Energy security, rising energy prices (oil, gas, electricity), 'peak oil', environmental pollution, nuclear energy, climate change and sustainable living are hot topics across the globe. Meanwhile, abundant and perpetual wind resources offer opportunities, via recent technological developments, to provide part of the solution to address these key issues.
The rapid growth of large-scale wind farm installations has now led to the generation of clean electricity for tens of millions of homes around the world. However, despite the potential to reduce the losses and costs associated with transmission and to use local wind acceleration techniques to improve energy yields, the potential for urban wind energy has yet to be realised.
Although there is increasing public interest, the uptake of urban wind energy in suitable areas has been slow. This is in part due to a lack of understanding of key issues such as: available wind resources; technology integration; planning processes (include assessment of environmental impacts and public safety due to close proximity to people and property); energy consumption in buildings versus energy production from turbines; economics (including grants, subsidies, maintenance); and the effect of complex urban windscapes on performance.
Urban Wind Energy attempts to illuminate these areas, addressing common concerns highlighting pitfalls, offering real world examples and providing a framework to assess viability in energy, environmental and economic terms. It is a comprehensive guide to urban wind energy for architects, engineers, planners, developers, investors, policy-makers, manufacturers and students as well as community organisations and home-owners interested in generating their own clean electricity.
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Autodesk Inc., a world leader in 2D and 3D design and entertainment software for the media and entertainment markets, has released update of InfraWorks 360 is a planning and design solution that enables engineers to quickly and easily convey preliminary design intent in a real-world, contextual environment, increasing stakeholder buy-in and team decision-making.
It leverages automated, rich 3D model building capability with Cloud technology and vertically-specialized functionality to provide infrastructure engineers with the industry’s most compelling conceptual design tool.
InfraWorks 360 helps organziations:
- Enable stakeholders to confidenty envision the full potential of a project.
- Create a competitive distinction to win more work.
- Empower teams to make decisions where and when needed.
- Save time and money through automated integration of data from multiple sources.
Users enjoy InfraWorks 360 because they can:
- Quickly and easily convey preliminary design intent in a real-world contextual environment.
- Effortlessly communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across the project lifecycle.
- Efficiently access and integrate data from multiple sources into a highly accurate model.
InfraWorks 360 also offers modules for Bridge Design, Roadway Design and Drainge Design.
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Autodesk helps people imagine, design and create a better world. Everyone—from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital artists, students and hobbyists—uses Autodesk software to unlock their creativity and solve important challenges.
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This new edition of a highly practical text gives a detailed presentation of the design of common reinforced concrete structures to limit state theory in accordance with BS 8110.
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The Architects′ Handbook provides a comprehensive range of visual and technical information covering the great majority of building types likely to be encountered by architects, designers, building surveyors and others involved in the construction industry. It is organised by building type and concentrates very much on practical examples.
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In a continuously changing world, there has been a growing interest in the protection of vernacular heritage and earthen architecture. The need to protect and enhance this fragile heritage via intelligent responses to threats from nature and the environment has become evident.
Historically, vernacular heritage research focussed on philosophical aspects and surveys, while earthen architecture studies emphasized earthen material and construction techniques. However, for these particular forms of heritage to survive, academic research had to shift its focus, so as to respond to new challenges. Vernacular Heritage and Earthen Architecture gathers contributions of key international researchers from 50 countries, and covers a wide variety of topics:
Cultural heritage and building cultures
Materials and construction techniques
Territory and environmental adaptation
Energy effi ciency and sustainable design
Natural hazards and risk mitigation
Education and research focus
Vernacular Heritage & Earthen Architecture: Contributions for Sustainable Development discusses the threats that vernacular and earthen heritage are facing, and refl ects on their important contribution to sustainable development. The book will prove to be a valuable source of information for academics, researchers and professionals in the fi elds of vernacular heritage, conservation, architecture, civil engineering and construction, and can be used as a reference text for undergraduate and post-graduate courses in vernacular heritage and earthen architecture.
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COST Action TU0905 Mid-term Conference on Structural Glass
Author(s)/Editor(s): Jan Belis, Christian Louter and Danijel Mocibob | Size: 21.1 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: CRC Press | Year: 2013 | pages: 600 | ISBN: 1138000442
The application of glass as a structural material may seem surprising initially, yet pioneering glass structures were first built two decades ago already. Ever since, Structural Glass has been developing at a very high pace thanks to very intensive scientific and industrial research and new technological developments.
Right at the heart of these rapidly evolving developments, the European COST Action TU0905 'Structural Glass – Novel Design Methods and Next Generation Products' is active. With its main goals of unifying, harmonizing and boosting the ongoing developments in structural glass research, COST Action TU0905 frequently organizes international expert meetings and Training Schools, and supports scientific research missions.
This proceedings volume of the COST Action TU0905 Mid-term Conference on Structural Glass offer a great insight into the latest developments in Structural Glass by means of more than 60 peer-reviewed papers by nearly 140 authors. Contributions cover all major topics in the field, ranging from in-depth material investigations to full glass structures and facades. As such, it represents an appealing work on this very young and dynamic field, and is intended for a global readership of researchers and practitioners, including structural and civil engineers, architects, material scientists, building consultants, contractors, material suppliers and product manufacturers, as well as other professionals involved in the design and realization of structural glass projects.
The COST Action TU0905 Mid-Term Conference was held as a unique event, strongly embedded in COST Action TU0905 'Structural Glass – Novel Design Methods and Next Generation Products'. As such, it reflects the Action’s strong position as probably the largest Structural Glass research network worldwide, and disseminates the ultimate COST philosophy: true cooperation in Science and Technology.
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Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures contains the latest research results and innovations presented at the 6th International Conference on Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures (Trondheim, Norway, 17-19 June 2013).
The book comprises contributions made in the field of numerical and analytical analysis of collision and grounding consequences for ships and offshore structures in various scenarios, such as narrow passageways and arctic conditions including accidental ice impact. A wide range of topics is covered:
- Recent large-scale collision experiments
- Innovative concepts and procedures to improve the crashworthiness of ships and offshore structures
- Ship collisions with offshore renewable energy installations
- Residual strength of damaged ship structures as well as mitigation measures for the consequences of such accidents
- Statistical analysis of collision and grounding incidents to analyse and predict the probability of their occurrence
- Developments concerning rational rules for structural design to avoid collisions
- Grounding actions comprising the use of general risk assessment methodologies
Collision and Grounding of Ships and Offshore Structures contributes significantly to increasing the safety and reliability of seaborne transport and operations, and will be useful to academics and engineers involved in marine technology-related research and the marine industry.
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eBook Full Name: Progress in Operations Research; Vol. I and II. (Colloquia Mathematica Societatis János Bolyai; Volume 12)
Publish Date: 1976
ISBN: ISBN-10: 9638021144 ISBN-13: 978-9638021144
Published By: North-Holland Publishing Company Amsterdam. (1976)
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