Description
Book SynopsisExperiment Design for Civil Engineering provides guidance to students and practicing civil engineers on how to design a civil engineering experiment that will produce useful and unassailable results. It includes a long list of complete experiment designs that students can perform in the laboratory at most universities and that many consulting engineers can do in corporate laboratories. These experiments also provide a way to evaluate a new design against an existing experiment to determine what information is most appropriate in each section and how to format the data for the most effective outcome. Interpretation of output data is discussed, along with uncertainty, as well as optimal presentation of the data to others.
The content of the first 8 chapters is similar in format to authors'' recent title, Experiment Design for Environmental Engineering: Methods and Examples (CRC Press, 2022) and has been revised for civil engineers. This textbook:
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. 2. How to Design an Engineering Experiment. 3. Sampling Source Media. 4. Expected Outcomes and Interpretation of Data. 5. Model Design Methodology. 6. Laboratory Report. 7. Effective Presentation of the Data to Others. 8. Designing Research Experiment Projects. 9. Material and Structural Analysis Experiments. 10. Concrete Testing Experiments. 11. Soil Testing Experiments. 12. Environmental Assessment Experiments. 13. Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics Experiments.
