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Present Status and Future Problems on the Impact Resistance Performance Design of Civil Engineering Protective Structures Yoshimi Sonoda 1744 Motooka Nishi-ku Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan asonoda@doc.kyushu-u.ac.jp Keywords: Impact Resistance Performance Design, Rock-fall, Abstract.
There are many civil engineering structures that have different systems and required functions.
In order to meet those demands, a research committee as part of Japan Society of Civil Engineers summarizing the basic concepts of impact resistance design.
Introduction There are many civil engineering structures that are expected to suffer impact loads include rock-fall protective units and erosion control dams to safeguard against natural disasters, and also traffic guard fences to provide protection from man-made disasters.
References [1] Japan Society of Civil Engineering: Principles, guidelines, and terminologies for structural design code drafting founded on the performance-based design concept Code PLATFORM ver.1.0, 2003 [2] Japan Society of Civil Engineering: Performance based design guideline for civil engineering protective structures subjected to impact loading, 2013 [3] Japan Road Association: Handbook of rock-fall countermeasure, 2000 [4] Yoshiharu Matsuba, Shou Satoh, et al: Failure impact experiment of real scale pre-stressed concrete rock shed: Proceedings of the 2nd Impact symposium of JSCE, pp.241-247 1994 [5] Chifumi Katou, Hisashi Muraishi, et al: Analysis of rock-fall energy on flexible barrier used with Ring Net, Proceedings of Japan National Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Vol.33 2-2, pp.1743-1744, 1998 [6] Tomonori Tajima, Koji Maegawa, et al: Evaluation of pocket-type rock fall protection nets using shock absorbers by full scale weight impact tests, Journal of Structural

The article examines the history of development and state-of-the-art of the design theory of structures of filled shells delivered in “Civil Engineering” specialist, MSc, and postgraduate engineering disciplines courses.
The propositions reflecting state-of-the-art of the design theory of the structures under consideration have been set; their place in the logic of delivering engineering disciplines taught to civil engineering students has been designated.
Introduction Computational performance estimation of advanced industrial, civil, traffic and hydraulic structures ranks among the most important competences of undergraduate, specialist and MSc Civil Engineering students.
Conclusions Basic results of scientific research that received sufficient approval can be reflected when describing state-of-the-art of educational engineering disciplines taught to civil engineering students.
Methods of forming numerical models of shell structures can be presented within information technologies courses for bachelor civil engineering students, theory of plates and shells course (within educational program of training «Unique buildings and structures» engineers), as well as training courses of computer simulation technique of structures for MSc and postgraduate civil engineering students.

Piezoelectric Impedance Sensor-based Structural Health Monitoring for Critical Members of Civil Infrastructures Chung-Bang Yun1, a and Seunghee Park2,b 1,2 Dep. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea a ycb@kaist.ac.kr, b shparkpc@kaist.ac.kr Keywords: Piezoelectric Sensors, Structural Health Monitoring, Impedance, Civil Infrastructures.
This paper presents novel structural health monitoring techniques for critical members of civil structures using electro-mechanical impedance sensors.
Even a minor incipient damage of the critical members may lead to failure that could have a catastrophic accident on the civil infrastructure.
The present approaches yield improved methodologies for real-time damage diagnosis for critical members of civil infra-structures.
J. (2000) 'Impedance-based health monitoring of civil structural components,' ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 6, 153-160

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 International Symposium on Vehicle, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering (ISVMEE 2013), December 21-22, 2013, Taiwan, China.

The 420 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Vehicle and Transportation Engineering;
Chapter 2: Design and Manufacturing Technology in Mechanical Engineering;
Chapter 3: Measurement and Instrumentation, Monitoring and Detection Technologies, Fault Diagnosis;
Chapter 4: Industrial Robotics, Mechatronics and Control;
Chapter 5: Electrical Engineering, Electrical Machines and Apparatus, Power Electronics;
Chapter 6: Power System and Energy Engineering Keyword: Vehicle and Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Automation, Control, Mechatronics, Measurement and Monitoring, Control and Management, Materials Science, Civil Engineering and Architecture Science, Power Systems and Electronics, Computing Methods and Algorithms, Communication and networks

Information Estimation of civil airplane in interference Localization background Li Li1, a 1 Information Engineering College, Dalian University, China affsimple@163.com Keywords: interference localization; bistatic MIMO radar; 2D-MUSIC; airplane localization Abstract.
The ground-air communication of civil aviation is interfered by radios, which has seriously endangered the normal flight of civil airplanes.
It is key point how to make it safe operation of civil aviation radio frequency.Due to high flight height of civil airplane, signal coverage can reach hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.
Furthermore, the location of civil airplane is estimated by employing array geometry.
Ambiguity functions of multiple-carrier frequency MIMO radar[J], Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2009, 31(1):5-9.

Damage Tolerance in Civil Engineering components: implementation to an anchorage J.C.
The use of the damage tolerance concept is growing in the design of civil engineering structures.
Introduction Design based on Damage Tolerance is a common practice in aeronautical and nuclear engineering and not so usual in civil engineering, where design is based on components without defects.
This paper offers a simple methodology for design based on damage tolerance, using as a guide a component from civil engineering; an anchorage for steel tendons for prestressing concrete.

A Review of Smart Material and Vibration Control for Civil Engineering Structure QIN Liping1, a, YAN Yuanjun2, b 1, 2Civil Construction Engineering Department, Hubei polytechnic University, Huangshi, China aqinlp@hsit.edu.cn, byanyj@hsit.edu.cn Keywords: smart material; vibration control; engineering structure Abstract.
In the field of civil engineering, researches mainly focus on structure vibration monitoring and diagnosis, the adaptive, self-repairing or self control of structure etc..
The application in structural vibration control of intelligent material is a very important aspect of smart material in the field of civil engineering.
It can be said that the development and application of intelligent materials for vibration control of civil engineering has opened up a new world.
Therefore, it is a civil engineering structure in the most promising sensing element.

Technical Feasibility of Using Lightweight Concrete with Expanded Polystyrene in Civil Construction Jonas Alexandre1,a, Afonso Rangel Garcez Azevedo¹,b, Caio Lobato de Assis Paula e Silva Silva¹,c, Carlos Mauricio Fontes Vieira2,d, Veronica Scarpini Cândido3,e and Sergio Neves Monteiro3,f 1Laboratório de Engenharia Civil – LECIV, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense.
Alberto Lamego, 2000, Horto, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil. 3Department of Materials Science, Military Intitute of Engineering - IME, Praça General Tibúrcio, 80, Praia Vermelha, Urca, RJ, CEP 22290-270, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
The civil construction sector is considered among one of the most polluting to the environment because of the huge amount of wastes generated in its processes.
Introduction The use of lightweight concrete in civil construction is nowadays becoming increasingly widespread since it presents a large variety of applications.
Materials and Methods The materials used in this investigation were purchased in the local market and all tests were conducted at the Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LECIV) of the State University of the Northern Rio de Janeiro (UENF), Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil.

Monitoring a Group of Hydraulic Pumps Connected to the Water Feeding System of a Civil Building BAROIU Nicuşor1,a*, TEODOR Virgil Gabriel1,b, IFTODE Florin2,c 1”Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, 47 Domnească st., 800008, Galaţi, România 2”Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi, Department of Automation and Electrical Engineering, 47 Domnească st., 800008, Galaţi, România anicusor.baroiu@ugal.ro, bvirgil.teodor@ugal.ro, ciftode_florin2007@yahoo.com Keywords: monitoring, automation, hydraulic pumps, water feeding, civil building Abstract.
A water supply system is a complex of engineering works that ensure the extraction of the water, the storage, transport and the distribution of the water at the pressure, quality and depending on the necessary quantity of the civil building for which is designed [8, 9].
Application for the automation of a water supply system of a civil building The application used to control and monitor a group of hydraulic pumping to a water supply system of a civil building uses Siemens S7 PLC, CPU 314C-2 DP (1).
Buchberger, Estimating water demands in buildings, Procedia Engineering 89 (2014) 1013-1022
J. of Research in Engineering and Technology 4-13 (2015) 75-79

Experimental and Numerical Researches on Aluminium Alloy Systems for Structural Applications in Civil Engineering Fields Antonio Formisano1,a *, Gianfranco De Matteis2,b and Federico M.
Structural research and applications of aluminium structures in civil engineering field have grown extensively in the last decades.
In fact, the first building structures made of aluminium alloy appeared in Europe in the early fifties of the last century, when concrete, masonry and steel were the main materials used for fabricating civil engineering structures.
In this paper, the advantages from using aluminium alloys in some applications in the field of civil engineering are highlighted.
Such results could be also profitably used to improve the existing code on aluminium alloy structures, as well as to promote their use in the civil engineering field.