Civil engineering topic list of research papers
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Intermodal Inland Waterway Transport: Modelling Conditions Influencing Its Cost Competitiveness
Abstract In this paper a model is developed to analyse and compare the transport costs of intermodal inland waterway transport and road-only-transport. The influence of the economies of scale in inland waterway transport and terminal operations are...
2015 / Bart Wiegmans, Rob Konings -
An Ensemble Learning Based Model for Real Estate Project Classification
Abstract The demand of accommodation has been increasing especially in the metro area. The process of credit assessment for loan is increasingly high. One of the criteria for banks to determine the amount of loan is a grade of the real estate...
2015 / Worapat Paireekreng, Worawat Choensawat -
How to Meet the Minimum Energy Performance Requirements of Technical Conditions in Year 2021?
Abstract According to the Recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) from 31 December 2020 new buildings in the EU will have to consume ‘nearly zero’ energy (NZE) and the energy will be ‘to a very large extent’ from renewable...
2015 / Szymon Firląg -
Information Systems for Cooperation in Operational Train Traffic Control
Abstract The operational phase in train traffic control is very complex and dynamic. Many different actors are involved. The traffic control organization is complex in itself and consists internally of different roles in different parts of the...
2015 / Bengt Sandblad, Arne W. Andersson, Simon Tschirner -
Evaluation Techniques for Residual in-Use Utility of the Railway Car Hopper-Batcher Bearing Structure with a Long-term Service
Abstract Evaluation technique for residual in-use utility of hopper-batcher bearing construction with a long-term operational life is given. The technique consists of seven steps including establishing actual technical state of the car by means of...
2016 / Yauheni Kanavalau, Artur Putsiata -
Hydraulic Units’ Vibration Diagnostics Subsystem Improvement and its Impact on the Level of Technogenic Risks
Abstract The paper focuses on new methods of hydro power plant vibrodiagnostics, which would allow increasing the quality of prevention measures for technogenic catastrophes. The paper assumes that the introduction of monitoring systems requires...
2015 / Olga Shindor, Anna Svirina -
Wave scattering by a horizontal circular cylinder in a three-layer fluid
Abstract Using linear water-wave theory, wave scattering by a horizontal circular cylinder submerged in a three-layer ocean consisting of a layer of finite depth bounded above by finite depth water with free surface and below by an infinite layer of ...
2016 / Dilip Das -
A Case Study Measuring the Impact of a Participatory Design Intervention on System Complexity and Cycle Time in an Assemble-to-Order System
Abstract The literature identifies that a better understanding of the relationship between people and complexity in assembly design and operation is needed. This need is studied here with an industrial case study and by employing a socio-technical...
2015 / Victoria Townsend, Jill Urbanic -
Utilization of Sludge from Mine Water Treatment Plant in The Segment of Thermal Insulation Mortars2014 / V. Václavík, J. Daxner, J. Valíček, V. Dombek, T. Dvorský, et al.
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Case Study of Space Cooling and Heating Energy Demand of a High-speed Railway Station in China
Abstract As a new type of large-scale public building, high-speed railway stations are developing fast throughout China. In general, most of the newly built stations have large, tall and open space like waiting hall and ticketing lobby, with large...
2015 / Le Yang, Jianjun Xia -
A Comparative Study of Indoor Radon Contributed by Diffusive and Advective Transport through Intact Concrete
Abstract The present work is aimed that out of diffusive and advective transport which is dominant process for indoor radon entry under normal room conditions. For this purpose the radon diffusion coefficient and permeability of concrete were...
2015 / R.P. Chauhan, Amit Kumar -
Effect of artificial seagrass on wave attenuation and wave run-up2016 / B. M. John, K. G. Shirlal, S. Rao, C. Rajasekaran
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A MIP Model to Optimize Real Time Maintenance and Relocation Operations in One-way Carsharing Systems
Abstract The daily management of a one way carsharing system is focused on relocation and maintenance operations. On one hand, the freedom of allowing users to return vehicles wherever they want leads to vehicle imbalance problems and on the other...
2015 / Gonçalo Santos, Gonçalo Correia -
Modeling of Shared Space with Multi-modal Traffic using a Multi-layer Social Force Approach
Abstract In the field of traffic road design, the shared space approach aims to develop roads from mere traffic infrastructures to public spaces, compelling higher interaction between road users. In this paper we develop the fundamentals for a...
2015 / F. Pascucci, N. Rinke, C. Schiermeyer, B. Friedrich, V. Berkhahn -
Optimal Sensors Placement for Flood Forecasting Modelling
Abstract Numerical models are instrumental to more effective flood forecasting and managementservices though they suffer from numerous uncertaintysources. An effective model calibration is hence essential. In this research work,a methodology of...
2015 / Grazia Fattoruso, Annalisa Agresta, Guido Guarnieri, Bruno Lanza, Antonio Buonanno, et al. -
Path sets size, model specification, or model estimation: Which one matters most in predicting stochastic user equilibrium traffic flow?
Abstract This study aims to make an objective comparative analysis between the relative significance of three crucial modelling aspects involved in the probabilistic analysis of transport networks. The first question to address is the extent to...
2016 / Milad Haghani, Zahra Shahhoseini, Majid Sarvi -
Lessons Learned from Heat Balance Analysis for Holzkirchen Twin Houses Experiment
Abstract Holzkirchen full scale dynamic experiments were conducted in the framework of IEA Annex 58 research program with the aim to obtain and apply a high quality experimental dataset for model validation of full scale buildings. A first...
2015 / G. Masy, I. Rehab, P. André, E. Georges, F. Randaxhe, et al. -
Core Sampling for Fiber Concrete Constructions – Context Between Quantity of Core Samples and Evaluation of Fiber Concrete Characteristics
Abstract This article is focused on diagnostic methodology for steel fibre concrete slab-on-ground constructions. The number of excepted core samples from construction affected economical, quality and labour intensity aspects of implemented...
2015 / Petr Mynarcik -
Estimation of extreme wind speed in SCS and NWP by a non-stationary model
Abstract In offshore engineering design, it is considerably significant to have an adequately accurate estimation of marine environmental parameters, in particular, the extreme wind speed of tropical cyclone (TC) with different return periods to...
2016 / Lizhen Wang, Jiachun Li -
Analytical Formulation of the Trip Travel Time Distribution
Abstract This paper validates an analytical and tractable approximation of trip travel time variance for general topology networks. The main challenge in the derivation of such an approximation is to account for spatial between-link dependencies in...
2014 / Xiao Chen, Carolina Osorio