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UNINA9910465405203321 |
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Bridge health monitoring, maintenance and safety [[electronic resource] ] : special topic volume with invited peer reviewed papers only / / edited by Yang Liu |
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Stafa-Zurich, Switzerland ; ; Enfield, N.H., : Trans Tech Publications, c2011 |
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1-62870-821-2 |
3-03813-484-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (129 p.) |
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Key engineering materials, , 1013-9826 ; ; v. 456 |
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Bridges - Maintenance and repair |
Bridges - Testing |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Modal test and analysis of a bridge under the varying temperature condition -- Bridge significant failure mode identification strategy under traffic-load -- Fatigue reliability analysis of the stay cables of cable-stayed bridge under combined loads of stochastic traffic and wind -- Updating the finite element model of a bridge model using a hybrid optimization method -- An improved Taguchi method and its application in finite element model updating of bridges -- Nonlinear seismic response analysis of half through CFST arch bridge under 3-D earthquake waves -- Simplified seismic response assessment method and parametric study of multi-girder skew bridges -- Seismic testing of a long-span concrete filled steel tubular arch bridge -- Study on finite element model of bridge multi-pile foundation -- Sensor optimal placement for bridge structure based on single parents genetic algorithm with different fitness functions. |
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This project encompasses various aspects of bridge health-monitoring, maintenance and safety. It specifically deals with: bridge health-monitoring; bridge repair and rehabilitation issues; bridge-related safety and other implications. The objective of the project is to introduce recent research results into the fields of bridge health |
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monitoring, bridge maintenance and safety. It should be required reading not only for civil and mechanical engineers, but also municipal functionaries. Review from Book News Inc.: Intended for engineering graduate students and infrastructure maintenance managers, |
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UNINA9910461660903321 |
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Animism in rainforest and tundra [[electronic resource] ] : personhood, animals, plants and things in contemporary Amazonia and Siberia / / edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti, and Olga Ulturgasheva |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012 |
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1-283-65556-X |
0-85745-469-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BrightmanMarc |
GrottiVanessa Elisa |
UlturgashevaOlga |
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Shamanism - Amazon River Region |
Shamanism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Human-plant relationships - Amazon River Region |
Human-plant relationships - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Human-animal relationships - Amazon River Region |
Human-animal relationships - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Too Many Owners: Mastery and Ownership in Amazonia; Chapter 2 - Revisiting the Animism versus Totemism Debate:; Chapter 3 - Animism and the Meanings of Life: Reflections from Amazonia; Chapter 4 - Stories about Evenki People and their Dogs; Chapter 5 - Making Animals into Food among the Kanamari of Western Amazonia; Chapter 6 - 'Spirit-charged' Animals in Siberia; Chapter 7 - Shamans, |
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Animals and Enemies; Chapter 8 - Expressions and Experiences of Personhood: |
Chapter 9 - Humanity, Personhood and Transformability in Northern AmazoniaChapter 10 - Masked Predation, Hierarchy and the Scaling of Extractive Relations in Inner Asia and Beyond; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index |
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Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged 'western' understandings of man's place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also 'things' such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume offers valuable insights into the constitutions of humanity and personhood characteristic of the two areas. The contributors conducted their ethnographic fieldwork among peoples undergoing transformative processes of th |
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