Building construction and materials

This book presents the detailed results of five task groups of the RILEM technical committee TC 237-SIB on Testing and Characterization of Sustainable Innovative Bituminous Materials and Systems.

This book presents an original methodology for analyzing urban retail systems, addressing the strong retail meltdown (increase in closed corner-shops and dead malls) that is severely affecting cities and suburban areas in Europe and the USA.

The first volume of the Adaptive Environments series focuses on Robotic Building, which refers to both physically built robotic environments and robotically supported building processes.

This volume represents the current knowledge on the effect of SCMs (slag, fly ash, silica fume, limestone powder, metakaolin, natural pozzolans, rice husk ash, special SCMs, ternary blends) on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete (e.

This Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work covering the interdisciplinary facets of security.

This book surveys the recent development of maintenance theory, advanced maintenance techniques with shock and damage models, and their applications in computer systems dealing with efficiency problems.

This work is an overview of the state of art on Ageing of Materials and structures in the world.

This book describes step-by-step the entire building process of a passive, energy-efficient house in a Mediterranean climate.

This book presents an approach to energy-efficient building design, which takes into account the most important challenges in climate change mitigation and adaptation in Southern Europe.

This book provides insights into sensor development for structural health monitoring.

In the face of increasing failures, comments attributed to Albert Einstein loom large: "e;We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

This book presents a systemic view of nanophenomena in terms of disordered condensed media with characteristics arising at various hierarchical levels from nanoagents/nanoparticles through multiple technological interfaces to the creation of micro- or mesostructures with essential nanodimensional effects.

This book focuses on technical safety, means of expanding the current procedures, and making the related risks more predictable.

This book addresses surveillance in action-related applications, and presents novel research on military, civil and cyber surveillance from an international team of experts.

Readers of this book will be shown how, with the adoption of ubiquituous sensing, extensive data-gathering and forecasting, and building-embedded advanced actuation, intelligent building systems with the ability to respond to occupant preferences in a safe and energy-efficient manner are becoming a reality.

This book analyses the relationships among product safety strategy and culture, concurrent engineering, new product development (NPD) processes and product safety performance.

This book presents strategic perspectives on quality and flexibility, as well as quantitative tools for assessing their implementation in a range of systems.

Designing a habitat for the lunar surface?

This book addresses earthquakes, with a special focus on the Ghorka earthquake, which struck parts of central Nepal in April 2015.

This one of a kind reference gathers numerous new studies examining the design of buildings in seaside locations.

This thesis describes novel devices for the secure identification of objects or electronic systems.

This book provides the tools to understand the issues related to bio-based concretes using lime as binder.

This book describes the essential components of the SCION secure Internet architecture, the first architecture designed foremost for strong security and high availability.

This is the Proceedings of the International Workshop Heritagebot 2017 that was held in Cassino, Italy in September 2017.

These proceedings exchange ideas and knowledge among engineers, designers and managers on how to support real-world value chains by developing additive manufactured series products.

This book is a guide to energy efficiency and environmental impact assessment in high-performance buildings projects.

This book provides an overall understanding of construction contracts, explaining a range of topics with in-depth examples, allowing engineers, site managers, architects, contractors, and other construction professionals in search of information on construction contracts to find it in one place.

This Brief explains and discusses honey and its production from a chemical perspective.

This monograph presents a state-of-the-art analysis of eco-friendly and aesthetic structures in wooden dome construction.

This Brief evaluates the consequences of protein modifications in cheeses, with special emphasis on mozzarella cheeses.

This book is a comprehensive reference on ISO management system standards and their implementation.

This book documents research activities and design experimentation carried out within the scope of a project addressing conservation, urban regeneration, responsible use of resources, and sustainable development in a truly exceptional place: the city of Luxor.

Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence.

This important new manual goes beyond the published NFPA standards on installation of standpipe systems to include the rules in the International Building Code, municipal fire codes, the National Fire Code of Canada, and information on inspection, testing, and maintenance of standpipe systems.

The book focuses on system dependability modeling and calculation, considering the impact of s-dependency and uncertainty.

This book presents advanced technologies used in practice to enable early recognition and tracking of various threats to national security.

This book presents selected high-quality research papers submitted to ICNF 2017, the 3rd International Conference on Natural Fibers, which was held in Braga, Portugal, on 21-23 June 2017.

This book describes the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design, environmental engineering and sustainability as presented by leading international researchers, engineers, architects and urban planners at the 3rd International Sustainable Buildings Symposium  (ISBS), held in Dubai, UAE from 15 to 17 March 2017.

This book compares two buildings with different technologies and distinct environment from the combined viewpoints of civil engineering and architecture.

This book discusses the latest advances in cyber-physical security and resilience of cyber-physical systems, including cyber-attack detection, isolation, situation awareness, resilient estimation and resilient control under attack.

This book focuses on the permeability of the foundation of dams, how to determine their state and how to tighten permeable rock to achieve safe foundations for large dams.

This volume contains research articles that cover a wide range of topics related to ground improvement and subsurface structures.

This book describes the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design, environmental engineering and sustainability as presented by leading international researchers, engineers, architects and urban planners at the 3rd International Sustainable Buildings Symposium  (ISBS), held in Dubai, UAE from 15 to 17 March 2017.

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) combine cyber capabilities, such as computation or communication, with physical capabilities, such as motion or other physical processes.

Soil reinforcement is a very useful technique to construct several cost-effective soil structures in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner.

Infrastructure is the key to creating a sustainable community.

This book addresses a modern topic in reliability: multi-state and continuous-state system reliability, which has been intensively developed in recent years.

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