Building construction and materials

This book is focused on the analysis and modelling of resilience, robustness, and vulnerability of transport systems and their complement: reliability.

The book focuses on all typological aspects of arches and vaults within the heritage of design and construction, while bringing attention to new "e;green"e; materials, promoting a circular economy informed by limitations caused by global warming.

The integration of sustainability requires a paradigm shift in the lifecycle of buildings.

This book gathers selected contributions in the field of civil and structural engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Conference "e;Modern Problems in Construction: Setting Tasks and Ways to Solve Them"e; (MPC), held in Kursk, Russia on November 18-19 2021.

This book presents the state of the art on the topic of recycling of plastic building materials, comprising a synthetic market analysis, and presenting the latest developments in plastic recycling technologies.

This book introduces a maintenance model that will assist decision-makers in their choice of building maintenance policies.

This book gathers selected contributions in the field of civil and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Scientific Conference on Socio-Technical Construction and Civil Engineering (STCCE), held in Kazan, Russia on April 21-29 2022.

This book gathers the latest innovations and applications in the field of resource-saving technologies and advanced materials in civil and environmental engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Scientific Conference EcoComfort and Current Issues of Civil Engineering, held in Lviv, Ukraine on September 14-16, 2022.

This book discusses the behaviour of isolated concrete bottle-shaped struts affected by internal expansion reactions (ISR).

This handbook brings together expertise from a range of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts to address a key question facing prison policymakers, architects and designers - what kind of carceral environments foster wellbeing, i.

The author has published many papers and books on topological transformations for optimal analysis of structures, where many methods and algorithms are developed.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers at the XXV International Scientific Conference "e;Construction: The Formation of Living Environment"e;, held in Moscow, Russia on April 20-22, 2022.

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This book reviews the history and evolution of district heating networks, with a focus on current and future issues of the district heating sector.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (SECON'22), held in Angamaly, Kerala, India, on 1-3 June 2022.

This book provides an essential compilation of relevant and cutting edge academic and industry work on key cybersecurity applications topics.

This engineering guide provides a methodology to define and quantify the fire development andensuing conditions within the room of fire origin from the fire's incipient stage through its fulldevelopment.

This book explores membrane materials as a means of translating natural and renewable resources into a more flexible, dynamic, and reactive architectural skin.

Conventional building skins are constructed as static structures upon the typical design conditions in terms of external climate and internal occupant activities.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials in Bridges and Structures (ACMBS) 2021.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials in Bridges and Structures (ACMBS) 2021.

This textbook aimed at upper-level undergraduate and graduate engineering students who need to describe the large deformation of elastic materials like soft plastics, rubber, and biological materials.

The housing and human settlement sector is fast changing, and technology is making it more complex than ever before.

The book presents Russian experience in researching and developing theoretical and experimental problems of heavy concrete elements and constructions with functionally gradient structure, manufactured by using mechanical and electromagnetic vibrations, and broadly utilized in different areas of industry.

This book examines a topic which is an indispensable part of any production line in the wood industry: the extraction, separation, handling of dust and chips, ensuring clean air in the workrooms, and avoiding health, fire and explosion risks.

This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of sustainable concrete structures, as presented by scientists and engineers at the RILEM International Conference on Numerical Modeling Strategies for Sustainable Concrete Structures (SSCS), held in Marseille, France, on July 4-6, 2022.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022.

This textbook has been written for the engineering students.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of deaths and injuries from residential fires as well as the most up to date information on evidence-based approaches to reduce this problem.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Concrete), held in Loughborough, UK, on June 27-29, 2022.

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

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022.

This book tackles the problem of complexity within IT environments, i.

This book significantly contributes the digital transformation of construction.

This book explores the application of service design to urban commons.

The book presents the recent advances on testing and experimentation in civil engineering, especially in the branches of geotechnics, transportation, hydraulics, and natural resources.

This book covers the physical metallurgy of steels as well as the heat treatments used to improve the their properties.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the second volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the eighth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

For millennia, humans waged war on land and sea.

This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of seismic design and performance of steel structures, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th International Conference on the Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas (STESSA), held in Timisoara, Romania, on 25-27 May 2022.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 40th MAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the fifth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

When the SCION project started in 2009, the goal was to create an architecture offering high availability and security for basic point-to-point communication.

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This book reports on several advances in architectural graphics, with a special emphasis on education, training, and research.

Data Science in Engineering, Volume 9:  Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the nineth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the fourth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the third volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the first volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.