Civil engineering systems analysis / by Luis Amador-Jimenez

By:

Amador-Jimenez, Luis [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Description: xxii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781482260793 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Civil engineering

LOC classification:

TA147 Am1 2017

Online resources:

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Contents:

Introduction to Modelling -- Mathematical Analysis -- Optimization and Decision Making -- Probability and Statistics -- Estimation and Prediction -- Land Use and Transport Models -- Transport and Municipal Engineering -- Civil Infrastructure Management -- Uncertainty.

Summary: This textbook covers tools and applications in civil engineering systems. It begins by revising the mathematical and statistical background for the adequate formulation of civil engineering problems. Then it examines a series of topics required to understand infrastructure, facilities and transportation networks, and their planning, maintenance, upgrading and expansion. It covers problem definition, model formulation and decision making systems, including optimization, estimation and prediction. The applications deal with some of the challenges that civil engineers will typically encounter during their professional lives, ranging from municipal planning and infrastructure management to transportation analysis. The treatment of the topics is integral. Tools and examples from real life situations are combined to illustrate the use of methods and principles. Students will learn to understand a system, conceptualize a model, analyse it and make decisions or draw conclusions, just as practising engineers do. A final chapter introduces methods for expanding simple models, adding complexity and incorporating uncertainty. Instructors can chose to cover some of the material from the foundation chapters on mathematics and statistics or directly concentrate on the tools and applications.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Reserve Section	Non-fiction	RUS TA147 Am1 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Room use only	76448		00076338

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This textbook covers tools and applications in civil engineering systems. It begins by revising the mathematical and statistical background for the adequate formulation of civil engineering problems. Then it examines a series of topics required to understand infrastructure, facilities and transportation networks, and their planning, maintenance, upgrading and expansion. It covers problem definition, model formulation and decision making systems, including optimization, estimation and prediction.

The applications deal with some of the challenges that civil engineers will typically encounter during their professional lives, ranging from municipal planning and infrastructure management to transportation analysis.

The treatment of the topics is integral. Tools and examples from real life situations are combined to illustrate the use of methods and principles. Students will learn to understand a system, conceptualize a model, analyse it and make decisions or draw conclusions, just as practising engineers do. A final chapter introduces methods for expanding simple models, adding complexity and incorporating uncertainty.

Instructors can chose to cover some of the material from the foundation chapters on mathematics and statistics or directly concentrate on the tools and applications.

Fund 164 F&J de Jesus, Inc. Purchased April 23, 2018 76448 NEJ PHP 2018-02-0161 2018-1-0101