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Performance of Mild Steel and Corrosion-Resistant Steel Rebars in Chloride-Contaminated Concrete
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Reinforced concrete (RC) infrastructure in Arabian Peninsula is subjected to harsh climatic conditions of high temperatures, humidity, and airborne chlorides and there is a high concentration of salts in seawater and soils. ...
Assessment of School Bus Assistant’s Safety Perspective in the State of Qatar
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2022 , Conference Paper)
School Bus Assistants (SBA) are appointed to bridge the communication gap between students and drivers, and to ensure the safety of students on the school buses. The purpose of this study is to assess the safety procedures ...
Investigation of Indoor Thermal Perceptions and Comfort Temperature in Educational Spaces in Qatar
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
We conducted thermal comfort field surveys in female educational spaces in Qatar in the autumn and winter of 2018 and 2020 – 21 and collected 324 datasets. They contained all the four environmental measurements and ...
Assessment of Aesthetic Control in Qatar’s Urban Design
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Aesthetic control is concerned with the visual appearance of the built environment, specifically in the urban setting. The built environment aesthetics can directly influence place identity, property values and the business ...
Accounting for the influence of the free surface on the vibration response of underground railway tunnels: A new iterative method
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KU Leuven - Departement Werktuigkunde
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
This paper presents a new method for calculating the ground-borne vibration from shallow underground railways. The method is based on an iterative wave-scattering approach, which decouples the problem into two sub-systems: ...
Analysis of the Trajectories of Left-turning Vehicles at Signalized Intersections
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Internationally, an annual number of more than a million fatalities are caused by road traffic crashes, with particularly signalized intersections being crash prone locations within the highway system. An accumulation of ...
Blockchain and its Potential in the Digitization of Land and Real Estate Property Records
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
A blockchain, is a decentralized digital ledger that is distributed across multiple computers, recording transactions in a way that cannot be altered without the consent of the network and the alteration of all subsequent ...
Marketing Strategies for Smart Buildings
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Qatar University Press
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
Globally, there is a growing proportion of the need to optimize monitoring and facility management of new and existing built facilities. Smart buildings provide waste reduction to the environment, flexibility to facility ...
Service robots in hospitals to reduce spreading of COVID-19
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
COVID-19 is an infectious disease that is introduced by a new coronavirus. The COVID-19 virus symptoms can include coughing, fatigue, fever for those with mild cases. For more severe cases, it can lead to shortness of ...
A Combined Bibliometric Analysis on the Data Collection and Reporting Systems for Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education
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IEOM Society
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) has been tagged as an emerging topic of concern among the research community and higher education institutions over the past decade. This paper aims to investigate the existing body ...