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New conceptual approach to design and evaluation of structures is an integrated life-cycle assessment (ILCA), representing multi-parametric assessment of the structure wi [...]
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A database of carbon dioxide emissions intensity was compiled for environmental life-cycle assessment of construction activities. The database consists of three smaller d [...]
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The Japanese Concrete Standard Specifications prescribe that concrete structures shall sufficiently take into consideration the environment impacts, but it shows no speci [...]
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The concept of protecting historical buildings emerged because historical buildings carry the architectural, historical, cultural, social, artistic and aesthetic values w [...]
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The paper deals with an old problem of praxis. Structures, in general, are exposed to random excitations, which generate normal and torsional stresses. While an estimatio [...]
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PETCHERDCHOO, Aruz
This paper presents an approach to assess environmental impacts in terms of CO2 resulting from applying combined repairs in order to extend service life of concrete struc [...]
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The success of sustainable building concepts in practice is strongly dependent upon the development of multifunctional floor slab systems. In the following paper general [...]
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Reinforced Concrete structures are designed to satisfy requirements regarding safety, serviceability and durability throughout their design service life. The present pape [...]
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A large number of existing reinforced concrete slab bridges are found to be insufficient for shear when calculated according to the governing codes. Seeking improved meth [...]
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Limit states are a central component of probabilistic structural design theory. However, numerous technical limit states for the end of life can be defined for a deterior [...]
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Sustainable structural engineering is based on the basic principle that the energy and resources consumption due to the construction and operation of a structure must be [...]
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The life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology can be used as a decision-making tool in the sustainable design and construction of buildings. However, there are not many stu [...]
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GLAVIND, Mette
A new fib Guideline on Green Concrete Structures is published in 2012. It is meant to be a practically oriented guideline to reduce the environmental impact of concrete s [...]
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Civil infrastructure around the world is in a state of utter disrepair and significant efforts are needed on the part of all stakeholders to render our failing infrastruc [...]
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Oberguggenberger, M.
Understanding the effects of model and parameter uncertainty in engineering systems has become a major theme in the past decades. Many mathematical approaches have been d [...]
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Diagnostics based on monitoring of response changes in relation to operation load is a method determination of residual service life of building structures, state estimat [...]
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The paper briefly reviews one of the proposed probabilistic assessment concepts. The potential of the proposed concept and of the corresponding software is emphasized. Th [...]
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The present day codes use single partial safety factors for concrete irrespective of its compressive strength and reliability index, when there is high level of uncertain [...]
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A proper understanding and measurement of the environmental implications arising from cement and concrete manufacturing is critical for the construction industry. This pa [...]
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This paper presents a probabilistic framework for design of concrete structures to achieve targeted improvements in quantitative sustainability indicators. The framework, [...]
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