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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment, 2020 The life cycle sustainability performance of civil engineering works is increasingly important. The possibility to influence the sustainability of a project design is larger in the conceptual stage than in later stages.
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Reliable Description of Preliminaries Item Using Civil Engineering Preliminaries Protocol (CEPP) In Conventional Contracts [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 Civil engineering work deals with nature and thus, is exposed to enormous discrepancies due to nature’s complexity compared to building works which are more certain.
Abas Abdul Aziz +2 more
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MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 High technologies in architecture and construction change the world around. Professional trainings for the creators of the artificial environment (engineers and architects) have an effect on people’s life but practically they don’t take into account the ...
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Causes, Effects and Way Forward to Food Insecurity [PDF]
Iranica Journal of Energy and Environment, 2012 This paper examines some important causes and challenges of the global food crisis on human and economic development. The main focus is on analysis of the causes and impact of food insecurity coupled with the measures to achieve adequate food security ...
I.R. Ilaboya +4 more
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A review of physics-based machine learning in civil engineering
Results in Engineering, 2022 The recent development of machine learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) increases the opportunities in all the sectors. ML is a significant tool that can be applied across many disciplines, but its direct application to civil engineering problems can be ...
Shashank Reddy Vadyala +3 more
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Metaphor in the ESP engineering context [PDF]
Ibérica, 2013 The explicit use of metaphor in the EFL classroom has been documented to enhance the communicative skills of learners (Cameron & Low, 1999; Cortazzi & Jin, 1999; Low, 1999; Littlemore & Low, 2006).
Ana Roldán-Riejos +1 more
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Towards the next generation of artificial neural networks for civil engineering
Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2008 The purpose of this paper is to stimulate interest within the civil engineering research community for developing the next generation of applied artificial neural networks. In particular, it identifies what the next generation of these devices needs to achieve, and provides direction in terms of how their development may proceed.
Rinker School, College of Design Construction and Planning, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA ( host institution ) +1 more
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Mean-Field-Type Games in Engineering
AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering, 2017 A mean-field-type game is a game in which the instantaneous payoffs and/or the statedynamics functions involve not only the state and the action profile but also the joint distributionsof state-action pairs.
Boualem Djehiche +2 more
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On Unsaturated Soil Mechanics – Personal Views on Current Research
Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica, 2015 This paper presents the authors’ personal views on current research being conducted by various research groups around the world in the broad area of mechanics of unsaturated geomaterials in general and soils in particular.
Pande G.N., Pietruszczak S.
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Buildings, 2023 Infrastructure plays a pivotal role in a nation’s economic and societal progress. However, due to the substantial expenses and the constraints of a limited government budget, the need to assess the condition of each infrastructure and identify those ...
David Boix-Cots +2 more
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