Building construction and materials

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 18th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 18-20, 2020.

Smart Technologies and Design for Healthy Built Environment connects smart technology to a healthy built environmentthat builds upon the sustainable building movement.

This book presents recent research in the area of construction pathology, hygrothermal behaviour of buildings, service life and diagnostic techniques, and highlights the latest developments in building physics, hygrothermal behaviour, durability and numerical models applied to building materials analysis.

This book provides practicing engineers with a step by step approach for making durable concrete with optimum use of the local materials available within the various regions of the United States.

This book aims to highlight the gaps and the transparency issues in the clinical research and trials processes and how there is a lack of information flowing back to researchers and patients involved in those trials.

This book draws on important original transdisciplinary research to address a wide range of issues relating to the remodeling of existing schools for pre-teenagers to fit them to various novel teaching models (e.

This book focuses on a wide range of innovations related to Cybersecurity Education which include: curriculum development, faculty and professional development, laboratory enhancements, community outreach, and student learning.

This volume examines problem solving and applied systems aimed at improving performance and management of organizations.

The book introduces the basic concepts of the finite element method in the static and dynamic analysis of beam, plate, shell and solid structures, discussing how the method works, the characteristics of a finite element approximation and how to avoid the pitfalls of finite element modeling.

This textbook focuses on underground ventilation, addressing both theoretical and practical aspects.

This book discusses energy recovery technology, a green innovation that can be used in buildings.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Concrete), held online and hosted by the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands from 6-9 July 2020.

This book reports on the latest advances in using BIM modelling to achieve the semantic enrichment of objects, allowing them to be used both as multidimensional databases - as comprehensive sources of information for finalizing various types of documentation in the building industry - and as modelling tools for the construction of virtual environments.

The book presents recent research and practical insights relating to building pathology.

This book presents the results of an experiment assessing the impact of spruce wood joints on the creation and development of fire when these joints are applied within a facade.

This book gathers papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century, held in London in 2019.

This book emphasizes recent advances in the creation of biometric identification systems for various applications in the field of human activity.

This book provides a collection of recent research works, helping contribute to the systematization and dissemination of the latest findings on building pathologies (structural and hygrothermal), salt attack and corrosion, durability and service-life prediction.

This book offers a timely report on methods for risk assessment procedures for dams, with a special emphasis on dams with small storage dimensions.

This book discusses the effects of soluble mineral salts on ceramic brick masonry walls in Petrolina, a city in Pernambuco, Brazil, located 780 km from the ocean.

This book presents the main principles for designing buildings and neighborhoods with increased potential to capture and utilize solar energy.

This proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management covers a range of topics that are timely, relevant and practically important in the modern digital era towards safer, cost effective, efficient, and secure engineered assets such as production and manufacturing plants, process facilities, civil structures, equipment, machinery, and infrastructure.

This is the first book summarizing the theoretical basics of thermal nondestructive testing (TNDT) by combining elements of heat conduction, infrared thermography, and industrial nondestructive testing.

Rotating Machinery, Optical Methods & Scanning LDV Methods, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the sixth volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the eighth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 38th MAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the fifth volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the third volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the second volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the fourth volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the first volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Social media has fundamentally changed communication and interaction in today's society.

This book provides methods and concepts which enable engineers to design mass and cost efficient products.

This book presents a compendium of selected game- and decision-theoretic models to achieve and assess the security of critical infrastructures.

This book presents a selection of recent research works that provide best practice solutions, case studies and practical advice on the implementation of sustainable construction techniques.

This book reports on an architectural conservation and reuse project in Anipemza, an Armenian Soviet-era village on the Turkish border, just a few steps away from the important Yererouyk archaeological site.

This book discusses the application of metaheuristic algorithms in a number of important optimization problems in civil engineering.

This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in bituminous materials and structures and asphalt pavement technology, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the RILEM International Symposium on Bituminous Materials (ISBM), held in Lyon, France on December 14-16, 2020.

This book discusses the way that a nature-driven approach to urbanism can be applied at each of the urban scales; architectural design, urban design of neighborhoods, city planning and landscape architecture, and at the city and regional scales.

This book presents a compendium of selected game- and decision-theoretic models to achieve and assess the security of critical infrastructures.

This book presents the concept of food sharing from a European perspective, and provides a concise analysis of its safety implications and the chemical properties of recovered foods.

This book focuses on safeguarding civil structures and residents from natural hazards such as earthquakes through the use of active control.

The book reports on the great improvements in the information and knowledge management due to the digitalization of the building sector.

This book examines key issues in improving the efficiency of small and medium power boiler units by adding control systems for the fuel combustion process.

This book discusses the main quality management (QM) programs and their possible integration into systematic industrial maintenance (SIM).

This book comprehensively discusses essential aspects of terminal ballistics, combining experimental data, numerical simulations and analytical modeling.

This book focuses on safeguarding civil structures and residents from natural hazards such as earthquakes through the use of active control.

This book presents a unified introduction to the theory of mechanical vibrations.

This authoritative volume presents a comprehensive guide to the evaluation and design of networked systems with improved disaster resilience.

This book consists of two parts, the first of which focuses on combustible solids, and the second on the industrial position concerning these materials.

This book addresses the fatigue behavior of riveted connections from ancient Portuguese metallic bridges as well as the fatigue crack propagation behavior of related materials.