Building construction and materials

Putting forward an innovative approach to solving current technological problems faced by human society, this book encompasses a holistic way of perceiving the potential of natural systems.

This book presents key advances in the modeling of reinforcement corrosion and concrete durability.

The present work will discuss relevant theoretical frameworks and applications pertaining to enabling resilience within the risk, crisis and disaster management domain.

In this book the authors first describe the background of trusted platforms and trusted computing and speculate about the future.

The aim of this book is to summarize probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of nuclear power plants with WWER440 reactors and demonstrate that the plants are safe enough for producing energy even in light of the Fukushima accident.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview on the most pressing issues in the conservation and management of archaeological, architectural, and urban landscapes.

This book introduces into the practical application of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) beyond the famous House of Quality Matrix by presenting a fully developed example of a clear and comprehensive QFD framework.

This book explains reliability techniques with examples from electronics design for the benefit of engineers.

This expansive volume presents the essential topics related to construction materials composition and their practical application in structures and civil installations.

Whether you're an academic or a practitioner, a sociologist, a manager, or an engineer, one can benefit from learning to think systemically.

This book, framed in the processes of engineering analysis and design, presents concepts in mechanics of materials for students in two-year or four-year programs in engineering technology, architecture, and building construction; as well as for students in vocational schools and technical institutes.

This book analyzes the risk management process in relation to building design and operation and on this basis proposes a method and a set of tools that will improve the planning and evaluation of design solutions in order to control risks in the operation and management phase.

The idea of this monograph is to present the latest results related to design and computation of engineering materials and structures.

This book offers unique insight on structural safety and reliability by combining computational methods that address multiphysics problems, involving multiple equations describing different physical phenomena and multiscale problems, involving discrete sub-problems that together describe important aspects of a system at multiple scales.

This book describes how manufacturing enterprises, by reinforcing their existing monitoring and control of manufacturing processes, can successfully face the ever-increasing pressure from internal and external environments to maintain their competitive advantage.

This book provides the new results in wavelet filter banks based feature extraction, and the classifier in the field of iris image recognition.

This work discusses the impact of the life of buildings on sustainable development methods.

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This book examines the theoretical foundations underpinning the field of strength of materials/theory of elasticity, beginning from the origins of the modern theory of elasticity.

This unique volume provides the only holistic treatment of wind towers, a core aspect of sustainable architecture in hot, arid climates.

This innovative volume provides a systematic treatment of the basic concepts and computational procedures for structural motion design and engineering for civil installations.

This book introduces the concept of integrated planning for maintenance and production taken into account quality and safety for high global socio-economic impact.

This work is the definitive guide for IT managers and agile practitioners.

This book presents Ulrich Beck, one of the world's leading sociologists and social thinkers, as a Pioneer in Cosmopolitan Sociology and Risk Society.

Most of the world's redundant ships are scrapped on the beaches of the Indian sub-continent, largely by hand.

This book documents the outcomes of a study designed to explore ways of increasing resilience in a complex city system against disasters by focusing on the transportation system in London.

This book supports HVAC planners in reducing the cooling energy demand, improving the indoor environment and designing more cost-effective building concepts.

This book, Drying and Wetting of Building Materials and Components, provides a collection of recent contributions in the field of drying and wetting in porous building materials.

This comprehensive monograph addresses crucial issues in the protection of railway systems, with the objective of enhancing the understanding of railway infrastructure security.

There are three specific purposes of Construction Dispute Research.

Covers the entire process of risk management by providing methodologies for determining the sources of engineering project risk, and once threats have been identified, managing them through: identification and assessment (probability, relative importance, variables, risk breakdown structure, etc.

This book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production.

Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security discusses relevant theoretical frameworks and applications of network analysis in support of the defence and security domains.

This is a unique book addressing the integration of risk methodology from various fields.

Human reliability, error, and human factors in the area of power generation have been receiving increasing attention in recent years.

This book addresses the failures of structural elements, i.

This book presents (1) an exhaustive and empirically validated taxonomy of quality aspects of multimodal interaction as well as respective measurement methods, (2) a validated questionnaire specifically tailored to the evaluation of multimodal systems and covering most of the taxonomy's quality aspects, (3) insights on how the quality perceptions of multimodal systems relate to the quality perceptions of its individual components, (4) a set of empirically tested factors which influence modality choice, and (5) models regarding the relationship of the perceived quality of a modality and the actual usage of a modality.

This book explores the practical implementation of an advanced after-sales management framework devoted to warranty management.

The book presents Slovenia's contemporary timber architecture.

The State-of-the-Art Report of RILEM Technical Committee 228-MPS on Mechanical properties of Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) summarizes an extensive body of information related to mechanical properties and mechanical behaviour of SCC.

In Europe, the building sector accounts for 40% of energy consumption which has a strong influence on greenhouse gas emissions.

Synthetic Biology is already an object of intensive debate.

The International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt Safety Management Systems poses a major problem especially for small and medium sized aviation companies.

The structural optimization procedure presented in this book makes it possible to achieve seismic protection through integrated structural/control system design.

This monograph assesses in depth the application of recursive Bayesian filters in structural health monitoring.

This book presents innovations for sustainable building design and refurbishment developed and tested through feasibility studies undertaken by researchers at Scottish universities in collaboration with small to medium size enterprises in Scotland during the 'CIC Start Online' project that ran from September 2009 to February 2013.

This book provides a concise review of the thermo-physical phenomena which regulate heat and moisture transportation in Nearly Zero Energy Buildings envelopes, and their relationship with the growth of biological organisms.

This book offers a well-structured, critical review of current design practice for tensioned membrane structures, including a detailed analysis of the experimental data required and critical issues relating to the lack of a set of design codes and testing procedures.

The changing manufacturing environment requires more responsive and adaptable manufacturing systems.

This critical volume provides practical insights on sulfuric acid and related plant design and on techniques to improve and enhance substantially the efficiency of an existing plant by means of small modifications.