Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations

by Tyler G. Hicks

Handle every day-to-day calculation instantly and accurately. Now, a single authoritative reference offers you a surefire way to save time handling routine and non-routine calculations in the design, construction, rehab and maintenance of all types of structures. Edited by Tyler G. Hicks, Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations explains and illustrates over 500 key calculations covering the entire structural steel engineering and design; reinforced and prestressed concrete; timber engineering; soil mechanics; surveying, route design, and highway bridges; fluid mechanics; pumps, piping, and hydro power;water supply and stormwater; sanitary wastewater treatment and control; and engineering economics.Using both customary and SI units, each calculation procedure includes a worked-out example with numbered steps. You see exactly how to compute the desired values for a particular design, and go quickly from data to finished design.

800 pages, Hardcover

First published August 31, 1999

About the author

Publisher, Author, Editor, and Engineer

Tyler G. Hicks, publisher and editor of three newsletters — International Wealth Success, Global Finding Services, and Money Watch Bulletin — and a prolific author of more than 130 published books on self-help, business, and engineering, and former Editorial Director and Publisher of Professional and Reference Books at the McGraw-Hill Companies