The Water Footprint in Bioenergy - A Comparison of Four Biomass Sources to Produce Biofuels in Argentina -- Water Footprints of Hydropower Projects -- An Empirical Investigation into Water Footprint of Concrete Industry in Iran.This book highlights the concept of environmental water footprint in the energy (bioenergy & hydropower) sector and the building/construction sector, focusing on a case …
Foreword -- Introduction: The Clock Tower -- PART I Working on the African city -- The lost cities of Africa -- The modern African city -- The other side of Zanzibar -- Popular housing in Ouagadougou -- The contemporary African city -- PART II Building in Africa -- Farewell to the African Archadia -- The Faculty of Engineering in Dar es Salaam -- A field office in Wagadogo -- Inno-native Africa…
Introduction -- 1. Growth of Sydney Metropolitan Region Over Time and Current Urban Design Practices -- 2. The City as an Economic Driver -- 3. 20 Years of Spatial Growth and Planning in Sydney -- 4. The Role of Qualitative Public Spaces -- 5. The Need for Developing Sustainability in Urbanism -- 6. The Concept of the Resilient City -- 7. The Design of the Sydney Green Grid -- 8. Landscapes and…
Energy Footprint of Biorefinery Schemes -- A Technical Review on Methods and Tools for Evaluation of Energy Footprints, Impact on Buildings and Environment -- Establishment of Electrical Energy Benchmarking Protocol for the Assessment of the Carbon Emission in Hotel Industry.This book deals with the energy footprints of biorefineries and the hotel and buildings sector. It presents footprint cas…
State-of-the-art in building facades -- Biomaterials for building skins -- Designing building skins with biomaterials -- Best practices -- Service life performance -- Portfolio of bio-based façade materials -- Future perspectives.Open AccessThis book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ application in building facades,…
On the Design Process of Tensile Structures -- Systems for Lightweight Structure Design: the State-of-the-Art and Current Developments -- Recent Developments in the Analytical Design of Textile Membranes -- Finite Element Analysis of Membrane Structures -- Applications of a Rotation-Free Triangular Element for Finite Strain Analysis of Thin Shells and Membranes -- FE Analysis of Membrane System…
A Little Dynamics -- Survey of Wave Types and Characteristics -- Damping -- Impedance and Mobility -- Attenuation of Structure-Borne Sound -- Sound Radiation from Structures -- Generation and Measurement of Structure-Borne Sound.Structure-Borne Sound" is a thorough introduction to structural vibrations with emphasis on audio frequencies and the associated radiation of sound. The book presents i…
Global Perspectives on Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Structures -- Are Civil Structural Engineers “Risk Averse”? Can Civionics Help? -- Monitoring Technologies for Maintenance and Management of Urban Highways in Japan -- The Role of Sensing and Measurement in Achieving FHWA’S Strategic Vision for Highway Infrastructure -- Recent Development of Bridge Health Monitoring System in Ko…
Keynote Lectures -- Sessions Organised by the ONR (Office of Naval Research, U.S. Navy, Program Manager Dr. Y. Rajapakse) -- Modelling, Analysis and Design -- Fracture and Damage Tolerance -- Dynamics, Vibration and Sound -- Impact -- Processing and Fabrication -- NDE and Environmental Degradation -- New Materials and Materials Characterisation -- Applications and Design Solutions.Sandwich stru…
Kinematics -- General Equations of Motion -- Small Vibrations of Space-Curved Rods -- Determination of Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions -- Free and Forced Small Vibrations -- Random Vibrations -- Straight Rods -- Dynamics of Rods Interacting with Airflow or Liquid Flow -- Rods Exerted by an Internal Flow of Liquid.The volume is devoted to the Dynamics of Rods. It is a sequel to "Statics of Rods" …