Assessment of Total Evacuation Systems for Tall Buildings
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Assessment of Total Evacuation Systems for Tall Buildings
Building evacuation strategies are a critical element in high-rise building fi re safety.
Research to date has focused on elevators and exit stairs; however, there is a need to apply this research to relocation and vacuation systems, which may include combinations of these two exit strategies as well as new egress components such as sky-bridges for tall buildings.
Accordingly, the Fire Protection Research Foundation initiated this project with the objective to study possible improvements to life safety of tall buildings through an investigation of occupant relocation and evacuation strategies involving the use of exit stairs, elevators, sky-bridges and combinations thereof. The study consists of a review and compilation of existing information on this topic as well as the conduct of case study simulations of a multi-component exit strategy. This review provides the architectural design, regulatory, and research communities with a more thorough understanding of the current and emerging evacuation procedures and possible
future options.
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1 The Tall Building and the City 27
The tall building and the argument for density: Historical precedents 29
The impacts of the tall building 33
Conclusions 78
2 The Global Perspective 83
Europe 86
North America 106
South America 114
Asia 124
3 Towards an Environmental Approach 143
Climate and environmental design 150
The impacts of design 169
Tall buildings and energy 208
The environmental performance of buildings: Proposal for design criteria 220
4 the environmental paradigm of tall buildings 237
Europe: Frankfurt and London 240
North America: New York City 277
South America: São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro 292
Asia: Abu Dhabi and Guangzhou 301
Critical review: The environmental performance of tall buildings 309
5 Final Considerations: Lessons Learnt and Future Issues for the
Environmental Tall Building
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Mechanics of Materials: With Applications in Excel® covers the fundamentals of the mechanics of materials―or strength of materials―in a clear and easily understandable way. Each chapter explains the theory of the underlying principles and the applicable mathematical relations, offering examples that illustrate the application of the mathematical relations to physical situations. Then, homework problems―arranged from the simplest to the most demanding―are presented, along with a number of challenging review problems, to ensure comprehension of key concepts.
What makes this book unique is that it also instills practical skills for developing Microsoft Excel applications to solve mechanics of materials problems using numerical techniques. Mechanics of Materials: With Applications in Excel® provides editable Excel spreadsheets representing all the examples featured in the text, PowerPoint lecture slides, multimedia simulations, graphics files, and a solutions manual with qualifying course adoption.
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The home defines us, and the way we are housed is central to our self image and culture. While always addressing market imperatives in terms of land use and form, housing is at one end of the spectrum obsessed with style and formal pattern-making, at the other with regulation and normative concepts of family. This book explores a range of contemporary American housing grouped according to three common typologies found in both small and large cities: high-rise, reuse, and infill.
The concept for the publication evolved from three visiting critic studios at the Syracuse University School of Architecture. The studios focused on these three building types, employing a case-study format as the basis for each studio’s design courses. Jared Della Valle and Andy Bernheimer of Della Valle Bernheimer based their studio on a high-rise site in the Hudson Yards of New York City that was an actual site for their firm; Julie Eizenberg of Koning Eizenberg Architecture set her project within the context of the renovation of an abandoned warehouse in downtown Syracuse; and Stanley Saitowitz of Stanley Saitowitz/Natoma Architects activated a variety of infill sites located along the expansion of the BART system in San Francisco. These studios sought to explore and bring together the most enlightened thinking about various forms of housing and other commercial types of development that might be engaged as they define our culture and revitalize our urban centers. Each architect approached the pedagogy of the studio in a different way and contributed an essay to this publication; they also, like curators of urban design, suggested projects that exemplify national models.
The suite of three studios and this publication were made possible through the generous support of Judith Greenberg Seinfeld, a Syracuse University trustee and an advisory board member of the School of Architecture. She understood the importance of giving students the tools to participate broadly in making and remaking our cities. We are appreciative of her vision and commitment to the work of the School and the University.
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Mechanics of Materials: With Applications in Excel
Author(s):
Bichara B. Muvdi, Souhail Elhouar
Publish Date:
2016
ISBN:
9781466570719
Published By:
CRC Press
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‘Many people are asking whether Britain took the wrong road to housing
lower-income families. This well documented history of what a number of
other European countries did enables this question to be answered.’
Brian Abel-Smith, Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics.
Hovels to high rise traces how governments became involved in replacing
industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high-density concrete
estates; how huge inflows of rural and foreign migrants ended up
reoccupying slums, then being housed in the poorest estates; how
governments set up rescue programmes to reverse spiralling conditions on
the worst estates; and how state-sponsored housing made a significant
comeback in all countries at the outset of the 1990s.
Using detailed research on five countries—France, Germany, Britain,
Denmark and Ireland—and carried out with close reference to the central
housing bodies in each area, Anne Power highlights the convergence in
housing experience between the countries and the lessons that can be
learnt. By describing the historical foundations of the developments in
housing structure, covering the different traditions of inner-city
development, tenant-oriented housing, co-operatives, mass-rented building,
rural and suburban owner-occupation, private landlords, and large local
authority projects, she provides a comprehensive study of housing systems
in each country showing that despite the differing backgrounds the
problems are often the same. She looks at the attempts governments have
made to fund state housing initiatives that try to avoid the development of
ghettos found so often in America. As the similarities and differences
throughout Europe are explored and the changing structure of social
housing is charted, the author is able to draw a picture of European-wide
political commitment to urban integration, while warning that there is still a
trend towards polarization that will affect the multi-lingual, multi-ethnic
urban societies of the future.
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Author(s)/Editor(s): Michael J. Short | Size: 4 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Unspecified | Publisher: Routledge | Year: 2012 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0415581079, 9780415581073
In a time of recession, the challenge of building and planning for tall buildings has become even more complex; the economics of development, legislative and planning frameworks, and the local politics of development must be navigated by those wishing to design and construct new tall buildings which fit within the fabric of their host cities.
This book is a timely contribution to the debate about new tall buildings and their role and effect on our cities. It is divided into two main parts. In part one, the relationship between tall buildings and planning is outlined, followed by an exploration of the impacts that construction of tall buildings can have. It focuses, in particular, on the conservation debates that proposals for new tall buildings raise. The first part ends with an analysis of the way in which planning strategies have evolved to deal with the unique consequences of tall buildings on their urban locations. The second part of the book focuses on seven examples of medium-sized cities dealing with planning and conservation issues, and implications that arise from tall buildings. These have been chosen to reflect a wide range of methods to either encourage or to control tall buildings that cities are deploying. The case studies come from across the western world, covering England (Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Birmingham), Norway (Oslo), Ireland (Dublin) and Canada (Vancouver) and represent a broad spectrum of approaches to dealing with this issue.
In drawing together the experiences of these varied cities, the book contributes to the ongoing debate about the role of the tall building in our cities, their potential impacts, and experiences of those who use and inhabit them. The conclusions outline how cities should approach the strategic planning of tall buildings, as well as how they should deal with the consequences of individual buildings, particularly on the built heritage.
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CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 552
Courses and Lectures
CONTENTS
Testing With Bars From Dynamic to Quasi-static
by G. Gary ......................................................................... 1
Dynamic testing of materials: Selected topics
by D. Rittel ....................................................................... 59
Dynamic Behavior of Materials. Constitutive Relations and Applications
by A. Rusinek, T. Jankowiak ................................................ 87
Analysis of high-speed impact problems in the aircraft industry
by A. Arias, J. Loya, J. López-Puente, D. Varas, R. Zaera ....... 137
Computer estimation of plastic strain localization and failure for large strain rates using viscoplasticity
by T. Łodygowski, W. Sumelka............................................ 209
Inelastic flow and failure of metallic solids. Material effort:study across scales
by R.B. Pęcherski, K.Nalepka, T. Frąś, M. Nowak ................... 245
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This book discusses design aspects of steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) members, including the behavior of the SFRC and its modeling. It also examines the effect of various parameters governing the response of SFRC members in detail. Unlike other publications available in the form of guidelines, which mainly describe design methods based on experimental results, it describes the basic concepts and principles of designing structural members using SFRC as a structural material, predominantly subjected to flexure and shear. Although applications to special structures, such as bridges, retaining walls, tanks and silos are not specifically covered, the fundamental design concepts remain the same and can easily be extended to these elements. It introduces the principles and related theories for predicting the role of steel fibers in reinforcing concrete members concisely and logically, and presents various material models to predict the response of SFRC members in detail. These are then gradually extended to develop an analytical flexural model for the analysis and design of SFRC members.
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