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An Accurate and Quick Measuring Method for Mix Proportion of Concrete Paste in Construction Site Cai Li-Peng1, a, Jang Il-Young2, b, Yun Ying-wei1, c, Kim Seong-Kyum 2, d 1 Dept. of Civil Engineering, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, No.90, Wangcheng Str., Luoyang, Henan, 471023, P.R.
China 2 Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, No.1, Yangho-dong, Gumi, Gyeongbuk 730-701, Korea a cai-lipeng@163.com, b jbond@kumoh.ac.kr, c yyw200188@hotmail.com, d envylife@nate.com Keywords: mix proportion of concrete paste; in-situ monitoring; quick and accurate method Abstract.
An effective in-situ monitoring method for MPCP is urgently needed in civil engineering field.
By this method, civil engineer can succeed in measuring real MPCP precisely within 20 minutes before initial setting time of concrete by monitoring concrete samples collecting in construction site randomly.
This method suits in-situ concrete quality control and ensures quality of concrete structures to avoid the occurrence of engineering accidents.

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

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.

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

Building engineering in China is divided into civil building and industry building.
Civil building engineering includes residential building and public building.
Energy consumption of civil buildings has occupied a position of 20~30% in total installed capacity, and the ratio of public buildings has reached 50% in energy consumption of civil buildings.
Thus it can be seen that studying on the potentialities and measures of energy conservation is of important realistic significance to public building engineering.
Public building denotes schools, offices, shops, hotels, culture and sports facilities, hubs of communications and other nonresidential civil buildings.

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.

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.

Coupled Timber–Concrete Ceiling using Bonded Shear Connectors Radim Cajka*1, a, Kamil Burkovic2, b 1Faculty of Civil Engineering Department, Department of Structures VSB – Technical University Ostrava, L.
Test protocols carried out in the Laboratory of Building Materials, Faculty of Civil Engineering at VSB - TU Ostrava are a part of the thesis (Frankova, V., 2007) [3].
Diploma thesis, Faculty of Civil Engineering, VŠB – TU Ostrava, 2007 [4] P.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing 2009.
Civil Engineering Journal 9/2012, pp. 272 – 276, ISSN 1805-2576 (Online), ISSN 1210-4027 (Print) [9] J.

The Experimental Study on Engineering Characteristics of Improved Clay Zhao Yu1, a, Liu Jie2, b and Wu Hongjuan3, c 1 Civil Engineering College of Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, china, 50043 2 Civil Engineering College of Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, china, 50043 3 Civil Engineering College of Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, china, 50043 azhaoyu790113@163.com, b77330607@qq.com, c117469815@qq.com Keywords: cement-improved clay, rapid transit railway, subgrade, dynamic performance Abstract: The rapid transit railway foundation bed bears the repeated dynamic load of train besides the static-load from upper structure.
The sility clay improved by cement, has better engineering performance and its dynamic performance meet the design demand of rapid transit railway sub grade.
Rock Mechanics and Engineering Journal. 22(2): 321-326
Geotechnics and Engineering Journal. 22(2): 254-257.M.A.
Civil Engineering Journal. 38(10): 119-124.

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.