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This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 14th World
Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was held in
Singapore on 28-31 July 2019, as well as papers presented during
the 1st WCEAMOnline event which focused on the ramifications of
Covid-19 on infrastructure systems. This book covers a wide range
of topics in engineering asset management, including: asset
management services provisioning; servitization; decision-making;
asset management systems; industrial Internet of things; and
vulnerability and resilience of infrastructure systems. The breadth
and depth of these state-of-the-art, comprehensive proceedings make
them an excellent resource for asset management practitioners,
researchers and academics, as well as undergraduate and
postgraduate students.
A week on a beach, a day at a spa, a hike in the hills -- tourism
is taken for granted today, but over the past 500 years, it has
played a significant role in the shaping of modern Britain.
Holidays were once effectively limited to a handful of wealthy
people, but by the 20th century a day at the seaside had become
almost universal. In the process quiet villages have becoming busy
spa towns, new resorts have been created around Britain's coast and
largely unspoilt areas of the countryside have had to cope with the
increased mobility of the population. Some places have become
wholly reliant on tourism as their primary industry, and with
changes in popular tastes in recent years this has created problems
for some communities. Tourism and the Changing Face of Britain
traces the story of tourism in Britain from the Middle Ages to the
present day. It stretches from a time when travel was by horse or
coach to the modern era where cheap air travel can take
holidaymakers anywhere, including far from Britain's shores. The
book shows how holidays, and the pursuit of leisure, have created
destinations, sometimes whole towns and even had an impact on the
countryside. This wide ranging study examines topics such as
pilgrimages, spas, seaside holidays and the discovery of Britain's
past, present and future.
Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth
century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in
west-central New Mexico is the oldest and largest intact adobe
structure in North America. But in the 1920s, in danger of becoming
a ruin, the building was restored in a cooperative effort among
Acoma Pueblo, which owned the structure, and other interested
parties. Kate Wingert-Playdon's narrative of the restoration and
the process behind it is the only detailed account of this
milestone example of historic preservation, in which New Mexico's
most famous architect, John Gaw Meem, played a major role.
The book presents recent research and practical insights relating
to building pathology. As such it contributes toward the
systematization and dissemination of knowledge regarding structural
and hygrothermal pathologies, durability and diagnostic techniques,
while at the same time, demonstrating the latest advances in this
domain. It includes new developments in the field of building
pathology and rehabilitation, bridging the gap between current
approaches to the surveying of buildings and the detailed study of
defect diagnosis, prognosis and remediation. It also features a
number of case studies and a detailed list of references and
suggestions for further reading. Providing an overview of the
current state of the art in the field, the book will appeal to
scientists, students, practitioners and lecturers. Furthermore, the
topics covered are relevant to a variety of scientific and
engineering disciplines, including civil, materials and mechanical
engineering.
Stone considers the wide variety of historical uses, from simple
masonry walling through to elaborate carving and decoration. The
book considers why stone decays or fails and how to assess and
understand the causes, before concentrating on the practical
methods of treatment, repair and maintenance.
This book discusses systems of damage detection and structural
health monitoring in mechanical, civil, and aerospace structures.
It utilizes principles of fuzzy logic, probability theory, and
signal processing to develop systems and approaches that are robust
in the presence of both noise in the data and variations in
properties of materials which are intrinsic to the process of mass
production. This volume will be useful to graduate students,
researchers, and engineers working in this area, especially those
looking to understand and address model uncertainty in their
algorithms.
This book provides an overview of asphalt pavement maintenance,
highlighting the key asphalt pavement maintenance technologies in
China. It analyzes the trend toward preventive maintenance
technologies and proposes technical guidelines and implementation
rules for preventive maintenance. As such it is a valuable
reference resource for technicians in related industries, both in
China and abroad, as well as professionals involved in road
infrastructure maintenance projects in countries participating in
the Belt and Road Initiative.
This proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset
Management covers a range of topics that are timely, relevant and
practically important in the modern digital era towards safer, cost
effective, efficient, and secure engineered assets such as
production and manufacturing plants, process facilities, civil
structures, equipment, machinery, and infrastructure. It has
compiled some pioneering work by domain experts of the global
Engineering Asset Management community representing both public and
private sectors. The professional coverage of the book includes:
Asset management in Industry 4.0; Standards and models; Sustainable
assets and processes; Life cycle perspectives; Smart and safer
assets; Applied data science; Workplace safety; Asset health;
Advances in equipment condition monitoring; Critical asset
processes; and Innovation strategy and entrepreneurship The breadth
and depth of these state-of-the-art, comprehensive proceedings make
them an excellent resource for asset management practitioners,
researchers and academics, as well as undergraduate and
postgraduate students.
This book presents the preservation principles and the current
environmental challenges relating to monitoring heritage sites and
buildings under the effects of climate change. It provides a clear
overview of conservation action levels and the importance of
participation and cooperation between them, and discusses
evaluation and management methods, thermal comfort for the common
usages, and conceptual methods for enhancing the built heritage.
The research presented employed the "Zoom In, Zoom Out" approach
for monitoring the Syrian coastal heritage sites threatened by the
direct and indirect effects of climate change. Lastly, the book
establishes the basic principles and conservation strategies for
preserving the coastal heritage sites and buildings. As such, it is
a valuable reference resource for researchers, developers,
architects, and conservators involved in protecting the
architectural heritage in coastal areas. It can also be used as a
guidebook on preserving and monitoring built heritage sites at both
macro and micro levels.
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