Lightweight aggregate concrete is an innovative building material used to reduce the self-weight of a high-rise building. Recently, the use of lightweight aggregate in construction is increasing immensely due to its performance during an earthquake....
The strategic issue faced by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Republic of Indonesia (PUPR) is the large housing backlog, especially in the urban areas. Low-income communities earning less than 2 USD/day are found as the most vulnerable to la...
Lightweight cellular concrete (LCC) has gained attention in the pavement industry as a potential subbase material due to its workability, freeze–thaw resistance, and thermal insulation properties. Research has shown that LCC has sufficient stre...
Due to its particularity and importance, long-distance oil and gas pipelines need to be well protected from damage by backfill materials. In this study, construction waste and expanded polystyrene (EPS) were used to replace conventional fine aggregat...
Segmented timber shells present a novel building system that utilizes modular, planar building components to create lightweight free-form structures in architecture. Recent advancements in the research field of segmented timber shells pursue, among o...
Peatlands are more likely to be affected by intense precipitation and soil erosion, thus requiring modifications for stabilized soil and subgrade protection. This experimental study aimed to find a suitable pavement type using fly ash, an unutilized...
With the demand for construction of lightweight ships and polar ships, high-strength steel is increasingly applied in shipbuilding. There are a large number of complex curved plates to be processed in ship construction. The main method for forming a...
Lightweight engineered trusses support sustainable construction with the benefits of mass production and fast construction at lower costs. However, the truss system has raised concerns due to premature failure in fire conditions. This study investiga...
This paper proposes an improvement of the conventional Lightweight Steel Frame (LSF) wall structure suitable for the design of high-performance modular buildings. A mobile module, named MUZA, is used as a case study building to analyse the performanc...
This paper presents HERMEES—Holistic Evaluation and Ranking Model for Energy Efficient Systems. HERMEES is based on a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model designed to select the optimal combination of lightweight cryptography (LWC) and t...
This study explores the synergistic development of natural gypsum-based composites (NGBCs) with enhanced multifunctional characteristics, employing hollow glass microspheres (HGMs) as density-reducing agents and sisal fibers (SFs) as mechanical reinf...
A hypothesis was put forward that a nano-modifying additive of micro silica, which had a beneficial effect on achieving a perfect structure of heavy concrete, can also be effectively used in lightweight fiber-reinforced concrete. The nano-modifying a...
Construction waste detection under complex scenarios poses significant challenges due to low detection accuracy, high computational complexity, and large parameter volume in existing models. These challenges are critical as accurate and efficient det...
Lightweight construction is experiencing a significant market implementation with sustained growth both for new buildings and retrofitting purposes. Despite the acknowledged advantages of this type of construction, their reduced thermal inertia can j...
Decreasing the demand for natural aggregates is doubly justified by the significant contribution of the construction industry to the unsustainable development path of the natural environment, and the projected global increase of the consumption of co...
In this research work, thermal foaming of bottom ash and sodium silicate geopolymer is proposed as a production process for light weight bricks. The composition and temperatures were studied and optimized to get the most suitable intumescence propert...
Global economic growth causes an increase in natural resources exploitation, particularly in construction branch. The growing use of electricity contributes to climate change. Therefore, it is necessary to search the solutions, which will allow for r...
Innovative materials and systems for flexible and lightweight energy-efficient solutions in construction can help achieve the objective of more efficient buildings. This literature review categorizes these solutions into three categories: materials/s...
To reduce the risk of head trauma to workers working in high-risk workplaces such as construction sites, we designed a new automated lightweight end-to-end convolutional neural network to identify whether all people on a construction site are wearing...
An autonomous robot that can monitor a construction site should be able to be can contextually detect its surrounding environment by recognizing objects and making decisions based on its observation. Pixel-wise semantic segmentation in real-time is v...
Effective vehicle detection plays a crucial role in various applications in cities, including traffic management, urban planning, vehicle transport, and surveillance systems. However, existing vehicle detection methods suffer from low recognition acc...
In recent years, with continuous technological advances, BIM technology has gradually expanded from the traditional construction industry into the field of hydraulic engineering. Since BIM models, which span the entire project lifecycle, contain subs...
Conventionally, aerial manipulators, when used for inspection, use drone rotors to stabilize the center of gravity (CoG) shifts, which highly affects its performance. This paper discusses the development of a self-balancing lightweight cable aerial m...
More than 1.15 million cubic meters (1.5 million cubic yards) of sediment require annual removal from harbors and ports along Ohio’s Lake Erie coast. Disposing of these materials into landfills depletes land resources, while open water placement of t...
This study investigates a sustainable coating method for modified expanded polystyrene (MEPS) beads to improve the thermal insulation of lightweight concrete intended for wall application. The method employed in this study is based on a novel coating...
Massive construction systems have always characterized traditional architecture and are currently the most prevalent, straightforward, and cost-effective in many Mediterranean countries. However, in recent years, the construction industry has gradual...
Awareness of sustainability in construction has led to the utilization of waste material such as oil palm shell (OPS) in concrete production. The feasibility of OPS as alternative aggregates in concrete has been widely studied at the material level....
A change in component design could help achieve objectives in lightweight construction. However, lightweight component design can incur serious distortion problems after the final heat treatment due to reduced stiffness or asymmetries in the mass dis...
Traditional lightweight foam concrete typically introduces a large number of voids into the concrete using surfactants to reduce density. However, in 3D printing, the instability of lightweight foam concrete can affect the workability of the slurry....
Lightweight aggregate concrete (LWC) is an attractive alternative to conventional concrete in building construction. It leads to lighter self-weight in beams and floor slabs and thus might have a positive impact on reinforcing steel consumption, also...
The lack of an S-Box in some lightweight cryptography algorithms, like Speck and Tiny Encryption Algorithm, or the presence of a fixed S-Box in others, like Advanced Encryption Standard, makes them more vulnerable to attacks. This proposal presents a...
This paper introduces a lightweight cryptographic hash algorithm, LWH-128, developed using a sponge-based construction and specifically adapted for operation under constrained computational and energy conditions typical of embedded systems and Intern...
The increasing demand for sustainable construction materials has driven research into the reuse of plastic waste for renewable building applications. This study introduces a new lightweight insulating mortar for floor and roof systems, utilizing recy...
Currently, natural fibers attract the attention of researchers and builders in the construction industry as they are eco-friendly, cost-effective, lightweight, and renewable resources. The inclusion of natural fibers in the concrete and mortar will c...
The construction sector faces growing pressure to adopt sustainable alternatives amid the global plastic-waste crisis. This study presents a novel use of mechanically recycled high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) to manufacture ful...
The quantity of construction demolition waste (CDW) has been increasing due to the demolition of many old buildings throughout the world. So far, all the statistics indicate that there is a very large generation of CDW, which increases annually. The...
Due to the unsteady morphology of heterogeneous irises generated by a variety of different devices and environments, the traditional processing methods of statistical learning or cognitive learning for a single iris source are not effective. Traditio...
The present study’s main objective was to determine the applicability of organic phase change materials (PCMs) in a building’s envelope construction system for the passive provision of comfortable indoor thermal conditions over one year based on ther...
Biomass for non-food applications is considered as a substitute for petro-based materials such as expanded polystyrene (EPS). This research analyzes physical properties of an EPS containing commercial bonded leveling compound (BLC) which was substitu...
This study analyzed the effect of lightweight aggregates made of fly ash from sewage-sludge thermal treatment (FASSTT LWA) on the effectiveness of phosphorus removal from wastewater in vertical constructed wetlands (CWs), depending on FASSTT LWA cont...
A detailed analysis of the power demand of an ultraefficient lightweight-battery electric vehicle is performed. The aim is to overcome the problem of lightweight electric vehicles that may have a relatively bad environmental impact if their power dem...
This study assessed the feasibility of producing lightweight aggregates (LWAs) using diatomite waste (DW) as a clay substitute. The research aimed to reduce the consumption of natural resources and minimise the environmental impacts caused by the dis...
In the paper, glass ceramics used as architectural materials were prepared based on lead fuming furnace-slag (LFFS) by a synergistic sinter-crystallization method. The effects of Al2O3 addition on the crystallization phase, crystallization kinetics,...
In order to maintain the quality of construction for nearly zero energy buildings and to reduce the pressure on construction workers with the addition of the need for faster and simpler structures, the use of cavity-insulated LSF (lightweight steel f...
The purpose of the research was to assess the possibility of using granulated expanded glass aggregate (GEGA) with cement grout as a replacement of a sub-grade and frost-protection layer, made of natural fine aggregates (NATU), stabilized with a hydr...
Light steel frame (LSF) building systems offer high structural resilience, lower costs due to fast prefabrication, and high ability to recycle and reuse. The main goal of this paper was to provide state-of-the-art main components for such systems wit...
In the context of power-line scenarios characterized by complex backgrounds and diverse scales and shapes of targets, and addressing issues such as large model parameter sizes, insufficient feature extraction, and the susceptibility to missing small...
This paper presents a thermal investigation of lightweight on-board receiver modules of wireless power transfer systems for electric vehicles. The studied modules are capable of receiving up to 11 kW at a resonance frequency of 85 kHz over a distance...
Welding is the most expensive process in building ships and offshore plants. Therefore, the quantity of welding material should be calculated for the subsections (cells) of the blocks for efficient work planning, and welding paths must be generated f...
This paper addresses the problem of constructing a real-time 2D map for driving scenes from a single monocular RGB image. We presented a method based on three neural networks (depth estimation, 3D object detection, and semantic segmentation). We prop...
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