Civil engineering, surveying and building

This book offers the comprehensive analysis of urban transportation systems in emerging countries across Asia, South America, and Africa.

This volume contains peer-reviewed and selected papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials, and Sustainable Engineering 2024, held in Warsaw, Poland.

The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed a burgeoning interest in the ecological or naturally inspired use of vegetation in the designed landscape.

This proceedings volume presents a collection of articles from key practitioners from relevant areas with experience in critical infrastructure.

In a world experiencing unprecedented urbanization and drastic climate change, there is immense demand for creative solutions to the environmental, social, and economic obstacles faced by burgeoning cities in the developing world.

Molecular Simulations and Multiphysics Nanoscale Coupling focuses on the theoretical foundations and numerical methods for studying the behavior of materials and the coupling of mechanical, thermal, and electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale.

This book consists of selected papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Advances in Concrete, Structural, and Geotechnical Engineering (ACSGE 2024) held at BITS, Pilani, India.

This book offers the comprehensive analysis of urban transportation systems in emerging countries across Asia, South America, and Africa.

Transparency and Public Participation for Radioactive Waste Management in Europe investigates how the pillars of the Aarhus Convention, and a broader understanding of transparency by Civil Society (CS), can be transposed into Radioactive Waste Management (RWM), particularly in the establishment of Radioactive Waste (RW) facilities in different national contexts.

Global climate change is typically understood and modeled using global climate models (GCMs), but the outputs of these models in terms of hydrological variables are only available on coarse or large spatial and time scales, while finer spatial and temporal resolutions are needed to reliably assess the hydro-environmental impacts of climate change.

This volume is dedicated entirely to arch structures' related issues, namely technical, scientific, historical, social, and cultural as well as future perspectives and challenges.

This book offers an engaging introduction to green hydrogen and its role in changing the global energy landscape.

The purpose of ICOLD Bulletin 169 is to assess the role of dams and reservoirs in adapting to the effects of global climate change, determine the threats, and potential opportunities, posed by global climate change to existing dams and reservoirs, and then recommend measures to mitigate against or adapt to the effects of global climate change.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the concept, technical framework, and progression of product reliability in the manufacturing industry.

This three-volume book is the proceeding of the 46th Australasian Universities Building Education Association (AUBEA) 2023 Conference which brings together papers on construction and built environment education and practice.

This book provides latest information and knowledge from internationally recognized experts working in wastewater treatment field.

This book provides comprehensive insights into the socioeconomic systems, carbon accounting, and consumption-expenditure frameworks influencing household carbon footprints (HCF) in a developing economy.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the 3rd Construction Management Workshop  (CMW 24), New Frontiers of Construction Management, held in Ravenna, Italy on November 7-8, 2024.

This book presents select proceedings of the 10th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2024).

This book states that the proceedings gathers selected papers from 7th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2024), which was held in Da Nang, Vietnam on December 7-9, 2024.

Urban rail systems are increasingly reaching their limits as traffic demand rises.

In the past twenty years, the scientific community has witnessed a technological revolution in products and processes, from consumer goods to factory automation systems.

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.

This book presents select proceedings of the 10th Conference on Transportation Systems Engineering and Management (CTSEM 2024).

This book includes peer reviews articles from the First International Conference on Engineering Structures (ICES2024), held at Guangzhou, China, on 8-11 November 2024.

How can designers address the emergent self-organizing nature of complex urban environments?

This book highlights the latest research developments in civil engineering and architectural materials, reflecting the innovative works presented at the 8th International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering, and Technology (ICACE 2024) held on 12-13 December at Parkroyal Hotel Penang, Malaysia.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Project Management (ICCRIP 2023) and explores recent and innovative developments in all aspects of the CRIP sector.

This book presents select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2024 held at MIT, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.

Damage and Healing Mechanics of Materials: Metals and Metal Matrix Composites covers the fundamentals of damage mechanics, with various damage models presented coupled with elastic and elasto-plastic behavior.

This book presents peer reviewed articles from the International Conference of Sustainable Development and Smart Built Environments: SDSBE2024; held from 6-8Nov at Auckland, New Zealand.

The book explores essential principles and practices for planning and designing sustainable refugee shelters.

This book discusses the proceedings of the National Conference on GeoPractices for Sustainable Infrastructure (GeoPractices 2024), focusing on the sustainable aspects of geotechnical engineering practices, particularly in highway construction and related ground improvement techniques.

This book presents the select proceedings of the First Women Indian Geotechnical Conference (WIGC) 2024 showcasing the overarching theme of "e;Geotechnics for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.

Structural Design and Optimization of Lifting Self-forming GFRP Elastic Gridshells Based on Machine Learning presents the algorithms of machine learning (ML) that can be used for the structural design and optimization of glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) elastic gridshells, including linear regression, ridge regression, K-nearest neighbors, decision tree, random forest, AdaBoost, XGBoost, artificial neural network, support vector machine (SVM), and six enhanced forms of SVM.

This book will present the select proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (8ICRAGEE) held at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati between December 11 and 14, 2024.

This book presents the select proceedings of the First Women Indian Geotechnical Conference (WIGC) 2024 showcasing the overarching theme of "e;Geotechnics for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.

With adults over sixty becoming an ever-increasing proportion of the global population, the challenge of accommodating the needs, preferences, and abilities, of this heterogeneous population has increased.

The fresh water supplies of the Earth are finite and as the world's population continues to grow humanity's thirst for this water seems unquenchable.

This book contains selected articles on the topics of "e;Smart Cities and Sustainable Development"e; and "e;Intelligent Transport Technologies and Smart Logistics,"e; which will be of interest to academics, researchers, and industry representatives to familiarize themselves with advanced experiences, research results, and best practices in the field of ITS.

This Bulletin covers the state-of-the-art of current practice after the important development in design and construction during the last 25 years.