a Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1 Roosevelt Road, Sec. 4, Taipei, Taiwan b Ruentex Group, 14F., No. 308, Section 2, Bade Road, Taipei, 104, Taiwan c Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hsieu Road, Hsinchu, 30050, Taiwan d Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hsieu Road, Hsinchu,30050, Tai...

Construction activities require a set of work spaces to be executed safely and productively. The locations and volumes of these spaces change in three dimensions and across time, according to project-specific design and schedule information. Previous research on construction space management requires users to specify the spatio-temporal data necessary to represent each project-specific space ne...

This paper discusses the issues in the design and development of case based multimedia in engineering education. The user's of these case studies are junior and senior engineering students in the aerospace, civil, and mechanical engineering disciplines. Of particular interest are problems dealing in vibrations and structural dynamics. Practical engineering problems are posed in which a design s...

The use of flexible roof diaphragms is very common in the United States, both for residential buildings and large-scale commercial buildings. Due to its simplicity, the traditional diaphragm design method is commonly used in diaphragm design, in particular for the design of diaphragms with relatively small dimensions. The traditional diaphragm design method assumes the axial chord forces develo...

j1 Francisco Calvo PhD Associate Professor, TRYSE Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, ETSI Caminos, Granada, Spain j2 Juan de Oña PhD Associate Professor, TRYSE Research Group. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Granada, ETSI Caminos, Granada, Spain j3 Griselda López BEng Researcher, TRYSE Research Group. Department of Civil Engineering, Universit...

Turkish defense industry and policy makers seek effective and successful system development programs by implementing a validation mechanism to verify the maturity of new technologies being developed in national laboratories and industry. Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) developed by NASA as a general metric of technology advancement and it has been widely accepted as a systems engineering and...

1 Environmental Engineering Division, DICA-Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark 3 School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Devon, UK 4Department of Civil Engineering, SUN, Seconda Università di Napoli, 81031 Aversa, Caserta, I...

Railway Engineering Institute, China Academy of Railway Sciences, Beijing, China, Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom, Department of Civil Engineering, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, Uni...

Policies designed to improve industrial environmental performance are increasing in scope and stringency. These policies can significantly influence engineering design decisions as firms reoptimize their products and processes to meet compliance requirements at minimum cost. This paper demonstrates the importance of accounting for these design responses in the analysis of policy impacts. As a c...