Modern Civil Engineering Structures

Description

Civil Engineering is one of the broadest and oldest of the engineering disciplines, extending across many technical specialties. Civil Engineers plan, design, and supervise the construction of facilities essential to modern life like space satellites and launching facilities, offshore structures, bridges, buildings, tunnels, highways, transit systems, dams, airports, harbours, water supply system and wastewater treatment plants. A civil engineer is responsible for planning and designing a project, constructing the project to the required scale, and maintenance of the project.
A large part of civil engineering deals with the structures which define our society. This has been true throughout the history of mankind. Today, the structures that ancient engineers have left behind help us understand the people who lived before us, how they lived, the wars that they fought and the gods that they served.
In past years, civil engineers focused on design and construction of new facilities, such as buildings, bridges and highways, etc however now they must also analyse the effects of deterioration on infrastructure elements, consider system interdependencies and evaluate life-cycle impacts while also considering environmental and economic sustainability within the context of society.
This book covers all aspects of civil engineering and its role in society. It integrates all of the diverse approaches that have gone into the making of the modern field of civil engineering.