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The more than 100 contributions were presented by 160 distinguished experts from the USA, China, France, Japan, the UK and other countries, and presented the most recent advances in fields which included numerical simulation, automobile design, aeronautics and aerospace, production engineering, materials testing, surveillance, energy production, biomechanics, civil engineering and environmental issues. 
Altogether, this volume will be an invaluable addition to the bookshelf of any scientist, engineer or academic library; especially those having interdisciplinary interests.

Hamid Nikraz2, b 1PhD candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia; Tel: +61-413165961; Fax: +61 8 9266 2681 2Prof.
Hamid Nikraz, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia; Tel: +61 8 9266 7573; Fax: +61 8 9266 2681 aamin.chegenizadeh@postgrad.curtin.edu.au, bH.Nikraz@curtin.edu.au Key words: Reinforced soil; Unconfined; Strength; Fibre.
Its use has been expanded rapidly into civil engineering, geotechnical engineering and pavement engineering.
Therefore, fiber-reinforced soil composite is a practical solution in civil engineering projects.
Ng. & Tang, C. (2006) Effect of polypropylene fibre and lime admixture on engineering properties of clayey soil, Engineering Geology 87, 230– 240

., Ph.D. 2, b 1, 2Russia, Moscow, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Yaroslavskoe highway, 26 amilordos@gmail.com, baishkov@gmail.com Keywords: style activity, top managers, Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, MBA in construction.
Introduction In the recent past, engineer, head of production, was enough higher technical education.
In the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU) more than ten years take place the program "MBA in construction"[1, 2].
The results showed that between engineers and scientists have much in common, among them rare figures, although in accordance with the theory of learning D.
Kolb, among engineers pragmatism should prevail. [9] Large-scale study of marine engineers has shown that the people of this profession exhibit pronounced styles reflective and theoretician, which is not in line with expectations [13].

Checking Computation for Bracket Structure of Jinqinggang Bridge Shiming Liu1 a, Hui Zhao2 b and Zulin Yang2 c 1 North China Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydroelectric Power, Zhengzhou, China 2 The Second Design and Research Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydroelectric Power of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, China asokd_0@163.com, b418058127@qq.com, cyangzhulin@126.com Keywords: bridge engineering; prestressed concrete box girder; bracket structure; checking computation; probabilistic limit state.
According to the design drawings of bracket structure of the Jinqinggang bridge and the actual load case, the analytical model is founded by the finite element analysis software MIDAS/CIVIL.
Wang et al [3] use the software MIDAS/CIVIL, and study the stress and deformation of the bracket in the standard load, and point out the precautions during the construction.
According to the structure materials, sizes, loads and boundary conditions, the paper makes use of the software MIDAS/CIVIL, and establishes the three-dimensional finite element model which has a total of 1280 nodes, 2195 elements.
Zhang, Railway Engineering, 3 (2007) 25-26

Testing and Monitoring for a Large Scale Truss Bridge Using Long-Gauge Fiber Optic Sensors Chunfeng Wan1, a, Wan Hong 1,b, Zhishen Wu1,c, and Tadanobu Sato1,d 1 International Institute for Urban Systems Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.
Fiber optic sensors become very popular for structural testing and monitoring in civil engineering nowadays, due to its advantage of high resolution and environment durability.
Under this background, the concept of distributed long-gage FBG sensing techniques, which is dedicated to catching and utilizing the strain distribution throughout the full or some partial areas of structures to detect damage, has been proposed to develop an integrated SHM strategy in view of civil engineering [1].
Nathan, Structural Health Indices for Steel Truss Bridges, Civil Engineering Topics, 7 (2011) 391-398 [6] C.F.
Wu, A model-free method for damage locating and quantifying in a beam-like structure based on dynamic distributed strain measurements, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastucture Engineering, 23(5) (2008) 404-413.

An Overview Current Application of Artificial Neural Network in Concrete Sakhiah Abdul Kudus1, a, Norazura Muhamad Bunnori1,b, Siti Ramziah Basri1,c, Shahiron Shahidan1,d, Mohd Nazli Md Jamil1,e and Noorsuhada Md Nor2,f 1School of Civil Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia,14300, Nibong Tebal, Penang,Malaysia 2Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), 13500 Permatang Pauh, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia asakhiah88@ymail.com, bcenorazura@eng.usm.my, cramziah88@yahoo.com.my dshahironshahidan@gmail.com, ealee_nazlee@yahoo.com, fidanur211@yahoo.com.
This paper presents the overview of aArtificial Neural Network (ANN) in the scope of civil engineering application.
ANN is one of the artificial intelligence (AI) applications which are currently one of the effective methods used by engineers and researchers to solve technical problems in many scopes of engineering field.
Review and Case Study of ANN in Concrete Engineering Recently the ANN get attention and been used by engineers and researchers in the prediction of mechanical properties of construction materials.
Ramasamy: Artificial fuzzy neural networks in civil engineering Computers & Structures Vol. 61 (1996), pp. 291-302 [6] M.

Analysis and Numerical Simulation of GFP-SN Anchorage Mechanism on Laboratory Pullout Tests ZHU Chuancheng1,a, FU Shaojun1,b, SHUAI Ting2,c and LAN Xu2,d 1 School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Wuhan University, China 2 School of Civil Engineering & Mechanics, HUST, China awhsz4zhucc@sina.com, bshaojunfu69@vip.sina.com cshuaiting1988@126.com,dlx1988117@126.com Keywords: GFP-SN, pullout test, numerical simulation, anchorage mechanism Abstract.
As a new type of material, Glass Fiber Polymer-Soil nailing (GFP-SN) can replace the steel to be applied in the slope support, excavation support and other civil engineering.
It was being concerned by more and more engineers.
Besides, it is obvious that the embedded mode of GFP-SN has a certain influence on bar’s drawing force property. 1 Introduction Soil nailing support system used in the civil engineering has becoming more and more extensive, while the steel bar was used commonly.
Infrastructure, ASCE, Structural Engineering Research Frontiers, 2007 [8] J.F.Davalos, Y.Chen, L.Ray, Numerical Modeling for the Interface Bond of Concrete and FRP Bar, ASCE, Earth & Space, 2008 [9] B.Benmokrane, P.Wang, T.R.Gentry and S.Faza, Tests Methods to Determine Properties of FRP Rods for Concrete Structures

Vibration based inspection of civil engineering structures.
Structural experimentation and testing technology in civil engineering (Science Press, Beijing 2010).
[5] M Krause, M Bäramnn, R Frielinghaus: NDT&E International in Civil Engineering.
[10] Li Z, XI Y: submitted to International Symposium Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering Vol.I (1995)
(In Chinese) [33] Aiwen Ye, Huicai Xie: Journal of Achitecture and Civil Engineering.

Simply Level Recalculation Using Statistical Approach Shih-Fang Huang1,a, Chun-Sung Chen2,b, Ren-Jye Dzeng3,c 1Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University, No. 1001, Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC. 2Professor of Department of Applied Geomatics, Ching Yun University, No.229, Jianxing Road, Zhongli City, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, ROC. 3Professor of Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University, No. 1001, Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, ROC.
Statistical methods are also widely used in civil engineering, such as to estimate bid prices, to predict construction time, or to predict waste volume; all decisions in a construction project can be made using statistical methods.
Although this approach is widely used in civil works, it cannot find true bias.
Civil works do not require height accuracy; a bias of several centimeters is equally distributed throughout the section, and the criterion specified in the civil work contract can still be satisfied.
L., 1983, “Probability and Statistics for Modern Engineering”, The Southeast Press

Quantification of Micro-cracks by Acoustic Emission Method during Setting and Hardening of Concrete TOPOLÁŘ Libor1, a 1Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Veveří 331/95, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic atopolar.l@fce.vutbr.cz Keywords: Concrete, Hardening, Setting, Acoustic Emission, Temperature Abstract.
As a non-traditional, non-destructive analysis method, the Acoustic Emission Method was used for civil engineering experiment.
Concrete is a composite construction material frequently used in civil engineering.
Ahmad: Numerical Simulation of Temperature Effect of Concrete Hydration, in Advances in Concrete and Structures (Key Engineering Materials), 400-402, pp. 483-488, ISSN 1013-9826