Building construction and materials

This book disseminates the current trends among innovative and high-quality research regarding the implementation of conceptual frameworks, strategies, techniques, methodologies, informatics platforms and models for developing advanced industrial tools and techniques and their application in different fields.

This book provides information on proper underground mine ventilation in order to detail its importance in maintaining safe, productive, healthy and effective underground environments at all times for employees.

This book is mainly based on the results of the EU-funded UE-FP7 Project EnCoRe, which aimed to characterize the key physical and mechanical properties of a novel class of advanced cement-based materials incorporating recycled powders and aggregates and/or natural ingredients in order to allow partial or even total replacement of conventional constituents.

This brief describes a novel approach to overcome the disadvantages of hemp fibres in cementitious composites.

This book describes efficient and safe repair operations for pipelines, and develops new methods for the detection and repair of volumetric surface defects in transmission pipelines.

This textbook introduces the topics and theories of process control step-by-step in increasing complexity, making the learning of detailed techniques and algorithms easier.

This book examines pedestrian shoe-floor slip resistance from an engineering standpoint in order to better understand friction and wear behavior.

This book focuses on the analysis and design of advanced techniques for on-line automatic computational monitoring of pipelines and pipe networks.

This book proposes the formulation of an efficient methodology that estimates energy system uncertainty and predicts Remaining Useful Life (RUL) accurately with significantly reduced RUL prediction uncertainty.

This book applies a behavioral point of view to individuals' fire safety in historic buildings.

This book describes the newest developments in the creation of concrete using smart additives and supplementary cementitious materials as well as methods, technology and novel admixtures to monitor, evaluate and control steel corrosion in reinforced concrete.

This book addresses key design and computational issues related to radiators in hydronic heating installations.

This book covers many aspects of cyberspace, emphasizing not only its possible 'negative' challenge as a threat to security, but also its positive influence as an efficient tool for defense as well as a welcome new factor for economic and industrial production.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the fourth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the dependability challenges in today's advanced computing systems.

Masonry constructions are the great majority of the buildings in Europe's historic centres and the most important monuments of its architectural heritage.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the second volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book provides a unique guide to value management and sustainability in construction to researchers and professional.

Structural Health Monitoring & Damage Detection, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the seventh volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book provides concise descriptions of the various solutions of transition curves, which can be used in geometric design of roads and highways.

This book details the rigorous requirements for refractories designed for aluminium metallurgical processes: reduction, cast house, and anode production.

This book offers a review of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and its application in online condition monitoring of electrochemical devices, focusing on the practicalities of performing fast and accurate EIS.

This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations.

This book introduces a number of recent developments on connectivity of communication networks, ranging from connectivity of large static networks and connectivity of highly dynamic networks to connectivity of small to medium sized networks.

This book reports on an outstanding research devoted to modeling and control of dynamic systems using fractional-order calculus.

The failures of electronic controls, which can cause loss of life and property, are discussed from the perspective of both the design and manufacturing functions and clarified for the responsible forensic team.

This book provides a methodological framework to set properly the thermal enhancement and energy efficiency in historical buildings during a renovation process.

This book demonstrates the use of a wide range of strategic engineering concepts, theories and applied case studies to improve the safety, security and sustainability of complex and large-scale engineering and computer systems.

This book presents a unique collection of contributions from some of the foremost scholars in the field of risk and reliability analysis.

This book explores how social media and its advances enables citizens to empower themselves during a crisis.

This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.

This textbook describes the basic mechanical features of concrete and explains the main resistant mechanisms activated in the reinforced concrete structures and foundations when subjected to centred and eccentric axial force, bending moment, shear, torsion and prestressing.

This book describes issues in modeling unconventional conflict and suggests a new way to do the modeling.

This book gathers contributions presented at the 9th Workshop on Cyclostationary Systems and Their Applications, held in Grodek nad Dunajcem, Poland in February 2016.

This book provides an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on refurbishment as an alternative to the current crisis in the construction sector, as well as on measures designed to minimize the effects on the environment.

This book describes basic reliability concepts - parametric ALT plan, failure mechanism and design, and reliability testing with acceleration factor and sample size equation.

Managing nuclear power emergencies is significantly different from managing other types of emergencies, including fire, flood, and other disasters because nuclear disaster management requires special technical skills and a rigid protocol which outlines detailed steps and procedure before an evacuation announcement could be made.

Featuring a detailed analysis of current approval requirements and the relevant safety assessment methods for gas cylinders in general and with main focus on composite cylinders for storing compressed natural gas and hydrogen, this book demonstrates how current regulations and standards limit the ability to reduce cost and weight.

This book analyses solar-assisted ground-source heat pump systems, a technology meant for producing heating and cooling energy for buildings.

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015.

This book aims to cast light on all aspects of tunnel fires, based on experimental activities and theoretical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses.

This book introduces novel research targeting technical aspects of protecting information security and establishing trust in the digital space.

This book presents original studies describing the latest research and developments in the area of reliability and systems engineering.

This book introduces several simple analytical approaches to aid the seamless integration of renewable distributed generation.

This contributed volume presents the research results of the program "e;Small machine tools for small work pieces"e; (SPP 1476), funded by the German Research Society (DFG).

This book focuses on the introduction of new and modern maintenance management frameworks of assets in the electricity & gas network sector and more specifically, on electricity networks for distribution.

This book reports on cutting-edge technologies that have been fostering sustainable development in a variety of fields, including built and natural environments, structures, energy, advanced mechanical technologies as well as electronics and communication technologies.

This book provides information on the advances in blanching and its effect on food.

This book is intended to raise awareness about the use of sustainable Textile-Reinforced Mortar (TRM) composite systems, including plant fibers, for civil engineering applications.