Product Description: This book is about the Byzantine monuments of Istanbul, most notably, Haghia Sophia. The remains of the land and sea walls, the Hippodrome, imperial palaces, commemorative columns, reservoirs and cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal archway, a fortified port, and twenty churches are also described in chronological order in the context of their times...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A book Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering VII

Product Description: This volume provides an introduction to computational mathematics for engineers. It brings together both analytical and approximate methods for the solution of engineering problems. The level of mathematical rigour is kept to a minimum and examples are included at the end of each chapter to enhance the reader's understanding of the subject...read more

Product Description: This book contains the edited versions of a selection of the papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering held in Bath in June 1993. This volume includes new and advanced ideas in soil dynamics and earthquake engineering theory and practice and covers the excitation and propagation of dynamic waves in the ground, the determination of dynamic properties of soils and rock, and the behaviour of structures under dynamic loads...read more

Product Description: With its vast scale, immense cost, extraordinary speed of erection, and stunning interior space, the creation of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul between 532-537 is unparalleled in premodern, Western architecture. As such, the achievement begs answers to three important questions: the nature of the theoretical and material resources available to the early designers to achieve this great building; the behaviour over the centuries of its much modified structure under the action of environmental loadings; the ability of the present-day structure to withstand a major earthquake...read more

Product Description: Despite advances in the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering, earthquakes continue to cause loss of life and property in one part of the world or another. The Third International Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 22nd to 24th June 1987, provided an opportunity for participants from all over the world to share their expertise to enhance the role of mechanics and other disciplines as they relate to earthquake engineering...read more

Product Description: Despite advances in the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering, earthquakes continue to cause loss of life and property in one part of the world or another. The Third International Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 22nd to 24th June 1987, provided an opportunity for participants from all over the world to share their expertise to enhance the role of mechanics and other disciplines as they relate to earthquake engineering...read more

Product Description: This is a book about computational mathematics for engineers. The subjects covered are chosen for their practical usefulness in engineering and the level of mathematical rigor is kept to the minimum necessary for the correct presentation of the material...read more