Manipulating the design process can be a stressful learning experience and it can be difficult to decide how to resolve design problems. This book explores and illustrates the close relationship between emotion and the design process by using new mo...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines lithium extraction in Chile within the global energy transition, highlighting its ontological, ecological, and economic dimensions. Its of interest to students, scholars, and environmental advocates studying energy transitions, c...Lasīt vairāk
The authors have built on decades of experience with the design and construction, construction control, and research and development for asphalt core embankment dams....Lasīt vairāk
Geomechanical Aspects of Abandoned Room and Pillar Mines and Remediation Measures deals with the occurrence, prediction and control of subsidence issues encountered in room and pillar mining, including creep, degradation, and seismic aspects....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1982, this book (now with a new preface by the author) is a biographical study of class, culture, and community in a mining village. It traces some of the principal social changes in British society in the twentieth century and ra...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1967, this book discusses the attempt in ancient and modern times to exploit one of the great mineral areas of Europe. The mines at Tharsis played an important part in the formation of the United Alkali Company. At the time o...Lasīt vairāk
This book aims to provide actual methods of calculation and standard details followed by professionals in industrial projects pertaining to Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) structures backed by practical design and standard details....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the continuation of coal mining in Australia despite growing awareness of its contribution to the climate crisis. Through an in-depth ethnographic study, Kari Dahlgren reveals the complex and often contradictory ways that miners,...Lasīt vairāk
This text teaches readers to safeguard well safety and integrity in drilling engineering. It covers fundamental aspects of well control and includes procedures and well control/kill methods. It features a wealth of questions to commonly encountered...Lasīt vairāk
Based on ethnographic and historic research in Australia and India, this book compares the politics and resistance to coal in the two countries, particularly focusing on the time period between 2009 and 2018, and the case of the Carmichael coalmine...Lasīt vairāk
This book lays out the evolution of the often contested Construction Management discipline, covering the what, where and who of research in this emerging field....Lasīt vairāk
The Design and Installation Guide for Roof Tiling is the definitive guide to obtaining successful results in pitched roofing construction. Written by a team of experts from the NFRC and the RTA, the representative groups in industry for roofing cons...Lasīt vairāk
This book discusses the advancements in rock blasting techniques for mining and civil construction rock excavation projects including need for and importance of rock blasting, related theories, challenges in rock blasting operation, and rock blastin...Lasīt vairāk
Economic Organization of the British Coal Industry (1934) is a study that shows on the one hand the organization of the coal industry in Britain in the 1930s in conjunction with the economic forces working behind the industry, and on the other hand...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate the conditions of life. Of use to students and scholars working on resource extraction, large-scale investments, globalization, and development...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first to emphasize the importance and significance of natural stone in the construction of a city, Salamanca, recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It describes the buildings, the stones, and the stone quarries....Lasīt vairāk
Bringing together a wide range of topics, this work offers practical insight into oil spill occurence, behavior, and simluation for professionals and academics in environmental organizations and government, shipping and marine industry, and offshore...Lasīt vairāk
This new book provides unique information on the extent and severity of derelict mines impact on environmental degradation and human and environmental health. It examines the nature of derelict mines, short and long-term risks to sensitive receptor...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Sep-2024, Izdevniecība: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781003488347)
Details sustainable supply chain management through computational and multicriteria decision-making analyses, exploring it in the context of transportation and electricity generation. Discusses soft computing methods, sustainability management forec...Lasīt vairāk
The aim of this edited book volume is to present new concepts, case studies and applications of Digital Twin and relevant tools in the built environment context....Lasīt vairāk
This book is a biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a mining town located in Andalusia, Spain. Based on previously unexamined sources, the study paints a fresh portrait of industrial workers and their families in Córdoba province, enriching our un...Lasīt vairāk
The book focuses on applications of industrial explosives in civil and mining engineering works. Explosives and their actions are explained in terms of basics, principles, and related chemistry....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the roles of sunars/ swarnakars (goldsmith or jewellery makers), consumers, trade and the policies that bring a change in the gold jewellery industry in India and Indias position in the global market scenario....Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses the unique differences in how AI should be developed and used in science and engineering. Through inclusion of definitions and detailed examples, this book covers actual and realistic requirements as well as avoidance of certain...Lasīt vairāk
This book is aimed to help us look into the future of mining by defining ultimate operational conditions that will be present in a typical mining operation regardless how far in the future....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1982, this book is a survey of the world tin industry up until the late 20th Century. The author used scattered and hard to access journal sources in the course of his research. The book gives a wide-ranging picture of the wo...Lasīt vairāk
This book on biomimcry assessment tools studies the concepts of sustainability, sustainable construction practices, and the evaluation categories that constitute a sustainablity assessment tool. It is important reading for academics, professionals,...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1984, at a time when international commodity control was brought from the periphery to the centre of international trade policy, this book provided a new and more comprehensive approach to, and an analytical appraisal of, int...Lasīt vairāk
