Building construction and materials

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Implications for the Central Region addresses national security threats and strategic opportunities for the United States and its allies in the Middle East and Central Asia following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

This book was developed while teaching a graduate course at several universities in the United States.

This publication breaks new ground.

This work is intended to jointly address the development, realization and applications of emitters and detectors of terahertz (THz-0.

Mit dem Inkraftreten der der Energie-Einspar-Verordnung EnEV 2006 und der Einfuhrung des Energieausweises fur Gebaude innerhalb der EU ist ein starker Anstieg des Auftragsvolumens im Bereich der Gebaudesanierung zu erwarten.

Concrete is the most widely-used construction material in the world.

This book discusses the features of composite materials and arch structures.

This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts.

This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations.

This book reports on several advances in architectural graphics, with a special emphasis on education, training, and research.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2022.

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

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of energy, environmental and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Scientific Conference Energy, Environmental and Construction Engineering, held in St.

Infraleichtbeton ist ein Beton mit sehr geringer Rohdichte, der sowohl die tragende als auch die warmedammende Funktion der Gebaudehulle in einem monolithischen Material vereint.

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

This book offers groundbreaking insights into transforming the concrete industry with innovative, environmentally conscious solutions.

This book presents essential methods and tools for research into the reliability of energy systems.

There is a growing interest in the use of wood in new building, not least because it has low embodied energy and it is an infinitely renewable resource.

It must be appreciated that no building surface is perfectly flat and that the best that can be expected is the appearance of flatness.

Building contract claims for more time on projects represent one of the largest sources of dispute within the industry.

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The world of retail banking is changing.

Introduction to Modern Infrastructure Construction serves as a pivotal resource for construction management education, focusing primarily on heavy civil construction and the latest technological innovations in the field.

The inverse design approach is new to the built environment research and design community, though it has been used in other industries including automobile and airplane design.

This book presents the numerical results of the use of the chemical model to analyse the advancement of the reaction and the mechanical model to simulate creep and shrinkage phenomena in COMSOL Multiphysics(R), as a way to reassess concrete structures suffering from those mechanisms.

This book expands on the subject matter of 'Computational Electromagnetics and Model-Based Inversion: A Modern Paradigm for Eddy-Current Nondestructive Evaluation.

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) combine cyber capabilities, such as computation or communication, with physical capabilities, such as motion or other physical processes.

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

This volume gathers the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (7ICEES), held in Antalya, Turkey on November 6-10, 2023, and affiliated with the 18th World Conference on Seismic Isolation (18WCSI).

The Magnesium Technology Symposium at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition is one of the largest yearly gatherings of magnesium specialists in the world.

The Party Wall Casebook, now available in paperback, is an essential reference tool for surveyors, architects, engineers and lawyers.

The Fire Safety and Risk Management Revision Guide: for the NEBOSH Fire Certificate is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management.

This handbook provides comprehensive treatment of the current state of glass science from the leading experts in the field.

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This book provides a comprehensive review of the production of smelter grade alumina from bauxite ores.

This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of seismic design and performance of steel structures, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 11th International Conference on the Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas (STESSA), held in Salerno, Italy, on July 8-10, 2024.

"e;Evaluating Measurement Accuracy"e; is intended for anyone who is concerned with measurements in any field of science or technology.

* A complete overview of solar technologies relevant to the built environment, including solar thermal energy for heating and cooling, passive solar energy for daylighting and heating supply, and photovoltaics for electricity production * Provides practical examples and calculations to enable component and system simulation e.

Almost 3000 lives have been lost in the UK construction industry over the last twenty-five years, in addition to those seriously injured or made ill.

This book highlights the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells.

Fundamental Building Technology introduces the technology, methods, and processes fundamental to construction by focussing on what is involved in building a typical low-rise house.

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

This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries.

This book provides an understanding of people's accessibility needs, and the barriers that may affect people with different identities and circumstances (e.

Construction planning techniques, technology, and applications-fully updated for the latest advancesThis thoroughly revised guide covers the fundamentals of construction equipment, machinery utilization, and production estimating.

This collection of essential data on eleven Asian economies outlines new trends and highlighting increasing differences between developed and developing countries.

Old Materials, New Climate: Traditional Building Materials in a Changing World is an accessible guidebook to understanding historic materials - how they were traditionally made, how they survived the test of time, and how changes in climate are now impacting materials in new ways.