Jewish New York movie critic Oliver returns to his depressed Ohio hometown for a high school reunion and quickly finds himself in trouble with an old enemy, the man's unstable wife, and a provocative woman.

This updated third edition of the textbook on design of bridge structures continues to provide comprehensive coverage of both theory and design practice within a single capsule. It is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students of civil engineering. It is also considered useful for practicing civil engineers and designers who need a ready reckoner on important design aspects on bridges. This third edition comes with three recent topics in bridge engineering. Chapters on limit state method design of concrete bridges, flyovers, and smart structural health monitoring of bridges, have been appended. The most distinguishing features of this edition comprise: • Design of concrete bridges based on both working stress and limit state methods • Detailed design drawings of bridges • Detailed overview of flyovers • Exposition to smart structural health monitoring of bridges • Computer programs in C on bridge design TARGET AUDIENCE • BE/BTech Civil Engineering • ME/MTech Civil Engineering

A laboratory study in which 160 subjects judged the annoyance of 30 minute sessions of aircraft noise is described. Each session contained nine flyovers consisting of various combinations of three takeoff recordings of Boeing 727. The subjects were asked to judge their annoyance in the simulated living room environment of the laboratory and also to assess how annoyed they would be if they heard the noise in their home during the day, evening, and night periods. The standard deviation of the sound level did not improve the predictive ability of L sub eq (equivalent continuous sound level) which performed as well or better than other noise measured. Differences were found between the projected home responses for the day, evening, and nighttime periods. Time of day penalties derived from these results showed reasonable agreement with those currently used in community noise indices.