2025 September-2 - 184 articles
Urban metro systems (UMSs) primarily consist of underground structures and are therefore highly susceptible to disasters, such as rainstorms and waterlogging. The damages caused by such events are often substantial and difficult to recover from, high...
Dredged silt, characterized by high moisture content, low shear strength, and poor permeability, presents significant challenges for direct engineering application, leading to excessive land occupation and unsustainable resource management. To addres...
Extensive green roofs (EGRs) are recognized as a promising passive cooling strategy due to their low areal mass, yet their thermal performance is strongly influenced by water availability. While prior studies have focused primarily on continuous irri...
To improve the mechanical properties and durability of concrete made with recycled fiber-reinforced tailings aggregate, the influence of metakaolin (MK) content on its properties was studied. Freeze–thaw cycle tests and sulfate freeze–tha...
The transport of chloride ions in concrete is often affected by electric fields, and its concentration distribution is generally evaluated using the Nernst–Planck equation. The Nernst–Planck theory can only effectively predict the mass el...
As heritage cognition evolves, aligning conceptual understanding with conservation strategies becomes essential for effective practice. This study develops the Heritage Cognition–Conservation Paradigm Correspondence Framework, a methodological...
Persistent cost overruns, schedule delays, and weak control mechanisms continue to hinder construction project delivery in Saudi Arabia, where 64% of projects exceeded their planned time and 53% experienced cost overruns. Although project control sys...
To align with the development trends of green construction and industrialized building, prefabricated assembly technology has been widely applied in highway tunnel lining structures. However, when used in large-section highway tunnels, this technolog...
With the advancement of building industrialization and sustainable development, modular demountable buildings, as an efficient and environmentally friendly form, show significant potential in scenarios such as emergency housing and rural construction...
The durability and safety of modern concrete architecture and infrastructure are critically impacted by early-stage surface cracks. Timely and appropriate identification and management of these cracks are therefore essential to enhance structural lon...
This review provides a comprehensive examination of porosity and permeability as key parameters governing the durability and performance of construction materials, including natural stone, mortar, concrete, and other cementitious composites. It highl...
The current engineering structural design code employs a direct probability design method based on the Taylor series expansion of the performance function at verification points, retaining only linear terms. This approach ignores the curvature and ot...
This study explores the use of agricultural waste rice husk powder (RH) as a sustainable alternative to the petrochemical-derived carbon source, pentaerythritol (PER), in expandable flame retardants. RH is combined with halogen-free ammonium polyphos...
To investigate the longitudinal mechanical behavior of shield tunnels traversing soft and hard heterogeneous strata, a refined three-dimensional numerical model was developed using ABAQUS. The model includes tunnel segments, longitudinal bolts, reinf...
With the intensification of population aging, addressing the needs of older adults and enhancing their daily activities has become increasingly significant. This study focuses on community parks—frequent outdoor activity venues for older adults...
Friction dampers are widely used in building seismic protection due to their excellent shock-absorbing performance and reliable operation. To clarify the influence of friction plate material properties on the hysteretic behavior and stability of fric...
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This study investigates the external environmental temperature distribution of a small single-story BIPV building on a university campus in Jinan City, Shandong Province, China, under the most adverse summer high-temperature conditions. The temporal...
Carbon emissions in the building materialization stage are highly significant and concentrated. Quantification at this stage is essential for assessing carbon reduction potential, guiding energy-saving strategies, and supporting China’s “...
Macau’s Ching Chau Hill, as a composite entity of modern industrial heritage and natural cultural landscape, faces the dual challenges of conservation and regeneration. This study takes Ching Chau Hill as a case study, integrating structural eq...
Patio-style dwellings are a highly representative category of traditional dwellings in the Yangtze River Delta region of China. As a crucial climate-adjusting space for traditional dwellings in the hot summer and cold winter zone, patios have long be...
This research explores the environmental safety challenges faced by pocket parks in the context of urban aging within Chinese cities. It systematically analyzes visual elements that influence the elderly’s perception of environmental safety by...
The accelerating challenges of climate change and the global pursuit of sustainable development have positioned building thermal performance and energy efficiency at the forefront of academic and practical discourse [...]
To advance the application of sustainable recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) in bridge engineering, this study introduces a novel reinforced RAC-filled circular steel tubular (RRACFCST) column, leveraging the dual confinement of an external steel tube...
To mitigate thermal cracking in concrete box girders during construction, this study introduces an inversion method for thermal parameters by integrating machine learning with finite element simulation. The research aims to accurately identify key th...
Smartphone-based strain monitoring of structural components is an emerging approach to structural health monitoring. However, the existing techniques suffer from limited accuracy and poor cross-device adaptability. This study aims to optimize the sma...
With the rapid development of industry, landfill and other environmental problems have arisen due to the coal mining and industrial solid waste generated during coal extraction and industrial production. In this study, coal gangue was utilized as the...
To address the limitations of traditional models in capturing complex features for concrete strength prediction, this study proposes a hybrid deep learning approach that integrates multiple attention mechanisms with gated recurrent units (GRU). The m...
To address the challenges of multiple cost-influencing factors, high risks, and difficult control in highway construction projects, this study conducts a cost risk assessment based on the full-process perspective of project owners. Considering the lo...
With global sustainable construction growth, fully recycled coarse aggregate concrete (RCAC)—eco-friendly for cutting construction waste and reducing natural aggregate over-exploitation—has poor durability in seasonally freezing saline-so...
To address the challenges of the loss of ethnic cultural carriers and the spatial fragmentation of landscape management due to rural population shrinkage, constructing heritage corridors has emerged as a crucial strategy for integrating fragmented re...
Steel–timber composite (STC) structures offer a sustainable and low-carbon structural solution. Steel–timber interface behavior is critical for the mechanical performance of STC structures. This paper introduces a novel connection for ste...
Foamed concrete has been widely applied in construction engineering; however, the performance requirements vary across different structural components. Its production typically involves a substantial consumption of cement, which imposes both environm...
This study proposes a machine learning framework utilizing physical feature dimensionality reduction to address the problem of predicting the maximum excess temperature beneath the tunnel ceiling under the influence of multiple factors. First, theore...
TY-type intersecting joints are widely used in ultra-high voltage long-span transmission towers. To improve the ultimate bearing capacity of TY-type intersecting joints, this paper proposes a composite externally stiffened intersecting joint based on...
Digital Building Logbooks (DBLs) have been proposed to preserve lifecycle data across the design, construction, operation, and renovation phases of buildings. Yet, implementation has been hindered by the absence of standardized data models across jur...
This study conducted punching shear tests on steel grid–ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) composite bridge decks and performed finite element analysis (FEA) to evaluate their punching shear performance. Initially, a comparative analysis is...
This article presents a unique study on the demolition process of a high-rise reinforced concrete building simulated using a methodology based on the Applied Element Method (AEM). Prior to the parametric analyses, the progressive collapse-based solid...
As cities confront intensifying environmental challenges and increasing expectations for sustainable governance, extending Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) evaluation frameworks to the urban scale has become a pressing need. However, exist...
The knowledge economy has become ever more important for cities and regions, and different types of urban spaces have been created to accommodate its activities. One of the main assets of these spaces is vitality, a quality that is directly related t...
This paper examines the internationalization dynamics of the Turkish HVAC industry in Germany through a qualitative design based on 24 semi-structured interviews with senior executives. The analysis demonstrates that conformity with EU and German sta...
For the possible damage to overhead pipelines caused by gas explosions in utility tunnels, an overall three-dimensional finite-element model of utility tunnel–soil–pipeline is established, the overpressure loads are applied to the inner w...
Ground settlement caused by urban subway construction can significantly impact surrounding buildings and underground infrastructure, posing risks to structural safety and long-term performance. Accurate prediction of settlement trends is therefore es...
Pneumatic conveying of stiff shotcrete material plays a crucial role in mine support; however, the flow regime evolution mechanism of its complex multi-scale particle system during conveying remains insufficiently studied. This study establishes a cu...
Reflective materials, characterized by high albedo and thermal emissivity, offer effective passive cooling strategies for reducing building energy demand. While prior studies have developed thermal transfer models validated under laboratory condition...
To advance the adoption of manufactured sand, this study investigated concrete mix designs wherein manufactured sand partially substituted natural river sand and fully replaced fine aggregates. The influences of the water–binder ratio and fly a...
This study compares the environmental impacts of building reconstruction and renovation in aging building improvement projects and quantitatively assesses their carbon reduction potential from a life cycle perspective. A life cycle assessment (LCA) m...
To investigate the influence of transverse confinement on the bond performance between glass-fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars and concrete, an experimental study involving 28 beam-type bond specimens was designed and conducted. The effects of key...
The Work-Unit Compound (WUC) is a common neighborhood type that became prevalent during China’s socialist era, typically offering communal spaces that serve as vital spatial carriers for communal life. Following the shift in public housing prov...
Open Ground-Storey (OGS) buildings, widely adopted for functional openness, are highly vulnerable to seismic collapse due to stiffness irregularity at the ground storey (GS). The magnification factor (MF), defined as the amplification applied to GS c...
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