Building construction and materials

Maximizing reader insights into interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated.

This volume presents concepts, policies and cost models for various long-term warranty and maintenance contracts.

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the HEaRT 2013 conference, held in Cosenza, Italy, which provided a valuable forum for engineers and architects, researchers and educators to exchange views and findings concerning the technological history, construction features and seismic behavior of historical timber-framed walls in the Mediterranean countries.

This book describes the basic concepts of risk and reliability with detailed descriptions of the different levels of probabilistic safety assessment of nuclear power plants (both internal and external).

This book presents all aspects of situational awareness using acoustic signals.

Includes the proceedings from the 7th IAASS Conference, "e;Space Safety is No Accident,"e; held in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in October 2014.

This volume examines the role of technology in gathering, assimilating and utilizing intelligence information through the ages.

This work provides an assessment of the current state of near field communication (NFC) security, it reports on new attack scenarios, and offers concepts and solutions to overcome any unresolved issues.

This book discusses the effect of different school building rehabilitation strategies on the classrooms' indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and presents a multi-objective methodology for school building enclosure optimization combining artificial neural networks and lifecycle costs.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2.

Structural Health Monitoring & Damage Detection, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, the seventh volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4.

The purpose of law is to prevent the society from harm by declaring what conduct is criminal, and prescribing the punishment to be imposed for such conduct.

This book presents a paradigm for designing new generation resilient and evolving computer systems, including their key concepts, elements of supportive theory, methods of analysis and synthesis of ICT with new properties of evolving functioning, as well as implementation schemes and their prototyping.

This book presents a study for the determination of environmental load factors for Jacket Platforms in Malaysia and a methodology to determine the life extension of aging platforms.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, the sixth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This short book describes the basic technological aspects involved in the creation of purely clinch and clinch-adhesive joints made of different types of adherent materials and employing different joining technologies.

This Brief is concerned with the connection between food packaging and the chemical composition of packaging materials.

Significantly extended from the first edition and published in response to the new international standard ISO55000, this book on physical asset management (2nd Ed.

This book introduces novel design techniques developed to increase the safety of aircraft engines.

This book presents studies on the inelastic behavior of materials and structures under monotonic and cyclic loads.

This book reports on the state of the art in the field of multiphysics systems.

This book reports on the first empirical validation of "e;AccuRate,"e; Australia's national benchmark software tool for house energy ratings.

Presenting an overview of the use of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) within buildings, this book discusses the performance of PCM-enhanced building envelopes.

This book is about the formulations, theoretical investigations, and practical applications of new stochastic models for fundamental concepts and operations of the discipline of risk management.

This volume contains a selection of the best papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management, XX International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, and International IIE Conference 2014, hosted by ADINGOR, ABEPRO and the IIE, whose mission is to promote links between researchers and practitioners from different branches, to enhance an interdisciplinary perspective of industrial engineering and management.

Maximizing readers' insights into urban and architectural environmental planning with consideration for the thermal environment, this work highlights how various urban heat-island strategies have been developed and their effectiveness in urban areas.

This book reports on solved problems concerning vibrations and stability of complex beam systems.

This book sheds light on the shear behavior of Fiber Reinforced Concrete (FRC) elements, presenting a thorough analysis of the most important studies in the field and highlighting their shortcomings and issues that have been neglected to date.

This edited book contains several state-of-the-art papers devoted to econometrics of risk.

This short book presents a framework for assessing the reliability and availability of visual quality control systems, placing particular emphasis on wavelet-based analysis.

Maximizing reader insights into the roles of intelligent agents in networks, air traffic and emergency departments, this volume focuses on congestion in systems where safety and security are at stake, devoting special attention to applying game theoretic analysis of congestion to: protocols in wired and wireless networks; power generation, air transportation and emergency department overcrowding.

This book presents the findings of a detailed study to explore the behavior of architectural glazing systems during and after an earthquake and to develop design proposals that will mitigate or even eliminate the damage inflicted on these systems.

This unique book explains how to fashion useful regression models from commonly available data to erect models essential for evidence-based road safety management and research.

This monograph presents an analysis of construction safety problems and on-site safety measures from an economist's point of view.

The main focus of this edited volume is on three major areas of statistical quality control: statistical process control (SPC), acceptance sampling and design of experiments.

This book introduces the fundamental concepts of homomorphic encryption.

Demonstrating the latest research and analysis in the area of through-life engineering services (TES), this book utilizes case studies and expert analysis from an international array of practitioners and researchers - who together represent multiple manufacturing sectors: aerospace, railway and automotive - to maximize reader insights into the field of through-life engineering services.

This volume presents measurement uncertainty and uncertainty budgets in a form accessible to practicing engineers and engineering students from across a wide range of disciplines.

This encyclopedia presents an all-embracing collection of analytical surface classes.

Maximizing reader insights into the interactions between game theory, excessive crowding and safety and security elements, this book establishes a new research angle by illustrating linkages between different research approaches and through laying the foundations for subsequent analysis.

This book details the peculiarities of the requirements for refractories designed for aluminium metallurgical process: reduction, cast house, and anode production.

This timely book introduces architects, engineers, builders, and urban planners to a range of contemporary community design concepts and illustrates them with outstanding case studies from around the world.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of nonlinear multi-modal structural vibration problems, and shows how vibration suppression can be applied to such systems by considering a sample set of relevant control techniques.

Model checking is a computer-assisted method for the analysis of dynamical systems that can be modeled by state-transition systems.

This book deals with a number of fundamental issues related to the practical implementation of ultrasonic NDT techniques in an industrial environment.

This book broadens readers' understanding of proactive condition monitoring of low- speed machines in heavy industries.

How can a scalable and efficient quality management mechanism for cloud labor services be designed in a way that it delivers results with a well-defined level of quality to the requester?

This book addresses the main challenges faced today in implementing the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) concept.