Building construction and materials

This book provides a comprehensive overview of smart ports and remote technologies in the maritime industry.

This book presents experimental results and theoretical advances in the field of ultra-low-cycle fatigue failure of metal structures under strong earthquakes, where the dominant failure mechanism is ductile fracture.

The design of treatments for the conservation of stone in historical buildings and works of art is a challenging task, as a deep understanding of the working properties and performance of the available products and methods is required to tackle complex decay patterns.

Advanced Construction Mathematics covers the range of topics that a student must learn in order to achieve success in Level 3 and 4 mathematics for the Pearson BTEC National and BTEC HNC/HND in Construction, Building Services, and Civil Engineering.

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

This is the first textbook to address quantified risk assessment (QRA) as specifically applied to offshore installations and operations.

Since the introduction of system signatures in Francisco Samaniego's 1985 paper, the properties of this technical concept have been examined, tested and proven in a wide variety of systems applications.

This book is intended to give a general overview of reliability, faults, fault models, nanotechnology, nanodevices, fault-tolerant architectures and reliability evaluation techniques.

Architectures of Security: Design, Control, Mobility examines the relationship between architecture, security, and technology, focusing on the way these factors mutually constitute a "e;ferocious"e; architecture-an architecture, aesthetic, or design that is violent, forcing the performances and practices of sovereign power and neoliberalism.

This book gathers the best peer-reviewed papers presented at the Italian Concrete Days national conference, held in Lecco, Italy, on June 14-15, 2018.

Innovation in construction is essential for growth.

These proceedings showcase the best papers selected from more than 500 submissions, introducing readers to the top research topics and the latest developmental trends in the theory and application of Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering (MMESE).

This book comprises the proceedings of the conference "e;Future Automotive Production 2022"e;, which took place in Wolfsburg.

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS WITH THE FINITE ELEMENT METHODLinear StaticsVolume 1 : The Basis and SolidsEugenio OnateThe two volumes of this book cover most of the theoretical and computational aspects of the linear static analysis of structures with the Finite Element Method (FEM).

The one thing that all well-run, profitable construction projects have in common is that they benefit from good project managers.

sections dealing with fuzzy functions and fuzzy random functions are certain to be of special interest.

This book contains full papers presented at the First Virtual Conference on Mechanical Fatigue (VCMF 2020), which was organised by the University of Porto (FEUP, Portugal), the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China), Siberian Federal University (Russia), and the ESIS/TC12 Technical Committee (European Structural Integrity Society-ESIS), between 9 and 11 of September 2020.

This book is an easily digestible guide to the management and practice knowledge needed to establish and run an architectural practice.

Using real working drawings from a 50 year career, Ron Slade shows how drawing remains at the heart of the design process in the everyday working life of engineers and architects.

This book summarizes the advanced intelligent pipeline management technologies.

This book analyses the evolution of the construction systems and the required materials in Ecuador from 1980 to 2020, from different perspectives including environmental, economic, thermal behaviour, modulation design, and integrity of construction.

Cornell Weller untersucht in diesem Buch subjektive Einflüsse der Schadensbewertung in Bauwerksprüfungen nach DIN 1076.

Managing Change in Construction Projects: a knowledge-based approach offers a new perspective on construction project change by viewing the process of change management as a knowledge-intensive activity, where team members bring their tacit and explicit knowledge into the situation; share, create and capture this collective knowledge for future re-use in similar situations.

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of the potential offered by and challenges posed by signal processing methods in the field of machine diagnostics and condition monitoring.

Historic buildings and places play an essential role in the everyday lives of the people of the UK, their cultural identity and the economy.

During the last decade, concrete technology has made an enormous advance through the introduction of self-compacting concrete.

Since 1994, the European Conferences of Product and Process Modelling (www.

Assessment of professional competence for project managers and the measure of project success is well-trodden ground in the research and professional project management literature.

A one-stop resource for residential or commercialconstruction projects, Construction Building Envelope andInterior Finishes Databook gives you instant access tohundreds of tables, specifications, charts, diagrams, andillustrations covering materials and components mostfrequently used on a typical job.

This book is a collection of select papers presented at the Tenth Structural Engineering Convention 2016 (SEC-2016).

This book offers a complete diagnosis of concrete samples collected from a pile cap block of residential buildings affected by internal swelling reactions.

A COMPLETE, FULL-COLOR GUIDE TO THE 2012 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODEUpdated to reflect the International Code Council 2012 International Building Code, this time-saving resource makes it easy to understand and apply complex IBC requirements and achieve compliance.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Professional services firms play a vital role in the social, environmental and economic well-being of any economy.

This book offers an in-depth study of the design and challenges addressed by a high-level synthesis tool targeting a specific class of cryptographic kernels, i.

Die Bauphysik zählt nicht nur zu den klassischen Disziplinen des Bauwesens.

This book comprises the proceedings of the conference "e;Future Production of Hybrid Structures 2020"e;, which took place in Wolfsburg.

Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites is the first book to analyze a profound land use change happening all over the world: the search for sustainable futures for property formerly dedicated to national defense now becoming redundant, disposed of and redeveloped.

Dieses Lehrbuch führt verständlich und anwendungsnah mit über 320 Berechnungsbeispielen in die Hauptgebiete der praktischen Bauphysik ein.

This contributed volume is designed for fundamental understanding of fracture behavior of composites applied in core industrial sectors such as mechanical, electronics, Automotive, civil structures, and aerospace research and fills the gap of knowledge on fracture analysis.

Critical infrastructures are targets for terrorism and deliver a valuable vector through which the proliferation of CBRN and explosive precursors can be detected.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of hazardous areas containing explosive gases, vapors, and combustible dust.

The introduction of public key cryptography (PKC) was a critical advance in IT security.

This book presents papers from the International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture 2019, which was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from 24-26 October 2019.

An introduction to hazards, human vulnerability and disaster, paying particular attention to the more severe or novel risks and disaster that affect the general public.

This book explores how human factors and ergonomic principles are currently transforming healthcare.

Designed in a structured, directed format to help develop understanding, rather than just providing a simple source of information, this popular undergraduate textbook offers comprehensive coverage of industrial and commercial building technology.