Engineering and Works

Author: Editorial Committee of the General Editorial Board of the China Railway Encyclopedia and the Editorial Committee of "Engineering and Works"
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Publishing Date: 2004-09-01
Features: The "China Railway Encyclopedia" is a modern, industry-specific encyclopedia of China's railway sector, divided into 5 volumes, with "Engineering and Works" being one of them. This volume includes two main parts: Railway Engineering and Railway Works (i.e., Railway Maintenance, Repair, and Management), covering 10 branch disciplines such as route design, railway construction project organization, tracks, subgrades, bridges, tunnels and underground engineering, railway buildings, surveying, railway engineering geology, and railway works. The content of each branch discipline is written in the form of entries, following the system and hierarchy of the discipline, with a total of 1,008 entries. The book explains the basic theories, practical experiences, historical development, and development trends of each branch discipline in a popular, systematic, scientific, and comprehensive manner. For easy reference, the book includes an entry classification directory, a Chinese character stroke index, an entry foreign language index, and a content index. The content index is arranged in pinyin order with English annotations. This book is suitable for railway management personnel, engineering technicians, university and college teachers and students, as well as railway workers. It can also be used by readers with a high school education or higher for knowledge acquisition and problem-solving.