Books published by WIT Press

The papers in this volume cover topics such as: landfill design, construction and monitoring; waste pre-treatment; hazardous waste, disposal and incineration; clean technologies; biological treatment of waste and more.

Exploring the latest experiences, achievements and state-of-the-art practices and methodologies in sustainability and the urban environment, this book contains 70 papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Sustainable City.

A range of topics relating to advanced types of structures, particularly those based on new concepts or new types of materials. Originally presented at the Second International Conference on High Performance Structures and Materials, the papers contain detailed developments in design, optimization, manufacturing and experimentation.

Highlighting the monitoring, analysis and modelling of environmental problems in coastal regions, including sea, air and other phenomena, this book features papers from the fifth international conference on the subject.

Reflecting the broad range of research work currently being carried out in academia and industry, this book contains the proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Structures Under Shock and Impact.

This title contains edited versions of papers presented at the Eighth International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods in Heat Transfer. This conference series provides a forum for presentation and discussion of advanced topics, new approaches and application of advanced computational methods to heat transfer problems.

This theoretical and practical discussion of deployable structures formulates and solves the complex engineering design problems with which they are associated. It provides a general overview and then moves on to focus on strut deployable structures of the self-locking type.

This text presents ideas and experiences from work carried out in the field of offshore engineering worldwide. It contains the proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Offshore Engineering, held in September 1997.