Building construction and materials

This book presents a critical review of a criterion of risk, created to assess the flood risk to heritage buildings, and evaluates this criterion by applying it to the sample Portuguese heritage buildings.

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

Passive solar design techniques are becoming increasingly important in building design.

This year the rates in the book include contractor's overheads and profit, making the book easier for design and planning professionals.

This book gives a practical guide for designers and users in Information and Communication Technology context.

This book brings together some 20 chapters on state-of-the-art research in the broad field of computational plasticity with applications in civil and mechanical engineering, metal forming processes, geomechanics, nonlinear structural analysis, composites, biomechanics and multi-scale analysis of materials, among others.

This is the first of three essential reference volumes for those concerned with theinstallation and servicing of domestic and industrial gas equipment.

The increased level of activity on structural health monitoring (SHM) in various universities and research labs has resulted in the development of new methodologies for both identifying the existing damage in structures and predicting the onset of damage that may occur during service.

The first edition of this monograph, presenting accurate and efficient simulations of seismic damage to buildings and cities, has received significant attention from the research community.

This book collects the latest research results on security-related advanced technologies.

This, conference proceeding, book contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, on June 24-25, 2021.

Climate change is believed to be a great challenge to built environment professionals in design and management.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the design of foundations for tall buildings.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference, held at Guimaraes and hosted by the University of Minho, Portugal, on March 9-14, 2020.

The revised edition of this book offers an expanded overview of the reliability design of mechanical systems and describes the reliability methodology, including a parametric accelerated life test (ALT) plan, a load analysis, a tailored series of parametric ALTs with action plans, and an evaluation of the final designs to ensure the design requirements are satisfied.

This publication is a compilation of papers presented at the Semiconductor Device Reliabi- lity Workshop sponsored by the NATO International Scientific Exchange Program.

THE DEFINITIVE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY SOURCE FOR BUILDING WITH WOOD NOW IN A THOROUGHLY UPDATED SIXTH EDITION Since its first publication in 1966, Timber Construction Manual has become the essential design and construction industry resource for building with structural glued laminated timber.

This book systematically discusses the workability, mechanical properties, water stability, and material design methods of ultra-high ductility magnesium phosphate cement-based composites (UHDMC) with PVA fibers, PE fibers, or hybrid fibers.

This book opens up new ways to develop mathematical models and optimization methods for interdependent energy infrastructures, ranging from the electricity network, natural gas network, district heating network, and electrified transportation network.

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

This unique publication is the only detailed, multinational guide to the cost of construction work across Latin America.

This book explore how exergy analysis can be an important tool for assessing the sustainability of buildings.

The book presents select proceedings of the 9th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2023).

The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volumes as state-of-the-art papers documenting research and innovative practice in the field of construction.

This book explores the management of public facilities and the wider issues around it, with examples from educational, health facilities, and public spaces.

The twelfth edition of this essential valuation textbook reflects the changes in the regulatory and statutory framework for property valuations that have occurred since 2013, as well as presenting the tried and tested principles and practices of real estate valuation.

This book highlights the concept of environmental water footprint in the energy (bioenergy & hydropower) sector and the building/construction sector, focusing on a case study in Iran.

The ambition of the book is to give a contemporary insight in the state of the art when it comes to designing our cities and landscapes for dry conditions.

This book offers unique insights into modern African architecture, influenced by modern European architecture, and at the same time a natural successor to existing site-specific and traditional architecture.

The laws of thermodynamics-and their implications for architecture-have not been fully integrated into architectural design.

Palm Beach is a remarkably small town to be so famous; its population is only a little over 10,000.

This book provides a detailed introduction to maintenance policies and the current and future research in these fields, highlighting mathematical formulation and optimization techniques.

Die Ausbildung von Ingenieuren und Technikern hat normalerweise ihrenSchwerpunkt in der Gestaltung, Auslegung und Berechnung von Bauteilenaus Metallen.

This book is about the optimization of the characterization of the thermal properties of building envelopes, through experimental tests and the use of artificial intelligence.

Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence.

This book explores methods for managing uncertainty in reservoir characterization and optimization.

This book highlights advances in cyber security, cyber situational awareness (CyberSA), artificial intelligence (AI) and social media.

This book considers all aspects of performability engineering, providing a holistic view of the activities associated with a product throughout its entire life cycle of the product, as well as the cost of minimizing the environmental impact at each stage, while maximizing the performance.

This book will provide readers with an in-depth theoretical awareness and practical guidance on the implementation of an effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system to ensure construction projects meet approved quality, cost, time and social sustainability objectives.

The book presents the recent advances on testing and experimentation in civil engineering, especially in the branches of geotechnics, transportation, hydraulics, and natural resources.

This volume contains papers of the 9th European Workshop on the Seismic Behaviour of Irregular and Complex Structures (9EWICS) held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2020.

This book discusses environmental management and construction management approaches to the environmental problems that can emerge in construction projects.

This book provides guidance for the rational design and application of hydraulic grouts, based on a series of specific data (type of masonry, voids' width, targeted strength and durability level, available materials, etc.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference, held at Guimaraes and hosted by the University of Minho, Portugal, on March 9-14, 2020.

Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of knowledge and information.

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.

Analyses, in conjunction with Internal Components, the performance requirements of building components and the effectiveness of typical solutions.

Das Buch beantwortet alle wichtigen Fragen zu der Funktion eines Bausachverständigen wie zum Beispiel die Tätigkeit vor Gericht, die Erstellung eines Gutachtens, die Fragen der Vergütung und Haftung.