(Part 2) Top products from r/civilengineering

I learned Mathcad in grad school and wish I had learned about it earlier. I love it. I bought Essential Mathcad new and it comes with a disc and license. The book is straight forward and the program is easy enough. Do the examples in the book and learn the hotkeys for symbols and operators.

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If I ever have to submit calculations I do so using Mathcad. The program does a good job swapping between text and calculations. So including paragraphs of text into a calc sheet is streamlined. If I'm doing calcs for internal use, I stick to our home brew excel calcs. Another thing that helps is to create a template with the right font type and size, set margins, headers/footers, logos etc. That way you can start a project off similarly each time.

I'm pretty sure these three books were what I used in my water engineering classes. They should help you out. Amazon has some pretty good textbooks, too, and there are plenty of places online to find a pdf version of textbooks, though I always got those from classmates so I can't help you find them.

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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131409700/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Water-Wastewater-Engineering-Mackenzie-Davis/dp/0071713840

https://www.amazon.com/Hydraulic-Engineering-2e-John-Roberson/dp/0471124664?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_1#reader_0471124664

Water Resources Engineering - Larry W. Mays or Applied Hydrology - Te Chow for engineering hydrology. They are somewhat outdated in not including some new methods (like ML methods) but both solid for the fundamentals. There is also a PDF copy of the latter floating around if you do a google search.

Chow's Open-Channel Hydraulics book is also great (for channel and hydraulic structures design, non-pressurized), but mind numbing to go through. Also, Fluid Mechanics - Frank White for general fluid mechanics overview.

Finally, although I've not personally read/used it, HEC-22 is a design manual for urban drainage systems and Advanced Water Distribution Modeling and Management for modeling/design of water distribution systems.

This book saved my water engineering module at University. Hope this helps!

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I'd suggest using Bowles' Foundation Analysis and Design [https://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Analysis-Design-Joseph-Bowles/dp/0071188444]

or Codutos' "Foundation design: principles and practices"
[https://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Design-Principles-Practices-3rd/dp/0133411893]


Hmm I can only testify for the first one as I own it and it's quite large and if you feel like reading +1000 pages to get a good grasp of foundation engineering, I'd go for that one.

Coduto's I haven't read, but I did read fully his geotech engineering: principles and practice. It's very light read, with examples and he talks about the main points. No formula derivations or any fancy mathematical work [which I don't mind in the sense that it's more about practical example that you can easily apply to your work, than doing theoretical models that in real life are too impractical and time consuming to be used.]

This is not a civil engineering book, but one of my favorite 'engineering' stories is "Skunkworks" about Lockheed's secret development division.
https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473165192&sr=1-1&keywords=skunkworks


Other than that I recommend:
"Traffic, Why we Drive the way we do"
https://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/0307277194
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"Rust: The Longest War"
https://www.amazon.com/Rust-Longest-War-Jonathan-Waldman/dp/1451691602/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473165145&sr=1-1&keywords=rust

https://www.amazon.com/Land-Development-Handbook-Dewberry-Davis/dp/0071494375/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484057676&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=dewberry+land+develpoment

Pretty solid book. Not free but there may be additions floating around online.

http://www.amazon.com/Estimating-Construction-Costs-Robert-Peurifoy/dp/0072435801/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1463016490&sr=8-10&keywords=peurifoy

R.C. Hibbeler

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Foundation-Engineering-Braja-Das/dp/0495668109

http://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Design-Principles-Practices-Edition/dp/0135897068/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415146021&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=foundation+design+cudotu

My answers are for US design:

For general principles and buildings design: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Wood-Structures-ASD-Donald-Breyer/dp/0071745602/ref=sr_1_1

For bridges: https://www.amazon.com/Timber-Bridges-Construction-Inspection-Maintenance/dp/1410221911/ref=sr_1_1? and https://www.amazon.com/Timber-Bridges-Construction-Inspection-Maintenance/dp/141022192X/ref=sr_1_3

Maybe this link will provide you some guidance, https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/cadiv/segb/views/document/sections/section8/8_4_12.cfm

The only document I can think of at the moment with an O&M section is HEC 24 (see chapter 12) https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/hydraulics/pubs/hec/hec24.pdf

In my experience infrastructure with a combination of systems or unique to the infrastructure system will have an O&M manual provided to the owner by the designer, movable bridges, pump stations, tunnels, etc.

Also if I recall correctly, this book identifies typical defects and maintenance/rehab solutions for bridges https://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Inspection-Rehabilitation-Practical-Guide/dp/0471532622 might be a bit dated at this point however.

Have a look at/into:

• Structural Engineer's Pocket Book: Eurocodes
  
• Roark's formulas for stress and strain