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Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction

Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction

著者: 
David Muir Wood
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  • Highlights the impact civil engineering has on all parts of life - buildings related to work, study, and leisure
  • A broad introduction to the discipline of civil engineering
  • Examines the nature and importance of civil engineering in the history of civilization and urbanization
  • Explores its challenges for the future - managing water and energy and our sensitivity to buildings and the environment

  
Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure.
 
In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the nature and importance of civil engineering not only in the history of civilization and urbanization, but its range of facets today, and its challenges for the future. Beginning with the challenge of creating a settlement on a deserted island, which sets out the problems that civil engineers need to solve, he looks at the social and environmental considerations as well as the science, technology, and craft of building bridges, tunnels, houses, and areas of recreation.
 
He highlights the lives of some major civil engineers, including Brunel and Bazalgette, considers the challenges of managing water and energy, and looks at our increasing sensitivity to building and the environment. 

目次: 

1: Civil engineering
2: Materials of civil engineering
3: Water and waste
4: 'Directing the great sources of power in nature'
5: Concept - technology - realisation
6: Robustness
7: The future
Further reading

著者について: 

David Muir Wood is Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol and Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Dundee. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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ISBN : 9780199578634

著者: 
David Muir Wood
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160 ページ
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Paperback
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141 x 171 mm
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Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction

Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction

Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction