Author:Dick, CourtneyDate:2009The effects of historically inefficient urban design have begun to create small negative consequences in urban environments. The aggregation of these small scale changes has led to increasingly recognised large scale impacts. These include, ...Read more
Author:Mupona, Gaylord TonderaiDate:2004Space trusses are a valuable structural form for architects and structural engineers due mainly to their efficiency in providing large unobstructed areas, associated with faster erection speeds and low maintenance cost. Most space trusses are ...Read more
Author:Mureverwi, CharleneDate:2009Water is not only essential for maintaining life; it is a key component of sustainable social and economic development having links to, inter alia, health, 'sense of place', food production and industrial growth. Although progress has been ...Read more
Author:Kabir, AlamgirDate:2005Scour at bridge crossings is a major cause of bridge failure. There are several different types of scour such as general scour, constriction scour and local scour. One of the most serious types is local scour which occurs as a result of vortex ...Read more
Author:Nhleko, Sifiso PDate:2005Human-induced vibrations are increasingly becoming an issue of great concern in the design of civil engineering structures. In this research work, three major trends that contribute to the prevalence of human-induced vibrations in public ...Read more
Author:Omatuku, Emmanuel NgongoDate:2015The diagnosis of vascular diseases can be achieved with a suitably determined circumferential stress at arterial walls. The stress distribution over arterial walls in blood vessels is affected by residual stresses and stresses due to blood ...Read more
Author:French, VandyDate:2009Structural aluminum provides a unique option to engineers by virtue of both its unique strength to weight ratio and its well known corrosion resistance properties. The development of the Eurocode 9 provides an insight to the design of aluminum ...Read more
Author:Harding, THDate:2009A. Background, Principle Objectives and Scope Until the mid-1990's model-based studies on wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) focussed on the development of models describing a single unit operation within the WWTP i.e. an activated sludge ...Read more