Building construction and materials

This book is written by international experts who are brownfields practitioners from over 15 countries.

This book provides in-depth results and case studies in innovation from actual work undertaken in collaboration with industry partners in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC).

Prestressing concrete technology is critical to understanding problems in existing civic structures including railway and highway bridges; to the rehabilitation of older structures; and to the design of new high-speed railway and long-span highway bridges.

This book has been developed to provide significant information about the usage and application of the Total Quality Management (TQM) concept in a construction project environment.

Heat Recovery with Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Heat Pumps presents the basic concepts and thermodynamic behavior of mechanical vapor compression and recompression.

Bamboo is considered one of the most sustainable and versatile building materials, driving the development of multiple techniques for its study and utilization.

This is the third in a series of three volumes of proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC 2022) which was held by Chinese Nuclear Society.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (6FMA), A Coruna 2022.

Ageing and dependence are two important characteristics in reliability and survival analysis, and they affect significantly the decision people make with regard to maintenance, repair/replacement, price setting, warranties, medical studies, and other areas.

This book collects contributions which showcase the impact of new augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies considered jointly in the fields of cultural heritage and innovative design.

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

This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis - on-site or in the studio.

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

This book revisits many aspects of current social science theories, such as actor-network theory and the French school of science and technology studies, to test how the theories apply in a specific situation, in this case after 1991 in the city of Cherepovets in Russia, home of Russia's second biggest steel producer, Severstal.

This book covers the topics of theoretical principles, dynamics model and algorithm, mission analysis, system design and experimental studies of space nets system, aiming to provide an initial framework in this field and serve as a ready reference for those interested.

The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century.

This book discusses the different energy sources bringing about fires, explosions, and detonations in combustibles under different levels of confinement.

This book provides international perspective for those studying or working in the security domain, from enforcement to policy.

Dieses schon klassische Werk ist in Stoffauswahl und Aufbau einzigartig und bewährt, seine Themenauswahl widmet sich der Ingenieurausbildung.

This book presents a comprehensive approach to address the need to improve the design of tailings dams, their management and the regulation of tailings management facilities to reduce, and eventually eliminate, the risk of such facilities failing.

This book presents the latest developments and breakthroughs in fuzzy theory and performance prediction of queuing and reliability models by using the stochastic modeling and optimization theory.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in vision-based structural health monitoring (SHM).

This text examines problems such as microbial contamination, building design, ventilation systems and psychological effects.

The textbook covers the application of human factors in different facets of tourism and hospitality industry.

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.

The construction industry in developing economies is responsible for creating deliverables such as infrastructure and housing while providing a means of livelihood to an ever-increasing number of management and frontline workers.

The third edition of the Construction Project Manager's Pocket Book continues to guide and educate readers on the broad range of essential skills required to be a successful construction project manager.

This book focuses on security science and technology, data and information security, and mobile and network security for space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs).

Giving you a combination of general principles, applied practice and information on the state-of-the-art, this book will give you the information you need to incorporate the latest systems and technologies into your building projects.

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This book primarily focuses on methodologies to enable marine structures to resist high velocity impact loadings.

Building Surveys has been a trusted guide for both students and professionals for nearly 40 years, evolving throughout its nine editions to address the challenges and responsibilities of the building surveying role.

This book presents select proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ICACE 2020), covering basic civil engineering branches.

Serenity is becoming alarmingly absent from our daily existence, especially within the urban context.

Das Buch gibt eine Einführung in die Dynamik-Probleme im Bauwesen.

This book presents unified design approach for strengthening concrete members with different techniques such as concrete, steel, and FRP jacketing.

This volume contains research articles that cover a wide range of topics related to ground improvement and subsurface structures.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Conference Environmental and Construction Engineering: Reality and the Future, held in Belgorod, Russia, on May 18-19, 2021.

Society needs to travel to engage in productive and effective commerce, social, educational and related activities.

This book examines noise-monitoring technologies and tools for registering the threshold of development of the latent period of the transition of a facility or product into an emergency state and controlling the dynamics of this development.

This book summarizes recent inventions, provides guidelines and recommendations, and demonstrates many practical applications of homomorphic encryption.

This book is the definitive reference source for professionals involved in the conception, design and specification stages of a construction project.

Climate change mitigation and sustainable practices are now at the top of political and technical agendas.

This book introduces readers to the topical area of CSI: critical space infrastructure, which is defined as an emerging domain of systems-of-systems encompassing hardware, workforce, environment, facilities, business and organizational entities.

This book describes the fast reactor (FR), a type of new reactor for nuclear plants, currently under research and development.

This book explains the nature of dampness in buildings, how to diagnose a dampness problem before it gets out of hand and how to deal with it.