Building construction and materials

This book highlights the concept of environmental water footprint in the energy (bioenergy & hydropower) sector and the building/construction sector, focusing on a case study in Iran.

This book presents experimental results and theoretical advances in the field of ultra-low-cycle fatigue failure of metal structures under strong earthquakes, where the dominant failure mechanism is ductile fracture.

This book brings together concepts from the building, environmental, behavioural and health sciences to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of office and workplace design.

This book discusses the development, types and application principles of portable air purifiers in China.

This book deals with the energy footprints of biorefineries and the hotel and buildings sector.

Safe and high-efficiency operation are two main issues in rail transportation.

This book discusses in detail the great historical and social significance of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The proceedings of the 11th International Mine Ventilation Congress (11th IMVC), is focused on mine ventilation, health and safety and Earth science.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of quality and quality management.

This book comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Green Buildings and Sustainable Engineering (GBSE 2018), which focused on the theme "e;Transforming our Built Environment through Innovation and Integration towards a Smart and Sustainable Future"e;.

This book presents the latest developments and breakthroughs in fuzzy theory and performance prediction of queuing and reliability models by using the stochastic modeling and optimization theory.

In this book, academics, policy makers, developers, architects and landscape architects provide a systematic review of the environmental, social, economic and design benefits of dense and green building types in high-density urban contexts and discuss how these can support higher population densities, higher standards of environmental sustainability and enhanced live ability in future cities.

This science comic presents the entire life cycle of the metro system in an accessible and fun way.

The book comprises select proceedings of the 2016 annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society (IGC 2016), with technical papers on the theme "e;Ground Improvement and Geosynthetics"e;.

This book presents articles covering a wide spectrum of topics in geotechnical engineering, including properties of soils, unsaturated soil mechanics, ground improvement, liquefaction and seismic studies, soil-structure interaction and stability analysis of man-made and natural slopes.

This book is a collection of select papers presented at the Tenth Structural Engineering Convention 2016 (SEC-2016).

This book is a collection of select papers presented at the Tenth Structural Engineering Convention 2016 (SEC-2016).

This book focuses on ecological wisdom inspired restoration engineering through theories, hypotheses, policies, practical understanding, and case studies.

This proceedings volume gathers selected papers presented at the Chinese Materials Conference 2017 (CMC2017), held in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, China, on July 06-12, 2017.

This book presents simplified analytical methodologies for static and dynamic problems concerning various elastic thin plates in the bending state and the potential effects of dead loads on static and dynamic behaviors.

This book focuses on numerical simulations of manufacturing processes, discussing the use of numerical simulation techniques for design and analysis of the components and the manufacturing systems.

This book presents an analysis procedure for structures that are exposed to the lateral loads such as earthquake and wind.

This book is tailored to the needs of structural engineers who are seeking to become familiar with the design of steel structures based on Eurocode 3.

This book highlights computationally enabled and digitally fabricated strategies used in the design of a series of full-size wooden structures.

This book introduces readers to various tools and techniques for the design of precision, miniature products, assemblies and associated manufacturing processes.

This book brings forward the concept of the geology-environmental capacity of ground buildings.

This book presents a systematic approach to the experimental, theoretical, and numerical investigation of reinforced concrete (RC) T-beams strengthened in shear with glass-fibre-reinforced polymers (GFRP) with variation in transverse steel reinforcements.

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

This book shares key insights into system performance and management analytics, demonstrating how the field of analytics is currently changing and how it is used to monitor companies' efforts to drive performance.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences (HSFEA 2016).

This book includes selected technical papers presented at the First Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE-2016).

This book primarily focuses on methodologies to enable marine structures to resist high velocity impact loadings.

This book comprises selected papers on advances in the field of health and environment safety that were presented at the leading international conference on advances in the field of health, safety, fire, environment, allied sciences and engineering (HSFEA 2016).

This book focuses on the utilisation of construction waste material as coarse aggregate in making concrete.

This book aims at finding some answers to the questions: What is the influence of humans in controlling CAD and how much is human in control of its surroundings?

This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the areas of industrial safety.

This book addresses information technologies recently applied in the field of construction safety.

This book discusses action-oriented, concise and easy-to-communicate goals and challenges related to quality, reliability, infocomm technology and business operations.

This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the area of ergonomic design.

In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality.

This book highlights aesthetics as pertaining to the structural component in architectural design.

This book presents interviews with 20 successful Malaysian housing developers, to provide real-world insights and practical know-how for future developers.

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

This book bridges the gap between research and practice in the area of sustainable design of buildings, exploring the passive (climate-responsive) design and thermal behavior of buildings and ways to incorporate these enhancements in architectural and civil engineering practice.

This book includes keynote presentations, invited speeches, and general session papers presented at the 7th International Symposium on Environmental Vibration and Transportation Geodynamics (formerly the International Symposium on Environmental Vibration), held from October 28 to 30, 2016 at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

This book presents a model of electromagnetic (EM) information leakage based on electromagnetic and information theory.

This book presents the latest research advances and findings in the field of smart/multifunctional concretes, focusing on the principles, design and fabrication, test and characterization, performance and mechanism, and their applications in infrastructures.

This volume is the outcome of deliberations on formal methods in aerospace.

This book presents operational modal analysis (OMA), employing a coherent and comprehensive Bayesian framework for modal identification and covering stochastic modeling, theoretical formulations, computational algorithms, and practical applications.

In this book, the authors present their theoretical, experimental and numerical investigations into concrete structures subjected to projectile and aircraft impacts in recent years.