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The book, ADVANCES IN BUILDING ENGINEERING RESEARCH, has been conceived as a result of the efforts of some of the most relevant researchers in the field of building engineering at a national level. The work, well structu...

In this paper an experimental study of the measurement of stability angles for natural granular piles is presented. The critical dimensions needed for the determination of the angles according to the particle characteris...

O MODELO da ocupação demográfica da Amazônia legalnos últimos cinqueta anos tem levado a níveis significativos de desmatamento, resultante de múltiplos fatores, tais como a abertura de estradas pioneiras, o cresci...

El campo de la política es y ha sido en un sentido decisivo y radical, un producto de la creación humana. La forma que tenemos de pensar las actividades que identificamos como políticas o los conceptos que utilizamos ...

The project proposes the design and construction of a blanket on a pilot basis to contribute to the conservation of the properties of the slopes built mainly to facilitate the adaptation of the stretches of roadways, par...

Abstract Pacific island countries (PICs) located in a region with relatively insufficient capacity to respond to public health emergencies, establishing reliable public health cooperation is conducive to maintaining secu...

Abstract Enhancing ride comfort has always constituted a crucial focus in the design and research of modern tracked vehicles, heavily reliant on the driving system’s performance. While the road wheel is a key component...

Abstract The residual coal pillar and adjacent goafs in the upper coal seam have a superposition effect on the stress environment of the lower coal seam in close distance coal seams with downward mining. Therefore, it is...

Soil amendments such as compost are increasingly used in ecological restoration to accelerate vegetation recovery and rebuild soil fertility. However, they may also introduce exotic propagules and alter community traject...

The mechanism of aneurysm rupture is still not fully understood. The rupture risk of the intervention may increase during endovascular occlusions of cerebral aneurysms due to a localized load in the parent vessel close t...

Laterite soil is essential in the construction industry, especially in road and building construction. The practice of abandoning borrow pits after mining laterite soil in the Northern Region of Ghana has resulted in lan...

Bologna is the first major Italian city to become a ‘30 km/h City’, following the example of many other European cities. Since its launch in 2022, the ‘Bologna Città 30’ Plan has marked the beginning of a techni...

The development strategy is a long-term roadmap of the company's activities, which makes it possible to achieve higher performance in relation to competitors. Almost all managers of agricultural enterprises in the proces...

Bangladesh is highly susceptible to recurrent and devastating floods due to its geographic location. This research investigates the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in developing flood evacuation route...

Considering current reports of dramatic biodiversity loss worldwide, this article provides a brief examination of legal aspects related to an issue that belongs to the most significant causes of this adverse trend – ha...

O trabalho apresenta dados sobre o uso dos recursos naturais por populações humanas em pequenas comunidades (vilas) localizadas no entorno (n = 6) e no interior (n = 1) do Parque Ecoturístico do Guamá (PEG), visando ...

A Área Amazônica (AA) é compartilhada por oito países sul-americanos independentes. Desde os tempos coloniais sentiu-se a necessidade da construção de uma via de união da AA com o Oceano Pacífico. Mas os Andes, e...

Real-time traffic state (e.g., speed) prediction is an essential component for traffic control and management in an urban road network. How to build an effective large-scale traffic state prediction system is a challengi...

En el marco de escenarios urbanos de creciente complejidad, la infraestructura de los espacios viales de las ciudades se encuentra todavía casi exclusivamente dedicada a los autos. La ciudad de La Plata no es la excepci...

The purpose of the paper is investigation of the dissipative structures that occur in solids on the instance of rock mass during its damaging and irreversible deforming. Ground movement monitoring of surrounding undergro...

Abstract Autonomous-rail rapid transit (ART) is a new medium-capacity rapid transportation system with punctuality, comfort and convenience, but low-cost construction. Combined velocity planning is a critical approach to...

In the past, country house research was mainly concerned with individual houses and gardens. Yet, as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, so many country houses were being built around the major cities that...

Los lagos proveen diferentes servicios ecosistémicos, incluyendo aquellos relacionados con los asentamientos urbanos, el turismo y la recreación. Estas actividades alteran de distintas maneras las costas y las zonas li...