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Concrete repair continues to be a subject of major interest to
engineers and technologists worldwide. The concrete repair budget
for the UK alone currently runs at some UKP 220 per annum. Some
estimates have indicated that, worldwide, in 2010 the expenditure
for maintenance and repair work will represent about 85% of the
total expenditure in the construction field. It has been forecast
that, in the same year in the USA, 50 billion dollars will be spent
just for the restoration of deteriorated bridges and viaducts.
An understanding of the latest techniques in repair and testing
and inspection is thus crucial to the international construction
industry. This book, with contributions from 34 countries, brings
together the best in research, practical application, strategy and
theory relating to concrete repair, testing and inspection, fire
damage, composites and electro-chemical repair.
Concrete repair continues to be a subject of major interest to
engineers and technologists worldwide. The concrete repair budget
for the UK alone currently runs at some UKP 220 per annum. Some
estimates have indicated that, worldwide, in 2010 the expenditure
for maintenance and repair work will represent about 85% of the
total expenditure in the construction field. It has been forecast
that, in the same year in the USA, 50 billion dollars will be spent
just for the restoration of deteriorated bridges and viaducts. An
understanding of the latest techniques in repair and testing and
inspection is thus crucial to the international construction
industry. This book, with contributions from 34 countries, brings
together the best in research, practical application, strategy and
theory relating to concrete repair, testing and inspection, fire
damage, composites and electro-chemical repair.
Concrete Solutions contains the contributions from some 30
countries to Concrete Solutions, the 6th International Conference
on Concrete Repair (Thessaloniki, Greece, 20-23 June 2016).
Strengthening and retrofitting are major themes in this volume,
with NDT and electrochemical repair following closely, discussing
the latest advances and technologies in concrete repair. The book
brings together some interesting and challenging theoretical
approaches and questions if we really understand and approach such
topics as corrosion monitoring correctly. Concrete Solutions is an
essential reference work for those working in the concrete repair
field, from engineers to architects and from students to clients.
The Concrete Solutions Series of international conferences on
concrete repair began in 2003 with a conference held in St. Malo,
France in association with INSA Rennes. Subsequent conferences have
seen the Series partnering with the University of Padua (Italy) in
2009, with TU Dresden (Germany) in 2011 and with Queen's University
Belfast (Northern Ireland) in 2014. In 2016 Thessaloniki (Greece)
hosted the conference, partnering with both Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki (AUTH) and Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH). The
next conference in the series will be held in 2019 in Istanbul.
This volume presents a wide-ranging review of the latest
developments in concrete technology that have been largely missing
from the global conference circuit. It the first major
international event under the auspices of the Institute of Concrete
Technology (ICT) and is appropriately located in the Middle East at
the heart of a construction boom. Themes covered include admixture
technology, durability, mix design, special cements and
supplementary materials, reinforced concrete and sustainability.
The 39 papers provide interesting theory and applicable practice
blended with research findings - from the application of 3D
printing to performance-based specifications and the role of
concrete in the development of Oman - to produce a volume of value
to many engineers and technologists. Founded in 1972, The Institute
of Concrete Technology (ICT)'s mission is to preserve and promote
concrete technology as a recognised engineering discipline and
consolidate the professional status of practising concrete
technologists worldwide.
The Concrete Solutions series of International Conferences on
Concrete Repair began in 2003 with a conference held in St. Malo,
France in association with INSA Rennes. Subsequent conferences have
seen us partnering with the University of Padua in 2009 and with TU
Dresden in 2011. This conference is being held for the first time
in the UK, in association with Queen's University Belfast and
brings together delegates from 36 countries to discuss the latest
advances and technologies in concrete repair. Earlier conferences
were dominated by electrochemical repair, but there has been an
interesting shift to more unusual methods, such as bacterial repair
of concrete plus an increased focus on service life design aspects
and modelling, with debate and discussion on the best techniques
and the validity of existing methods. Repair of heritage structures
is also growing in importance and a number of the papers have
focused on the importance of getting this right, so that we may
preserve our rich cultural heritage of historic structures. This
book is an essential reference work for those working in the
concrete repair field, from Engineers to Architects and from
Students to Clients.
Advances in science and technology no longer change how we live,
they determine it. In the not-too-distant future, techno-scientific
developments may make individuals stronger, smarter, healthier and
more productive-but to what end? Addressing this question,
speculative fiction has created an abundance of transhuman
characters, protagonists with extraordinary strength, intelligence
or abilities. Often they are antiheroes, openly rejecting-or
rejected by-society and acting on immoral or extreme principles
that challenge readers to approve, condemn, excuse or explain. This
study explores the antihero of speculative fiction as a paradoxical
blend of human and transhuman. These protagonists illustrate the
dynamics among the individual, techno-scientific development and
societal norms, and blur distinctions between human and machine,
biology and technology, right and wrong. Fictional works covered
include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), Olaf Stapledon's Odd
John (1935), Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (1956),
William Gibson's Neuromancer (1986), Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons'
Watchmen (1986-1987), Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs trilogy
(Altered Carbon [2002], Broken Angels [2003] and Woken Furies
[2005]) and Black Man (2008).
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