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Summary: excelent and good reference
Review: I found it most complete reference for civil engineers ,I always carry this book in my travels ,I fount it complete in this fields: safety and health concerns, and the most current codes changes including ACI, AISC, ASTM,
and you find powerfull data in covers systems design, community and regional planning, the latest design methods for buildings, airports, highways, tunnels and bridges. It includes sections
what do you want else ,buy it and carry all knowlege you can have.
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Summary: Great Review/Reference Book
Review: I'm a senior in CE this year and I have been using the 2nd edition of this book (1976) more or less daily as I work on my senior design projects. Not really in depth on any one subject, but its great if you just need to look up a formula or technique that you forgot from some class. I plan to ask for the new edition as a graduation present.
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Summary: Great Review/Reference Book
Review: I'm a senior in CE this year and I have been using the 2nd edition of this book (1976) more or less daily as I work on my senior design projects. Not really in depth on any one subject, but its great if you just need to look up a formula or technique that you forgot from some class. I plan to ask for the new edition as a graduation present.
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Summary: Still the best Civil Handbook
Review: The fifth edition update mainly reflects changes in code requirements for structural engineering. Other sections seem barely changed from the fourth edition. The water resources chapter has several misprinted tables. Use the corresponding tables out of the fourth edition.Generalle well-written and easy to follow. Useful as a supplemental study reference for the Civil PE Exam. Could use a good bibliography.
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Summary: Still the best Civil Handbook
Review: The fifth edition update mainly reflects changes in code requirements for structural engineering. Other sections seem barely changed from the fourth edition. The water resources chapter has several misprinted tables. Use the corresponding tables out of the fourth edition. Generalle well-written and easy to follow. Useful as a supplemental study reference for the Civil PE Exam. Could use a good bibliography.
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Summary: A civil engineer's review - this book is a good buy
Review: The Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers is a comprehensive single volume book. This book is divided into 23 sections covering entire gamut of civil engineering. In first few chapters it deals with design management, specifications etc. These chapters are quite informative. It also describes various construction materials in a lucid form. But the chapter on structural theory should have more elaborately presented. Many aspects of advanced structures such as plate, shell etc. are not discussed. Finite element method is almost untouched. This book does not contain too many numerical examples. Rather it tells you how to take decision. For example, it tells you how to choose structural system for multistory building, but does not tell how to analyze the same. Geo-technical engineering section is also little bit concise. Concrete design section is good but a number of worked out problems would have made it better. Same goes for steel design section. Surveying was featured in very lackadaisically. Building engineering section is well written with very good general descriptions. Transportation, water resource and environment parts are also well covered. Coastal engineering is just touched. In overall this book is a good buy. But this book won't be much useful to all because it is written only in American code. What I dislike most about this book is that it is not written in metric units.
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Summary: The Premier Civil engineers reference tool -- now on CD-ROM
Review: · Includes the complete text of Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers · Fully searchable with Adobe Acrobat format-with extensive indexing and quick-lookup sectional Table of Contents · Features 105 interactive equations · On-screen problem-solving: math formulas and calculations · Converts automatically from U.S. to metric (SI) standard units instantly · Hyperlinked Table of Contents and index Includes: Code changes from the ACI, ASTM and AISC Most up-to-date specifications for wood construction The most recent EPA and OSHA regulations Changes in highway and airport pavement design Expanded coverage of harbor engineering' Information about water resources State-of-the-art modeling techniques New methods for nondestructive testing of piles and applications of geosynthetics The latest techniques of load-and-resistance factor design of structural steels Fully updated information on systems design, value engineering, and peer review About The Authors Frederick S. Merritt (deceased) was a consulting engineer in West Palm Beach Florida M. Kent is the Chief Civil Engineer of the South Florida Water Management District in West Palm Beach, Florida. He resides in Hobe Sound, Florida Jonathan T. Ricketts is a Consulting Engineer based in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.
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