Building construction and materials

This book discusses offshore platform integration technology, focusing on the floatover methodology and its applications.

This book discusses environmental management and construction management approaches to the environmental problems that can emerge in construction projects.

This book discusses the application of quality and reliability engineering in Asian industries, and offers information for multinational companies (MNC) looking to transfer some of their operation and manufacturing capabilities to Asia and at the same time maintain high levels of reliability and quality.

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

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

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'.

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.

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.

This book examines the different spatial control techniques for regulation of spatial power distribution in advanced heavy water reactors (AHWR).

This book presents novel design principles and technologies for dynamic isolation based on experimental studies.

This book describes the fast reactor (FR), a type of new reactor for nuclear plants, currently under research and development.

This book is a comprehensive compilation of earthquake- and tsunami-related technologies and knowledge for the design and construction of nuclear facilities.

This book discusses design aspects of steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) members, including the behavior of the SFRC and its modeling.

This book deals with quantifying and analyzing the risks associated with sustainable energy technology growth in electric power systems, and developing appropriate models and methodologies to mitigate the risks and improve the overall system performance.

This book focuses on the free vibrations of graphite-epoxy laminated composite stiffened shells with cutout both in terms of the natural frequencies and mode shapes.

This book introduces condition-based maintenance (CBM)/data-driven prognostics and health management (PHM) in detail, first explaining the PHM design approach from a systems engineering perspective, then summarizing and elaborating on the data-driven methodology for feature construction, as well as feature-based fault diagnosis and prognosis.

This book presents a first-of-its-kind exposition on the emerging technology of jute fiber geotextiles.

This book presents essential methods of deformation compatibility control, and explicitly addresses the implied conditions on the methods' deformation compatibility.

This book offers a thorough and systematic introduction to the modified failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) models based on uncertainty theories (e.

This book explores the extremely modular systems that meet two criteria: they allow the creation of structurally sound free-form structures, and they are comprised of as few types of modules as possible.

This book uses motivating examples and real-life attack scenarios to introduce readers to the general concept of fault attacks in cryptography.

This book is comprised of two parts, both of which exploremodular systems: Pipe-Z (PZ) and Truss-Z (TZ), respectively.

This book presents three projects that demonstrate thefundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition the layoutdesign, evaluation and optimization.

This book offers an in-depth study of the design and challenges addressed by a high-level synthesis tool targeting a specific class of cryptographic kernels, i.

This book provides a comprehensive description of traditional and innovative forest-based bioproducts, from pulp and paper, wood-based composites and wood fuels to chemicals and fiber-based composites.

Thisbook focuses on topics in the entire spectrum of fire safety science, targetingresearch in fires, explosions, combustion science, heat transfer, fluiddynamics, risk analysis, structural engineering, and other subjects.

The book introduces basic risk concepts and then goes on to discuss risk management and analysis processes and steps.

Para la formación de ingenieros civiles, un curso sobre el análisis mecánico de las estructuras es la conexión entre la mecánica de cuerpos sólidos con el mundo de la construcción de edificaciones e infraestructuras.

La presente investigación hace parte de la convocatoria que el Departamento de Investigaciones de la Universidad Piloto de Colombia adelantó el año 2010 y que, con el conjunto de las propuestas presentadas por el Programa de Arquitectura al interior del Grupo de Investigación Practica Urbanoarquitectónica y Teoría Socioeducativa, busca avanzar en diferentes direcciones en el proceso de escrutar las actuales dinámicas que se dan en la conformación de nuestras ciudades y de los territorios que las contienen.

Eco-envolventes identifica el límite de una construcción con el entorno: fachadas y cubiertas son vistos como un sistema donde todas sus partes co-accionan.

Este manual está dirigido a los estudiantes de pregrado y posgrado de disciplinas relacionadas con el diseño del hábitat, interesados en adquirir un conocimiento introductorio sobre el uso de herramientas digitales en los procesos de diseño enfocados hacia la sostenibilidad.

Se suele clasificar los temas de la Construcción en 4 ramas: Movimiento de Tierra, Edificación, Administración y Legislación.

Durante el proceso de elaboración del Proyecto de Restauración de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Cartago, llevado a cabo por el CITCE de la Universidad del Valle (Centro de Investigación en Territorio, Construcción y Espacio), se realizaron muchos estudios relacionados, tanto con los hechos y sucesos acaecidos a lo largo de la historia del inmueble como con la construcción misma tal como ésta ha llegado hasta nosotros.

El lector encontrara en estas guias de laboratorio de Resistencia de Materiales, el mejor complemento practico de la teoria que rige la Mecanica de Materiales.

El libro Identificacion de fuentes de agregados para pavimentos esta dirigido a quien se desempena en el campo de la infraestructura via y tiene interes en los agregados utilizados en la elaboracion de subbases, bases granulares, concretos y mezclas asfalticas.

Esta obra fue concebida a partir de la experiencia de los autores al impartir la materia Diseno de Concreto.

El presente trabajo es el resultado del quehacer cotidiano y de la reflexion en el Taller de Intervencion en Patrimonio, del Programa de Arquitectura de la Facultad de Ciencias del Habitat de la Universidad de La Salle.

Compiled by AECOM, the 2025 edition has been updated with the latest pricing information to help you manage your projects over the next 12 months through this challenging period of high inflation and financial uncertainty.

This volume focuses on research and practical issues linked to Calcined Clays for Sustainable Concrete.

This book summarizes science and technology of a new generation of high-energy andinsensitive explosives.

This is the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Strain-Hardening Cement-Based Composites (SHCC4), that was held at the Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany from 18 to 20 September 2017.

This volume addresses the challenges associated with methodology and application of risk and resilience science and practice to address emerging threats in environmental, cyber, infrastructure and other domains.

This book describes the latest molecular insights needed to understand the chemical and biological (CB) agents and their associated biotechnologies.

This book describes the creation of a monitoring network, which can provide information about the exact locations and the environmental threats posed by chemical weapons (CW) dumpsites in the Baltic Sea region, using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), and utilising the existing research vessels of NATO partner institutions as launching platforms.

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

This volume provides preliminary recommendations on ways to educate and develop experience-based expertise among disaster response, security and other professionals from diverse backgrounds, whose current and future interests relate to crisis management.

The work of the RILEM Technical Committee (TC -236 BBM) was dedicated to the study of construction materials made from plant particles.

This book captures the state of the art of the durability of fibre-reinforced strain-hardening cement-based composites (SHCC) and the durability of structures or structural elements manufactured in full or in part with this class of modern construction materials.