Proceedings of the Sustainable Concrete Materials and Structures in Construction 2020 [PDF]
Seminar on Sustainable Concrete Materials and Structures in Concrete Construction 2020 was held virtually for the first time on 24 August 2020. This event was organized by the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Built Environment (FKAAB), Universiti Tun ...
Mohd Zuki, Sharifah Salwa+3 more
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Value Engineering Approach for Construction Materials Selection of Irrigation Drainage [PDF]
In this globalization era, many alternative choices of construction materials. The limited funds available make engineers have to think creatively to choose materials used in order to obtain the cost as efficiently as possible.
Made Sudiarsa
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Probabilistic selection and design of concrete using machine learning [PDF]
Development of robust concrete mixes with a lower environmental impact is challenging due to natural variability in constituent materials and a multitude of possible combinations of mix proportions. Making reliable property predictions with machine learning can facilitate performance-based specification of concrete, reducing material inefficiencies and
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Application of Green Building Materials in Civil Engineering Construction [PDF]
The continuous economic and social progress of our country has helped the rapid progress of civil engineering projects. However, the relatively improved civil engineering project creation also has many shortcomings, such as waste of resources, depletion, and pollution of the natural environment. The construction project itself is an item.
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Constructing living buildings: a review of relevant technologies for a novel application of biohybrid robotics [PDF]
Biohybrid robotics takes an engineering approach to the expansion and exploitation of biological behaviours for application to automated tasks. Here, we identify the construction of living buildings and infrastructure as a high-potential application ...
Bar-Yam Y+52 more
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Sensible thermal energy storage using concrete as a storage medium is a promising technology that helps minimize energy in power plant. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential benefits of metakaolin (MK) as a partial substitute for fly ash-
Ahmed Mohamed Abbass+4 more
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Polyoxometalate (POM)-layered double hydroxides (LDH) composite materials: design and catalytic applications [PDF]
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are an important large class of two-dimensional (2D) anionic lamellar materials that possess flexible modular structure, facile exchangeability of inter-lamellar guest anions and uniform distribution of metal cations in ...
Li, Tengfei+2 more
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The use of alternative and locally available materials is encouraged in the construction industry to improve its sustainability. Desert regions with shortages in freshwater and river sand as fine aggregates in concrete have to search for alternative ...
Pawel Sikora+6 more
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Side-View Operando Optical Microscopy Analysis of a Graphite Anode to Study Its Kinetic Hysteresis [PDF]
Operando analyses have provided several breakthroughs in the construction of high-performance materials and devices, including energy storage systems. However, despite the advances in electrode engineering, the formidable issues of lithium intercalation ...
Kang, Sujin+2 more
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Determination of the airborne sound insulation of a straw bale partition wall [PDF]
This paper describes the results of a scientific project focused on determining of the Airborne Sound Insulation of a peripheral non-load bearing wall made of straw bales expressed by Weighted Sound Reduction Index.
Fabian, Radek+2 more
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