SPON`S CONTRACTORS` HANDBOOK: ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION, THIRD EDITION

Edition

3rd

ISBN/ISSN

0-419-16690-4

Collation

p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

621.319 Spo s

SPON'S CONTRACTORS' HANDBOOK; PAINTING AND DECORATING, 1991 FOURTH EDITION

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Seismic Design Methods for Steel Building Structures

The book, after two introductory chapters on seismic design principles and structural seismic analysis methods, proceeds with the detailed description of seismic design methods for steel building structures. These methods include all the well-known methods, like force-based or displacement-based methods, plus some other methods developed by the present authors or other authors that have reached…

Environmental Sustainability in Building Design and Construction

This monograph offers analyses of construction activities using various key concepts and assessments of sustainable development, and provides students and researchers with methodologies and design aspects for the sustainable development of the built environment. Additionally, the book demonstrates various national and international policies for assisting architects, engineers and policy makers …

Covered Bridges in China

This book is the first comprehensive work on Chinese covered bridges study, covering fields of human geography, historical buildings, and transportation. It includes more than 300 covered bridges of ancient and modern China, researching and analyzing their historical evolutions, architectural technologies and aesthetic values. And it, for the first time, divides Chinese covered bridges into “…

Design and Technological Applications in Sustainable Architecture

This volume discusses the climate responsiveness of sustainable architecture design and technology in China, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea in recent years, addressing concepts and applications in urban planning, building design, and structural performance evaluation. The four sections of the text cover the theory and implementation of sustainable architecture within various geographic bound…

Building Materials for Sustainable and Ecological Environment

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Construction Materials

Construction Materials is a comprehensive textbook covering all raw materials and products related to the construction processes, and not only those applied to building structures. The book is organized to help readers achieve competent knowledge about construction materials. At the beginning of the book the author offers the general concepts, definitions, and standards adopted worldwide…

Full-Scale Field Tests of Different Types of Piles

This book provides full-scale field tests of different types of pile foundations. For the testing, it includes static load tests which consider various loading orientations, dynamic load tests, inclinometer monitoring and tests that aim to determine the load transfer mechanism of pile foundation. This book also covers the up-to-date popular topic with detailed project studies. This includes the…

Reviewing Design Process Theories

This interdisciplinary book explores design theories, combining research from a range of fields including architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, industrial design, software engineering, environmental psychology, geography, anthropology, and sociology. Following an extensive review of the current literature, the author reveals eight major types of theory in design pr…

Sustainability and Automation in Smart Constructions

This book gathers outstanding papers presented at the Conference on Automation Innovation in Construction (CIAC-2019). In recent years, there have been significant transformations in the construction sector regarding production and the use of computers and automation to create smart and autonomous systems. At the same time, innovative construction materials and alternative technologies are cruc…

Construction and Building Research

Many areas of knowledge converge in the building industry and therefore research in this field necessarily involves an interdisciplinary approach. Effective research requires strong relation between a broad variety of scientific and technological domains and more conventional construction or craft processes, while also considering advanced management processes, where all the main actors permane…

Materials and Joints in Timber Structures: Recent Developments of Technology

This book contains the contributions from the RILEM International Symposium on Materials and Joints in Timber Structures that was held in Stuttgart, Germany from October 8 to 10, 2013. It covers recent developments in the materials and the joints used in modern timber structures. Regarding basic wooden materials, the contributions highlight the widened spectrum of products comprising cross-lami…

Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference (RSCC 2020)

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Hygrothermal Behaviour and Building Pathologies

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UHPCC Under Impact and Blast

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-33-6844-6

Collation

xxiii, 504p.:Ill.

Series Title

-

Call Number

620.135 Fan u

Environmental and Construction Engineering: Reality and the Future

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-75182-1

Collation

xv, 390p.:Ill

Series Title

-

Call Number

690 Env

Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference (RSCC 2020)

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-76543-9

Collation

xxv, 315p.:Ill

Series Title

-

Call Number

620.11 Pro

Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Structural Damage Modelling an…

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-15-9121-1

Collation

xii, 503p.:Ill.

Series Title

Lecture Notes in Civil; Engineering

Call Number

624.171 Pro

Case Studies in Building Rehabilitation

The book presents recent research and practical insights relating to building pathology. As such it contributes toward the systematization and dissemination of knowledge regarding structural and hygrothermal pathologies, durability and diagnostic techniques, while at the same time, demonstrating the latest advances in this domain. It includes new developments in the field of building pathology …

Shipbuilding Management

This book highlights the main features of shipbuilding management which lead to successful completion of shipbuilding projects. A brief review of the market context for the industry, its historical development are given to explain how shipbuilding arrived at its current structure. First pre-production including design, planning, cost estimating, procurement of materials and sub-contracting. The…

Environmental and Human Impact of Buildings

Featuring research on topics such as low energy buildings' concepts, construction materials and technology, hybrid energy systems, energy balance, and wellbeing, this book meets the expectations of academicians, specialists and researchers in the field, along with the scholars seeking coverage on buildings, environmental and human impact. It presents an integrated approach to the buildings' ene…

Case Studies of Building Rehabilitation and Design

This book presents recent research works related to blast resistant buildings, green roofs and sustainability, retrofit interventions with C-FRP fibers, analysis of cracking in pile cap foundation by delayed ettringite formation and acoustic performance in buildings. It demonstrates that building pathology is a holistic approach to studying and understanding buildings, and in particular, buildi…

Reinforcement of Timber Elements in Existing Structures

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-67794-7

Collation

XX, 271p.:Ill

Series Title

RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports

Call Number

624.184 Rei

Towards Energy Smart Homes

This book exemplifies how smart buildings have a crucial role to play for the future of energy. The book investigates what already exists in regards to technologies, approaches and solutions both with a scientific and technological point of view. The authors cover solutions for mirroring and tracing human activities, optimal strategies to configure home settings, and generating explanations and…

Sustainable Waste Utilization in Bricks, Concrete, and Cementitious Materials

This book highlights the current research, conceptual and practical utilization of waste in building materials. It examines the production of industrial and agricultural wastes that have been generated worldwide and have significant environmental impact. The book discusses how to incorporate these wastes effectively with greener technology and how to address its environmental impact in order to…

ICSDEMS 2019

This book gathers selected papers from the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, Management and Sciences (ICSDEMS 2019), held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It highlights recent advances in civil engineering and sustainability, bringing together researchers and professionals to address the latest, most relevant issues in these areas.

From Bulk to Structural Failure: Fracture of Hyperelastic Materials

This thesis investigates the fracture of nearly incompressible hyperelastic media. It covers the different characteristics of bulk material failure under dilatational or distortional loads and develops a unified description of the corresponding failure surface. It proposes a coupled strain and energy failure criterion for the assessment of notch-induced crack nucleation and presents a weak-inte…

Smart Technologies for Sustainable Development

This book presents select papers from the International Conference on Smart Materials and Techniques for Sustainable Development (SMTS) 2019. The contents focus on a wide range of methods and techniques related to sustainable development fields like smart structures and materials, innovation in water resource development, optical fiber communication, green construction materials, optimization a…

Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference (RSCC2020)

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference, held at Guimarães and hosted by the University of Minho, Portugal, on March 9-14, 2020. The theme of the Conference was “Ambitioning a Sustainable Future for Built Environment: comprehensive strategies for unprecedented challenges”, which was aimed at discussing current challenges and…