Building construction and materials

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Civil Engineering Trends and Challenges for Sustainability (CTCS 2020).

This volume comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Humanizing Work and Work Environment organized by the Indian Society of Ergonomics.

Der Alltag in Industriebetrieben ist seit Jahren geprägt von stetig zunehmender Komplexität, Informations- und Dokumentationsflut, Zwang zu intensiver Teamarbeit und ständigem Wandel der Rahmenbedingungen.

This textbook focuses on the performance and application of highway engineering composite material.

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.

This book focuses on tritium as a fuel for fusion reactors and a next-generation energy source.

This book describes the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design, environmental engineering and sustainability as presented by leading international researchers, engineers, architects and urban planners at the 3rd International Sustainable Buildings Symposium  (ISBS), held in Dubai, UAE from 15 to 17 March 2017.

The aim of this book is to reflect on 'vernacularity' and culture.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Durability of Critical Infrastructure.

This book focuses on an important technology for mineralizing and utilizing CO2 instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.

This book presents selected papers presented during the International Symposium on Earthen Structures held in IISc Bangalore.

This volume contains contributions by eminent researchers in the field of geotechnical engineering.

This book is a compilation of selected papers presented in the International Conference on the theme 'Wood is Good: Current Trends and Future Prospects in Wood'.

This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work.

This book is intended to serve as a one-stop reference on fibre-reinforced soils.

This book presents the necessary fundamental knowledge in the research, development, design, selection, and application of desiccant heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems.

Based on more than 12 years of systematic investigation on earthquake disaster simulation of civil infrastructures, this book covers the major research outcomes including a number of novel computational models, high performance computing methods and realistic visualization techniques for tall buildings and urban areas, with particular emphasize on collapse prevention and mitigation in extreme earthquakes, earthquake loss evaluation and seismic resilience.

Thisbook focuses on the recent results of the research project funded by aGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) of the Japan Society for the Promotionof Science (No.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die grundlegenden Konstruktionen von Flächenheiz- und Flächenkühlsystemen aus theoretischer Sicht.

This book explores how human factors and ergonomic principles are currently transforming healthcare.

Wohnen ist ein menschliches Grundbedürfnis.

This volume gathers contributions from the final workshop of the RILEM TC-251-SRT "e;Sulfate Resistance Testing"e; on External Sulfate Attack (TESA 2018), held on May 24-25, 2018 at IETcc-CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

Dieses Lehrbuch ist ein Einstieg in die Baudynamik, welcher sowohl schnell anwendbares Wissen beinhaltet als auch einen breiten Überblick gibt.

This book investigates the latest modeling and control technologies in the context of air-conditioning systems.

This book provides an overview of passive and interactive analytical techniques for nuclear materials.

This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

This book reports on the state of the art in physical ergonomics and addresses the design of products, processes, services, and work systems to ensure they are productive, safe, and enjoyable for people to use.

This book details the rigorous requirements for refractories designed for aluminium metallurgical processes: reduction, cast house, and anode production.

This proceedings book presents research papers discussing the latest developments and findings in the fields of mining, machinery, automation and environmental protection.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, by focusing on new design solutions for buildings and new technologies creation for construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on June 1-2, 2020.

This book addresses a modern topic in reliability: multi-state and continuous-state system reliability, which has been intensively developed in recent years.

This book addresses the performance of a multi-storey timber building subjected to a model fire that represents a real, potentially devastating internal fire.

This book begins with an introduction describing current societal transformations that merit new urban designs, including depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, large numbers of aging "e;Baby Boomers,"e; and climate change.

This book brings together studies broadly addressing human error from different disciplines and perspectives.

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

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 book offers a review of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and its application in online condition monitoring of electrochemical devices, focusing on the practicalities of performing fast and accurate EIS.

This book discusses recent brain research and the potentially dangerous dual-use applications of the findings of these research projects.

This proceedings book discusses state-of-the-art research on uncertainty quantification in mechanical engineering, including statistical data concerning the entries and parameters of a system to produce statistical data on the outputs of the system.

This book reports on the latest research and developments in the field of human factors in cybersecurity.

This book describes the current state of the art in cryogenic safety best practice, helping the reader to work with cryogenic systems and materials safely.

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce.

This book presents a selection of recent research works that provide best practice solutions, case studies and practical advice on the implementation of sustainable construction techniques.

This book presents a number of approaches to Fine-Kinney-based multi-criteria occupational risk-assessment.

This book reports on an architectural conservation and reuse project in Anipemza, an Armenian Soviet-era village on the Turkish border, just a few steps away from the important Yererouyk archaeological site.

This is the proceedings of the Third Conference on Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics (IAK 2018) held in Lima, Peru, March 5-7, 2018.

This book discusses the application of metaheuristic algorithms in a number of important optimization problems in civil engineering.