Authors:Alfredo H.S. Ang, Shi-Shuenn Chen,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: infrastructures, series, vol, book, engineering, technologies, frontier, structures
Number of Pages: 502
Published: 2009-04-20
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 0415498759
ISBN-13: 9780415498753

An exclusive collection of papers introducing current and frontier technologies of special significance to the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of civil infrastructures. This volume is intended for professional and practicing engineers involved with infrastructure systems such as roadways, bridges, buildings, power generating and distribution systems, water resources, environmental facilities, and other civil infrastructure systems. Contributions are by internationally renowned and eminent experts, and cover: 1. Life-cycle cost and performance; 2.Reliability engineering; 3. Ris

Authors:Yannis Tsompanakis, Nikos D. Lagaros, Manolis Papa
Publisher: Taylor & Franci
Keywords: structures, infrastructures, series, dan, frangopol, editor, vol, design, optimization, considering, uncertainties, structural
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2008-03-24
List price: $229.95
ISBN-10: 0415452600
ISBN-13: 9780415452601

Uncertainties play a dominant role in the design and optimization of structures and infrastructures. In optimum design of structural systems due to variations of the material, manufacturing variations, variations of the external loads and modelling uncertainty, the parameters of a structure, a structural system and its environment are not given, fixed coefficients, but random variables with a certain probability distribution. The increasing necessity to solve complex problems in Structural Optimization, Structural Reliability and Probabilistic Mechanics, requires the development of new ideas,

Author: Mathew T. Cogwell
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: infrastructures, critical
Number of Pages: 143
Published: 2003-03
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1590333284
ISBN-13: 9781590333280

This book provides a general overview of the concerns and efforts of the federal government in assuring the reliable function of the nation’s critical infrastructures. It also discusses administrative issues, issues associated with sharing information between government agencies and between the federal government and the private sector.

Author: Ian Masser
Publisher: Esri Pre
Keywords: data, infrastructures, spatial, creating, worlds, gis
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1589481224
ISBN-13: 9781589481220

In describing the emergence of the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) phenomenon, this book covers the diffusion and evolution of SDIs around the world, and indicates the countries in which SDIs are far along, and those in which more work is needed. The implementation of SDIs from a practical perspective and a method of institution building for regional, continental, and global SDIs is outlined. This guide offers recommendations about how SDI stakeholders around the world can leverage the work already done and maintain the momentum that is currently driving the global SDI phenomenon.

Author: Ian Masser
Publisher: ESRI Press
Keywords: infrastructures, data, spatial, european, building
Number of Pages: 91
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1589481658
ISBN-13: 9781589481657

Written by one of the world’s leading experts on spatial data infrastructures (SDIs), this book explores existing European SDIs and the efforts of the European Union to create a framework for a multinational Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) in order to exploit the many opportunities being created by modern geographic information technologies. The institutional and decision-making context within which SDIs must be developed requires partnerships between the public and private sectors, and concerted government action will play a key role in helping INSPIRE oversom

Author: Larry Ness Ph.D.
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: infrastructures, energy, utility, securing
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 047170525X
ISBN-13: 9780471705253

The latest security measures for utility and energy industries Addressing the growing post-9/11 concern about the safety of the utility and energy industries, SecuringUtility and Energy Infrastructures presents a detailed blueprint for safeguarding these vital fields. This comprehensive guide discusses how to protect the electric, oil and gas, nuclear, telecommunications, and water industries from a conventional or terrorist attack. Written for anyone who is charged with the safety of these industries, Securing Utility and Energy Infrastructures explains how to look for and monit

Author: Christine Hine
Publisher: Information Science Publishing
Keywords: understanding, science, production, knowledge, infrastructures, new
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 1591407176
ISBN-13: 9781591407171

New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-Science offers a distinctive understanding of new infrastructures for knowledge production based in science and technology studies. This field offers a unique potential to assess systematically the prospects for new modes of science enabled by information and communication technologies. The authors use varied methodological approaches, reviewing the origins of initiatives to develop e-science infrastructures, exploring the diversity of the various solutions and the scientific cultures which use them, and assessing the prospects for