Building construction and materials

This book, for the first time, introduces comprehensively all main topics of lifeline earthquake engineering, including the structure analysis, network evaluation, and network design.

This new edition of A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying, and Civil Engineering is the most up-to-date dictionary of its kind.

This book focuses on the utilization of wastes produced from plastic usage by industry and consumers, along with the partial to full replacement of conventional cement as a primary binder material in concrete.

This edited book addresses a gap in literature by advancing current understandings of the applications of immersive technology within the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector.

Schimmel und Feuchtigkeit in der Wohnung?

The scope of the book is the application of vibration mitigation systems in structural engineering.

Advanced Research and Design Tools for Architectural Heritage: Unforeseen Paths rethinks how to analyse, preserve, and adapt Architectural Heritage and its surroundings along unforeseen paths using a broad spectrum of advanced research and design tools.

Der zweite Band behandelt die nichtmetallisch-anorganischen Baustoffe, von denen der Beton und das Mauerwerk für tragende Bauteile wichtig sind.

Immer die richtige AntwortÜber 800 Prüfungsfragen und Antworten machen das notwendige Wissen für angehende Brandschutzbeauftragte transparent.

Mit den richtigen Maßnahmen vor den Auswirkungen des Klimawandels schützenDer Klimawandel bringt viele unschöne Dinge mit sich.

This text closes the gap between traditional textbooks on structural dynamics and how structural dynamics is practiced in a world driven by commercial software, where performance-based design is increasingly important.

This book provides a thorough and practical coverage of design procedures, with numerous examples and case studies.

The audience for this book in the United States alone is well over half a million: construction managers (389,000), architects (113,000), engineers (228,000), and urban planners (32,000)

The Bearing Capacity of Building Foundations describes the different ways of ultimate bearing capacity determination of building foundations.

Historical wooden architecture is one of the most unique types of heritage built.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Traffic Engineering (RATE 2022).

This thesis investigates the fracture of nearly incompressible hyperelastic media.

The third edition of Design-Tech provides an indispensable, holistic resource for integrating building technologies into critically designed, performance-based architectural projects.

Planning is an important management function and its effective execution is crucial to ensure the success of any project.

Provides managers, architects, plant engineers, technicians, and others with a concise background in the principles of fire protection and property loss control (a new chapter on life safety elements was added to the second edition).

A growing number of urban inhabitants are aware of pressing environmental concerns.

Thisbook focuses on the recent results of the research project funded by aGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) of the Japan Society for the Promotionof Science (No.

Introduction to Plant Automation and Controls addresses all aspects of modern central plant control systems, including instrumentation, control theory, plant systems, VFDs, PLCs, and supervisory systems.

This is an ideal reference book for students (undergraduates and postgraduates) studying Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, or Architecture, etc.

A First-Hand Look at the High-Performance Civano DevelopmentThis GreenSource book offers a complete survey of Civano, the largest high-performance mixed-use community in the United States.

Energy efficiency in buildings requires, among other things, that ventilation be appropriately dimensioned: too much ventilation wastes energy, and insufficient ventilation leads to poor indoor air quality and low comfort.

This book contains selected articles from the fourth International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering-Iraq 2024 (ICGE-2024) held on April 17-18, 2024, at at Warith Al-Anbiyaa University, Karbala, Iraq.

This book serves as a preliminary reference for the principles of thermal radiation and its modelling in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations.

This unique handbook collects together a comprehensive and up-to-date range of indices measuring construction costs and price movements.

The book provides readers with a snapshot of recent research and industrial trends in field of industrial acoustics and vibration.

This text provides a broad view of the research performed in building physics at the start of the 21st century.

Engineering, as a profession and business, is at the sharp end of the ethical practice.

Various underpinning methods exist, and choosing a particular method or selection of methods is the job of the engineer.

This book deals with an area of practice that many students and non-electricians find particularly challenging.

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This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Sustainable Production and Use of Cement and Concrete (ICSPCC 2019), held in Villa Clara, Cuba on June 23-30, 2019.

A wide ranging and up-to-date review of experience of tunnelling contracts, particularly those for sewerage and drainage tunnels.

The present book provides a new method to estimate elastic-plastic strains via a series of linear elastic analyses.

This book gathers the thoughts of 8 hospital presidents, 9 vice presidents focusing on construction management in hospitals, and 6 hospital architects regarding the hospital design and construction in China.

This book presents an in-depth overview of recent work related to the safety, security, and privacy of cyber-physical systems (CPSs).

Innovation, Strategy and Risk in Construction integrates insights from business and government leaders with contemporary research, to help built environment professionals turn serendipity to their own advantage by building greater innovative and adaptive capacity into their operations.

This book offers the use of artificial intelligence, image processing, model analysis, laser scanners, shearography, drones, contourlet, wavelet, signal processing techniques and other SHM techniques to detect the damages in the concrete as well as masonry structures.

This book covers the wide spectrum of subjects relating to obtaining and using building stones, starting with their geological origin and then describing the nature of granites, volcanics, limestones, sandstones, flint, metamorphic stones, breccias and conglomerates, with emphasis being placed on how to recognise the different stones via the many illustrated examples from Great Britain and other countries.

This book presents a first-of-its-kind exposition on the emerging technology of jute fiber geotextiles.

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of heritage planning and conservation.

The present and future state of the environment gives rise to ever increasing concern, but much less is known as yet about the past: the damage that has been done since, and by, the Industrial Revolution; how far our predecessors were aware of it; the steps they took; and the gradual development of a wider concern for the state of the world and our impact on it.

This is a practical guide showing how to undertake a domestic building survey.

Having won more than one recent poll as Britain's best-loved building, the appeal of Durham Cathedral appears abiding, which begs the question whether an iconic sacred building can retain meaning and affective pertinence for contemporary, secular visitors.

The battle in architecture between the internationalist voices of modernism and the localized resistance, which favored traditional technologies and regional precedents, reflected in microcosm the violent and complex histories of twentieth-century Germany.