gauged brickwork: a technical handbook. 2nd ed, Shaftesbury: Donhead Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-873394-75-6, £39 Macdonald, Susan and other eds, Conservation of modern architecture, Shaftesbury: Donhead, 2007, ISBN 978-1873394-84-7, £28 MacLeod, Iain A, Modern structural analysis: modelling process and guidance, London: Thomas Telford, 2005, ISBN 0-7277-3279-X, £65
Reviewed published in The Structural Engineer, 5 September 2006 Martin, John, Materials for engineering, Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-84569-157-1, £45 McKay, W.B, McKay’s building construction, Shaftesbury: Donhead Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-873394-72-1, £65
Reviewed published in The Structural Engineer, 5 September 2006
Facsimile reproduction of the three volumes published between 1938 and 1944. McKenzie, William M.C. and Zhang, Binsheng, Design of structural timber to Eurocode 5, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 978-0-230-00777-2, £34.99 McLeod, Virginia, Detail in contemporary residential architecture, London: Laurence King, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85669-482-7, £30
This book is currently with a reviewer Melchers, Robert E and Hough, Richard eds, Modeling complex engineering structures, Reston, VA: ASCE Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7844-0850-6, £76.50
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 November 2007 Melerski, Edmund S, Design analysis of beams, circular plates and cylindrical tanks on elastic foundations. 2nd ed, London: Taylor & Francis, 2006, ISBN 0-415-38350-1, £59
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 March 2007 Melnikov, Yuri A, Influence function approach: selected topics on structural mechanics, Southampton: WIT Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84564-129-0, £132 Millais, Malcolm, Building structures: from concepts to design. 2nd ed, Abingdon: Spon Press, 2005, ISBN 0-415-33623-6, £24.99
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 4 April 2006 Miller, Kenneth, The Outspoken Dr Miller, Stanhope: The Memoir Club, 2006, ISBN 1-84104-159-9, £14.95 Minke, Gernot and Mahlke, Friedemann, Building with straw: design and technology of a sustainable architecture, Basel: Birkhauser, 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7171-4, £29
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 2 August 2005 Moncmanova, A ed, Environmental deterioration of buildings, Southampton: WIT Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84564-032-3, £98 Mondorf, Paul E, Concrete bridges, London: Taylor & Francis, 2006, ISBN 0-415-39362-0, £120
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 March 2007 Mosley, Bill and others, Reinforced concrete design: to Eurocode 2. 6th ed, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, ISBN 978-0-230-50071-6, £34.99 Mukhopadhyay, M, Mechanics of composite materials and structures, Hyderabad: Universities Press, 2004, ISBN 81-7371-477-0, £18.95
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 6 September 2005 Munjiza, Antonio, The combined finite-discrete element method, Chichester: John Wiley, 2004, ISBN 0-470-84199-0, £95
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 2 November 2004 Narayanan, R.S., Precast Eurocode 2: design manual. For the design of precast concrete building structures to BS EN1992-1-1:2004 and the UK National Annex: 2005, Leicester: British Precast, 2007, ISBN 0953677370, £45
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 November 2007 Narayanan, R.S. and Goodchild, C.H., Concise Eurocode 2: for the design of in-situ concrete framed buildings to BS EN 1992-1-1: 2004 and its UK National Annex: 2005, Camberley: Concrete Centre, 2006, ISBN 1-904818-35-8, £45
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007 Nerdinger, Winfried, Frei Otto: complete works – lightweight construction, natural design, Basel: Birkhauser, 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7231-1, £51
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 4 April 2006 Neville, Adam, Concrete: Neville's insights and issues, London: Thomas Telford, 2006, ISBN 07277-3468-7, £65
Reviewed published in The Structural Engineer, 5 September 2006 O'Rourke, Michael, Snow loads: guide to the snow load provisions of ASCE 7-05, Reston, VA: ASCE Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7844-0857-5, £30 Paglietti, A, Plasticity of cold worked materials: a deductive approach, Southampton: WIT Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84564-065-1, £65
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 17 July 2007 Parry, R.H.G, Mohr circles, stress paths and geotechnics. 2nd ed, Spon Press, 2004, ISBN 0-415-27297-1, £85
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 2 November 2004
New edition expanded to include shear bands and small stress behaviour and expanded coverage of dilatancy and roughness of rock joints and the influence of infill. Pearman, Hugh, Airports: a century of architecture, London: Laurence King, 2004, ISBN 1-856693-56-2, £40
This book is currently with a reviewer Popov, V and others, Domain decomposition techniques for boundary elements: application to fluid flow, Southampton: WIT Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84564-100-9, £95 Powell, Kenneth, Richard Rogers: architecture of the future, Basel: Birkhauser, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7643-7049-7, £29.90
This book is currently with a reviewer
Edited by Robert Torday Proverbs, D. and Soetanto, R, Flood damaged property: a guide to repair, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, ISBN 1-4051-1616-1, £39.50
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 6 September 2005 Rahman, M, Advanced vector analysis for scientists and engineers, Southampton: WIT Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84564-093-4, £95
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 17 July 2007 Reynolds, Charles E and others, Reynolds's reinforced concrete designer's handbook. 11th ed, Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2008, ISBN 978-0-419-25830-8, £35
This book is currently with a reviewer Richards, Brent, New glass architecture, London: Laurence King, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85669-376-9, £35
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 November 2007 Roaf, Sue, Closing the loop: benchmarks for sustainable buildings, London: RIBA Enterprises, 2004, ISBN 1859461182, £29.95
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007
Provides the reader with a way to close the loop of the building design process, enabling a more holistic approach to what is currently a fragmented development system. The book also suggests ways to achieve sustainable building performance standards in the UK, allowing us to meet the UK Government's target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2010. Roberts, Gwilym, Chelsea to Cairo - 'Taylor-made' water through eleven reigns and in six continents: a history of John Taylor & Sons and their predecessors, London: Thomas Telford, 2006, ISBN 07277-3411-3, £19.95 Robinson, Andrew, The Last man who knew everything: Thomas Young, the anonymous polymath who proved Newton wrong...among other feats of genius, Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85168-494-6, £17.99
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 November 2007 Robson, Patrick, Structural appraisal of traditional buildings. 2nd ed, Shaftesbury: Donhead Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-873394-68-3, £39.50
This book is currently with a reviewer Ross, C.T.F, Pressure vessels: external pressure technology, Chichester: Horwood Publishing, 2001, ISBN 1-898563-74-8, £50
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 19 October 2004
Examines external pressures on submarine and aircraft structures etc, and methods to counteract the buckling of external walls. Ross, Peter and others, Green oak in construction, High Wycombe: TRADA Technology, 2007, ISBN 978-1900510-45-5, £65
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 17 July 2007 Rowson, Henry and Wright, David, Consultancy: an engineer’s guide to getting started. 3rd ed, Rugby: Institution of Chemical Engineers, 2004, ISBN 0-85295-437-9, £25 Sadd, Martin H, Elasticity: theory, applications and numerics, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005, ISBN 0-12-605811-3, $79.95
This book is currently with a reviewer Sales, H.E., Professional communication in engineering, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4039-4806-9, £50 Shanmugam, N.E. and Wang, C.M. eds, Analysis and design of plated structures. Vol 1: stability, Abington: Woodhead Publishing, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85573-967-3, £145
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 17 July 2007 Shanmugam, N.E. and Wang, C.M. eds, Analysis and design of plated structures. Vol 2: dynamics, Abington: Woodhead Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84569-116-5, £145
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 17 July 2007 Shearer, Clive, Everyday excellence: creating a better workplace through attitude, action, and appreciation, Milwaukee: ASQ Quality Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-87389-673-3, $40
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 March 2007 Shukla, Alun, Practical fracture mechanics in design, New York: Marcel Dekker, 2005, ISBN 0-8247-5885-4, £74.99
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007 Singh, Kuldeep, Engineering mathematics through applications, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, ISBN 0-333-92224-7, £28.99
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 6 February 2007 Slavid, Ruth, Wood architecture, London: Laurence King, 2005, ISBN 1-85669-402-X, £35
This book is currently with a reviewer Spencer-Silver, Patricia, Tower Bridge to Babylon: the life and work of Sir John Jackson, civil engineer, Sudbury: Six Martlets Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-9544856-1-0, £28
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 March 2007 Subramanian, Narayanan, Space structures: principles and practice. 2 vols, Brentwood: Multi-Science Publishing, 2006, ISBN 0-906522-42-0, £67.50 Taranath, Bungale, S, Wind and earthquake resistant buildings: structural analysis and design, New York: Marcel Dekker, 2004, ISBN 0-8247-5934-6, £85
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 1 August 2006 Teng, J.G. and others, FRP- strengthened rc structures, Chichester: John Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0-471-48706-6, £55
State-of-the-art summary of the existing research on this subject. Main topics are bond behaviour and beam, column and slab strengthening. Thelandersson, S. and Larsen, H.J. eds, Timber engineering, Chichester: John Wiley, 2003, ISBN 0-470-844-69, £80
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 20 July 2004
Covers basic properties of wood-based structural elements, design aspects of timber structures and joints and structural assemblies. Timoshenko, Stepan P, Erinnerungen: eine Autobiographie, Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 2006, ISBN 3-433-01816-2, £34.95 Tomlinson, Michael and Woodward, John, Pile design and construction practice. 5th ed, London: Taylor & Francis, 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-38582-4, £95
This book is currently with a reviewer Topping, B.H.V. and others, Finite element mesh generation, Kippen, Stirling: Saxe-Coburg Publications, 2004, ISBN 1-874672-10-5, £98
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 6 September 2005
Describes mainly unstructured mesh generation techniques using the advancing front, paving and Delaunay techniques. TRADA, Timber frame: standard details for houses and flats, High Wycombe: TRADA, 2006, ISBN 1-900510-51-0, £400
Review published in The Structural Engineer Online, 20 March 2007 Trebilcock, P and Lawson, M, Architectural design in steel, London: Spon Press, 2004, ISBN 0-419-24490-5, £45
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 19 October 2004
Design guide covering all aspects from manufacture to detailing of exposed steelwork in buildings. Tricker, Ray and Algar, Rozz, Building regulations in brief, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, ISBN 0-7506-8058-X, £19.99 Warland, Edmund George, Modern practical masonry, Shaftesbury: Donhead Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1873394764, £45
This book is currently with a reviewer
Facsimile reproduction of the first edition published in 1929 Wells, Matthew, Skyscrapers: structure and design, London: Laurence King, 2005, ISBN 1-85669-403-8, £30
This book is currently with a reviewer Wermiel, Sara E, Lighthouses, New York: W W Norton, 2006, ISBN 978-0-393-73166-8, £47 Woodrow, H, Tales of Victoria Street: the story of the Association of Consulting Engineers, London: ACE, 2003, ISBN 0-903397-09-9, £19.99
Review published in The Structural Engineer, 2 November 2004
This story had never been researched and described in such detail until this book was written by Hugh Woodrow, who served as the ACE's Chief Executive from 1987 until 1998. Wu, Hwai Chung, Advanced civil infrastructure materials, Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-85573-943-7, £125 Yu, C W and Bull, John W eds, Durability of building materials and structures in building and civil engineering, Caithness: Whittles, 2006, ISBN 1-870325-58-3, £95
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