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Essential infrastructures such as bridges are designed to provide a long-lasting and intergenerational functionality. In those cases, sustainability becomes of paramount importance when the infrastructure is exposed to aggressive environments, which can jeopardise their durability and lead to significant maintenance demands. The assessment of sustainability is however often complex and uncertain. The present study assesses the sustainability performance of 16 alternative designs of a concrete bridge deck in a coastal environment on the basis of a neutrosophic group analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The use of neutrosophic logic in the field of multi-criteria decision-making, as a generalisat...
This paper proposes a methodology for the assessment of the sustainability among three different structural design alternatives for a single-family home. The response associated with each alternative has been measured using 43 indicators considering all stages of the life cycle. A decision-making model is carried out on the basis of a neutrosophic group analytical hierarchy process (NAHP-G) capturing the maximum information in terms of credibility, inconsistency and indetermination.
Given the great impacts associated with the construction and maintenance of infrastructures in both the environmental, the economic and the social dimensions, a sustainable approach to their design appears essential to ease the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations. Multicriteria decision-making methods are usually applied to address the complex and often conflicting criteria that characterise sustainability. *e present study aims to review the current state of the art regarding the application of such techniques in the sustainability assessment of infrastructures, analysing as well the sustainability impacts and criteria included in the assessments. Analy...
Construction is one of the main sectors that generates greenhouse gases. This industry consumes large amounts of raw materials, such as stone, timber, water, etc. Additionally, infrastructure should provide service over many years without safety problems. Therefore, their correct design, construction, maintenance, and dismantling are essential to reducing economic, environmental, and societal consequences. That is why promoting sustainable construction has recently become extremely important. To help address and resolve these types of questions, this book explores new ways of reducing the environmental impacts caused by the construction sector, as well promotes social progress and economic growth. The chapters collect the papers included in the “Sustainable Construction” Special Issue of the Sustainability journal. The papers cover a wide spectrum of issues related to the use of sustainable materials in construction, the optimization of designs based con sustainable indicators, the life-cycle assessment, the decision-making processes that integrate economic, social, and environmental aspects, and the promotion of durable materials that reduce future maintenance.
The present paper proposes a neutrosophic AHP completion methodology to reduce the number of judgments required to be emitted by the decision maker. This increases the consistency of their responses, while accounting for uncertainties associated to the fuzziness of human thinking. The method is applied to a sustainable-design problem, resulting in weight estimations that allow for a reduction of up to 22% of the conventionally required comparisons, with an average accuracy below 10% between estimates and the weights resulting from a conventionally completed AHP matrix, and a root mean standard error below 15%.
Papers on neutrosophic and plithogenic sets, logics, probabilities and statistics.
Papers on neutrosophic statistics, neutrosophic probability, plithogenic set, paradoxism, neutrosophic set, NeutroAlgebra, etc. and their applications.
Theories and applications of neutrosophic and plithogenic set / logic / probability / statistics, NonStandard Neutrosophic Logic, HyperSoft Set, IndetermSoft Set, IndetermHyperSoft Set, TreeSoft Set, NeutroAlgebra and AntiAlgebra, NeutroGeometry and AntiGeometry, NeutroTopology and AntiTopology, SuperHyperAlgebra, Neutrosophic SuperHyperAlgebra, SuperHyperGraph, Neutrosophic SuperHyperGraph, SuperHyperTopology, Neutrosophic SuperHyperTopology, SuperHyperFunction, Refined Crisp Topology, Symbolic Plithogenic Algebraic Structures, Refined Neutrosophic Set, Paradoxism, Neutrosophy as new branch of philosophy, etc.
Papers on neutrosophic and plithogenic sets, logics, probabilities and statistics, on NeutroAlgebra and AntiAlgebra, NeutroGeometry and AntiGeometry, SuperHyperAlgebra and Neutrosophic SuperHyperAlgebra, etc…
Papers on neutrosophic and plithogenic sets, logics, probabilities and statistics, on NeutroAlgebra and AntiAlgebra, NeutroGeometry and AntiGeometry, SuperHyperAlgebra and Neutrosophic SuperHyperAlgebra, etc..