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Marwa Alsuwaidi, Noura Almahri, Latifa Alazeezi, Taif Alkhzaimi, Lindita Bande, Anwar Ahmad, Omar Al Khatib, Fayez Fikry and Young Ki Kim
Building construction in the UAE is a growing industry. While Abu Dhabi and Dubai have a majority of mid-rise and high-rise buildings, AL Ain has mostly low-rise and mid-rise buildings. Additionally, the construction industry in Al Ain has seen an increa...
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Riguga Su, Chaobin Yang, Zhibo Xu, Tingwen Luo, Lilong Yang, Lifeng Liu and Chao Wang
Urban landscape has important effects on urban climate, and the local climate zone (LCZ) framework has been widely applied in related studies. However, few studies have compared the relative contributions of LCZ on the urban thermal environment across di...
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Antti Tuure and Hüseyin Emre Ilgin
As in many other building types, space efficiency in mid-rise timber apartment buildings is one of the critical design parameters to make a project feasible. Space efficiency depends on varying selection criteria related to construction materials, constr...
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He Zhao, Long-Hui Sun, Hong-Bing Chen and Xiao-Gang Liu
The steel frame-reinforced concrete core tube structural system is widely used in mid-rise and high-rise buildings due to its good seismic behaviour and high construction efficiency. Since the steel frame and the reinforced concrete core tube are suppose...
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Neshat Rahmani and Ayyoob Sharifi
The Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification system is used in this study to analyze the impacts of urban morphology on a surface urban heat island (SUHI). Our study involved a comparative analysis of SUHI effects in two Japanese cities, Sapporo and Hiros...
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Yves Reuland, Panagiotis Martakis and Eleni Chatzi
Rapid post-earthquake damage assessment forms a critical element of resilience, ensuring a prompt and functional recovery of the built environment. Monitoring-based approaches have the potential to significantly improve upon current visual inspection-bas...
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Thisari Munmulla, Satheeskumar Navaratnam, Julian Thamboo, Thusiyanthan Ponnampalam, Hidallana-Gamage Hasitha Damruwan, Konstantinos Daniel Tsavdaridis and Guomin Zhang
The limited knowledge of the behaviour of modular buildings subjected to different loading scenarios and thereby lack of design guidelines hinder the growth of modular construction practices despite its widespread benefits. In order to understand the rob...
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Ercan Isik, Marijana Hadzima-Nyarko, Hüseyin Bilgin, Naida Ademovic, Aydin Büyüksaraç, Ehsan Harirchian, Borko Bulajic, Hayri Baytan Özmen and Seyed Ehsan Aghakouchaki Hosseini
Data from past earthquakes is an important tool to reveal the impact of future earthquakes on engineering structures, especially in earthquake-prone regions. These data are important indicators for revealing the seismic loading effects that structures wi...
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Gokhan Tunc, Mohammed Moatasem Othman and Halit Cenan Mertol
Structural frame systems that consists of concrete-encased-steel-embedded composite columns and reinforced concrete beams are typically used in mid-rise to tall buildings. In order to understand their overall structural behavior, a total of 12 frame mode...
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Maria Cristina Porcu, Juan Carlos Vielma Pérez, Gavino Pais, Diego Osorio Bravo and Juan Carlos Vielma Quintero
Due to their excellent seismic behavior, shear wall-type concrete buildings are very popular in earthquake-prone countries like Chile. According to current seismic regulations, the performance of such structures can be indifferently assessed through line...
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