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Buildings, Volume 15, Issue 1

January-1 2025 - 149 articles

Cover Story: Concrete delamination can be effectively detected using infrared thermography; however, its performance is often affected by surface variations such as different color coatings, making the thermal contrast developed for delamination quantification un-robust in the natural environment. To reveal the key impact of concrete surface conditions on thermal contrast development, the relevant factors such as surface absorptivity, emissivity, ambient temperatures, and their interactive relation to the detection time window need to be investigated over the solar loading cycles. View this paper
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Articles (149)

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,654 Views
23 Pages

Review of Prediction Models for Chloride Ion Concentration in Concrete Structures

  • Jiwei Ma,
  • Qiuwei Yang,
  • Xinhao Wang,
  • Xi Peng and
  • Fengjiang Qin

6 January 2025

Chloride ion concentration significantly impacts the durability of reinforced concrete, particularly regarding corrosion. Accurately assessing how this concentration varies with the age of structures is crucial for ensuring their safety and longevity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,154 Views
17 Pages

6 January 2025

In this paper, a new anti-scour device combined with a perforated baffle and ring-wing plate is proposed to enhance the traditional method for better protection of bridge piers from local scour. Based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the orthog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,891 Views
18 Pages

Life Cycle Assessment of a Structural Insulated Panel Modular House in New Zealand

  • Aflah Alamsah Dani,
  • Ran Feng,
  • Zhiyuan Fang and
  • Krishanu Roy

6 January 2025

Innovative solutions are essential to meet the increasing demand for housing in New Zealand. These innovations must also be sustainable, given the significant contribution of the building and construction sectors to global carbon emissions (25–...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,299 Views
18 Pages

Hysteretic Behavior Study on the RBS Connection of H-Shape Columns with Middle-Flanges or Wide-Flange H-Shape Beams

  • Saleem Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Saeedi,
  • Linfeng Lu,
  • Osama Zaid Yahya Al-Ansi and
  • Saddam Ali

6 January 2025

Existing research on reduced beam section (RBS) connections in steel frames rarely addresses H-shaped beams with middle and wide flanges. Therefore, this study investigates the hysteretic behavior of RBS connections in H-shaped columns connected to H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,565 Views
14 Pages

6 January 2025

In this study, a performance comparison experiment with a vortex exhaust installed at the end of a ventilation device to enhance the effect induced by reducing indoor pollutants was conducted. The experiment was carried out by constructing a mock-up...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,310 Views
27 Pages

Research on Bearing Capacity Characteristics of Cave Piles

  • Lixin Ou,
  • Yufeng Huang,
  • Xu Chen,
  • Yang Xue,
  • Qingfu Li and
  • Biao Guo

6 January 2025

To investigate the load-bearing characteristics of a pile foundation with multiple piles passing through karst caves and the extent of the caves’ influence, this study takes the Qihe Bridge, a key project of the second section of the Anhe Expre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,000 Views
25 Pages

The Effect of Recycled Crushed Brick Aggregate on the Physical–Mechanical Properties of Earth Blocks

  • Carlos Alberto Casapino-Espinoza,
  • José Manuel Gómez-Soberón and
  • María Consolación Gómez-Soberón

6 January 2025

The use of different components, such as alternative aggregates, represents an innovation in construction. According to various studies, these components improve certain properties of the elements that incorporate them. Specifically, recycled constru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,717 Views
18 Pages

6 January 2025

The Sustainable Development Center of the University of Brasilia is one of the modernist buildings that make up the Darcy Ribeiro campus. The architectural project contains several recommendations for the execution of a flat roof waterproofing system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,673 Views
27 Pages

5 January 2025

In the waterway construction projects of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, crushed mudstone particles are widely used to backfill the foundations of rock-socketed concrete-filled steel tube (RSCFST) piles, a structure widely adopted in port con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,169 Views
19 Pages

Optimizing Subsurface Geotechnical Data Integration for Sustainable Building Infrastructure

  • Nauman Ijaz,
  • Zain Ijaz,
  • Nianqing Zhou,
  • Zia ur Rehman,
  • Hamdoon Ijaz,
  • Aashan Ijaz and
  • Muhammad Hamza

5 January 2025

Sustainable building construction encounters challenges stemming from escalating expenses and time delays associated with geotechnical assessments. Developing and optimizing geotechnical soil maps (SMs) using existing data across heterogeneous geotec...

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