Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca

Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry diseases, while many non-marine molluscs are threatened by human impacts which have resulted in more extinctions than all tetrapod vertebrates combined. This book and its companion volume provide the first comprehensive a…

Motions of Ice Hydrometeors in the Atmosphere

This book summarizes unique research findings on the hydrodynamic behavior of ice particles (ice crystals, snow, graupel and hailstones) in the atmosphere. The fall behavior of ice hydrometeors determines how and how fast a mixed-phase cloud can grow or dissipate. The book discusses how the authors used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods and numerical simulations to determine these beha…

Aquatic Health and Aquaculture

This book discusses how to use the wastewaters, liquid biowastes and soils unfit for agriculture to economically viable aquaculture practices; and putting the emphasis on, aquaculture posology, the science of quantification and administration of doses in aquatic health and aquaculture management. Broadly, aquaculture practices come across three types of problems each; in the context of water qu…

Social Infrastructure Maintenance Notebook

This book explains in an easy-to-understand manner the “check” points to keep in mind when inspecting various social infrastructure structures. It is put together in a way that not only engineers who are on the front line of maintenance and management but also engineers who are not normally involved in maintenance and management of social infrastructures as well as general public can unders…

Adaptive Analysis of Damage and Fracture in Rock with Multiphysical Fields Co…

This book mainly focuses on the adaptive analysis of damage and fracture in rock, taking into account multiphysical fields coupling (thermal, hydro, mechanical, and chemical fields). This type of coupling is a crucial aspect in practical engineering for e.g. coal mining, oil and gas exploration, and civil engineering. However, understanding the influencing mechanisms and preventing the disaster…

Mechanics of Oil and Gas Flow in Porous Media

This book discusses various aspects of percolation mechanics. It starts with the driving forces and driving modes and then examines in detail the steady state percolation of single-phase incompressible fluids, percolation law of natural gas and percolation of non-Newtonian fluids. Progressing from simple to complex concepts, it also analyzes Darcy’s law, providing a basis for the study of res…

Earthquake Geology and Tectonophysics around Eastern Tibet and Taiwan

This book collects a series of review articles summarizing the outcomes of collaborative research projects on the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake and the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, two of the largest and most disastrous earthquakes in Asia in the last two decades. The articles cover a broad range of aspects,including these earthquakes’ fundamental mechanisms, kinematics, and the geological and geophys…

Subsurface Environmental Modelling Between Science and Policy

This book provides a broad overview of essential features of subsurface environmental modelling at the science-policy interface, offering insights into the potential challenges in the field of subsurface flow and transport, as well as the corresponding computational modelling and its impact on the area of policy- and decision-making. The book is divided into two parts: Part I presents models, m…

Climate Change Vulnerability and Communities in Agro-climatic Regions of West…

This book addresses the quantitative measurement of climate change vulnerability at the macro and micro-level and identifies household adaptation strategies to cope with the adverse effects of climate change. Focusing on five different agro-climatic regions of West Bengal: the hill region, foothill region, drought region, and coastal regions of Sunderban and Purba Midnapore, it presents researc…

Principles of Organic Farming

Principles of Organic Farming is a practical oriented text about organic crop management that provides background information as well as details of ecology-improving practices. This book is meant to give the reader a holistic appreciation of the principles and importance of organic farming and to suggest ecologically sound practices that help to develop and maintain sustainable agriculture. Thi…

Pesticide Contamination in Freshwater and Soil Environs : Impacts, Threats, a…

Taking into consideration that the agricultural industry is greatly dependent on pesticide chemicals to deal with the damage caused due to pests, this new volume details the challenges along with the bioremediation and remediation measures, such as the use of beneficial microorganisms, polymeric nanocomposites for nanoremediation, phytoremediation, and more. It looks at pesticide contaminat…

Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management in Plants Volume II : Biotic Stress

This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of biotic stress responses in plants, focusing on “problems and their management” by selecting some of the widely investigated themes. Such as: major insect-pest of cereal crops in India and their management, biotic stresses of major pulse crops and their management strategies, insect pests of oilseed crops and their management, biot…

Abiotic & Biotic Stress Management in Plants : Volume I

This book deals with an array of topics in the broad area of abiotic stress responses in plants focusing “problems and their management” by selecting some of the widely investigated themes. Such as, Cell signalling in Plants during abiotic and biotic stress, Salinity stress induced metabolic changes and its management, High temperature stress: responses, mechanism and management, Low temper…

Agro-Climatology : Advances and Challenges

The chapters in this book cover crop -weather interaction and agro-met observatory, agro-climatic analysis, crop micro-meteorology, remote sensing, crop simulation models, weather codes and their management, integrated weather forecast and agro advisories, climate change, livestock climatology/meteorology and astrometeorology. To understand the text of the book, under terminology, simple detail…

Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss

This open access book originates from an international workshop organized by Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in November 2019 that gathered renown researchers from academia, representatives of leading international reinsurance and modeling companies as well as government agencies responsible of insurance pricing in Turkey. The book includes chapters related to post-earthquake …

Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss

This open access book originates from an international workshop organized by Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in November 2019 that gathered renown researchers from academia, representatives of leading international reinsurance and modeling companies as well as government agencies responsible of insurance pricing in Turkey. The book includes chapters related to post-earthquake …

Seismic Analysis of Structures and Equipment

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-57858-9

Collation

xv, 272p.:Ill.

Series Title

-

Call Number

693.852 Mal s

Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-15-9532-5

Collation

xxvi, 934p.:ill

Series Title

-

Call Number

624.1762 Xin e

Local Site Effects and Ground Failures

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-15-9984-2

Collation

xiv, 379p.:Ill

Series Title

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

Call Number

624.176 2 Loc

Seismic Performance Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dams

This book evaluates the seismic performance of concrete gravity dams, considering the effects of strong motion duration, mainshock-aftershock seismic sequence, and near-fault ground motion. It employs both the extended finite element method (XFEM) and concrete damaged plasticity (CDP) models to characterize the mechanical behavior of concrete gravity dams under strong ground motions, including …

Concrete Structures in Earthquake

This book gathers 23 papers by top experts from 11 countries, presented at the 3rd Houston International Forum: Concrete Structures in Earthquake. Designing infrastructures to resist earthquakes has always been the focus and mission of scientists and engineers located in tectonically active regions, especially around the “Pacific Rim of Fire” including China, Japan, and the USA. The pace of…

Earthen Dwellings and Structures

This book presents selected papers presented during the International Symposium on Earthen Structures held in IISc Bangalore. The papers in this volume cover the theme of earthen structures, with technical content on materials and methods, structural design and seismic performance, durability, seismic response, climatic response, hygrothermal performance and durability, design and codes, archit…

Textbook of Seismic Design

This book focuses on the seismic design of Structures, Piping Systems and Components (SSC). It explains the basic mechanisms of earthquakes, generation of design basis ground motion, and fundamentals of structural dynamics; further, it delves into geotechnical aspects related to the earthquake design, analysis of multi degree-of-freedom systems, and seismic design of RC structures and steel str…

Seismic Structural Health Monitoring

This book includes a collection of state-of-the-art contributions addressing both theoretical developments in, and successful applications of, seismic structural health monitoring (S2HM). Over the past few decades, Seismic SHM has expanded considerably, due to the growing demand among various stakeholders (owners, managers and engineering professionals) and researchers. The discipline has matur…

Earthworm Ecology, SECOND EDITION

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

0-8493-18-19-X

Collation

425 p. ; 25 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

592.64 Ear e

Integrated Seismic Design of Structure and Control Systems

The structural optimization procedure presented in this book makes it possible to achieve seismic protection through integrated structural/control system design. In particular, it is explained how slender structural systems with a high seismic performance can be achieved through inclusion of viscous and viscoelastic dampers as an integral part of the system. Readers are provided with essential …

Earth Materials

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

vii, 143 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

551.1 Ern e

Celebes International Conferences on Earth Science, Abstract Book

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

550.06 Cel c

Focus On Earth Science

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-675-02465-X

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

550 Bis f

Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 22 : The Interdisciplinary Role of Space Geodesy

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

3-540-51161-X

Collation

xv, 300 p.

Series Title

-

Call Number

550 Lec l