Building construction and materials

Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Applications offers a blend of theory and practical applications for a complete understanding of thermodynamics for various engineering applications.

This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), held on August 26-30, 2018, in Florence, Italy.

The aim of this book is to summarize probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of nuclear power plants with WWER440 reactors and demonstrate that the plants are safe enough for producing energy even in light of the Fukushima accident.

In this book, leading architects and landscape architects provide their perspectives on the design of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts that can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced liveability in future cities.

Starting from the purchase of heavy equipment and following through to the end of its economic life, this manual explains how to efficiently maintain and operate different types of heavy equipment.

This book and its companion volume External Components encourage an evaluation of alternative methods for putting components together.

This book is concerned with the complexities of achieving quality in care transitions.

People who work in an office spend at least a third of their lifetime in these spaces.

Design technology is changing both architectural practice and the role of the architect and related design professionals.

Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis.

Building with straw bales is being embraced by amateurs and professionals for its versatility, comfort, environmental friendliness and high insulation.

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

Creating your dream home is an exciting idea, but it's also a major project and one where you need to be an expert on everything from planning laws to landscape design, and all that's in between.

This volume on "e;Advancement in the Design and Performance of Sustainable Asphalt Pavements"e; includes a collection of research and practical papers from an international research and technology activities on Mixture Design Innovation, Structural Pavement Design, Advancement in Production and Construction, Climate Changes and Effects on Infrastructure, Green Energy, Technology and Integration.

This book is intended to establish a bridge between the GB 50010, Fib MC2010, BS 8110 and ACI 318 or EC2.

This is the first book which exploits concepts and tools of global nonlinear dynamics for bridging the gap between theoretical and practical stability of systems/structures, and for possibly enhancing the engineering design in macro-, micro- and nano-mechanics.

This book forms part of a unique, highly practical and time-saving three volume presentation of the Building Regulations, each book covering all the regulations relating to specific building usage.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the RILEM TC 252-CMB International Symposium on the Chemo-Mechanical Characterization of Bituminous Materials.

The purpose of law is to prevent the society from harm by declaring what conduct is criminal, and prescribing the punishment to be imposed for such conduct.

In today's industrial companies, sensory evaluation is widely used in quality inspection of products, in marketing study and in many other fields such as risk evaluation, investment evaluation and safety evaluation.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the second volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Energy audits have multiple goals including reducing energy consumption, managing costs and environmental impact.

Many client organisations occupy large and often diverse property estates which require significant expenditure on maintenance, alterations, refurbishment or small-scale new building work.

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.

This book contains selected articles from the Second International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering-Iraq (ICGE-Iraq) held in Akre/Duhok/Iraq from June 22 to 23, 2021, to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and problems of geotechnical engineering in projects.

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.

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

This book presents the latest developments in biometrics technologies and reports on new approaches, methods, findings, and technologies developed or being developed by the research community and the industry.

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.

This book comprises select proceedings of the National Conference on Advances in Structural Technology (CoAST 2019).

The plastic analysis method has been used extensively by engineers for designing steel structures.

This book collects the scientific proceedings presented during the "e;2023 The 3rd International Civil Engineering and Architecture Conference"e; held in Kyoto in March 2023 with the aim of showing the latest advancements in theoretical and applied research in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector.

This book presents the select proceedings of Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region (CECAR 9) hosted by the ICE (I) under the aegis of ACECC at Goa, India, from 21-23 September, 2022.

Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete is the most comprehensive, up-to-the-minute text for students and instructors in civil and structural engineering, and for practising engineers requiring a full grasp of the latest Australian Concrete Structures Standard, AS3600-2009.

This book explains the role of food-oriented (or 'food-centric') quality system standards in the modern food and beverage industry.

Sensory Evaluation of Sound provides a detailed review of the latest sensory evaluation techniques, specifically applied to the evaluation of sound and audio.

vi of a large number of people due to the enormous quantities of radioactive material that would be required to reach high levels of contamination in mass-produced or distributed supplies.

This book provides a reference point for the development of Building Information Modelling (BIM) maturity in the developing country context.

Sustainable soil stabilization solutions aim to maintain a perfect balance between infrastructure performance and the social, economic and ecological processes required to sustain human equity, diversity, and the functionality of natural systems.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Development in Civil, Urban and Transportation Engineering (CUTE 2024), held from October 14-17 at Wroclaw in Poland.

This book presents an approach to energy-efficient building design, which takes into account the most important challenges in climate change mitigation and adaptation in Southern Europe.

Mathcad - das bekannte Computeralgebraprogramm - eignet sich sehr gut, um Berechnungen im Konstruktiven Ingenieurbau zu erstellen.

Most construction projects are large and costly.

This is the first book to articulate resilience-based public policy for a constantly changing, complex, and uncertain risk society.

In the field of equipment/product operation and maintenance (O&M) services, the new generation of information technologies such as the internet, big data, and artificial intelligence are deeply integrated with O&M services to form an internet-based Maintenance Repair & Operation (MRO) service network and an intelligent service environment.

This book presents select peer reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air Systems (DELTAs 2022) which was held at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

This book provides guidelines to ensure a safe and smooth running chemical production plant.