Urban area is always gathering huge population and different kinds of activities. Once there is any disaster, it would be very possible to have unrecoverable damage. For the post-earthquake fire in constructions, it would caucus damage not only in civilians' lives but also property. Therefore, it becomes...

In order to explore the effect of the particle size distribution of fly ash on the pore structure of low-temperature concrete, the fly ash was prepared with different particle size distribution. Under low temperature condition, the porosity and pore size distribution of fly ash blended cement mortar...

It introduces the types, energy conservation principle and application scope of the existing energy-saving glass. Energy saving glass is analyzed from different angles, and concluded glass types which are suitable for energy saving renovation of existing buildings.

Southern Shaanxi region has abundant featured resources. However, due to lack of guidance of characteristics planning theories and methods, small towns gradually lost their own characteristics in the rapid development. Based on the interpretation of the concept and constitution of town's characteristics,...

This paper discusses Tadao Aadao's design methods to space, fair-faced concrete and light in architectural design by analyzing his representative works, meanwhile appreciating the skillfully using of the spirit of humanism in his works.

This paper summarizes the differences between Chinese and Western wood construction technologies on the basis of reviewing the development of Chinese and Western wood construction technologies, and tentatively analyses some cases of the influence of Western traditional wood construction on Yangzhou modern...

Peak strain of concrete is an important mechanical parameter. Previous studies have found that the peak strain of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) is significantly different with natural aggregate concrete (NAC). This paper collected peak strain test data of domestic and foreign scholars and derived...

Nowadays, the expanded perlite as the cryogenic insulation material is widely used in LNG storage tank. And the settlement of expanded perlite will affect the safe operation of the cryogenic system. On the basis of the large cryogenic LNG storage tank, a settlement monitoring method based on distributed...

With wide application of the high performance concrete in Engineering, the research and application of high performance concrete admixture are attaching more and more attention by researchers. Although researches are more mature on the aspects of fly ash, slag, silica fume and other non-biological materials,...

This article updates from the protection of traditional culture and use of space angle, to explore the urban fringe community in the process of development of public cultural construction, how to reasonable use of the traditional culture space, to achieve the function of traditional cultural space culture...

This paper combines the mobility protection and construction practices on traditional dwellings in Zhongjie Street, Shenyang to explore the regeneration design methods of traditional architecture, trying to discuss the regeneration design from the perspective of the fusion of old and new architecture...

The paper based on the urban floating population represents a significant share of Shenzhen Pingshan new district as an example, analyze the economy, identity, cultural level, of present population. According to the development of Pingshan new district; divide present community into four types, include...

This research focused on correlation between Event Space and Urban Space to figure out how to stimulate spatial coupling between two of them. This is necessary for sustainable urban development in post-event period. Case study includes the 1984 Olympic City: Los Angeles and the 1996 Olympic City: Atlanta.

The architectural thoughts and practices of Li Xiaodong present his commensuration design philosophy of the Chinese and western as well as the ancient and modern architectures. His unique design methods including "reserving common points and removing difference, stressing on the field and interface,...

This paper uses quantitative analysis approach of urban color and the comparative study method, using China Color System National Technical Standards (GB/T15608-1995) and China Building Color Card as a basic tool for recording and analysis of urban color information. This paper researches on landscape...

Fly ash is a commonly used concrete admixture, which can improve its durability. In this paper, a series of experiments were made to study the influence of the amount of fly ash additive on the mechanical properties and shrinkage properties of concrete, which provides reference for the preparation of...

Most of the original three wire factory settlements have been or are evolved into the city's old "open community" accumulated a lot of problems of governance. Three wire plant communities each has its own characteristics because of its location, the unit characteristics and its changes. The renewal way...

The steel reinforced concrete structure is widely used in the large space structure with its excellent mechanical properties, superior economic performance and outstanding comprehensive benefit. This type of structure is a combination of structure, section steel, steel bar, concrete and other components,...

Standardization has benefited the modern architecture as one part of industrialization technology. In the meantime it implies a restriction on individuality what is often highly praised by architects. We should look for a compromise between standardization and nonstandardization in architecture. This...

Based the present situation on the development of modern wood structure building at home and abroad, the problems including the technology lag, the single building form and the single application type of the modern wooden structure building are pointed out from the view of adaptation to climate, energy...

Input data necessary for synthesizing accelerograms are usually derived from seismic behavior of the construction site or from a statistical analysis of a set of recorded accelerograms which correspond to this particular construction site. As seismic performance of the site is independent of the structure...

China's construction industry entered a new stage. For the construction enterprise that has been used for growing up in prosperity, there is undoubtedly full of challenges under the new normal. Construction industry profit has been low for a long time. Contract system prevailed. Competition among enterprises...

This article mainly embarks from the angle of Walter Gropius' architectural thought, through the analysis of his classic works, discussing his thoughts on the impact of architectural design.

This paper presents a test result to find the structural capacity of Hollow-Precast Concrete (HPC) column with Head-Splice Sleeve (HSS) for the connection of bars under horizontal cyclic load. Two Half scaled HPC column specimens were made with the consideration of construction process in site. The difference...

This paper centers on the influence on architectural geometry by emergent design under the principle of emergence theory and the help of computer software, and how this will generate positive effects and what should also be concerned during such procedure.

The purpose of this study is to find the basic characteristics of HPC consolidating concrete. The results are presented as follows: In terms of compression strength, the strength of BS mixed with Alkaline Activator (AA) was stronger than that of general BS. It is judged that Shrinkage Reducing Agent...

Cyclic strength deterioration occurs in structural components when subjected cyclic loadings. In analytical models, cyclic strength deterioration starts when accumulated damage exceeds a certain threshold. Generally, there two types of equations measuring accumulated damage: (1) displacement-based equation...

The welded unreinforced flange-welded web (WUF-W) moment connection is one of seven prequalified connections for the special moment frames (SMF) specified in AISC 358-10. In this study, in order to predict cyclic behavior of WUF-W connections using nonlinear FEA, finite element studies for selection...

Heating-up and rapid cooling by spray water had a large impact on the mechanics and deformation behavior for an axially restrained steel column. During heating, the axial force of the restrained steel columns increased in linearly. During rapid cooling, its axial force rapidly decreased until zero, and...

This paper presents the tensile behaviors of Head-Splice Sleeve (HSS) connections after the experience of the low level of repeated axial stresses. HSS is a mechanical connection which was developed to be used for bar connection in precast concrete element. As a required structural capacity of HSS for...

Thermal environment regulation strategy is the key point to creating a comfortable building environment and important in building energy efficiency. This paper takes the zero-energy buildings in Solar Decathlon China (SDC2013) competition as examples, to analyze the thermal environment regulation strategies...

The effects of fly ash, lime, alkali activator and styrene-acrylic emulsion on the compressive strength and flexural strength of fly ash cement were studied in this paper. The results show that the addition of fly ash can improve the workability of mortar, but it will reduce the strength of the material....

A three-dimensional (3D) finite element model (FEM) of circular concrete-encased CFST columns under axial compression and torsion was developed using the general finite element analysis (FEA) software ABAQUS. A total of 10 specimens with different axial load level and CFST ratio were tested to verify...

Steel fiber with high elastic modulus, have been added to the reactive powder concrete (RPC) in order to improve its mchanical properties. In this paper, it is studied the impact of the change in the steel fiber content on compressive strength and flexural strength of hybrid fiber reinforced PRC. The...

A reduced beam section with a bolted web connection (RBS-B) is permitted for use only in Intermediate Moment Frames (IMF). In order to investigate whether IMFs with RBS-B connections provide a satisfactory seismic performance, this study evaluates the seismic performance of 3-, 6- 9- and 20-story IMFs...

The estimation of annual average earthquake losses in life long period for simple reinforced concrete (RC) frames based stochastic method models is the focus of the article. An innovative assembly-based vulnerability methodology is firstly adopted for seismic loss estimation, that damage of the structure...

Recently, as the problems such as lack of construction personnel and reduction of construction duration due to the increasing labor cost and aging labor personnel, the researches on the PC method have been reactivated. However, the purpose of most of these researches is to develop and structurally interpret...

Elastomers are necessary materials in building materials. Mouldy materials will not only influence the surface view but also mechanical properties. In this paper, maleoyl chitosan (MCS) was selected as antimicrobial for improving natural rubber (NR) materials' antimicrobial properties together with mechanical...

The lack of land and housing supply has resulted in shortage of affordable housing in Hong Kong. Low-incomers, new immigrants and many others cannot afford high rents so they seek accommodations in the informal sector. This surging demand for informal housing is conducive to the proliferation of illegal...

This project is a super high-rise office building in Hefei with 128.9 m height. Based on the theory of plastic hinges (beams and columns) and fiber model (walls), elastic-plastic time-history analysis is performed on the super-high business-living building in Hefei by MIDAS Building software under the...

To use external prestressing to enhance the existing public buildings suffering from loss of reliability, this paper represents the static tests on 14 low strength concrete beams reinforced by external pre-stressed, and demonstrates an experiment on the mechanical performance of model beam, such as flexural...

The passive linear-thinking of the industrial society has been replaced by the interactive cross-thinking, resulted in the interaction design which is a new design method to observing the world. This design method is a synthesis of dynamic, virtualization, experience and emphasizes the intersectionality,...

Luban culture is the source of Chinese architectural culture, which leads to the development of Chinese architectural culture. How does Luban culture affects the Chinese architectural culture, and how can we promote urban culture at the present stage, all of these are worth deeply analyze. This paper...

The research beneficiated the concrete waste from two different sites to get the recycled concrete aggregates by the microwave-assisted mechanical beneficiation technology. Then, the author systematically studied the physical properties of recycled coarse aggregates and natural coarse aggregates from...

Recycled coarse aggregate (RCA) was obtained from waste samples of C30 in the laboratory through crushing, washing and screening and cube compressive strength test was conducted on RCA concrete under different conditions. The results show that the compressive strength of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC)...

This paper discusses the wind pressure distributions on high-rice buildings with partial openings by means of wind tunnel tests and numerical simulations. The wind tunnel tests were carried out in the boundary layer wind tunnel over an urban terrain with a geometric scale. The numerical simulations used...

Typhoon can cause great destroy to the buildings of the towns and villages in the coastal areas. It is essential to investigate the damage and wind resistance performance of buildings in coast areas. This paper investigated some common characteristics of the houses destroyed by typhoon, including grey...

Since the architect Paola Solerl put forward the idea of the Ecological Architecture in 1963. The theory and application of the sustainable building had been gradually developed in the world. In order to cultivate comprehensive architecture talents to meet the demand of the development of the sustainable...

In connection with the increasing number of facades additionally equipped with contact thermally insulated system the number of cases in which facades are depreciated with microbiological vegetation has raised. The vegetation of microscopic algae, fungi and blue-green algae on the outer surface of perimeter...

Numerous studies indicate that dispersive clay minerals are mostly composed of montmorillonite, while the major mineral composition of dispersive clay is illite in Zhejiang Province. Based on the particularity of dispersive clay soil in this region, A series of experimental study and comparison and analysis...

Hardened concrete is a porous heterogeneous material. In this paper, pore structure of hardened concrete is determined by mercury intrusion and vacuum saturated absorption, the feasibility of these two methods is analyzed, and the linear correlation between the results detected by these two methods is...

Limestone powder as a concrete admixture was incorporated into the concrete, mechanical properties and impermeability of concrete were studied, and influence mechanism of concrete was analyzed. Experimental results showed workability of concrete was improved when appropriate proportion limestone powder...

Effects of salinized triethanolamine as cement grinding aids on particles characteristics and mechanical property of cement were studyed, and its reaction mechanism was analyzed by FT-IR, SEM and XRD. According to the results, when the amount of triethanolamine salinization(DGA) was 0.03%, the sieve...

This paper introduces the rapid hardening sulphoaluminate cement as cementitious materials, polypropylene short cut fiber as reinforcing material. Through the development of physical foaming cellular concrete and polystyrene foam plastic board, craft processes and product performance of non-load-bearing...

This paper takes Urumqi Xiucheng Estate as an example to analyze the health concept of architectural design based on the proposed green building design and corresponding technology, in order to promote the application of the concept of green healthy residential planning and design. The project was assessed...

The application of FRP in civil engineering has emerged as a popular method of column retrofitting and strengthening. Numerous experimental studies have proven that the confinement with FRP-wrap or tube encasement could enhance the strength, ductility and durability of concrete columns. The variation...

Through benchmark concrete proportion to material composed of adaptability and efficiency test, add special preparation of concrete admixture, mechanism of different stone powder content of sand sand mechanism of C55 high performance concrete performance impact study. The test results show that the special...

The types of carbon fiber materials used in the engineering field were summarized, and the main characteristics of carbon fiber material, high strength, high elastic modulus, small density and high specific strength were summarized. According to the excellent properties of carbon fiber material and the...