Browsing Civil & Architectural Engineering by Type "Article"
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1-D CNNs for structural damage detection: Verification on a structural health monitoring benchmark data
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)Structural damage detection has been an interdisciplinary area of interest for various engineering fields. While the available damage detection methods have been in the process of adapting machine learning concepts, most ... -
3D characterization of sand particle-to-particle contact and morphology
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)Particle morphology, orientation, and contact configuration play a significant role in the engineering properties of granular materials. Accurate three-dimensional (3D) characterization of these parameters for experiments ... -
A 10-step safety management framework for construction small and medium-sized enterprises
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2017 , Article)It is of great importance to develop an occupational health and safety management system (OHS MS) to form a systemized approach to improve health and safety. It is a known fact that thousands of accidents and injuries occur ... -
A Case Study for Surrogate Safety Assessment Model in Predicting Real-Life Conflicts
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Article)Conflict techniques enable transportation engineers to investigate hazardous network locations without the need to obtain crash data. These techniques are the most developed indirect measure of traffic safety. The concept ... -
A chronological exploration of the evolution of housing typologies in Gulf cities
( Springer , 2016 , Article)This paper traces the evolution of housing typologies in four major cities in the Gulf region, namely Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Manama. The study reviews the formation and historical events in the region, which had a ... -
A comparison of ground vibration due to ballasted and slab tracks
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)With the development of non-ballasted track forms (often referred to as slab tracks) over the few last decades, it is important to understand their behaviour with respect to ground-borne vibration compared with the traditional ... -
A design reuse technology to increase productivity through automated corporate memory system
( Springer London , 2018 , Article)Increasing competitiveness in engineering industry pressurizes companies to improve productivity of every single element in processes. As a result of this pressure, increasing productivity of design staff and design systems ... -
A framework for improving sustainable mobility in higher education campuses: The case study of Qatar University
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)Nowadays, sustainable mobility is a main challenge addressed by policy-makers, public managers and scholars worldwide. This research presents a set of guidelines and solutions to support the design of a more sustainable ... -
A hybrid electro-coagulation/forward osmosis system for treatment of produced water
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)Oil and gas exploration produce large volumes highly contaminated produced water (PW) which exhibits a major environmental challenge. This work investigates the application of a novel hybrid system by combining electro-coagulation ... -
A hybrid forward osmosis/reverse osmosis process for the supply of fertilizing solution from treated wastewater
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This work investigates the application of a hybrid system that combines forward osmosis (FO) and reverse osmosis (RO) processes for the supply of a fertilizing solution that could be used directly for irrigation purposes. ... -
A microbial fuel cell configured for the remediation of recalcitrant pollutants in soil environment
( Royal Society of Chemistry , 2019 , Article)A pristine soil environment supports a healthy soil biodiversity, which is often polluted with recalcitrant compounds. The bioelectrochemical remediation of the contaminated soils using bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) ... -
A microfluidic pore model to study the migration of fine particles in single-phase and multi-phase flows in porous media
( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Article)Fine particles within porous media may migrate with the flowing fluid and cause bridging or clogging in the pore space. Bridging and clogging reduce the flow permeability of porous media, which has a significant influence ... -
A model for predicting failure of oil pipelines
( Taylor & Francis , 2014 , Article)Oil and gas pipelines transport millions of dollars of goods everyday worldwide. Even though they are the safest way to transport petroleum products, pipelines do still fail generating hazardous consequences and irreparable ... -
A New Framework for Addressing High-level Decisions Related to Sustainable Transportation Development
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Stakeholders in the transportation industry have been concerned with sustainability. However, transportation decision makers have had difficulty in incorporating sustainability into transportation infrastructure decisions ... -
A semi-analytical beam model for the vibration of railway tracks
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)The high frequency dynamic behaviour of railway tracks, in both vertical and lateral directions, strongly affects the generation of rolling noise as well as other phenomena such as rail corrugation. An improved semi-analytical ... -
A shear design model for RC beams strengthened with fabric reinforced cementitious matrix
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)The shear behavior of fabric reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) strengthened beams requires more research efforts to be fully understood. A detailed investigation into the shear capacity of FRCM shear-strengthened beams ... -
A Strategy for Emergency Vehicle Preemption and Route Selection
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Article)Emergency vehicle preemption (EVP) aims to give right of way to emergency vehicles (EV) heading toward the incident location through a network of signalized intersections by creating a green wave en-route. The design goals ... -
Acoustic absorption analysis and modeling of asphalt mixtures
( ASTM International , 2019 , Article)Highway traffic noise is a major environmental issue all over the world. This is particularly annoying to residents who live nearby major transportation corridors. Noise pollution adversely affects the quality of their ... -
Active vibration control of flexible cantilever plates using piezoelectric materials and artificial neural networks
( Academic Press , 2016 , Article)The study presented in this paper introduces a new intelligent methodology to mitigate the vibration response of flexible cantilever plates. The use of the piezoelectric sensor/actuator pairs for active control of plates ... -
Adaptive thermal comfort in the different buildings of Darjeeling Hills in eastern India ? Effect of difference in elevation
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)Thermal comfort standards are required to provide comfortable indoor condition which has a positive effect on the occupant. However, the Predicted Mean Vote ? Percentage People Dissatisfied (PMV-PPD) model which is used ...
