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Advances in Building Technology: (ABT 2002)

Anson, M.; Ko, J.M.; Lam, E.S.S.

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ADVANCES IN BUILDING TECHNOLOGYiii
Copyright Pageiv
Contentsxi
Prefacev
International Advisory Committeevii
Organizing Committeeix
Executive Committeex
PART 1: KEYNOTE PAPERS1
Chapter 1. Advances in Materials and Mechanics3
Chapter 2. Advances in Concrete Technology17
Chapter 3. Human Requirements in Future Air-Conditioned Environments29
Chapter 4. Creating Competitive Advantage and Profits with Technology in the Construction Sector39
Chapter 5. Advances in IT for Building Design47
Chapter 6. Information Technology Support to Improved Construction Processes: Inter-Disciplinarity i55
Chapter 7. Recent Topics in Wind Engineering Focusing on Monitoring Techniques65
Chapter 8. A Conception of Casualty Control Based Seismic Design for Buildings75
Chapter 9. Thermal Radiation Effects and Their Determination in Room Fires83
PART 2: TEAM PRESENTATION: Advances in Panel Systems95
Chapter 1. Wood Frame Shear Walls with Metal Plate Connected Framework97
Chapter 2. Toward Engineering Design of Gypsum Board Fire Barriers105
Chapter 3. Barrier Materials to Reduce Contaminant Emissions from Structural Insulated Panels113
Chapter 4. Novel Microcellular Plastics for Lightweight and Energy Efficient Building Applications121
Chapter 5. Long-Term Creep Response of Borate-Modified Oriented Strandboard129
Chapter 6. Mechanical, Physical, and Biological Properties of Borate-Modified Oriented Strandboard137
PART 3: TEAM PRESENTATION: Commissioning and Energy Management145
Chapter 1. Re-commissioning of an Air Handling Unit147
Chapter 2. Automated Commissioning of Air-Handling Units Using Fuzzy Air Temperature Sensors157
Chapter 3. Modeling of Package Air-Conditioning Equipment165
Chapter 4. Automatic Diagnosis and Commissioning of Central Chilling Systems173
PART 4: TEAM PRESENTATION: Composite Construction181
Chapter 1. Design of Simply-Supported and Continuous Beams in Steel-Concrete Composite Construction183
Chapter 2. Innovations in Composite Slabs Incorporating Profiled Steel Sheeting191
Chapter 3. Web-Side-Plate Framing Connections in Both Steel and Composite Construction199
Chapter 4. Novel New Reinforcing Components for Composite Beams207
Chapter 5. The Influence of Material Properties on the Local Buckling of Concrete Filled Steel Tubes215
PART 5: TEAM PRESENTATION: Composites for Housing223
Chapter 1. Low-Cost, Bio-Based Composite Materials for Housing Applications225
Chapter 2. Durability of Pulp Fiber-Cement Composites to Wet/Dry Cycling233
Chapter 3. Extruded Fiber-Reinforced Composite239
Chapter 4. Reversed In-Plane Cyclic Behavior of Post-Tensioned Clay Brick Masonry Walls for High Per247
Chapter 5. An All-Natural Composite Material Roof System for Residential Construction255
Chapter 6. Comparison of Optimal Designs for Stick-Frame Wall Assemblies of Different Bay Sizes263
PART 6: TEAM PRESENTATION: Earthquake Resistant Theory and Applications271
Chapter 1. A Macro-Model of RC Shear Wall for Push-Over Analysis273
Chapter 2. Torsional Effect of Asymmetric R/C Building Structure281
Chapter 3. Experimental Investigation on Axial Compressive Behavior of FRP Confined Concrete Columns289
Chapter 4. Dynamic Properties and Seismic Response of RC Structures Characterized by Abrupt Change i297
Chapter 5. A GIS System Integrated with Vulnerability for Seismic Damage and Loss Estimation of Hong303
Chapter 6. Rules of Drift Decomposition and Drift-Based Design of RC Frames311
Chapter 7. Seismic Fragility Curves for Wind-Designed-Buildings in Hong Kong319
Chapter 8. A Preliminary Study of Structural Semiactive Control Using Variable Dampers327
PART 7: TEAM PRESENTATION: Flexible Manufacturing System in Construction333
Chapter 1. Dynamic Monitoring of the Boring Trajectory in Underground Channel for Driving Communicat335
Chapter 2. Façade Cleaning Robot339
Chapter 3. Advanced Construction Design and Technology by Robotics343
Chapter 4. Embedded System and Augmented Reality in Facility Management351
Chapter 5. Robots for Location and Spacing of Wood355
Chapter 6. Assembly and Disassembly of Interior Wall361
Chapter 7. MUNITEC-Fast-Connectors - Key Technology for Prefab Houses367
PART 8: TEAM PRESENTATION: Industrialized Housing373
Chapter 1. Initial Thoughts on Industrialised Solution for Low-Cost Housing in China's Rural Area375
Chapter 2. Industrialized Housing Construction - The UK Experience383
Chapter 3. A Perspective of Industrialised Housing in Chongqing391
Chapter 4. Impact on Structure of Labour Market Resulting from Large-Scale Implementation of Prefabr399
Chapter 5. Priority Setting of Preferential Parameters for Home Purchase in Chongqing - An Analytic405
PART 9: TEAM PRESENTATION: Research at the ATLSS Center on New Materials and Systems to Resist Earth413
Chapter 1. Steel Moment Frame Connections that Achieve Ductile Performance415
Chapter 2. Lateral Load Behavior of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Precast Concrete Walls423
Chapter 3. Design of High Strength Spiral Reinforcement in Concrete Compression Members431
Chapter 4. Modelling and Behavior of Composite MRFs with Concrete Filled Steel Tubular Columns Subje439
Chapter 5. The Use of Post-Tensioning to Reduce Seismic Damage in Steel Frames447
PART 10: TEAM PRESENTATION: Smart Structures for Dynamic Hazard Mitigation455
Chapter 1. Stochastic Approach to Control and Identification of Smart Structures457
Chapter 2. Building Hazard Mitigation with Piezoelectric Friction Dampers465
Chapter 3. A Research and Development of Smart Building Structures by Magneto-Rheological Damper473
Chapter 4. Structural Health Monitoring System Using Support Vector Machine481
Chapter 5. Performance of Structures with Passive Dampers Subject to Near-Fault Earthquakes489
Chapter 6. Reliability and Control Performance Verification of an Actual Semi-Active Structural Cont497
Chapter 7. Hybrid Response Control of Closely Spaced Buildings505
Chapter 8. Model Testing of a Nonlinear Base Isolation Concept513
Chapter 9. Risk Control of Smart Structures Using Damage Index Sensors521
Chapter 10. Seismic Protection of Base-Isolated Structures Using Semi-Active MR Dampers529
Chapter 11. Semi-Active TLCDS using Magneto-Rheological Fluids for Vibration Mitigation of Tall Buil537
Chapter 12. Phenomenological Model of Large-Scale MR Damper Systems545
PART 11: TEAM PRESENTATION: Structural Analysis Research at the Beijing Polytechnic University553
Chapter 1. The Practical Anti-Earthquake Optimum Design of Civil Infrastructure Network System555
Chapter 2. Earthquake Analysis of Arch Dam with Joints Including Dam-Foundation Rock Nonlinear Dynam563
Chapter 3. Earthquake Analysis of Arch Dam Including Dam-Foundation Rock Nonlinear Dynamic Interacti571
Chapter 4. Stability Analysis of Large Complicated Underground Excavations579
Chapter 5. Evaluation of Ground Vibration Induced by Subway587
Chapter 6. Nonstationary Response of Spatial Lattice Shells Under Multiple Seismic Inputs595
Chapter 7. Interaction Between Pile and Raft in Piled Raft Foundation603
Chapter 8. The Method of Calculating the Interior Force of Soil Nails and Case Analysis611
Chapter 9. Structural Bamboo and Bamboo Scaffolding in Building Construction619
Chapter 10. Stability of Modular Steel Scaffolding Systems - Theory and Verification621
Chapter 11. Recent Developments on Bamboo Scaffolding in Building Construction629
Chapter 12. Reliability Analysis for Mechanical Properties of Structural Bamboo637
Chapter 13. Erection of Bamboo Scaffolds and Their Recent Developments645
Chapter 14. Structural Design of the Bamboo Pavillion, Berlin653
Chapter 15. Full Scale Tests of Bamboo Scaffolds for Design Development Against Instability661
PART 12: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES: Construction Technologies/Plants669
Chapter 1. Causes of Lumps and Balls in High Slump Truck-Mixed Concrete: An Experimental Investigati671
Chapter 2. Advances in Concrete Placement Methods and Finishing Techniques for High Performance Indu679
Chapter 3. Review of Design and Construction Innovations in Hong Kong Public Housing687
Chapter 4. Static Loading Test of a Self-Balanced Approach to a Pile in the Yangtze River695
Chapter 5. The Design and Construction of Two International Finance Centre Hong Kong Station703
Chapter 6. The Construction of Deep and Complex Basements Under Extremely Difficult Urban Environmen713
Chapter 7. Novel Three-Step Consolidation Method to Eliminate Foundation Soil Liquefying723
PART 13: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES: Earthquake Engineering729
Chapter 1. Testing of a Transfer Plate by Pseudo-Dynamic Test Method with Substructure Technique731
Chapter 2. Seismic Design and Inelastic Seismic Response of Lumped Mass MDOF Dual Structure739
Chapter 3. Seismic Assessment of Low-Rise Building with Transfer Structure747
Chapter 4. Ultimate Drift Ratio of Non-Ductile Coupling Beams755
Chapter 5. Effect of Uncertain Evolutionary PSD Function of Seismic Excitation on Peak Response of M763
Chapter 6. Simplified Method and Parametric Sensitivity Analysis for Soil-Pile Dynamic Interaction U771
PART 13: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES: FRP Composite, Retrofit and Repair Technologies Engineering779
Chapter 1. FRP Reinforced ECC Structural Members Under Reversed Cyclic Loading Conditions781
Chapter 2. Ultimate Axial Strain of FRP-Confined Concrete789
Chapter 3. Effect of Size on the Failure of FRP Strengthened Reinforced Concrete Beams797
Chapter 4. Analytical Behaviour of Concrete Beams Reinforced with Steel Rebars and FRP Rods803
Chapter 5. Application of GFRP Rebar in Civil Structures811
Chapter 6. A Generic Structural Engineering Approach to Retrofitting RC Beams in Buildings by Adhesi819
Chapter 7. Efficiency of Strengthened R.C. Columns827
Chapter 8. Rehabilitation of Reinforced Concrete Columns be External Plate Bonding835
PART 14: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES: High Performance Concrete/Composites843
Chapter 1. Numerical Simulation of Thermal Cracking of Cement-Based Multi-Inclusion Composite845
Chapter 2. Applications of Copper Gangue with High Content of Fe2SiO4 as Cement Admixture and for Ce853
Chapter 3. Properties of Lightweight Aggregate for Lightweight Concrete Production859
Chapter 4. Preliminary Results on the Use of GFRP as an External Reinforcement for Autoclaved Aerate865
Chapter 5. High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete873
Chapter 6. Differential Scanning Calorimetry Study of the Hydration Products in Portland Cement Past881
Chapter 7. Ultimate Moment Equation of Circular HSC Members889
Chapter 8. Performance Test of a Model for Predicting Strength Development of Fly Ash-Concrete897
Chapter 9. Mixture Design for High-Performance Concrete for Slip-Form Pavement in Jiangxi Provincial905
Chapter 10. Advances in the Study of Fatigue Behavior of High Performance Concrete in China913
Chapter 11. High Performance Polymer Concrete921
Chapter 12. Study on Phosphogypsum Fly Ash Lime Solidified Material929

Book details

Vendor Elsevier S & T
SKU 9780080441009
ISBN-13 9780080526638
Author Anson, M.; Ko, J.M.; Lam, E.S.S.
Category Technology & Engineering
Subject Engineering (General)

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This set of proceedings is based on the International Conference on Advances in Building Technology in Hong Kong on 4-6 December 2002. The two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers, 72 papers delivered by 11 teams , and 133 contributed papers from over 20 countries around the world. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics across the three technology sub-themes of structures and construction, environment, and information technology. The variety within these categories spans a width of topics, and these proceedings provide readers with a good general overview of recent advances in building research.

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