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Construction vibrations / Charles H. Dowding.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1996.ISBN:
  • 013299108X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 624.1/76 20
LOC classification:
  • TA654 .D69 1996
Contents:
1. Introduction: Focus, Organization, and Themes -- 2. Ground Strains from Plane-Wave Approximations -- 3. Typical Vibration Histories and Elementary Analysis -- 4. Prediction of Peak Particle Velocity -- 5. Response Spectra and Structural Response -- 6. Structural Natural Frequencies and Damping: Estimation and Measurement -- 7. Resonance, Higher Mode, and Traveling-Wave Response -- 8. Cosmetic Cracking and Its Documentation -- 9. Response Spectra of Motions Causing Cracking -- 10. Frequency-Based Control of Construction Vibrations -- 11. Prediction of Principal Frequency and Response Spectra for Construction Blasting -- 12. Probability of Cracking and Fatigue from Repetitive Loading -- 13. Comparison of Environmental and Vibration-Induced Crack Movement -- 14. Air-Blasts and Construction Noise -- 15. Pile Driving -- 16. Impacting, Vibrating, Rotating, and Rolling Construction Equipment -- 17. Explosive Demolition -- 18. Vibration Stability of Rock Slopes -- 19. Blast Densification of Sands -- 20. Permanent Displacement and Pile-Driving Vibrations -- 21. Fracture and Permanent Deformation of Rock and Concrete -- 22. Response of Pipelines and Buried Structures -- 23. Human Response -- 24. Microvibrations, Equipment, Sensitivity, and Occupant-Induced Vibrations -- 25. Instrumentation and Microcomputers -- 26. Specifications for the Control of Construction Vibrations -- 27. The Explosion Process and Explosive Products -- 28. Millisecond-Delay Initiation Systems -- 29. Blast Design -- 30. Timing, Geometry, and Loading Effects on Particle Velocity -- 31. Analytical Software -- App. A: Answers and Explanations of Selected Problems -- App. B: Supplemental Specifications for Controlled Blasting, Close-In Blasting, Densification of Sand, and Demolition -- App. C: References -- App. D: List of Symbols.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Focus, Organization, and Themes -- 2. Ground Strains from Plane-Wave Approximations -- 3. Typical Vibration Histories and Elementary Analysis -- 4. Prediction of Peak Particle Velocity -- 5. Response Spectra and Structural Response -- 6. Structural Natural Frequencies and Damping: Estimation and Measurement -- 7. Resonance, Higher Mode, and Traveling-Wave Response -- 8. Cosmetic Cracking and Its Documentation -- 9. Response Spectra of Motions Causing Cracking -- 10. Frequency-Based Control of Construction Vibrations -- 11. Prediction of Principal Frequency and Response Spectra for Construction Blasting -- 12. Probability of Cracking and Fatigue from Repetitive Loading -- 13. Comparison of Environmental and Vibration-Induced Crack Movement -- 14. Air-Blasts and Construction Noise -- 15. Pile Driving -- 16. Impacting, Vibrating, Rotating, and Rolling Construction Equipment -- 17. Explosive Demolition -- 18. Vibration Stability of Rock Slopes -- 19. Blast Densification of Sands -- 20. Permanent Displacement and Pile-Driving Vibrations -- 21. Fracture and Permanent Deformation of Rock and Concrete -- 22. Response of Pipelines and Buried Structures -- 23. Human Response -- 24. Microvibrations, Equipment, Sensitivity, and Occupant-Induced Vibrations -- 25. Instrumentation and Microcomputers -- 26. Specifications for the Control of Construction Vibrations -- 27. The Explosion Process and Explosive Products -- 28. Millisecond-Delay Initiation Systems -- 29. Blast Design -- 30. Timing, Geometry, and Loading Effects on Particle Velocity -- 31. Analytical Software -- App. A: Answers and Explanations of Selected Problems -- App. B: Supplemental Specifications for Controlled Blasting, Close-In Blasting, Densification of Sand, and Demolition -- App. C: References -- App. D: List of Symbols.