Progressive Collapse of Structures

✍ Scribed by Uwe Starossek

Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 83
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book gives engineers the practical, systematic framework they need to anticipate the risk of progressive collapse and apply this knowledge to design and assessment procedures. This will be an invaluable guide for structural engineers at all levels as well as many students and lecturers on civil and structural engineering courses.

✦ Subjects

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