Macro-engineering : MIT Brunel lectures on global infrastructure /

This volume makes available a reflection on large-scale engineering for building a better world. International authorities from engineering, oceanography, academia, public service, and law describe how great and imaginative concepts may be refined, tested, adapted, financed, implemented and put to u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davidson, Frank Paul, 1918-, Grankel, Ernst G., Meador, C. Lawrence
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, England ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; New Delhi, India : Woodhead Publishing, 2011.
Colección:Horwood engineering science series.
Temas:
Civil engineering.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Large scale systems.
Syst�emes de grandes dimensions.
Civil engineering
Large scale systems
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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245 0 0 |a Macro-engineering :  |b MIT Brunel lectures on global infrastructure /  |c Frank P. Davidson, Ernst G. Grankel and C. Lawrence Meador, editors. 
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520 |a This volume makes available a reflection on large-scale engineering for building a better world. International authorities from engineering, oceanography, academia, public service, and law describe how great and imaginative concepts may be refined, tested, adapted, financed, implemented and put to use. Here are records and commentaries about some of the world's significant engineering achievements, including the planning and design of Nigeria's new capital city, and the use of software by the US military to clean up the Exxon-Valdez oil spill pollution in Alaska. Describes a method of large-scale engineering for building a better worldProvides records and commentaries about significant engineering achievementsInternational authorities from engineering, oceanography, academia, public service and law describe how great and imaginative concepts may be refined, tested, adapted, financed and implemented. 
505 0 |a Front Cover; Macro-Engineering: MIT Brunel Lectures on Global Infrastructure; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; EDITORIAL NOTE; Chapter 1. The Suez Canal Re-Visited: 19th Century Global Infrastructure; 1.1 THE CHIEF MACRO-ENGINEER: FERDINAND DE LESSEPS; 1.2 THE BUILDING OF THE SUEZ CANAL; 1.3 THE SUEZ CANAL TODAY; 1.4 THE IMPACT OF THE CANAL ON MAN AND HIS SURROUNDINGS; l.5 CONCLUSION; Chapter 2. Operation Mulberry: A Floating Transportable Harbor for World War II Normandy Invasion; Chapter 3. Financial Engineering of the Channel Tunnel 
505 8 |a Chapter 4. Old Cities and New Towns ForTomorrow's Infrastructure4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 WHAT IS INFRASTRUCTURE AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?; 4.3 PROBLEMS OF TODAY'S URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE; 4.4 TRENDS FOR TOMORROW; 4.5 TOMORROW'S INFRASTRUCTURE: RESPONDING TO PROBLEMS AND TRENDS; 4.6 BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF TOMORROW; Notes; Chapter 5. Inland Transport in Europe -- Trends and Prospects; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2. THE IMPLICATIONS OF A EUROPEAN APPROACH; 5.3 TRENDS IN TRANSPORT DEMAND; 5.4 INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS; 5.5 CONCLUSION; Notes; Chapter 6. Lessons Learnt from Major Projects; 6.1 HISTORY 
505 8 |a 6.2 WHAT CONSTITUTES A MAJOR PROJECT?6.3 THE ASSOCIATION; 6.4 SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS; 6.5 SOME LESSONS; Notes; Chapter 7. Guided Transportation Systems: Low-Impact, High-Volume, Fail-Safe Travel; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2. THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM: HOW DID WE GET THIS WAY?; 7.3 HOW SHOULD NEW SYSTEMS BE INTRODUCED?; 7.4. NEW TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGIES; 7.5 CONCLUSION; Chapter 8. Prefabricated and Relocatable ArtificialIsl and Technology; 8.1. INTRODUCTION; 8.2. PREFABRICATED ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS; 8.3 PREFABRICATED, FLOAT ABLE ISLAND STRUCTURES 
505 8 |a 8.4 BEHAVIOR OF THE FLOATING, PREFABRICATED ISLAND MODULES8.5. STRUCTURAL DESIGN AND MODULE WEIGHT; 8.6 ECONOMIC VIABILITY; 8.7. CONCLUSION; Chapter 9. The Command Tactical Information System: Military Software for Macro-Engineering Projects; 9.1 INTRODUCTION; 9.2 EXPERIENCES; 9.3 OVERVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND LESSONS LEARNED; 9.4 WHAT WE LEARNED; 9.5 ARRIVING IN ALASKA: THE PROBLEM; 9.6 EVOLVING A SOLUTION; 9.7 OVERSIGHT OF THE EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL; 9.9 SUMMARY; 9.10 EPILOGUE; Chapter 10. Prospects for the Next Century: Survey and Suggestions 
505 8 |a 10.1 WHAT'S NEW IN THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS?10.2 A STABLE CIIlNA: WHY?; 10.3 THE OPENING OUT AND TURNING INWARD OF ISLAM: WHY?; 10.4 12TH CENTURY EUROPE: THE FIRST LIFTOFF; 10.5 DECLINE, RENAISSANCE, AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION; 10.6 THE MIDDLE OF THE 19th CENTURY; 10.7 TRANSFORMING THE PLANET INTO A GARDEN; 10.8 PROGRAMS FOR THE NEXT CENTURY; 10.9 CONCLUSION; Notes; INDEX; FINITE ELEMENT PROGRAMS IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AND CONTINUUM MECHANICS 
650 0 |a Civil engineering. 
650 0 |a Infrastructure (Economics) 
650 0 |a Large scale systems. 
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700 1 |a Davidson, Frank Paul,  |d 1918- 
700 1 |a Grankel, Ernst G. 
700 1 |a Meador, C. Lawrence. 
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