Civil engineering, surveying and building

Today, only having information is insufficient for a competitive advantage.

This book explains over 3,000 terms (over 200,000 words) and contains over 200 professionally drawn line illustrations.

This book discusses the intelligent optimization and control of complex metallurgical processes, including intelligent optimization and control of raw-material proportioning processes, coking process, and reheating furnaces; intelligent control of thermal state parameters in sintering processes; and intelligent decoupling control of gas collection and mixing-and-pressurization processes.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Challenges, and Opportunities 2023 (SIIOC 2023).

Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity's grounding in the ancient concept of kenosis, the "e;emptying"e; that allows creativity to happen; that makes appearance possible.

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

Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of ground and envelope as spatial elements that can inform the search for embedded locally specific architectures, this book collects essays and projects that each contributes a particular element to what might constitute an integrated and richly nuanced approach to spatial organisation.

This book introduces the intelligent control technology of heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) water system in detail, studying its thermal distribution characteristics and optimal control methods combining the nonlinearity, strong coupling and delay characteristics to improve the overall operation and maintenance level as well as the energy efficiency of HVAC water system.

This book is the companion volume to Design of High Strength Steel Reinforced Concrete Columns - A Eurocode 4 Approach.

Das Lehrbuch bietet eine kompakte und prägnante Darstellung der Mechanik elastischer Körper und Strukturen.

The Routledge Handbook of Transportation offers a current and comprehensive survey of transportation planning and engineering research.

Out of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education, and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills, passions, and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways.

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

This book provides a wide landscape for recycling and product lifetime management in the textile and fashion sector.

This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues.

Design for Wellbeing charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people.

National and European transport models become increasingly important.

Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities.

Focuses on the application of membrane technologies in removing toxic metals\metalloids from water.

This volume gathers the proceedings of the 3rd International RILEM Workshop on Concrete Durability and Service Life Planning (ConcreteLife'20), held in Haifa, Israel in January 2020.

The progressive deterioration of concrete surface structures is a major concern in construction engineering that requires precise repairing.

Detailing is an essential part of the design process.

This book delves into the transformative potential of neuromorphic computing within the realm of civil engineering, emphasizing its role in advancing smart infrastructure systems.

The objective of this book is to encourage administrations to formulate a sound housing policy to solve basic health-related housing problems and to meet WHO's objective of healthful housing for all by the year 2000.

This contributed volume is designed for fundamental understanding of fracture behavior of composites applied in core industrial sectors such as mechanical, electronics, Automotive, civil structures, and aerospace research and fills the gap of knowledge on fracture analysis.

By combining focus groups and interviews with innovative research techniques, such as web-based discussions and Q methodology, this book provides insights into the daily experiences of those using the British transport system.

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This book explores the legal and regulatory aspects of the complex air cargo sector, discussing in detail the general principles of the carriage of air cargo; artificial intelligence and air cargo; facilitation; carriage of hazardous goods; human remains; and animals, as well as cargo security; price fixing and anti competitive conduct in air cargo operations; liability issues; the air cargo supply chain and contract of carriage.

Procurement Systems details the whole spectrum of procurement issues in the construction industry, starting with the client /customer and running through managerial, cultural and IT-based issues.

This volume discusses a combination of topics dealing with the wide variety of urban planning, authored by well reputed scholars in India mastering disciplines such as architecture, urban design, transportation planning, public policy, urban planning, urban engineering and civil engineering.

Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground comprises a collection of 118 papers, four reports on symposium themes, and four invited lectures presented at the seventh International Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground, held in Rome, Italy, 16-18 May 2011.

Hall argues that 'London was the chief manufacturing centre of the country in 1861, and without doubt for centuries before that'.

This book is a primer for those interested in a career in this dynamic, multidisciplinary field as well as a handy reference for practicing consultants.

The Art of Measuring in the Thermal Sciences provides an original state-of-the-art guide to scholars who are conducting thermal experiments in both academia and industry.

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.

Computer vision-based crack-like object detection has many useful applications, such as inspecting/monitoring pavement surface, underground pipeline, bridge cracks, railway tracks etc.

Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

This revised and significantly expanded edition contains a rigorous examination of key concepts, new chapters and discussions within existing chapters, and added reference materials in the appendix, while retaining its classroom-tested approach to helping readers navigate through the deep ideas, vast collection of the fundamental methods of structural analysis.

Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.

This book explores the complex relationship between societies, architecture, and urbanism of market halls, traditional souqs, bazaars, and speciality street markets in the Middle East and North Africa.

Our knowledge to model, design, analyse, maintain, manage and predict the life-cycle performance of infrastructure systems is continually growing.

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged.

This book forms the proceedings of a workshop held in Hiroshima in June 1998 and derive from the work of a Technical Committee of the Japan Concrete Institute.

Undesign brings together leading artists, designers and theorists working at the intersection of art and design.

Planning evaluation is required to establish the success of planning interventions - both of physical developments and new approaches.

This book covers the merits and demerits of advanced composite materials with regard to their applications for earthquake-resistant applications.

This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the Sustainable Concrete Materials and Structures in Construction 2020, held at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia, on 24th August 2020.

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