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This book highlights the notion of Circular Economy under the
umbrella of Sustainability because of the widespread momentum it is
gaining. Today the whole world is certainly in emergent need of an
alternative system to traditional economy which is linear, i.e.
make, use and dispose to get rid-off the waste and very important
to ensure continuous use of resources, which is possible by the
advent of circular economy. A circular economy aims to utilize the
resources in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value
from them during use, then recover and regenerate products and
materials at the end of each service life vis-a-vis traditional
linear model. This book discusses circular economy in terms of
assessment with various case studies.
Containing papers presented at the 4th International Conference on
Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and
Operations, this volume brings together the research of experts
from industry, practice and academia. It describes innovative
solutions and predictions for future trends across key BIM-related
topics. The modern construction industry and built environment
disciplines have been transformed through the development of new
and innovative BIM tools and techniques. These have fundamentally
altered the manner in which construction teams operate; the
processes through which designs are evolved; and the relationships
between conceptual, detail, construction and life cycle stages. BIM
is essentially value-creating collaboration throughout the entire
life-cycle of an asset, underpinned by the data attached to them.
BIM has far and reaching consequences on both building procurement
and infrastructure. This recent emergence constitutes one of the
most exciting developments in the field of the Built Environment.
These advances have offered project teams multi-sensory
collaborative tools and opportunities for new communication
structures. The included papers cover such topics as: BIM and
sustainability; Advanced BIM platforms; BIM and automation in
construction; BIM and cultural heritage; Digital twin and
artificial intelligence for buildings and infrastructure.
Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well
suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related
uncertanities. Professionals in this field need a more dynamic,
systematic and multidisciplinary approach. Written by an
international group of experts, Coastal Risk Management in a
Changing Climate provides innovative, multidisciplinary best
practices for mitigating the effects of climate change on coastal
structures. Based on the Theseus program, the book includes eight
study sites across Europe, with specific attention to the most
vulnerable coastal environments such as deltas, estuaries and
wetlands, where many large cities and industrial areas are located.
This hands-on textbook introduces physics and nuclear engineering
students to the experimental and theoretical aspects of fission
physics for research and applications through worked examples and
problem sets. The study of nuclear fission is currently undergoing
a renaissance. Recent advances in the field create the opportunity
to develop more reliable models of fission predictability and to
supply measurements and data to critical applications including
nuclear energy, national security and counter-proliferation, and
medical isotope production. An Introduction to Nuclear Fission
provides foundational knowledge for the next generation of
researchers to contribute to nuclear fission physics.
This book focuses on understanding the shoreline dynamics,
nearshore processes and sediment transport around Rameswaram Island
and the cities of Dhanushkodi and Arichamunai. Rameswaram Island is
located between the Gulf of Mannar on the south and Palk Bay on the
north, between the southern tip of India and Sri Lanka, and is
unique in terms of physical, chemical and biological processes. The
Gulf of Mannar is established as a marine biodiversity conservation
area by its richness of variety and variability of marine species
such as corals, finfish, shellfish and other fishes. The island is
predominantly influenced by four seasons: northeast monsoon,
post-monsoon, summer and southwest monsoon; and the
sedimentological and hydrodynamic conditions significantly change
seasonally, resulting in the island's responding in a different
manner with each season. It also explains the physical forces and
their impacts around these areas. Rameswaram Island has existed
naturally for a long period of time even under the influence of
different water masses of the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay.
Understanding the regional natural phenomena is the only solution
to carry out the best management practices to develop coastal
constructions and modifications.
This book describes the fundamentals and potential applications
of friction stir superplasticity for unitized structures .
Conventional superplastic forming of sheets is limited to the
thickness of 3 mm because the fine grained starting material is
produced by rolling. Friction stir superplasticity has grown
rapidly in the last decade because of the effectiveness of
microstructural refinement. The thickness of the material remains
almost constant, and that allows for forming of thick
sheets/plates, which was not possible before. The field has reached
a point where designers have opportunities to expand the extent of
unitized structures, which are structures in which the traditional
primary part and any supporting structures are fabricated as a
single unit. With advanced optimization and material
considerations, this class of structures can be lighter weight and
more efficient, making them less costly, as well as mechanically
less complex, reducing areas of possible failure.
Discusses how friction stir processing allows selective
microstructural refinement without thickness changeDemonstrates how
higher thickness sheets and plates can be superplastically
formedExamples are presented for aluminum, magnesium and titanium
alloysCovers the production of low-cost unitized structures by
selectively processing cast sheets/plates "
This book focuses on the mechanical properties and permeability of
coal, and the gas flow in coal seams. Based on coal permeability
models, it establishes different models for coal seam gas, from the
linear flow model to the gas-solid coupling flow model. It also
provides the theoretical basis for the exploitation and safe
production of coal as well as coal seam gas resources. As such, it
is a valuable reference for researchers, advanced students and
practitioners working in mining engineering and coalbed methane
engineering.
This book is of paramount importance in the fields of engineering
and applied sciences, given that through the values obtained by
these procedures, many structures, like spillways of dams and
highway culverts, are designed and constructed. The main aim of
this book is to provide procedures for implementing many
probability distribution functions, all of them based on using a
standard and a common computational application known as Excel,
which is available to any personal computer user. The computer
procedures are given in enough detail, so readers can develop their
own Excel worksheets. All the probability distribution functions in
the book have schemes to estimate its parameters, quantiles, and
confidence limits through the methods of moments and maximum
likelihood.
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