Fire protection and safety

This book summarizes the latest advances in understanding chloride ingress and steel corrosion in concrete under service loads.

This book, for the first time, introduces comprehensively all main topics of lifeline earthquake engineering, including the structure analysis, network evaluation, and network design.

This book features selected papers from the 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology (AOSFST 2018), held in Taipei, Taiwan.

This book provides basics and selected advanced insights on how to generate reliability, safety and resilience within (socio) technical system developments.

This book gathers 23 papers by top experts from 11 countries, presented at the 3rd Houston International Forum: Concrete Structures in Earthquake.

This book comprises selected proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018), focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of ocean engineering and offshore structures.

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018).

This book gathers the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium, PRADS 2019, held in Yokohama, Japan, in September 2019.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences 2020.

This book comprises selected papers on advances in the field of health and environment safety that were presented at the International Conference on Advances in the field of Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, Allied sciences and engineering (HSFEA 2020).

This textbook provides students and academics with a conceptual understanding of fire behavior and fire effects on people and ecosystems to support effective integrated fire management.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 3rd Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE 2020).

For years, researchers have studied the risks of individual natural hazards in urban areas.

For years, researchers have studied the risks of individual natural hazards in urban areas.

This book presents the research results of advanced vibration control technology, based on two types of typical equipment in industrial engineering of China: power equipment and vibration-sensitive equipment.

This book presents the research results of advanced vibration control technology, based on two types of typical equipment in industrial engineering of China: power equipment and vibration-sensitive equipment.

This book discusses the different energy sources bringing about fires, explosions, and detonations in combustibles under different levels of confinement.

This volume gathers the proceedings of the 17th World Conference on Seismic Isolation (17WCSI), held in Turin, Italy on September 11-15, 2022.

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This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of seismic engineering, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Workshop on Energy-Based Seismic Engineering (IWEBSE), held in Porto, Portugal, on July 3-6, 2023.

This book investigates the substructuring technology in structural health monitoring (SHM) to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the present SHM methods.

This book investigates the substructuring technology in structural health monitoring (SHM) to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the present SHM methods.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of seismic engineering, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Workshop on Energy-Based Seismic Engineering (IWEBSE), held in Porto, Portugal, on July 3-6, 2023.

This book provides an understanding of people's accessibility needs, and the barriers that may affect people with different identities and circumstances (e.

This book provides an understanding of people's accessibility needs, and the barriers that may affect people with different identities and circumstances (e.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2022).

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2022).

The volume explains how risk and decision-making analytics can be applied to the wicked problem of protecting infrastructure and society from extreme events.

This book focuses on some technical problems encountered in shield tunneling in hard-soft uneven stratum and extremely soft stratum, based on the recent shield tunneling engineering practice, and summarizes the achievements of shield tunneling in view of the technical problems from an overall and objective perspective.

This book comprises select proceedings of the National Conference on Advances in Structural Technology (CoAST 2019).

When health and safety regulatory frameworks took their present form in the 1970s, they were seen as a triumph of welfare state intervention.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Durability of Critical Infrastructure.

This book addresses the performance of a multi-storey timber building subjected to a model fire that represents a real, potentially devastating internal fire.

Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook: Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety helps guide ASC administrative and security staff meet the requirements and standards of both federal and state authorities, including the Life Safety Code, a critical designation for facilities participating in Medicare (CMS) funding reimbursement.

This book presents the preservation principles and the current environmental challenges relating to monitoring heritage sites and buildings under the effects of climate change.

This book provides basics and selected advanced insights on how to generate reliability, safety and resilience within (socio) technical system developments.

This book features selected papers from the 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology (AOSFST 2018), held in Taipei, Taiwan.

This, conference proceeding, book contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, on June 24-25, 2021.

This, conference proceeding, book contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, on June 24-25, 2021.

This book covers the economics of construction safety, such as the asymmetric information of different construction practitioners in Hong Kong, studies feminism in Australia's traditionally male-dominated construction industry, and researches an efficient Small-Scale Contractors' construction health and safety performance management in Zambia.

This book contains diverse topics relevant to earthquake engineering and technology.

This book highlights human behaviour and architectural considerations for prescriptive code requirements for emergency exits in heritage cultural centers.

The world has spent the majority of 2020 enduring an unpreceded crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book covers artificial intelligence and ubiquitous cities.

This book details the state-of-the-art methodological advances for delineating the toxicology and working mechanisms of nanomaterials, microplastics, fine aerosol particulates (PM2.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 3rd Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE 2020).

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences 2020.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).

This book provides the latest developments on safety practices utilized in composite manufacturing facilities for students, workers, engineers, and other participants.