Cities across the world are facing a convergence of environmental risks, from flooding and extreme heat events to air pollution and water scarcity. These threats are increasingly uneven in their impacts and deeply shaped by local geography. This b...Loe edasi...
This book addresses key challenges and advancements in an increasingly automated transport sector, focusing on aeronautical information management and the evolving role of air traffic controllers in ensuring safe, secure, and sustainable aviation. I...Loe edasi...
This book explores the impact of notch geometry on the strength failure and crack evolution behavior of rock materials. It quantitatively compares simulated results from discrete element modeling with experimental findings related to the fracture me...Loe edasi...
This book presents sustainable design guidelines and case studies to help students and professionals concerned with building facade engineering, building physics, and architecture to develop high-performance facades for tall buildings. The book exam...Loe edasi...
“With AI Towards Sustainable Building Structures” is an insightful exploration of how state of the art AI techniques can be integrated into the building industry to support a more sustainable future. The book avoids bold predictions and focuses on...Loe edasi...
This book is a significant contribution to the materials science and manufacturing technology fields.It examines the rapidly evolving domain of ceramic additive manufacturing, offering insights into current methodologies, technical challenges, and...Loe edasi...
This book examines how institutional spaces, lecture theatres, corridors, offices, and boardrooms actively shape who belongs and who is marginalised. While diversity and inclusion efforts often focus on representation, leadership, and policy, this...Loe edasi...
Drawing on the recent findings of neuroscience, this book invites readers to rethink the issue of structural expression through the lens of embodiment. Drawing on the recent findings of neuroscience, this book invites readers to ret...Loe edasi...
Hazardous construction materials can be of significant economic importance in building and real estate industries.Examples of this include the assessment of potential contaminated sites, the remediation of construction pollutants or the cos...Loe edasi...
This open access book presents key findings from the German Research Foundations priority program SPP 2020, offering insights into the fatigue behavior of high-strength and ultra-high-strength concretes, including fibre-reinforced types. Readers wil...Loe edasi...
This book examines how proximity-based planning, sustainable mobility, and equitable land use can support more resilient and livable cities. Bringing together international research and case studies, the book offers both conceptual foundations and p...Loe edasi...
The technology of ironmaking is central to the production of steel. Offering a comprehensive approach, this book provides insight into and guidance for understanding the use of blast furnace processes in this complex field of metallurgy. ...Loe edasi...
This book provides an in-depth and systematic introduction to transmissibility-based system identification and its role in modern structural health monitoring (SHM). It establishes transmissibility as a paradigm-shifting framework for SHM, advancing...Loe edasi...
This book presents the work of the RILEM TC 251-SRT Sulfate Resistance Testing. It covers the various aspects developed in the working groups of this Technical Committee, such as sulfate attack mechanisms, field behavior, lab test methods, as well...Loe edasi...
With cybercrime costs exceeding 10.5 trillion annually and ransomware attacks predicted every two seconds by 2031, traditional signature-based security has reached critical breaking points. Guide to AI for Cybersecurity provides the essential roadm...Loe edasi...
This book mainly introduces pioneering technologies in the field of efficient utilization of iron ore, specifically including suspension magnetization roastingtechnology and equipment of complex refractory iron ore, coal-based reduction technology o...Loe edasi...
Co-Creating Energy Retrofitting presents a human-centered approach to tackle the climate crisis in one of the worlds most vulnerable regions: the Mediterranean, where rural commons face a critical shift from productivity to consumerism. Fortunately...Loe edasi...
The book explores sustainability challenges for small-scale fisheries in the Sundarbans, spanning India and Bangladesh. It highlights multidimensional vulnerability, social-ecological systems, and resilience-based management, emphasizing local res...Loe edasi...
This book offers an in-depth examination of the ways in which artificial intelligence is reshaping urban landscapes to address the demands of sustainable development, positioning AI as an essential instrument for creating intelligent, resilient citi...Loe edasi...
This book offers a look at current trends in the development of smart cities: from smart roads and built environment to smart tourism and education. The book presents various models and approaches, specific proposals and recommendations on a whole r...Loe edasi...
This title, first published in 1952, addresses an urgent rural problem, whether our ancient market centres and administrative boundaries were still the effective centres and boundaries of everyday rural life, and, if not, what were. It sheds new lig...Loe edasi...
Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside. Originally published in 1970, People and the Countryside discusses the legislation affecting the countryside which appeared in the late 1940s and the work of the Countryside in 1970 Con...Loe edasi...
This includes the assembly of building envelopeslarge-format continuous surface elementsfrom individual components, taking into account different variants of flat and curved geometry and basic constructional design....Loe edasi...
Most existing general books generally cover the basic structural analysis and design principles, and the modelling of structures and foundations for the actual design practice required by engineers tends to be adequately addressed only in narrower...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the field of geomechanics and shield tunnel engineering, with a particular emphasis on soil conditioning and its critical role in shield tunneling. It outlines the distinct behaviors of conditioned soil different from natural so...Loe edasi...
The Evolution of the English House (1933) discusses the popular and native art in domestic English architecture, tracing the changes over the years. The focus is on plain wattled huts and combinations of dwelling-house and cattle-stall, as well as t...Loe edasi...
Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor. It considers the manor and the church to be key twin parts of this unit, and by analysing the church and manor, this book provides valuable insight int...Loe edasi...
