2023 March - 263 articles
This study provides insight into the structural assessment, diagnosis, and strengthening of the medieval church of Tazlău Monastery in Piatra Neamț, Romania. The first part of the paper briefly presents the wider context of strengthening an...
From the perspective of tourism space optimization, the application of computer technology in creating computational simulations of correlation effects in tourism space systems is a core issue in research related to ports and hinterlands. Using a com...
Production efficiency is a critical research topic in the field of construction economics and management. It reflects the developmental potential and competitiveness of the economy or an economic system. An objective and reasonable assessment framewo...
Cities are paying more attention to building energy use and carbon footprint for attaining sustainability. Within this building sector, there is a growing attention toward development and adoption of energy efficient retrofit strategies. Plagued by t...
Many studies on structural topology optimization of steel plate shear walls have been conducted. However, research on topology optimization using the bidirectional evolutionary structural optimization method is limited. Accordingly, this study optimi...
To realize carbon neutrality, understanding the energy consumed in the building sector, which is more than that in other sectors, such as industry, agriculture, and commerce, is pivotal. Approximately 37% of energy consumption belongs to the building...
Collapsible soils are unsaturated low-density soils that undergo abrupt settlement when flooded without any increase in the in-situ stress level. The first stage of the site characterization is identifying collapsible soils, since these are problemat...
Transmission lines have the characteristics of being tall tower structures with a large span distribution of transmission lines that are sensitive to external loads such as wind and ice, and belong to strong, nonlinear, complex, rigid-flexible coupli...
The technology of additive manufacturing, especially 3D concrete printing (3DCP), has been recently adopted in the construction industry as a viable alternative to traditional construction methods. Although the technology offers a wide variety of str...
Corrosion damage is a serious problem in steel structures. The cross-sectional loss in the structural members due to corrosion reduces the load-carrying capacity of the members and the stability of their structures. In this study, the main reasons fo...
The construction industry has fared poorly in the process of digital transformation, while the main challenge is the digitalization of construction projects. Changes in project management approaches are urgently required in construction organizations...
The strengthening of steel beams using hybrid fiber-reinforced polymers (HFRPs) has gained enormous attention over the last decades. Few researchers have investigated the effectiveness of the fastening techniques without a bonding agent to overcome t...
Global temperatures have led to an increasing need for air conditioning systems. So, because of this fact, buildings have been improved in terms of their thermal and energy efficiency. Regarding this, the Brazilian standard ABNT NBR 15.575-4/2013 set...
The labor-intensive nature of the construction industry requires workers to frequently perform physically demanding manual work, thereby exposing them to the risk of musculoskeletal injury (approximately 31.2 cases per 10,000 full-time equivalent wor...
Building costs play a significant role in determining the affordability of a housing project, and these depend to a large extent on design choices. This paper is based on the premise that collaborative design processes, or co-design, used in collabor...
Steel formworks are widely used in prefabricated buildings thanks to their good characteristics. With the rapid development of engineering construction in China, steel formwork concrete structures, characterized by convenient construction, good seism...
In project practice, the search for optimal solutions is based on the traditional process of trial and error, which consumes much time and does not guarantee that solutions found are the optimal solutions for the problem. Many studies have been devel...
Current research efforts aim to develop insulating building materials to cope with hot tunnels by using crop straw fibers. The amount of straw fiber incorporated included different percentages of the gelling material mass: 0% (reference specimen), 2....
The article presents current research results in the field of airflow through a façade with a width of 1 m and a height of 13.7 m and with a ventilated gap, and its effect on the year-round heat balance of this façade. An idea to influe...
Saturated concrete is significantly different from dry concrete in fracture mechanical properties. Using the wedge-splitting tensile method to research the rule of change in moisture content, double-K fracture toughness and fracture energy of three s...
Disputes due to defects in newly built houses are increasing worldwide. A house builder is responsible for repairing any defects in a newly built house. However, since house builders’ risk of closure and bankruptcy are increasing due to aggrava...
Despite being perceived as a warm country, winters in the Central Mexican Plateau frequently reach temperatures below zero Celsius. Prolonged exposures to low temperatures resulting in heart and respiratory morbidities are estimated to be responsible...
This paper presents a numerical methodology to analyze frame structures supported on footing foundations subjected to slow strains caused by consolidation settlements. A building project on a subsurface layer of soft soil has been analyzed. The Bound...
Knowledge collaboration is beneficial for project parties to assess valuable knowledge resources from others in order to enhance their competitive advantages. However, knowledge collaboration is hampered by the special project environment and tempora...
Concrete is a versatile construction material used along with a reinforcement. Concrete is made up of binder materials and aggregates. Cement is a primary binder material used to produce conventional concrete. Carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphe...
Tunnel excavation inevitably causes surface deformation. In urban areas, surface deformation could lead to the deformation of surrounding buildings, which may cause damage to communities when accumulated to a certain extent. However, the current cons...
The formation of cracks in concrete structures occurs due to a multitude of causes ranging from shrinkage to external loading and environmental exposure. This phenomenon can significantly affect the lifecycle of concrete structures. Self-healing conc...
Few studies have investigated the structural behavior of steel-concrete composite alveolar beams in hogging bending regions. Their resistance can be reached by lateral distortional buckling (LDB), coupling LDB and local failure modes, or limit states...
In terms of load transfer, the design of the joints in concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) arch bridges is more critical than that in buildings due to the higher likelihood of steel–concrete-interface debonding. To improve the contact at the s...
Energy conservation in buildings has been the focus of many studies since nearly one-third of global energy consumption is due to buildings. Phase change material (PCM) technology promises to be an attractive solution for energy saving in buildings s...
The concrete-filled double steel tube (CFDST) has been more and more widely used in infrastructure due to its greater moment of inertia compared to the ordinary concrete-filled steel tube (CFST). With the increase in collision accidents occurring in...
Natural ventilation is one of the vital means for passive energy-efficient design in green buildings. As a widely used building façade, the perforated plate is mostly utilized for appearance decoration, noise absorption, and sun shading, but i...
In contrast to straight tunnels, the mechanisms of displacement of surrounding soil induced by shield excavation of small radius curved tunnels are more complex. Based on field monitoring data of surface settlement and horizontal displacement of a sm...
The possibilities of obtaining efficient building thermal control by means of colored envelopes while maintaining broad aesthetic options have been evaluated. The use of colored bilayers, where the inner layer presents strong solar absorbent or refle...
To optimize the segment storage and hoisting plan of precast segmental composite box girders with corrugated steel web bridges, China’s first precast segmental composite girder bridge with corrugated steel webs is taken as the background. The d...
IAQ is a crucial factor affecting the health, comfort, and productivity of workers, particularly those working in enclosed spaces like bank offices. This study aimed to evaluate the IAQ of a bank office’s operational area and vault by analyzing conce...
Defects are essential indicators to gauge the structural integrity and safety of reinforced concrete bridges. Non-destructive inspection has been pervasively explored over the last three decades to localize and characterize surface and subsurface ano...
The psychrometric chart is the most common data visualization technique for the designers of thermal comfort systems worldwide. From its humble roots as means of expressing the characteristics of air in building systems design, the use of the chart h...
The aim of this paper is to study the performance of a composite floor system at different heat stages using artificial intelligence to derive a sustainable design and to select the most critical factors for a sustainable floor system at elevated tem...
Optimizing a net-zero energy (NZE) residential building using what renewable energy resources are available in desert environments and budgeted within the limits of a governmental construction project is proving to be increasingly challenging for man...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance changes in steel-stranded hangers under complicated loads in moist or corrosive environments. First of all, corrosion tests were carried over three time periods (360 h, 720 h, 1080 h) on glo...
The indoor environmental quality of a building has attracted everyone’s attention since a worldwide pandemic was declared and forced people indoors. After several months, people were able to return to their usual activities, but with strict saf...
The computational modeling of hysteretic dampers is a powerful tool for design, allowing us to predict and optimize damper performance. In this research, a numerical model, based on Chaboche’s nonlinear kinematic hardening constitutive law, was...
In winter, many rural people in the coastal areas of northern China burn coal for both cooking and heating. As a result, the rural population is seriously affected by indoor air pollution. To analyze the influence of the location of heating sources o...
The feasibility of PVA fiber rubber concrete modified by modifier in the structure was investigated using the portal frame as the research object. The basic mechanical properties of modified PVA rubber concrete materials were tested mechanically firs...
Although public–private partnerships (PPPs) for tourism have received extensive attention, there has been limited research on their application to tourist toilets. The purpose of this study was to systematically explore the applicability of PPP...
The interior of an underground atrium is often a combination of multiple design elements. The lack of methodology and quantitative data support makes it impossible for developers and operators to know the public’s preferences for further renova...
In Japan, bridges are inspected via close visual examinations every five years. However, these inspections are labor intensive, and a shortage of engineers and budget constraints will restrict such inspections in the future. In recent years, efforts...
This study describes the seismic assessment of the Archangeloi (Başmelekler) Church in Kumyaka (Sige), Türkiye. The Archangeloi Church is an important religious monument that has survived to the present day from the eighth century. Through...
The increase in rehabilitation actions motivated further research in the scope of service life and/or building maintenance. In defining rational strategies for the buildings’ maintenance, reliable tools that model their performance over time are need...
of 6
