Building construction and materials

This Guide provides information on special topics that affect the fire safety performance of very tall buildings, their occupants and first responders during a fire.

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

This brief describes a novel approach to overcome the disadvantages of hemp fibres in cementitious composites.

This book focuses on technical safety, means of expanding the current procedures, and making the related risks more predictable.

This book presents the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Product Management (EPPM 2017), highlighting the importance of engineering, project and product management in a region of the world that is in need of transformation and rebuilding.

This book offers an integrated introduction to the topic of stability and vibration.

This volume comprises a set of high-quality, refereed papers that address the different aspects related to the geotechnical and structural design and construction of deep excavations, tunnels and underground space facilities as well as the effect of their construction on the surroundings.

This textbook supports a range of core courses in undergraduate materials and mechanical engineering curricula given at leading universities globally.

This book describes the newest developments in the creation of concrete using smart additives and supplementary cementitious materials as well as methods, technology and novel admixtures to monitor, evaluate and control steel corrosion in reinforced concrete.

This book introduces a number of recent developments on connectivity of communication networks, ranging from connectivity of large static networks and connectivity of highly dynamic networks to connectivity of small to medium sized networks.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction design and management, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Conference Industrial and Civil Construction 2021, held in Belgorod, Russia, on January 18-19, 2021.

This book provides a methodological framework to set properly the thermal enhancement and energy efficiency in historical buildings during a renovation process.

Structural concrete designers nowadays distinguish between B-regions (named after Bernoulli beam theory) and D-regions (D standing for 'disturbed').

This book presents advanced technologies used in practice to enable early recognition and tracking of various threats to national security.

This textbook on fire dynamics provides a comprehensive description of fuels involved in fires, definitions related to fire, thermodynamics for fire calculations, basics of transport processes and fundamental aspects of combustion related to fire, physical descriptions of premixed and non-premixed flames, detailed analysis of the characteristics of fires from solid and liquid fuels, including ignition, spread and burning rates and physical aspects of fire plumes, compartment fires and dust fires.

The book investigates the theme of Modernism (1920-1960 and its epigones) as an integral part of tangible and intangible cultural heritage which contains the result of a whole range of disciplines whose aim is to identify, document and preserve the memory of the past and the value of the future.

This book contains auxiliary calculation tools to facilitate the safety assessment of reinforced concrete sections.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of accelerated pavement testing (APT), presented at the 6th International Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing, in Nantes, France, in April 2022.

This volume explores the interpersonal, organizational, and technological enablers and barriers to information and intelligence sharing in multinational and multiagency military, humanitarian, and counterterrorism operations.

This book presents a comprehensive topical overview on soil dynamics and foundation modeling in offshore and earthquake engineering.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Conference BUILDINTECH BIT 2020, Innovations and Technologies in Construction, held in Belgorod, Russia, on October 8-9, 2020.

This book emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 1st International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (SECON'20), held in Angamaly, Kerala, India, on 14-15 May 2020.

This book provides a State of the Art Report (STAR) produced by RILEM Technical Committee 254-CMS 'Thermal Cracking of Mas-sive Concrete Structures'.

The status of America's infrastructure is graded every four years by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and reports are provided on the various categories.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the first volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015.

This book highlights scientific achievements in the key areasof sustainable electricity generation and green building technologies, aspresented in the vital bi-annual World Renewable Energy Network s Med Green Forum.

In this collection, scientists and engineers from across industry, academia, and government present their latest improvements and innovations in all aspects of metal forming science and technology, with the intent of facilitating linkages and collaborations among these groups.

The primary goals of this brief are to invoke alertness and solidarity among the public in earthquake prone areas of India, and to empower the community to prepare themselves to face and manage the aftermath of an earthquake.

This volume collects the papers from the World Conference on Acoustic Emission 2015 (WCAE-2015) in Hawaii.

Economic constraints and lack of knowledge often prevent companies - especially small and medium enterprises - from harmonizing their facilities with the landscape.

This book describes two different museums using construction technology as the common language that brings architecture and engineering together.

This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of structural health monitoring, as presented at the 8th Civil Structural Health Monitoring Workshop (CSHM-8), held on March 31-April 2, 2021.

This book presents strategic perspectives on quality and flexibility, as well as quantitative tools for assessing their implementation in a range of systems.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (SECON'21), held on 12-15 May 2021.

This textbook describes the basic mechanical features of concrete and explains the main resistant mechanisms activated in the reinforced concrete structures and foundations when subjected to centred and eccentric axial force, bending moment, shear, torsion and prestressing.

The book explores advanced building-facade daylighting design practices based on diverse energy and human-factor performance metrics.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book provides a collection of recent research works related to building pathologies, recycled materials, case studies and practical advices on implementation of sustainable construction.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers at the XXV International Scientific Conference "e;Construction: The Formation of Living Environment"e;, held in Moscow, Russia on April 20-22, 2022.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022.

This book reports on an outstanding research devoted to modeling and control of dynamic systems using fractional-order calculus.

By presenting the work of the RILEM Technical Committee 245-RTE, the book provides an overview of the existing techniques for the reinforcement of timber elements, joints and structures.

This volume gives an overview on recent developments for various applications of modern engineering design.

This textbook has been written for the engineering students.

This book addresses the reader interested in vehicular traffic phenomena, who have not learned about them before.

This book gathers selected contributions in the field of civil and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Scientific Conference on Socio-Technical Construction and Civil Engineering (STCCE), held in Kazan, Russia on April 21-28 2021.

This book provides insights into sensor development for structural health monitoring.

Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the eighth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.