Building construction and materials

This book presents the most current design procedures in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), available in handbooks, like the ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers) Handbook-2013 Fundamentals, in a way that is easier for students to understand.

Mechanics of Functionally Graded Material Structures is an authoritative and fresh look at various functionally graded materials, customizing them with various structures.

There is a strong need for a comprehensive textbook on construction technology for tall buildings, particularly in reference to land scarce countries and cities in Asia.

This book collects research outcomes related to high-performance concrete as a civil engineering material, providing readers with targeted research experiences and case analyses.

Much attention has been given to the increasing number of defects on building facades in relation to the construction industry's growing use of large panel curtain walls.

The ICAMEST 2015 Conference covered new developments in advanced materials and engineering structural technology.

Facade staining is a centuries-old building defect that is globally widespread.

Fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcement has been used in construction as either internal or external reinforcement for concrete structures in the past decade.

This book is based on the research papers presented during The Institute of Industrial Engineers Asian Conference 2013 held at Taipei in July 2013.

This book introduces the latest construction practices and processes for tall buildings from foundation to roof.

This book presents the preservation principles and the current environmental challenges relating to monitoring heritage sites and buildings under the effects of climate change.

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

The book contains the latest studies on digitalization of transport and logistics, improving vehicle fuel efficiency, information technology and digital security, land management and cadastres, building structures, structural analysis, and energy conservation in construction.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2020).

This book is about the Ultra-high Performance Cementitious Composites (UHPCC), which is a relativity new type of cementitious materials.

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

The book presents the select proceedings of National Conference on Recent Advances in Structural Engineering (NCRASE 2020).

This book summarizes the technical method and construction process of underground pipeline testing, cleaning, updating and repairing.

The present book gathers a large amount of the recent research results on this topic to provide a better understanding of the size effect by giving a quantitative description of the relationship between the properties of engineering concrete-making material (e.

This book highlights the current research, conceptual and practical utilization of waste in building materials.

The question of what architecture is answered in this book with one sentence: Architecture is space created for human activities.

This book presents select proceedings of National Conference on Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials (ASCM 2020) and examines a range of durable, energy-efficient, and next-generation construction materials produced from industrial wastes and by-products.

This book provides basics and selected advanced insights on how to generate reliability, safety and resilience within (socio) technical system developments.

This book comprises select proceedings of the First International Conference on Urban Science and Engineering.

This volume comprises select proceedings of the 7th International and 28th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research conference 2018 (AIMTDR 2018).

This book comprehensively covers corrosion and corrosion protection in China in the areas including infrastructure, transportation, energy, water environment, as well as manufacturing and public utilities.

This book explores the application of breakthrough technologies to improve transportation performance.

This book features selected papers from the 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology (AOSFST 2018), held in Taipei, Taiwan.

Converting sludge into construction materials is deemed to be a sustainable approach to alleviating sludge disposal problems and conserving natural resources.

This 5th edition covers the latest practices and processes of various alternative methods for the construction of tall buildings from foundation to roof.

The 2016 International Conference on Mechanics and Architectural Design (MAD2016) were held in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, 14 - 15 May 2016.

Post-war Europe and Asia have seen the rapid development of German and Japan from a war torn countries into two of the most powerful nations in the world.

This new edition of Construction Technology for Tall Buildings comprehensively revises and expands the previous edition, incorporating new topics and many new figures.

This book introduces the latest construction practices and processes for tall buildings from foundation to roof.

This book provides readers an understanding of the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for international construction operations.

This book is designed to be an inclusive for the best practice approach to building maintenance management, where the processes, procedures and operational systems meet a high standard of professional and academic competence.

The book presents the development of the Construction Quality Assessment System (CONQUAS), Singapore's de facto quality performance measurement system, explains the application of the Quality Management System (QMS) to manage CONQUAS and identifies 33 critical success factors (CSFs) for achieving high CONQUAS scores.

Appeals to the Student and the Seasoned ProfessionalWhile the analysis of a civil-engineering structure typically seeks to quantify static effects (stresses and strains), there are some aspects that require considerations of vibration and dynamic behavior.

This book explores the reconstruction after the 2015 Gorkha Nepal earthquake, on the basis of the author's first-hand experience that has been validated with empirical evidence.

This book comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2021.

This book presents a key solution for current and future technological issues, adopting an integrated system approach with a combination of software engineering applications.

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.

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.

The book presents the select proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2021).

The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacities such as Shanghai.

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.