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PAT: Portable Appliance Testing In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment

PAT: Portable Appliance Testing In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment

Fully up-to-date with the relevant parts of the 17th Edition IET Wiring Regulations: Amendment 3 and the 2012 Code of Practice Provides all the required information on portable appliance testing in a user-friendly manner Expert advice from an engineering training consultant supported with colour diagrams examples and tables The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 requires any electrical system to be constructed maintained and used in such a manner as to prevent danger. This means that inspection and testing of systems including portable appliances is needed in order to determine if maintenance is required. This book explains in clear language what needs to be done and includes expert advice on legislation as well as actual testing. The book contains an appendix providing the electrical fundamentals needed by non-specialists and also has sample questions (with answers) for the CandG 2377 exam. It is also an ideal revision guide for the non-specialist such as maintenance staff and caretakers who carry out these tasks part-time alongside their many other duties. | PAT: Portable Appliance Testing In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment

GBP 175.00
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Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology Exercise Testing and Physical Fitness

Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology Exercise Testing and Physical Fitness

Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology Exercise Testing and Physical Fitness is a comprehensive text that will provide students with meaningful lab experiences-whether they have access to sophisticated laboratories and expensive equipment or they are looking for procedures that can be done without costly materials. It will be a useful resource as they prepare for a career as an exercise science professional athletic trainer coach or physical educator. The more than 40 labs cover seven major components of physical fitness. They are practical and easy to follow consisting of a clear logical format that includes background information step-by-step procedures explanatory photographs sample calculations norms and classification tables and worksheets. Lab-ending activities and questions provide additional opportunities to practice the procedures and explore issues of validity reliability and accuracy. Readers will find this manual a valuable tool in learning to apply physiological concepts and to perform exercise tests as well as an essential resource for any career involving physical fitness and performance testing.

GBP 145.00
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Globalizing Feminist Bioethics Crosscultural Perspectives

Globalizing Feminist Bioethics Crosscultural Perspectives

Globalizing Feminist Bioethics is a collection of new essays on the topic of international bioethics that developed out of the Third World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics in 1996. Rosemarie Tong is the primary editor of this collection in which she Gwen Anderson and Aida Santos look at such international issues as female genital cutting fatal daughter syndrome use of reproductive technologies male responsibility pediatrics breast cancer pregnancy and drug testing. | Globalizing Feminist Bioethics Crosscultural Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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At Risk Students Reaching and Teaching Them

At Risk Students Reaching and Teaching Them

This book is organized around CBUPO the basic psychological needs of all students: competence belonging usefulness potency and optimism. When teachers and schools focus on meeting these needs the rate of at-riskiness is drastically reduced. This book presents practical strategies and tips to help teachers and administrators help all students become successful learners. The revised edition offers new material on using classroom assessment complying with standards and high stakes testing an updated approach to evaluating At-Risk Prevention programs and alternative strategies for meeting the motivational needs of at-risk youth from developmental constructivism to mastery learning. | At Risk Students Reaching and Teaching Them

GBP 105.00
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Playing and Reality

Playing and Reality

What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relationship with the outside world. In this landmark book of twentieth-century psychology Winnicott shows the reader how through the attentive nurturing of creativity from the earliest years every individual has the opportunity to enjoy a rich and rewarding cultural life. Today as the 'hothousing' and testing of children begins at an ever-younger age Winnicott's classic text is a more urgent and topical read than ever before.

GBP 175.00
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Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning

Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning

This landmark volume provides a broad-based state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning. Fifty-seven chapters are organized in eight thematic sections:*social contexts of second language learning;*research methodologies in second-language learning acquisition and teaching;*contributions of applied linguistics to the teaching and learning of second language skills;*second language processes and development;*teaching methods and curricula;*issues in second or foreign language testing and assessment;*identity culture and critical pedagogy in second language teaching and learning; and*important considerations in language planning and policies. The Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning is intended for researchers practitioners graduate students and faculty in teacher education and applied linguistics programs; teachers; teacher trainers; teacher trainees; curriculum and material developers; and all other professionals in the field of second language teaching and learning.

GBP 130.00
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Electronic Servicing and Repairs

Electronic Servicing and Repairs

This new title is based upon Trevor Linsley's successful Electronics for Electricians and Service Engineers and completely updates the previous text by taking into account the recent changes in the City and Guilds courses including 2240 2360 and 2351. The new edition also incorporates hardware topics from the popular course C&G 7261 Information Technology making this an indispensable reference for all those taking C&G courses. Trevor Linsley appproaches the subject in a practical non-mathematical way enabling both trainee and practising electricains and service engineers to relate electronics to their own experience. 'Electronic Servicing and Repairs' includes an expanded chapter on testing and fault diagnosis incorporates PLCs and CAD software and introduces automatic text equipment (ATE). Communication and security systems are completely updated - the section on TV receivers satellite TV VCRs CD players and cable TV has been expanded and a new chapter has been devoted to alarm systems.

GBP 105.00
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Taking Education Really Seriously Four Years Hard Labour

Taking Education Really Seriously Four Years Hard Labour

Michael Fielding looks at what the Labour Government has achieved in the last four years with its policy of 'education education education'. There has been widespread disappointment in New Labour's education policies which on the whole have not steered too far wide of those put in place by Margaret Thatcher including issues of marketisation testing and performativity. Michael Fielding has called on the key policy thinkers in education to offer their opinions on what has happened in education over the first three to four years of the New Labour Government. Education policy is a controversial subject and with a General Election expected within the next few months this book will be read widely by people within education politicians and journalists and by others anxious to get to facts and avoid the spin. The subject matter and the presence of so many high profile educationalists make this an essential read. | Taking Education Really Seriously Four Years Hard Labour

GBP 175.00
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Ecology of Communication

Ecology of Communication

Altheide's new book advances the argument set in motion some years ago with 'Media Logic' and continued in 'Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era:' that in our age information technology and the communication environments it posits have affected the private and the social spheres of all our power relationships redefining the ground rules for social life and concepts such as freedom and justice. Articulated through an interactionist and non-deterministic focus 'An Ecology of Communication' offers a distinctive perspective for understanding the impact of information technology communication formats and social activities in the new electronic environment. As more routines rituals and activities incorporate such technologies within their organizational cultures new sorts of activities are added and previous ones are changed according to an underlying logic explored in these pages. Various chapters illustrate some of these altered and redefined organizational cultures: bureaucracy the mass media computer formats war surveillance and testing among others.

GBP 110.00
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Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels 1929-1937 Visual Narrative Cultural Politics Homoeroticism

Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels 1929-1937 Visual Narrative Cultural Politics Homoeroticism

This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the wordless novels of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905–1985) who has been enormously influential in the development of the contemporary graphic novel. The study examines his six pictorial novels each part of an evolving experiment in a new form of visual narrative that offers a keen intervention in the cultural and sexual politics of the 1930s. The novels form a discrete group – much like Beethoven’s piano sonatas or Keats’s great odes – in which Ward evolves a unique modernist style (cinematic expressionist futurist realist documentary) and grapples with significant cultural and political ideas in a moment when the American experiment and capitalism itself hung in the balance. In testing the limits of a new narrative form Ward’s novels require a versatile critical framework as sensitive to German Expressionism and Weimar cinema as to labor politics and the new energies of proletarian homosexuality. | Lynd Ward’s Wordless Novels 1929-1937 Visual Narrative Cultural Politics Homoeroticism

GBP 145.00
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Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies. It addresses the sizing of France’s nuclear forces technological assistance to countries with nuclear weapons programs uranium prospection nuclear testing its health effects and protests against it as well as plans to prevent and manage accidents in nuclear power plants. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad. The chapters in this volume show how independent and interdisciplinary scholarship free from conflicts of interests can uniquely advance our understanding of nuclear history and politics. This is the case because it does not treat the categories and judgments of official discourse as neutral starting points of the analysis. This volume is based on untapped primary sources from France the UK the US India South Africa and Iran on a new assessment of the health consequences of French nuclear testing in Polynesia thanks to a modern atmospheric particle transport code coupled with historical weather data open-source information about radioactive debris (“mushroom”) clouds as well as data on the composition and particle sizes of the fallout; and on new survey data about French knowledge of and attitudes towards nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. They show notably that the first generation of French nuclear forces lacked technical credibility despite reliance on outside help. Several French officials knew this as did France's allies and adversaries. Moreover French strategic collaborations associated to nuclear programs extended to India and South Africa; nuclear safety regulations changed fundamentally after the Cold War and approximately 110 000 people i. e. 90% of the French Polynesian population in the 1970s could have received doses that would qualify them for compensation according to French law. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of history politics international relations military history war studies conflict and global governance. Most of the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Cold War History. A few chapters were first published in the Nonproliferation Review Diplomacy & Statecraft and Science & Global Security. | Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

GBP 130.00
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Handbook of Employee Selection

Handbook of Employee Selection

This second edition of the Handbook of Employee Selection has been revised and updated throughout to reflect current thinking on the state of science and practice in employee selection. In this volume a diverse group of recognized scholars inside and outside the United States balance theory research and practice often taking a global perspective. Divided into eight parts chapters cover issues associated with measurement such as validity and reliability as well as practical concerns around the development of appropriate selection procedures and implementation of selection programs. Several chapters discuss the measurement of various constructs commonly used as predictors and other chapters confront criterion measures that are used in test validation. Additional sections include chapters that focus on ethical and legal concerns and testing for certain types of jobs (e. g. blue collar jobs). The second edition features a new section on technology and employee selection. The Handbook of Employee Selection Second Edition provides an indispensable reference for scholars researchers graduate students and professionals in industrial and organizational psychology human resource management and related fields.

GBP 105.00
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Mistrust Developmental Cultural and Clinical Realms

Mistrust Developmental Cultural and Clinical Realms

Humans are weak. Lacking the claws and thick skins of other animals we are forced to rely on members of our own species to survive and flourish in the world. The fact that the human infant is born in an utterly helpless state also makes others' protective care necessary. Attachment bonding concern and mutuality thus become cornerstones of human existence. Trust also enters this equation. Originating in the early mother-child relationship trust continues to grow get contextually refined tempered by reality testing and gain nuances throughout the subsequent adult life. Its absence (mistrust) or malformation (distrust) contributes to psychopathology and is responsible for much intrapsychic distress and interpersonal strife. Given its formative significance and it crucial role in the therapeutic process one is surprised by the paucity of psychoanalytic writings specifically devoted to the topic of trust and mistrust. Few if any monographs on trust exist. A collection of essays written specifically for this volume it deals with the ontogenesis psychopathology cultural vicissitudes and technical implications of trust and mistrust. | Mistrust Developmental Cultural and Clinical Realms

GBP 130.00
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An Introduction to Statistical Concepts

An Introduction to Statistical Concepts

The new edition of An Introduction to Statistical Concepts is designed to help students really understand statistical concepts the situations in which they can be used and how to apply them to data. Hahs-Vaughn and Lomax discuss the most popular along with many of the lesser-known procedures and models whilst also exploring nonparametric procedures used when standard assumptions are violated. They provide in-depth coverage of testing assumptions and highlight several online tools for computing statistics (e. g. effect sizes and their confidence intervals and power). This comprehensive flexible and accessible text includes a new chapter on mediation and moderation; expanded coverage of effect sizes; and discussions of sensitivity specificity false positive and false negative along with using the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve. In addition to instructions and screen shots for using SPSS new to this edition is annotated script for using R. This book noted for its crystal-clear explanations and its inclusion of only the most crucial equations is an invaluable resource for students undertaking a course in statistics in any number of social science and behavioral disciplines—from education business communication exercise science psychology sociology and more.

GBP 110.00
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China's African Challenges

China's African Challenges

China‘s relations with African nations have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China‘s oil imports and China is Africa‘s second-largest single-country trading partner as well as a leading lender and infrastructure investor on the continent. Yet these developments are bringing challenges not only for Africa and the West but for China as well. This book examines these challenges considering Africa as a testing ground both for Chinese companiesgoing global and for a Chinese government that is increasingly having to deal with issues beyond its shores and immediate control. What does China need to do to protect and develop its African engagements against a backdrop of mounting African expectations concerns from Western actors in Africa and the rival presence of other emerging actors? How sustainable is the momentum that China has established in its African ventures? China‘s adaptations to the challenges it is facing in Africa are examined and assessed as are the implications of these changes for China Africa and the West. China‘s African engagements are certainly changing Africa but could they also be changing China? | China's African Challenges

GBP 160.00
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Physical Fitness Laboratories on a Budget

Physical Fitness Laboratories on a Budget

This lab manual is designed to benefit those colleges and universities that offer courses with lab components in physical fitness exercise physiology and healthy lifestyles but do not have the facilities and/or budget to allow students to train in high-tech laboratory settings. This long-overdue book-essential for sports and exercise science departments on a budget-provides meaningful lab experiences that don't require sophisticated and expensive equipment. The labs were written and designed to be self-administered or administered to others. Readers will find the book an essential resource for any career involving physical fitness and performance testing. This book's clear and concise layout makes it an ideal tool both for learning and for practical application in professional settings. The book includes 31 labs divided into eight units: Introductory labs Aerobic fitness Fatigue thresholds Muscular strength Muscular endurance Muscular power Body composition and body build Flexibility Labs include these features: Background Terms and Abbreviations Equipment (and pricing) Procedures Equations Sample Calculations Worksheets Tables Extension Activities and References. The manual also includes a table of units and conversions a list of equipment and vendors a Glossary and an Index. | Physical Fitness Laboratories on a Budget

GBP 130.00
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Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology provides a complete overview of the psychological study of the world of work. Written with the student in mind the book presents classic theory and research in the field alongside examples from real-world work situations to provide deeper insight. This edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest research on each key topic and now features: A spotlight on diversity equity and inclusion throughout including coverage of LGBTQIA+ inclusion and racial justice Expanded coverage of ethics in I/O psychology practice Increased emphasis on cross-cultural and international issues Coverage of the changing nature of work post-pandemic including remote working worker stress and burnout A new focus on technologies related to I/O such as virtual reality and computer adaptive testing New figures illustrations and charts to grab the reader’s attention and facilitate learning Accompanied by extensive student and instructor resources it is a must read for all students on I/O psychology courses and courses in work psychology and organizational behavior and for practicing managers who want a comprehensive overview of the psychology of work.

GBP 170.00
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Navigating Comprehensive School Change

Navigating Comprehensive School Change

This book an accessible resource for busy practitioners is a unique hybrid of two genres. As a tourist guide it shows you:- how to prepare for the journey- what to pay attention to upon arrival- how to deal with the unexpected. As a consumer report it helps you:- identify some of the best tools and sources about change- access useful information about the change process- find information about the strengths and challenges of various strategies. Thorough and comprehensive it offers essential information about how to:- form leadership teams- identify high stakes problems- build commitment- create a school-wide vision and establish school-wide goals - handle setbacks- maintain the vision and sustain change. evaluate and assess comprehensive school change. Also included is a section called Ports of Call which provides sources of information to help you implement comprehensive school reform at your site. From Michael Fullan's Foreword . Chenoweth and Everhart take the big concepts of change and work them through operationally at the level of day-to-day practice. We learn how to form leadership teams the importance of focusing on capacity-building and reculturing how to build commitment while dealing with dissatisfaction problem-solving during implementation how to keep going and how to go beyond standardized testing in developing a range of alternative assessment strategies. | Navigating Comprehensive School Change

GBP 105.00
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Clinical Psychology The Study of Personality and Behavior

Clinical Psychology The Study of Personality and Behavior

Interest in clinical psychology has been growing as indicated by large numbers of undergraduates applying for admission to graduate programs and the professional degrees granted. This book is written for anyone with a strong interest in clinical psychology but also provides a comprehensive and realistic view of the field. The book therefore can serve as a reference for courses in clinical psychology but it will be relevant to courses in personality and personal counseling. Professional clinical psychologists and members of related professions may also find the book valuable because Garfield describes important historical developments that have helped to shape the field the roles and functions of the clinical psychologist their training programs and contemporary issues and problems. The text also describes the theoretical models that guide the work of the clinical psychologist and upon which the divergent approaches to clinical work are based. Changes in the functions of the clinical psychologist are reflected in the greater emphasis on psychotherapeutic and behavior change methods and in the correspondingly reduced emphasis on diagnostic testing procedures-a development discernible in the decline in studies of high quality bearing on diagnostic issues. This book provides a reliable source of information for the individual who contemplates a professional career as a clinical psychologist and seeks to learn what the profession encompasses. | Clinical Psychology The Study of Personality and Behavior

GBP 130.00
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Constitutional Law and the Politics of Ethnic Accommodation Institutional Design in Afghanistan

Constitutional Law and the Politics of Ethnic Accommodation Institutional Design in Afghanistan

This book explores whether the legal and political institutions of Afghanistan were able to incorporate diverse ethnic groups into the political process. Ethnic accommodation has gained central stage in the literature on institutional design and democratic consolidation. However some divided societies are more explored than others and Afghanistan is one understudied country that is critically important for testing and improving our theories of institutional design in a democratizing plural society. This work examines the Constitution of 2004 and those provisions of electoral laws and political party laws that together devised Afghan political institutions including those of the presidential system unitary government electoral systems as well as the party system. It argues that due to their incongruence in design and effects the Afghan political institutions failed to fully accommodate ethnic groups in the political process. This book adopts a holistic approach while also paying careful attention to the details of each of the individual pieces of political institutions designed by the Constitution of 2004. Taken together this approach yields insights into the boundaries and interactions of institutional design and how their interactions hinder or advance ethnic accommodation in varying contexts. The book will be essential reading for academics researchers and policy makers interested in constitutional law and politics. | Constitutional Law and the Politics of Ethnic Accommodation Institutional Design in Afghanistan

GBP 130.00
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Twin Pandemics How a Global Health Crisis and Persistent Racial Injustices are Impacting Educational Assessment

Twin Pandemics How a Global Health Crisis and Persistent Racial Injustices are Impacting Educational Assessment

This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic and racial inequities affect the educational assessment of students either separately or in combination as the health crisis was viewed as a factor intersecting with and exacerbating existing racial inequities in educational systems. The four empirical papers in this book attend to the challenges of implementing virtual standardized testing during the coronavirus pandemic the different educational and assessment experiences of diverse groups of school-age students and the reconsideration of traditional assessment approaches in response to mounting research evidence and growing concerns around enduring social and racial inequities faced by Black Latinx Asian Indigenous and other non-white citizens and communities. The four conceptual papers focus primarily on the ways in which assessment may contribute to systemic racism and offer potential solutions to move the educational assessment field forward. In totality the volume offers needed empirical evidence innovative methodological approaches and theoretical and substantive examinations of the effects of the twin pandemics. Twin Pandemics will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of Educational Assessment Education Psychometrics Educational Research Ethnic Studies Research Methods Sociology of Education and Psychology. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Educational Assessment. | Twin Pandemics How a Global Health Crisis and Persistent Racial Injustices are Impacting Educational Assessment

GBP 130.00
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Oral Tradition A Study in Historical Methodology

Oral Tradition A Study in Historical Methodology

Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are unwritten sources couched in a form suitable for oral transmission and that their preservation depends on the powers of memory of successive generations of human beings. In many parts of the world inhabited by peoples without writing oral tradition forms the main available source for a reconstruction of the past. Do the special characteristics of oral traditions u unwritten information dependent on the memory of successive generations u invalidate them as sources of historical data? If not are there means for testing their reliability? Professor Vansina shows in Oral Tradition that with knowledge of the language and of the society the anthropologist and historian can extract or deduce the historical content of oral testimonies. Based on the author's many years of fieldwork in Africa this definitive work explores the possibility of reconstructing the history of non-literate peoples from their oral traditions surveys existing literature offers a typology of oral traditions and evaluates methods of collection and interpretation. On first publication Daniel McCall in the American Anthropologist called Oral Tradition a tour de force. Indeed this may well be the most significant work written on the relation of oral tradition to history in thirty yearsafor any field worker who intends to collect oral traditions this work is indispensable. | Oral Tradition A Study in Historical Methodology

GBP 145.00
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Liquid Architecture Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux

Liquid Architecture Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux

Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial protocols and explores what the built environment might look like when viewed through the lenses of a ‘wet ontology’ that is attentive to fluidity flows and territorial dynamism. A reconfiguration of architectural materials and authorship is thus considered leading in turn to an exploration of the ethical dimensions of co-designing with natural systems (of various viscosities) through liquid paradigms. The book examines a set of principles for practice-led discoveries that incorporate hybrid mixed media with the author’s intersubjective relationship with liquid matter. Drawing from qualitative-based analytical investigation models the text allows comprehension of the liquid phenomena via material contextualisation of an ever-becoming research setting. Through a practical and theoretical engagement with the ontology of liquids the reader is exposed to a range of design-led experiments and creative propositions visualisation systems construction and testing of physical models that collectively translate into a series of novel insights for architectural agendas. This book will be of interest to architecture and design research students and academics because it advocates the need for a more symbiotic and resilient approach to natural systems which could benefit from the integration of regenerating material flows into our buildings and urban settlements. | Liquid Architecture Experimental Practices of Design in a State of Flux

GBP 130.00
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Modern Trends in Research on Steel Aluminium and Composite Structures PROCEEDINGS OF THE XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METAL STRUCTURES (

Modern Trends in Research on Steel Aluminium and Composite Structures PROCEEDINGS OF THE XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METAL STRUCTURES (

Modern Trends in Research on Steel Aluminium and Composite Structures includes papers presented at the 14th International Conference on Metal Structures 2021 (ICMS 2021 Poznań Poland 16-18 June 2021). The 14th ICMS summarised a few years’ theoretical numerical and experimental research on steel aluminium and composite structures and presented new concepts. This book contains six plenary lectures and all the individual papers presented during the Conference. Seven plenary lectures were presented at the Conference including Research developments on glass structures under extreme loads Parhp3D – The parallel MPI/openMPI implementation of the 3D hp-adaptive FE code Design of beam-to-column steel-concrete composite joints: from Eurocodes and beyond Stainless steel structures – research codification and practice Testing modelling and design of bolted joints – effect of size structural properties integrity and robustness Design of hybrid beam-to-column joints between RHS tubular columns and I-section beams and Selected aspects of designing the cold-formed steel structures. The individual contributions delivered by authors covered a wide variety of topics: – Advanced analysis and direct methods of design – Cold-formed elements and structures – Composite structures – Engineering structures – Joints and connections – Structural stability and integrity – Structural steel metallurgy durability and behaviour in fire. Modern Trends in Research on Steel Aluminium and Composite Structures is a useful reference source for academic researchers graduate students as well as designers and fabricators. | Modern Trends in Research on Steel Aluminium and Composite Structures PROCEEDINGS OF THE XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METAL STRUCTURES (

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