Articles
Germany’s 27-Year Struggle to Complete a Rail Projec
Completely reconfiguring how railways pass through its centre - with tunnels, bridges, replaced foundations and a dramatic new park - the city of Stuttgart is on an ambitious journey to become a transport hub at the heart of Europe. But it’s now 27 years since that...
Reaction of Converter Slag with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide and Its Potential Applicability as Aggregate for Concrete
Author(s) Hoon Moon, Kyeongtae Kim, Ji-Hyun Kim, OrcID, Minhee Lee, Chul-Woo Chung Abstract The presence of free lime and periclase in converter slag prevents it from directly being utilized as a source of concrete aggregate due to the deleterious expansion...
Assessment of High Performance Self-Consolidating Concrete through an Experimental and Analytical Multi-Parameter Approach
Author(s) Ghafur H. Ahmed, ,Hawreen Ahmed, Babar Ali and Rayed Alyousef Abstract High-performance self-consolidating concrete is one of the most promising developments in the construction industry. Nowadays, concrete designers and ready-mix companies are...
Detecting Crash Hotspots Using Grid and Density-based Spatial Clustering
Author(s) Amin Ganjali Khosrowshahi, MSc Iman Aghayan, PhD Mehmet Metin Kunt, PhD Abdoul-Ahad Choupani, PhD Abstract Data mining techniques, specifically spatial clustering methods, are used to analyse crash data and find their spatial patterns. In the present...
Vertical Alignment Optimisation in Highway Design By Means of Mesh Adaptive Direct Search
Author(s) Eray Ozkan, PhD Hediye Tuydes-Yaman, PhD Soner Osman Acar, PhD Abstract Finalising the vertical alignment of a highway geometric design is a critical phase in a highway project and directly affects its construction cost. Generally, a vertical...
A Methodology for Measuring a Local Index of Public Transport Accessibility
Author(s) Khaled Al-Sahili, PhD Khalil Qaisi, MSc Abstract Increasing interest in sustainable development has underlined the importance of accessibility as a key indicator to assess public transport (PT) investments. In several developing countries,...
Effect of Environmental Factors on Performance of Jointed Concrete Pavements
Author(s) Dong-Hyuk Kim Jun-Hyeok Lee Ki-Hoon Moon, PhD Jin-Hoon Jeong, PhD Abstract This study investigated the distress conditions of test sections of concrete pavement that have been used for more than the design life of 20 years. The study was performed...
Life-cycle Assessments of Solar Water-Heating Systems: A Review
Author(s) Lili Wei Xiujuan Guo Lina Zhang Abstract This research study reviews life-cycle assessments (LCAs) of solar water-heating systems (SWHS) and provides a complete overview of its progress. Several research papers have confirmed the advantages of SWHS in...
A Machine Learning Approach for Forecasting and Visualising Flood Inundation Information
Author(s) Syed Kabir, MSc Sandhya Patidar, PhD Gareth Pender, PhD Abstract This paper presents a new data-driven modelling framework for forecasting probabilistic flood inundation maps for real-time applications. The proposed end-to-end (rainfall–inundation)...