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Improving Cementitious Properties of Blended Pozzolan Based Materials for Construction of Low Cost Buildings in Mbeya Region, Tanzania
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Improving Cementitious Properties of Blended Pozzolan Based Materials for Construction of Low Cost Buildings in Mbeya Region, Tanzania

This study therefore investigated and improved cementitious properties of pozzolan blended with calcium hydroxide, gypsum and cement in order to extend its use from low strength mortars to concrete works which can be used for low to medium rise structural applications. Characterization, strength tests and durability tests were performed on pozzolan mixtures under laboratory conditions and the effects of adding gypsum to pozzolan and calcium hydroxide mixtures on the compressive strength and durability of cured concrete specimens were investigated.

Ultra-High Performance Concrete and High Performance Building Materials for Sustainable Construction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Ultra-High Performance Concrete and High Performance Building Materials for Sustainable Construction

Sustainable construction, with the overarching goal of reducing the environmental footprint of everything we build is becoming increasingly important and urgent in the light of the climate change the world is facing. The use of innovative and sustainable building materials, especially concrete as the worldwide most commonly used building material, offers a great opportunity to significantly reduce climate-relevant emissions in the construction sector. Due to their performance and reliable durability, the use of innovative high-performance concretes will help to reduce the need for new constructions and to sustainably repair existing infrastructure. In new buildings in particular, the use of high-performance materials can help to save energy and natural resources, which reduces climate-relevant emissions and thus global warming. With the current HiPerMat 6, we are responding to the growing understanding of the impact of our construction activities on the environment by placing greater emphasis on sustainability issues.

Soil Pollution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Soil Pollution

This graduate-level text and reference work is unique among the soil literature. It deals with the interdisciplinary fields of soil pollution and remediation. It starts off with a thorough and comprehensible introduction to the relevant fundamentals of mineralogy, chemistry, and soil properties. Readers are thus well prepared to understand the biochemical aspects of soil remediation then presented. The book’s holistic approach and narrative style are complemented by numerous and detailed illustrations. Soil pollution is an asset not only to graduate students and instructors, but also to professionals from the environmental and agricultural sciences, as it provides an integrated overview of previously separately treated material.

Quality of Life IV Survey (2015/16): City Benchmarking Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 85

Quality of Life IV Survey (2015/16): City Benchmarking Report

South Africa’s post-apartheid government has been successful in raising the standard of living for millions of people. It has provided them with access to housing and basic services, improved health and education, and developed social services and urban amenities where none existed before. However, there remain many thorny development challenges that government is, at least at present, poorly equipped to address. Consequently, there remains deep dissatisfaction among many residents, which at various times and in certain contexts has led to widespread community protests. This report stems from the premise that data, and analysis thereof, are critical for local and provincial governments in ...

The Seismic Design Handbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 816

The Seismic Design Handbook

This handbook contains up-to-date existing structures, computer applications, and infonnation on planning, analysis, and design seismic design of wood structures. A new and very useful feature of this edition of earthquake-resistant building structures. Its intention is to provide engineers, architects, is the inclusion of a companion CD-ROM disc developers, and students of structural containing the complete digital version of the handbook itself and the following very engineering and architecture with authoritative, yet practical, design infonnation. It represents important publications: an attempt to bridge the persisting gap between l. UBC-IBC (1997-2000) Structural advances in the theori...

Zum Verbund von Stahlbeton und Stahlfaserbeton bei Beachtung des Arbeitsprinzips
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 290

Zum Verbund von Stahlbeton und Stahlfaserbeton bei Beachtung des Arbeitsprinzips

Das Verbundverhalten zwischen Beton und Betonstahl hat einen maßgebenden Einfluss auf das Tragverhaltens von Stahlbeton. Ein grundlegender Schritt hierzu gelang seinerzeit mit der Formulierung der Differentialgleichung des verschieblichen Verbundes (DGL). Diese erfordert eine Beziehung zwischen der ertragbaren lokalen Verbundspannung bei stattfindender Relativbewegung (Schlupf) zwischen Stahl und Beton. Diese Beziehung ist von geometrischen und materialbehafteten Faktoren abhängig. Somit werden zunächst grundlegende Zusammenhänge zu Stahl und Beton sowie dem Verbundverhalten zwischen beiden zusammengetragen und die Einflüsse einzelner Parameter dargestellt. Zur Auflösung der DGL werden...

Monument Future
  • Language: en

Monument Future

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Urban Resilience for Emergency Response and Recovery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 535

Urban Resilience for Emergency Response and Recovery

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-04
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book introduces the concepts of Resilience-Based Design (RBD) as an extension of Performance-Based Design. It provides readers with a range of cutting-edge methodologies for evaluating resilience and clarifies the difference between resilience, vulnerability and sustainability. Initially, the book focuses on describing the different types of uncertainty that arise in the context of resilience evaluation. This is followed by an entire chapter dedicated to the analytical and experimental recovery functions. Then, starting from the definition of resilience provided by MCEER, an extension of the methodology is provided that introduces the seven dimensions of Community Resilience, summarized...

Volcanic Lakes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 526

Volcanic Lakes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-03-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book aims to give an overview on the present state of volcanic lake research, covering topics such as volcano monitoring, the chemistry, dynamics and degassing of acidic crater lakes, mass-energy-chemical-isotopic balance approaches, limnology and degassing of Nyos-type lakes, the impact on the human and natural environment, the eruption products and impact of crater lake breaching eruptions, numerical modeling of gas clouds and lake eruptions, thermo-hydro-mechanical and deformation modeling, CO2 fluxes from lakes, volcanic lakes observed from space, biological activity, continuous monitoring techniques, and some aspects more. We hope to offer an updated manual on volcanic lake research, providing classic research methods, and point towards a more high-tech approach of future volcanic lake research and continuous monitoring.