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This book presents the adaptation of lean principles to the precast construction industry to eliminate or minimize construction wastes, by modeling the precast construction process influencing manpower requirements. This is done using the shared mental models theory to understand how the lean principles enable people to work together to complete the tasks and work together effectively as a team throughout the entire precast construction process from the design, production and logistics to installation stages. Besides the theoretical concepts, this proposed book also presents the practical aspects faced by contractors through the conduct of questionnaire surveys to understand how the implementation of lean principles and shared mental models will affect the occurrence of construction wastes and hence the changes in the total man days used during the precast construction process. This book also presents a neural network model for developing leading indicators that classify precast construction projects in accordance with the manpower changes achieved through the construct of lean principles and shared mental models. This is to help the construction industry to predict the risk of low construction productivity and enable effective lean implementation to optimize the manpower effort required.

Building—Superintendence. --- Construction industry—Management. --- Construction superintendence. --- Project management. --- Waste management. --- Industrial engineering. --- Production engineering. --- Construction Management. --- Project Management. --- Waste Management/Waste Technology. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Engineering --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Industrial project management --- Management --- Building superintendence --- Construction superintendence --- Construction superintending --- Construction industry

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This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 1st International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (SECON’20), held in Angamaly, Kerala, India, on 14-15 May 2020. The meeting served as a fertile platform for discussion, sharing sound knowledge and introducing novel ideas on issues related to sustainable construction and design for the future. The respective contributions address various aspects of numerical modeling and simulation in structural engineering, structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, advanced analysis and design of foundations, BIM, building energy management, and technical project management. Accordingly, the book offers a valuable, up-to-date tool and essential overview of the subject for scientists and practitioners alike, and will inspire further investigations and research. .

Buildings—Design and construction. --- Building. --- Construction. --- Engineering, Architectural. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Building—Superintendence. --- Construction industry—Management. --- Construction superintendence. --- Building Construction and Design. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Construction Management. --- Building superintendence --- Construction superintendence --- Construction superintending --- Construction industry --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Architectural engineering --- Buildings --- Construction --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Architecture --- Management --- Design and construction --- Geotechnical Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences. --- Design and construction. --- Management. --- Building

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This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Conference Environmental and Construction Engineering: Reality and the Future, held in Belgorod, Russia, on May 18-19, 2021. It covers highly diverse topics, including industrial and civil construction, building materials; environmental engineering and sustainability; machines, aggregates and processes in construction. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations. .

Buildings—Design and construction. --- Building. --- Construction. --- Engineering, Architectural. --- Building—Superintendence. --- Construction industry—Management. --- Construction superintendence. --- Sustainable development. --- Building Construction and Design. --- Construction Management. --- Sustainable Development. --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Building superintendence --- Construction superintendence --- Construction superintending --- Construction industry --- Architectural engineering --- Buildings --- Construction --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Architecture --- Environmental aspects --- Management --- Design and construction --- Building

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Architecture. --- Construction industry --- Building --- Building. --- Management. --- Superintendence. --- Architectural engineering --- Buildings --- Construction --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Architecture --- Building superintendence --- Construction superintendence --- Construction superintending --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Design and construction --- Management --- Architecture, Primitive

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This thesis investigates the fracture of nearly incompressible hyperelastic media. It covers the different characteristics of bulk material failure under dilatational or distortional loads and develops a unified description of the corresponding failure surface. It proposes a coupled strain and energy failure criterion for the assessment of notch-induced crack nucleation and presents a weak-interface-model that allows for efficient stress, strain and failure analyses of hyperelastic adhesive lap joints. Theoretical concepts for the measurement of fracture properties of nonlinear elastic materials are provided. The methodology is developed using two exemplary hyperelastic silicones, DOWSIL 993 Structural Glazing Sealant and DOWSIL Transparent Structural Silicone Adhesive, and is validated using large sets of experiments of different loading conditions. Philipp Rosendahl studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His doctoral thesis on the fracture mechanics of thin layers opened applications to problems of structural engineering such as adhesive bonding in the fields of mechanical and civil engineering and to geophysical problems such as skier-triggered snow slab avalanche release. The author is currently working as the Junior Research Group Head for Structural Mechanics and Additive Manufacturing of the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design at the Technical University of Darmstadt and co-founded the startup company 2phi, which aims at improving skier safety in the backcountry by transferring scientific advances into practice.

Building materials. --- Buildings—Design and construction. --- Building. --- Construction. --- Engineering, Architectural. --- Building—Superintendence. --- Construction industry—Management. --- Construction superintendence. --- Building Materials. --- Building Construction and Design. --- Construction Management. --- Building superintendence --- Construction superintendence --- Construction superintending --- Construction industry --- Architectural engineering --- Buildings --- Construction --- Construction science --- Engineering, Architectural --- Structural design --- Structural engineering --- Architecture --- Architectural materials --- Building --- Building supplies --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Management --- Design and construction --- Fracture mechanics. --- Elastomers --- Bulk solids --- Cracking. --- Failure of solids --- Fracture of materials --- Fracture of solids --- Mechanics, Fracture --- Solids --- Deformations (Mechanics) --- Strength of materials --- Brittleness --- Penetration mechanics --- Structural failures --- Fracture --- Fatigue --- Bulk materials --- Particulate solids --- Particles --- Elastomeric materials --- Reinforced elastomers --- Polymers --- Plastics --- Rubber