Sustainable building design

Sustainable building design has become a wide and multidisciplinary research endeavor including mechanical, electrical, electronic, communication, acoustic, architectural, and structural engineering. It involves the participation of owners, contractors, suppliers and building users. There has been a lot of talk about sustainable buildings in the past few years. Most of the published research is concerned with saving energy and water and making the buildings more environmentally friendly by, say, reducing the carbon emissions. In this article, sustainable building design is reviewed from the viewpoint of structural engineering. Different strategies presented in the literature are summarized. Finally, the authors argue that the next big leap in sustainable building design should come from the integration of the smart structure technology including the use of hybrid and semi-active vibration controllers that can result in substantially lighter and more efficient structures

FRP composites for flexural strengthening of concrete structures theory, testing, design

Cover design: Krotowski, TomaszText setting: Filipczak, JacekThe purpose of this book is to provide structural and mechanical engineers with simplified and advanced model for flexural strengthening of reinforced concrete members with externally bonded (called in the last nomenclature EB) FRP reinforcement. The review of existing bond models is to explain phenome-non of bond losing between FRP and concrete. The detailed analysis of variable parameters shows complexity this problem