Civil Engineering: Building Structures Review
Filled with solved examples and problems, and key concepts and equations, this comprehensive review guide is for civil engineers who want to prepare for the building structures topics of the PE exam.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Engineering: Building Structures Review
Introduction
This book is a subset of two comprehensive review books from Kaplan AEC for the PE exam in civil engineering. Those books are Civil Engineering: License Review and Civil Engineering: Problems & Solutions, and together they cover the full range of civil engineering topics on the exam: structural, environmental, water resource, geotechnical, and transportation engineering. If you want a review of all the topics on the exam, we recommend that you purchase those two books.
Alternatively, if you already feel confident in most of the other topics on the exam, or want a focused reference for your library, this book allows you to concentrate on a narrower set of those topics. It includes a review of key concepts and equations, as well as practice problems with complete solutions.
The full set of topic-specific volumes is:
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Civil Engineering: Building Structures Review
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Civil Engineering: Bridge Structures Review
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Civil Engineering: Foundations & Retaining Structures Review
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Civil Engineering: Seismic Design Review
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Civil Engineering: Hydraulics & Hydrology Review
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Civil Engineering: Water & Wastewater Treatment Review
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Civil Engineering: Geotechnical Engineering Review
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Civil Engineering: Transportation Engineering Review
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Civil Engineering: Economics Review
EXAMINATION STRUCTURE
The exam is organized into breadth and depth sections.
The morning breadth exam consists of 40 multiple-choice questions covering the following five areas of civil engineering: environmental, geotechnical, structural, transportation, and water resources. Each topic are is worth 20 percent of the exam questions. You will have four hours to complete the breadth exam.
The afternoon depth portion is actually five exams,...
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