Building construction and materials

"e;Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems"e; provides a comprehensive coverage of reliability issues and their corresponding countermeasures in the field of large-scale digital control systems, from the hardware and software in digital systems to the human operators who supervise the overall process of large-scale systems.

The safe management of the complex distributed systems and critical infrastructures which constitute the backbone of modern industry and society entails identifying and quantifying their vulnerabilities to design adequate protection, mitigation, and emergency action against failure.

This book comprises selected proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018), focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of ocean engineering and offshore structures.

This book presents a simple analytical method based on the extended rod theory that allows the earthquake resistance of high-rise buildings to be easily and accurately evaluated at the preliminary design stage.

FIDIC Yellow Book is a practical guide for anyone involved in preparing, administering, or contributing to the FIDIC suite of contracts, 2017 edition.

Sustainable Refurbishment Governments across the EU and developed countries are increasingly being directed towards improving existing built stock as a key ingredient to meeting climate change challenges.

First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism.

This volume highlights the papers presented at the National Academy of Engineering's 2012 U.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Recurrent event data arise in diverse fields such as medicine, public health, insurance, social science, economics, manufacturing and reliability.

This book will provide emerging construction professionals with insights and information helpful for a successful career in the Australian construction industry.

This book provides readers an approach to overall fire and life-life design of high-rise buildings in a way that meets all stakeholders' objectives.

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

Uncertainties play a dominant role in the design and optimization of structures and infrastructures.

These proceedings present the latest information on software reliability, industrial safety, cyber security, physical protection, testing and verification for nuclear power plants.

This book presents selected papers introducing readers to the key research topics and latest development trends in the theory and application of MMESE.

On December 2-5, 1991, a Symposium on Thermal Stresses, Dynamics and Stability honoring Professor Bruno A.

This book explores technology-supported andragogical and pedagogical approaches that facilitate teamwork, collaboration, communication, and problem-solving opportunities in diverse disciplines.

Corrosion of Reinforced Concrete Structures: Mechanism, Monitoring and Control presents research, theory and practice on the control of corrosion in reinforced concrete structures.

This book gathers 23 papers by top experts from 11 countries, presented at the 3rd Houston International Forum: Concrete Structures in Earthquake.

The book encodes a vision for the actively sustainable management and development of the built environment by referring to the application of timber-based construction systems as additive solutions for the multi-purpose improvement of existing buildings.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 18th World Conference on Seismic Isolation (18WCSI), held in Antalya, Turkey, on November 6-10, 2023.

An updated guide to designing buildings that heat with the sun, cool with the wind, and light with the sky.

Tragwerkslehre -für Architekten - unterscheidet sich gewiß nicht von der Lehre über die verschiedenen Tragwerke, die dem Bauingenieur zuteil wird - es sind dieselben tragenden Konstruktionen - und doch wird es not­ wendig sein, für den Architekten eine andere, ihm verständlichere Zu­ gangsmöglichkeit zu der Materie zu schaffen.

Human error plays a significant role in many accidents involving safety-critical systems, and it is now a standard requirement in both the US and Europe for Human Factors (HF) to be taken into account in system design and safety assessment.

Die deutschen Vorschriften und Richtlinien für die Berechnung von 1 Dampfkesseln und Druckbehältern beschränken sich bewußt auf die Wiedergabe der einfachen und kurzen Berechnungsformeln.

Tensile surface structures are the visual expression of an intensive rethinking of the topic of building envelopes by designers.

First Published in 1986.

The primary goals of this brief are to invoke alertness and solidarity among the public in earthquake prone areas of India, and to empower the community to prepare themselves to face and manage the aftermath of an earthquake.

This book summarizes the technical method and construction process of pipe jacking.

What is design?

Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India seeks to position the conservation profession within historical, theoretical, and methodological frames to demonstrate how the field has evolved in the postcolonial decades and follow its various trajectories in research, education, advocacy, and practice.

This book highlights the latest advances on the implementation and adaptation of blockchain technologies in real-world scientific, biomedical, and data applications.

This book highlights cutting-edge research into emergency early warning management and decision-making for severe accidents.

Building and architecture has developed a language of its own, with terms and jargon that can confuse an expert let alone an outsider.

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.

Structural Resilience in Sewer Reconstruction: From Theory to Practice provides engineers with a balanced mixture of theory and practice.

This book reviews Dante Bini's inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems.

Now in its 40th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2021 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book is a call to arms to all architects, designers and built environment professionals.

Ein Modellprojekt zur Zukunft der Stadt

Die Arealentwicklung ‚mehr als wohnen' im Zürcher Norden ist ein Leuchtturmprojekt für nachhaltiges genossenschaftliches Wohnen.

This book seeks to fill the information gap on a key emerging real estate market and demystify the perception that the market in Ghana and indeed, across sub-Saharan Africa is opaque.

This book focuses on influence of slag-steel chemical reaction on control of inclusions in Al deoxidized special steel.

The inverse design approach is new to the built environment research and design community, though it has been used in other industries including automobile and airplane design.

This book contains a unique set of information sheets, covering all aspects of building from sit setting-out to roofs and floors.

This book describes methods used to estimate forces and deformations in structures during future earthquakes.

[a]FA ist ein Lab des Instituts fur Architektur an der Universitat fur angewandte Kunst Wien, in dem raumliche, infrastrukturelle, okologische und kulturelle Phanomene der Sub-Sahara untersucht werden.

Associating social justice with landscape is not new, yet the twenty-first century's heightened threats to landscape and their impact on both human and, more generally, nature's habitats necessitate novel intellectual tools to address such challenges.

Disasters are not natural.