The skill preservation of an expert has been a serious problem for countries with aging population because decrease of the number of successors. The concepts of haptic database and force sensor recorder which have been ...

In this comprehensive study, firstly, the theoretical model described in ACI 440 committee report to calculate the area of transverse U wraps provided for anchored CFRP-strengthened concrete beams was examined. Then, ...

Fulfilling energy demand has become a major challenge faced by most of high rise buildings today as it creates high utility cost to the organization. Hence, most of the organisations, especially in commercial building ...

The construction industry in New Zealand is responsible for around 40% natural resources, 30% energy consumption, and 30% greenhouse gases. The increased costs in natural resources, and energy, together with environmental ...

Since heavy metal pollution is a significant aspect to aquatic ecosystems, the objective of this research work was to investigate adsorption characteristics of chitosan as an alternative adsorbent material. In this ...

A construction project is commonly acknowledged as a successful project when the aim of the project is achieved in terms of predetermined objectives of completing the project on time, within budget and to the required quality ...

A directional sensing algorithm is proposed employing doppler radar and low-complexity 2-D IIR spatially bandpass filters. The speed of the scatterer is determined by the frequency shift of the received signal following ...

Appliance specific load monitoring is very useful in energy management solutions that are becoming a challenging task with growing energy demand. It facilitates appliance recognition and load monitoring such that optimum ...

The Water and Energy transfer Processes Model – WEP Model is a distributed, physically based hydrologic model that has been coupled with a material transport component. The model uses meteorological, geographical, hydrological ...

Smart initial guess of Conjugate Gradient (CG) method for solid finite element simulation is developed by using the meta-modeling based finite element solution conversion method. The key feature of this solution conversion ...