Highlights in Civil Engineering 2017

2017 was a year filled with groundbreaking research and technological advances. As we start 2018, we would like to take a look back and reflect on some of the most popular research from 2017, sourced from our Book and Journal portfolio to inspire us for 2018. 

Read on to find the most downloaded research of 2017

It’s said that Civil Engineering is the oldest of the engineering disciplines—dealing with the very beginnings of the built environment from simple dwellings to irrigation troughs to trails made by clearing paths. Nowadays, researchers and practitioners engaged in civil engineering tackle problems and advance understanding within the most cutting-edge realms, such as nanotechnology, energy harvesting, systems integration, and sustainability.

The past year of civil engineering publication at Springer saw state-of-the-art treatments of classic topics in structural engineering and construction technologies, as well as...

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...investigation and best practice in waste management, fire science/technology, water systems management, construction materials, and transportation. 

With as large a portfolio of research monographs, professional volumes, textbooks, and major reference works as Springer produced in 2017, it is not possible to list all of the outstanding titles that were published in this space. So we offer here a sample for readers to use as a springboard into the CE collection!

Handbook of Ocean Wave Energy
Pecher, Arthur, Kofoed, Jens Peter 
This Open Access book offers a concise, practice-oriented reference-guide to the field of ocean wave energy. The ten chapters highlight the key rules of thumb, address all the main technical engineering aspects and describe in detail all the key aspects to be considered in the techno-economic assessment of wave energy converters.

Concrete Structures
Setareh, Mehdi, Darvas, Robert
This revised, fully updated second edition covers the analysis, design, and construction of reinforced concrete structures from a real-world perspective.

Water Resource Systems Planning and Management
Loucks, Daniel P., van Beek, Eelco
This revised, updated Open Access textbook presents a systems approach to the planning, management, and operation of water resources infrastructure in the environment. It introduces the concept of viewing issues involving water resources as a system of multiple interacting components and scales. 

Modeling and Design of Flexible Pavements and Materials 
Little, Dallas, Allen, David H., Bhasin, Amit
This textbook lays out the state of the art for modeling of asphalt concrete as the major structural component of flexible pavement

Disrupting Mobility    
Meyer, Gereon, Shaheen, Susan (Eds.)
This book explores the opportunities and challenges of the sharing economy and innovative transportation technologies with regard to urban mobility.

The On-line Electric Vehicle    
Suh, Nam P., Cho, Dong-Ho (Eds.)
This book details the design and technology of the on-line electric vehicle (OLEV) system and its enabling wireless power-transfer technology, the “shaped magnetic field in resonance” (SMFIR). 

Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Structures
Conte, J.P., Astroza, R., Benzoni, G., Feltrin, G., Loh, K.J., Moaveni, B. (Eds.) 
This edited volume presents selected contributions from the International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis of Civil Engineering Structures. It presents the latest developments and achievements in all major aspects of dynamic testing for civil engineering structures.

Smart and Multifunctional Concrete Toward Sustainable Infrastructures
Han, Baoguo, Zhang, Liqing, Ou, Jinping
This book presents the latest research advances and findings in the field of smart/multifunctional concretes, focusing on the principles, design and fabrication, test and characterization, performance and mechanism, and their applications in infrastructures.

Standpipe Systems for Fire Protection
Isman, Kenneth E,
This important new manual goes beyond the published NFPA standards on installation of standpipe systems to include the rules in the International Building Code, municipal fire codes, the National Fire Code of Canada, and information on inspection, testing, and maintenance of standpipe systems.  

Advances in Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
Goel, Sudha (Ed.)
This book presents reviews, examples and case studies of innovative applications in solid and hazardous waste management. The economics of waste management have since become a significant research area in their own right, and two chapters address these issues.

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Springer Science+Business Media 
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• "Occupant Tenability in Single Family Homes: Part I—Impact of Structure Type, Fire Location and Interior Doors Prior to Fire Department Arrival" (Open Access) Nicholas Traina, Stephen Kerber, Dimitrios C. Kyritsis, Gavin P. Horn in Fire Technology
• "Horizontal respect distance for hydraulic fracturing in the vicinity of existing faults in deep geological reservoirs: a review and modelling study" (Open Access) 

  Rachel F. Westwood,Samuel M. Toon,Peter Styles,Nigel J. Cassidy in Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources

• "Increasing the Simulation Performance of Large-Scale Evacuations Using Parallel Computing Techniques Based on Domain Decomposition" (Open Access) A. Grandison, Y. Cavanagh, P. J. Lawrence, E. R. Galea in Fire Technology
• "Waste prevention for sustainable resource and waste management" (Open Access) Shin-ichi Sakai, Junya Yano, Yasuhiro Hirai, Misuzu Asari, Ritsuki Yanagawa, Takeshi Matsuda, Hideto Yoshida, Tetsuji Yamada, Natsuko Kajiwara, Go Suzuki, Tatsuya Kunisue, Shin Takahashi, Keijiro Tomoda, Joachim Wuttke, Paul Mählitz, Vera Susanne Rotter, Mario Grosso, Thomas Fruergaard Astrup, Julian Cleary, Gil-Jong Oh, Lili Liu, Jinhui Li, Hwong-wen Ma, Ngo Kim Chi, Stephen Moore in Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management
• "Optimization of Vertical Formwork Layout Plans Using Mixed Integer Linear Programming" (Open Access) Slawomir Biruk, Piotr Jaskowski
  in International Journal of Civil Engineering
  
• "Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Pressure Effects in Apartment Fires" (Open Access) R. Kallada JanardhanS. Hostikka in Fire Technology
• "Laminated connections for structural glass components: a full-scale experimental study" Manuel Santarsiero, Christian Louter, Alain Nussbaumer in Glass Structures & Engineering
• "Stability Analysis of Road Embankment Slope Subjected to Rainfall Considering Runoff-Unsaturated Seepage and Unsaturated Fluid–Solid Coupling" (Open Access) Junxin Liu, Chunhe Yang,Jianjun Gan, Yutian Liu, Liu Wei, Qiang Xie in International Journal of Civil Engineering
• "An importance of the geological investigations in Kavaklıdere geothermal field (Turkey)" A. Ozdemir, E. Yasar, G. Cevik in Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources
• "Coupled glass and structure response of conventional curtain walls subjected to blast loads: validation tests and analysis" Kirk Marchand, Carrie Davis, Eric Sammarco, Joeny Bui, Jim Casper in Glass Structures & Engineering 

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