Civil Engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.

Civil engineering is traditionally broken into a number of sub-disciplines. It is considered the second-oldest engineering discipline after military engineering, and it is defined to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering. Civil engineering can take place in the
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Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
Structural Analysis
Civil Engineering Formulas (Pocket Guide)
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
Strength of Materials
The Civil Engineering Handbook (New Directions in Civil Engineering)
The A To Z of Practical Building Construction and its Management
The Works: Anatomy of a City
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Engineering Hydrology
Fundamentals of Structural Analysis
Building Construction Illustrated
Mechanics of Materials
Principles of Foundation Engineering
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (Princeton Science Library)