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Prediction of Building Energy Consumption At Early Design Stage based on Artificial Neural Network YAO Jian Faculty of Architectural, Civil Engineering and Environment, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China email: yaojian@nbu.edu.cn Keywords: Artificial Neural Network (ANN); Energy consumption; Building envelope Abstract.
This study is significant for, it gives way to energy efficient buildings at the designing stage and will be helpful for architects and design engineers in decreasing the energy consumption of new constructed buildings.

Thermal Properties of PVA-Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites at High Temperatures Eva Vejmelková1,a and Robert Černý2,b Department of Materials Engineering and Chemistry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Thákurova 7, 16629 Prague 6, Czech Republic acernyr@fsv.cvut.cz, beva.vejmelkova@fsv.cvut.cz Keywords: fiber reinforced cement composites, polyvinyl alcohol, high temperatures, thermal properties.

Singularity-reduced Integral Representations for Discontinuity in Smart Materials Jaroon Rungamornrat1, a and Teerapong Senjuntichai2, b 1, 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 10330 a Jaroon.R@chula.ac.th, bfcetsj@eng.chula.ac.th Keywords: Smart materials, Piezoelectric, Piezomagnetic, Integral relations, Cracks, Dislocations, Singularity-reduced, Weakly singular, SGBEM.
Introduction In the past two decades, smart materials have gained significant applications in various engineering practices (e.g. smart structures, nondestructive testing devices, electronic devices, sensors and actuators).

Rodrigues 3,b 1 Lorena School of Engineering - USP, C.
Materials and Methods The samples were prepared with the following materials: washed sand of medium coarseness for civil construction, Portland CPII-Z-32 cement manufactured by Companhia Cimento Portland Itaú, according to the Brazilian standard NBR 11578/1991, and potable water.
Tschegg: Materials Science & Engineering A Vol. 214 (1996), p. 53

WANG 3,d and Y.YAN 1,e 1 Geotechnical Research Institute of Hohai University, Hohai University, China 2 Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK 3 Department of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, HK a xjyu@hhu.edu.cn, bcezhenfang@gmail.com, ccejhyin@inet.polyu.edu.hk d bcwangsy@cityu.edu.hk, eyanyun53@163.com Keywords: consolidation; marine clay; elastro-viscoplastic; finite element; UMAT Abstract.
Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Division, ASCE, Vol. 100(8) (1974), pp. 889-904

Effect of Metakaolin on the Strength and Pore Size Distribution of Concrete Zuraidah Hashim1 and Roszilah Hamid1, a 1Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia aroszilah@eng.ukm.my Keywords: Metakaolin, supplementary cementitious material, workability, compressive strength, pore diameter size.

Structural Analysis and Building an EDM Process Model Ming Zhoua , Xianyi Mengb, Yuejin Wangc, Zhenli Gao d , Yunping Doue , Boyan Tangf, and Meixia Yuang Department of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing, China, 100044 a zhouming@bucea.edu.cn, bmengxianyi@bucea.edu.cn, cwangyuejin@bucea.edu.cn d gaozhenli@bucea.edu.cn, e douyunping@bucea.edu.cn, ftangboyan@bucea.edu.cn g yuanmeixia@bucea.edu.cn Keywords: Electrical discharge machining, Chaos, Correlation dimension, Predictive model.

Different procedures have been analysed in the last decades and some of them like grinding and shot peening are already commonly used in civil or mechanical engineering.
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Powrie d School of Civil Engineering & the Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom a d.bowness@soton.ac.uk, b a.c.lock@soton.ac.uk c djr@soton.ac.uk, d wp@soton.ac.uk Keywords: Video monitoring, Rail displacements, PIV, Webcam, Telescope Abstract.
Acknowledgements The authors are grateful for the financial support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant no.

Due to such operation modes, the MTBO (Mean Time between Overhauls) of the engine calculated in hours between subsequent repairs or overhauls is rather low compared to the engines used for driving a civil aircraft and usually limited to hundreds of hours.
Since engines were not provided with any on-board system for monitoring its vibrations and no previous amendments were made to technical objects of that type, the following points of preparation were indispensable: - the execution of the kinematic analyses of the engine under tests to identify its characteristic frequencies that could have occurred in the spectrum of the vibroacoustic signal; - the acquisition (from engineering and operation documentation as well as from direct contacts with the engine manufacturer) and analysis of all available information related to vibration measurements already carried out by the manufacturer, measurement points, current and maximum allowed vibration levels; - the development and calibration of necessary instruments suitable for the application of measuring vibrations in individual data recording paths; - the execution of measurements themselves with the further analyses of variations demonstrated by the vibroacoustic signal.
According to the rules of mechanical engineering, such design leads to the vibration spectrum that should incorporate the frequencies associated with the rotation speed of a turbocompressor (f0), a low-speed turbine (ft) with its subharmonics and subsequent harmonics, the rotation speed of the propeller shaft (fS), the zero-crossing frequency of propeller blades (5∙fS), the zero-crossing frequencies of turbine blades calculated as the product of rotation frequencies and the number of blades installed in individual rotors as well as frequencies associated with transmission ratios of the reducing gear and the gearbox used for driving power packs.