An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering

By Robert D. Holtz, William D. Kovacs

Price: $125.60

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A descriptive, elementary introduction to geotechnical engineering - with applications to civil engineering practice. *focuses on the engineering classification, behavior, and properties of soils necessary for the design and construction of foundations and earth structures. *introduces vibratory and dynamic compaction, the method of fragments, the Schmertmann procedure for determining field compressibility, secondary compression, liquefaction, and an extensive use of the stress path method.

Product Details
*Amazon Sales Rank: #315992 in Books
*Published on: 1981-03-08
*Original language: English
*Number of items: 1
*Binding: Paperback
*733 pages

Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher

A descriptive, elementary introduction to geotechnical engineering -- with applications to civil engineering practice.

Customer Reviews
Wrong description

My only complaint about this book is that it is listed as [Hardcover] even though it is not. No more new hardcover editions are being printed, so really all the brand-new copies are softcover. I bought this twice from Amazon and twice I received a paperback book even though the receipt says [Hardcover.] That was two or more weeks ago. Then, I just got a book through half.com and it came through Amazon, so I got to see that the error still hadn't been corrected. You could laugh at the fact I got the same book three times, but it would be best if Amazon could fix the product description to say Softcover. When it is corrected, they could take down my negative comment because the book itself is amazing as a text reference. Thank you.
One of the best in print - for study and practice

I've had the experience of using this text as:

(1) An undergraduate student,

(2) A graduate student,

(3) A university instructor, and

(4) A practicing geotechnical engineer. There are other books that are better suited to one of the above (I preferred Coduto's two texts when teaching undergraduate Soil Mechanics or Foundation Design) but this 25+ year-old text is still the best (in print) for all 4 of the above. Even after using it regularly for more than 10 years, I still find bits of information that I hadn't previously. It is a bit more dense than some of the newer texts geared strictly towards undergraduate courses (such as McCarthy, Das) and lacks the pretty pictures of some. But it makes up for that in substance. If used correctly (e.g., don't even attempt Chapter 11 when teaching undergrad soils) it makes a fine teaching tool for both undergraduate AND graduate courses. It also contains enough substance to be useful for the practicing engineer. This, and graduate-course-usefulness, is where other texts currently available fall very short. I have several of Das' books, and McCarthy, as well as many others, on my shelf. They mainly collect dust, while I consult H&K regularly. I understand there's a Second Edition in the near future, which should contain some updated information, including critical state soil mechanics, seismic and liquefied soil mechanics, etc.
Still the best book available for theoretical soil mechanics

I was first introduced to this book as a grad student in the early 80s and I still use it to teach my graduate soil mechanics course today. It is as comprehensive as any soil mechanics text out there. Their treatment of shear strength is magnificent and worth the price of the book alone. There is a tremendous amount of information crammed into this book, but it remains very readable throughout. Some of the other reviews miss the essential point that Holtz and Kovacs is a pure theoretical soil mechanics text, not an applied soils text. You won't get much use out of it on the PE exam, but I guarantee it will help you to better understand soil behavior.

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Construction Technology, Student Text

Price: $59.32

Product Description
This comprehensive text emphasizes how decisions and processes are achieved in the world of construction and introduces students to construction materials, tools, and procedures.

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*Amazon Sales Rank: #405172 in Books
*Published on: 1997-06-01
*Original language: English
*Number of items: 1
*Binding: Hardcover
*492 pages

Editorial Reviews
About the Author

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

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Construction Estimating Using Excel

By Steven J. Peterson

List Price: $104.00

Price: $83.20

Product Description
Construction Estimating with Excel introduces readers to the fundamental principles of estimating and includes drawing sets, real-world exercises, and examples that give beginners critical estimating experience. The book moves step-by-step through the estimating process, discussing the art of estimating, the quantity takeoff, how to put costs to the estimate and how to finalize the bid. It is also the first book to demonstrate how Microsoft Excel can be used to improve the estimating process. Because it introduces spreadsheets as a way of increasing estimating productivity and accuracy, the book can help both beginning and experienced estimators improve their skills. Moves beyond many books to not only talk about takeoff (and the costs of a limited number of building materials), but also the principles behind these calculations. Gives readers a strong foundation so they can transfer basic estimating principles to any building material. Provides an introduction to the basic operation of Excel and discusses how it can be used to improve the estimating process. Includes Excel Quick Tips that demonstrate how to set up Excel worksheets for different types of estimating problems. Offers a variety of sites (a residential garage, a residence and a retail building) where readers can practice estimating skills in a non-threatening environment. Includes fundamental mathematical concepts necessary in estimating. Construction Estimators

Product Details
*Amazon Sales Rank: #174188 in Books
*Published on: 2006-07-29
*Original language: English
*Number of items: 1
*Binding: Paperback
*560 pages

Customer Reviews
Waste of money

I bought this book at $80. Seems there was a CD? Never found it. The book did make a few tips here and there, but the long paragraphs made me unable to get them. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who needs practical applications (you will lose your shirt...). The Excel part is an disappointment, too. One chapter was written like a Microsoft quick-reader. Then all subsequent chapters just present formulas without any explanation. Overall, a long and boring read. I would like to value this 800+ page book at price of $30 at most. Can I get a refund? Haha... Rumours on the street are saying DeWalt will have a new Estimating handbook this year with good Excel spreadsheet coverage. Would be interested in seeing that one.
never got it

I waited and waited and waited and never received it. I was very disapointed. Then I received a note that I wasn't going to get it. It would have been nice to know that sooner. I will never buy from Amazon.com again. Thanks
Not very useful

I am professor of Construction Management and former estimator and project manager. I received a desk copy of this book for my consideration and found it to be tedious and very much useless. Most students know how to use excel and really need to learn how to use a real construction estimating programs like Timberline or MC2. That being said the book is laid out much like the excel handbook from microsoft but without the same thoughtfulness and professionalism. I am sorry but I cannot recommend this book to anyone.

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Geology for Engineers and Environmental Scientists (3rd Edition)

By Alan E. Kehew

List Price: $130.60
Price: $94.46

Product Description
Provides readers with an introduction to geology with a focus on real-world applications. Case histories in nearly every chapter help emphasize the relationship between geology and engineering. Has a solid background in the basics of geology including mineralogy, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, structural geology and plate tectonics, weathering and erosion, rivers, coastlines, and glaciers. New material covers geologic resources, geologic hazards, and environmental challenges in the current century. A new overview covers the implications of population growth, the use and depletion of energy and water resources, the employment opportunities for geologists, potential effects of climate change. A useful reference for anyone in the fields of civil engineering or environmental/earth science.

Product Details
*Amazon Sales Rank: #415710 in Books
*Published on: 2006-01-21
*Original language: English
*Number of items: 1
*Binding: Hardcover
*720 pages

Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher

The author provides an introduction to geology for engineering students with a focus on applications of geology that they are likely to use in their professional careers.
From the Back Cover

Provides readers with an introduction to geology with a focus on real-world applications. Case histories in nearly every chapter help emphasize the relationship between geology and engineering. Has a solid background in the basics of geology including mineralogy, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, structural geology and plate tectonics, weathering and erosion, rivers, coastlines, and glaciers. Coverage of volcanic hazards: Mt. Pinatubo, Hawaiian volcanos, Lake Nyos gas explosion, Nevado del Ruiz mud flow.

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Water Resources Engineering

By Larry W. Mays

Price: $110.34

Product Description
Learn the principles and practice of water resources engineering from a leader in the field!Now updated with a new chapter on sedimentation (Chapter 18), this 2005 Edition of Larry Mays's Water Resources Engineering provides you with the state-of-the-art in the field. With remarkable range and depth of coverage, Professor Mays presents a straightforward, easy-to-understand presentation of hydraulic and hydrologic processes using the control volume approach. He then extends these processes into practical applications for water use and water excess, including water distribution systems, stormwater control, and flood control. With its strong emphasis on analysis and design, this text will be a resource you'll refer to throughout your career!

Features:
*New! A new chapter covers sedimentation.
*Practical applications will prepare you for engineering practice.
*Coverage spans an extraordinary range of topics.
*Many example problems with solutions will help you hone your problem-solving skills.
*Practice problems at the end of each chapter offer you the opportunity to apply what you've

learned.
*Includes a review of basic fluid concepts and the control volume approach to fluid mechanics.

Product Details
*Amazon Sales Rank: #222968 in Books
*Published on: 2004-11-01
*Original language: English
*Number of items: 1
*Binding: Hardcover
*860 pages

Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover Learn the principles and practice of water resources engineering from a leader in the field!
Now updated with a new chapter on sedimentation (Chapter 18), this 2005 Edition of Larry Mays’s WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING provides you with the state-of-the-art in the field. With remarkable range and depth of coverage, Professor Mays presents a straightforward, easy-to-understand presentation of hydraulic and hydrologic processes using the control volume approach. He then extends these processes into practical applications for water use and water excess, including water distribution systems, stormwater control, and flood control. With its strong emphasis on analysis and design, this text will be a resource you’ll refer to throughout your career!
Features
*New! A new chapter (Chapter 18) covers sedimentation.
*Practical applications will prepare you for engineering practice.
*Coverage spans an extraordinary range of topics.
*Many example problems with solutions will help you hone your problem-solving skills.
*Practice problems at the end of each chapter offer you the opportunity to apply what you’ve

learned.
*Includes a review of basic fluid concepts and the control volume approach to fluid mechanics.
Larry W. Mays is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University and former chair of the department. He was formerly Director of the Center for Research in Water Resources at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also held an Engineering Foundation Endowed Professorship. A registered professional engineer in seven states and a registered professional hydrologist, he has served as a consultant to many organizations. Professor Mays is author of Optimal Control for Hydrosystems (Marcel-Dekkar, Inc.), co-author of Applied Hydrology (McGraw-Hill) and Hydrosystems Engineering and Management (McGraw-Hill), and editor-in-chief of the Water Resources Handbook (McGraw-Hill), Hydraulic Design Handbook (McGraw-Hill), and the Water Distribution Systems Handbook (McGraw-Hill). He was also editor-in-chief of Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Systems (ASCE) and co-editor of Computer Modeling of Free Surface and Pressurized Flows (Kluwer Academic Publishers). Among his honors include a distinguished alumnus award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999.
About the Author

Larry W. Mays is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University and former chair of the department. He was formerly Director of the Center for Research in Water Resources at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also held an Engineering Foundation Endowed Professorship. A registered professional engineer in seven states and a registered professional hydrologist, he has served as a consultant to many organizations. He was the editor-in-chief of Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Systems (ASCE) and co-editor of Computer Modeling of Free Surface and Pressurized Flows. Among his honors include a distinguished alumnus award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999.

Customer Reviews
Great book for any civil engineering professional

One of the best water resources books. It covers all major and minor topics in water resources and is a great reference for the PE Exam.
Water Resources Engineering

This book is loaded with good information, but we found errors in key hydraulic formulas, which quickly led me not to trust anything out of the book. The sad part is, this was a required text for an engineering class. Maybe the new edition has remedied the problems, but I wouldn't recommend the edition I bought.
Water Resources at your finger tips!

Larry W. Mays has written an outstanding text that provide students with a complete picture of water resources engineering by integrating the fundamental concepts of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology, and contaminant transport processes. The material in the text is presented from first principles, is rigorous, is relevant to the practice of water resources engineering, and is reinforced by detailed presetations of design applications. A text worth having next to vintage books on this subject in W-R engineers' library.

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Construction Management

By Daniel W. Halpin

Price: $118.00

Product Description
Get the skills and knowledge you need to be a successful construction manager with the thoroughly updated new edition of Halpin's Construction Management. The book reflects the most recent developments in industry practice, introduces you to the complex business of developing and constructing a major facility or structure, and examines the skills needed to be a successful construction manager.
You'll learn how to manage resources (money, machines, material, and men), contracts, changing conditions, and unforeseen events as well as about new safety procedures and the most recent industry statistics and practices.
This edition features:
New information on value engineering, earned value, product delivery systems, and the difference between purchasing construction and purchasing manufactured speculative products.
New material on scope of work, defining the project, and how to break the project into work packages in the context of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
A companion Web site that allows you to simulate construction operations.
Chapters on estimating, cost control, and analysis of construction operations that provide relevant information for actual practice.
The physical systems approach to construction management.
Order your copy today.

Product Details
*Amazon Sales Rank: #124726 in Books
*Published on: 2005-11-04
*Original language: English
*Number of items: 1
*Binding: Hardcover
*416 pages

Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher

Examines the 4 M's of Construction Management--Money, Machines, Materials, and Manpower. Discusses the legal and management organization of a construction firm and the writing of contracts. Reviews the life cycle of a project, covering the needs of the project, the design sequence, the start-up and management of construction.
From the Back Cover Get the skills and knowledge you need to be a successful construction manager
Thoroughly updated to reflect the most recent developments in industry practice, the Third Edition of Halpin’s Construction Management introduces you to the complex business of developing and constructing a major facility or structure. The book presents a detailed look into the massive industry of construction and the skills needed to be a successful construction manager. You’ll learn how to carefully and professionally manage the resources––money, machines, material, and men––necessary to realize any construction project, within a construction environment of contracts, changing weather, varying conditions, and unforeseen events.
Features
*Includes new information on value engineering, earned value, product delivery systems, and the difference between purchasing construction and purchasing manufactured speculative products.
*New material in Chapter 6 covers the ideas of scope of work, defining the project, and how to break the project into work packages in the context of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
*The Project Scheduling chapter (Chapter 7) uses the concept of work packaging to develop the activities in the network schedules, and opens with a discussion of precedence notation.
*Web CYCLONE (available on the book’s companion site) allows you to simulate construction operations.
*Covers broad concepts of construction management (e.g. safety, labor relations, company organization, estimation, etc.).
*Chapters on estimating and cost control and analysis of construction operations provide relevant information for actual practice.
*Applies the physical systems approach to construction management.
*Presents the fascinating historical background of construction as a profession and discipline.
About the Author

Daniel Halpin is currently professor of Construction Engineering at Purdue University. He has written 3 books related to the area of Construction Management, and he is generally recognized as one of the leading authorities in the world on the use of simulation in studying construction processes. In 1987, he accepted the position of Head of the Division of Construction Engineering and Management at Purdue University. In 2003, he was elected a member of The National Academy of Construction.

Customer Reviews
Not pleased

This is the wordiest textbook I have ever read. This book could probably be shortened by 100 pages. When I am reading a textbook I would like to get to the point as simply and quickly as possible.
Good resource for me!

I'm employed as Project Manager for a company which fabricates and erects steel framed commercial buildings. When I first began this job, many administrative processes were less-than-ideal. Chapter 17 covers Safety quite well. We have made changes to our documents and breifings which replicate the guidelines within this book! I found Chapter 3 helpful. Change Orders are explained well enough for my needs. Chapter 7 is titled, Project Scheduling. I'd hoped to learn about features and use of common software scheduling programs but instead rec'd a chapter of fairly useless math calculations and symbols which are largley irrelevant in 2007. Hey, software is the way to go! In summary, I found this book to be well written and organized. I doubt it can be PERFECT for each and every Construction Manager but I'm glad this resource is on my shelf!
Short, Grad Level Survey Coursebook

OUCH! ... and OUCH! I've purchased many texts based on reviews, sales rankings and preveiws, but this is my first major burn. With no reviews, I based my purchase on the high sales ranking. But I don't know who would find this a value. It is a high level survey text. Short chapters with min development. I know enough about the subject such that some chapters are total review while others are nowhere near complete for a topic new to a person. Physically short, small text overall - the white matter is 9/16" thick! Even has the audacity to include the "filler" appendices with copies of contracts. Well written with good grammar, lots of graphs etc. so it is obviously a university favorite somewhere, hopefully with an excellent instructor offering lots of additional commentary. But not remotely worth the whopping price, and wish the author would teach me his secret to publishing negotiations. Short of that, send me a check. Next version, add 200 pages and cut the coverage then add some depth. Maybe if I were in a different industry or discipline (e.g. banking, civil) and this was to be used for an MS/PhD elective?

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Numerical Methods for Engineers

By Steven Chapra, Raymond Canale
Price: $132.70

Product Description
Instructors love Numerical Methods for Engineers because it makes teaching easy! Students love it because it is written for them--with clear explanations and examples throughout. The text features a broad array of applications that span all engineering disciplines. .
. The sixth edition retains the successful instructional techniques of earlier editions. Chapra and Canale's unique approach opens each part of the text with sections called Motivation, Mathematical Background, and Orientation. This prepares the student for upcoming problems in a motivating and engaging manner. Each part closes with an Epilogue containing Trade-Offs, Important Relationships and Formulas, and Advanced Methods and Additional References. Much more than a summary, the Epilogue deepens understanding of what has been learned and provides a peek into more advanced methods. Helpful separate Appendices. "Getting Started with MATLAB" abd "Getting Started with Mathcad" which make excellent references..
. Numerous new or revised problems drawn from actual engineering practice, many of which are based on exciting new areas such as bioengineering. The expanded breadth of engineering disciplines covered is especially evident in the problems, which now cover such areas as biotechnology and biomedical engineering. Excellent new examples and case studies span asll areas of engineering disciplines; the students using this text will be able to apply their new skills to their chosen field..
. Users will find use of software packages, specifically MATLAB�, Excel� with VBA and Mathcad�. This includes material on developing MATLAB� m-files and VBA macros. . . .

Product Details
*Amazon Sales Rank: #433463 in Books
*Published on: 2009-04-20
*Original language: English
*Number of items: 1
*Binding: Hardcover
*960 pages

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