{"title":"Construction of a Sustainable Nuclear Waste Disposal Facility","authors":"A. Osmanlioglu","doi":"10.31031/acet.2018.02.000549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31031/acet.2018.02.000549","url":null,"abstract":"The basic concept for disposing high-level radioactive waste or spent fuel is to dispose of these types of waste in an underground waste disposal facility. In order to clarify the technical methods used to assure the parameters required for design studies of disposal system should be carried out. At the beginning, the basic conditions required for disposal facility are established and disposal concept is developed through technical analysis. Concerning the host rock formation, the mechanical stability of the waste galleries in deep underground and the influence of heat generated from waste on the host rock are analyzed. According to results of the analysis, a design study of the cross section underground facility layout is performed. In addition, an assessment of performing construction is carried out. Technological issues concerning the handling of waste forms and the backfilling of waste galleries should be taken into consideration. In this paper, several technical parameters are identified and assessed as important design parameters for a sustainable nuclear waste disposal facility.","PeriodicalId":163364,"journal":{"name":"Advancements in Civil Engineering & Technology","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122713753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hoping to Stop Covering the Sky with One’s Palm: It’s Time to Go Back to Vernacular Spirit","authors":"Eunjoo Lee, F. M. Nazri","doi":"10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000547","url":null,"abstract":"There is an old saying in my country, ‘covering the sky with one’s palm’. It refers to when someone is pretending to avoid something unavoidable in vain. It can also be referred to as trying to avoid the cry of the earth under powerful and efficient air conditioner inside a brilliant glass building but modern society can’t go back to what it was before the industrialization. Eventually modern human society should do something more meaningful for our survival. For instance, as adopting the merit of hunter-gatherer’s life, it is imperative that modern architecture industrially succeed to the architectural assets initiated from prehistoric wisdom. That is, to utilize developed modern architectural technology to interpret and apply the advantages of the vernacular spirit out of the architecture from the past. This needs to be executed now more than ever, before the palms burn to ashes in the sun.","PeriodicalId":163364,"journal":{"name":"Advancements in Civil Engineering & Technology","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115718936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting Variation on Void Ratio Deposition Influenced by Hydraulic Conductivity and Porosity Impact in Heterogeneous Silty and Peat Soil Formation","authors":"Jaja Gwt, Eluozo Sn","doi":"10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000546","url":null,"abstract":"The study predicts the variation of void ratios on hydraulic conductivity and porosity impact for silty and peat sand deposition. The rate conductivity and porosity were considered in the system to predominantly pressure the deposition of void ratio on silty and peat sand formation, such structural deposition experienced predominant heterogeneity in the study location, the deposition reflected unconsolidated deposition that should be evaluated in fundamental analysis of engineering properties of soil for design of foundation, these condition made the study imperative, several experts may always apply the conventional system to generate parameters for void ratio, but the compressive analysis in most time are not gotten, but the analytical techniques applied were able to develop model that can determine the comprehensive deposition of void within the intercedes of the formation, the study has developed another conceptual approach to thoroughly monitor void ratio within silty and peat soil formation.","PeriodicalId":163364,"journal":{"name":"Advancements in Civil Engineering & Technology","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115692941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antibacterial Cement Additive: A Protective Approach Towards Construction","authors":"B. Dash, Sony Pandey","doi":"10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000544","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163364,"journal":{"name":"Advancements in Civil Engineering & Technology","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114899069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elastoplastic Analysis Methods and Capacity Curve Developing Features","authors":"L RutmanYu, Meleshko Va, I. A. Yu","doi":"10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000543","url":null,"abstract":"Present-day earthquake engineering practice use to apply for seismic performance evaluation of buildings nonlinear static pushover analysis which is represented by now in various modifications. These modifications consider different analyzing conditions, structural characteristics or depend from some engineer preferences and judgements. But all of these nonlinear static analysis methods implies the capacity (pushover) curve generation for estimation the performance point which characterize the building response due the seismic excitation. For capacity curve developing structural engineers are eligible to use any adequate instrumentation that describes inelastic behavior of a structure in appropriate way. However, the appearance of pushover curve generated by the most commonly used structural analysis software is often not clear enough, contains big number of inflection points, for which reason it could not provide adequate definitive criterion of general structural stability without advanced studying of pushover curve developing methods. In this paper the simplified capacity curve representation method is proposed and it is shown how the capacity curve can be used for financial loss evaluation inflicted by a potential earthquake.","PeriodicalId":163364,"journal":{"name":"Advancements in Civil Engineering & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130270849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scanning Electron Microscope Configuration of Recycled Carbon Fiber Composites: Mini Review","authors":"Seyed Hossein Mamanpush, Azadeh Tavousi Tabatabaei","doi":"10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000542","url":null,"abstract":"Carbon fiber composites (CFCs) were mechanically refined and classified the scanning electron microscope (SEM) configuration of untreated and heat-treated mechanically recycled carbon fiber epoxy and carbon fiber vinyl ester composite were examined by using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). SEM Results indicate that the main defects in the structure of recycled CFCs are broken fibers, fiber pull-out, fiber-matrix separation. Also Comparing SEM of untreated and heat-treated recycled CFC indicates that there is no significant difference between their micrographs.","PeriodicalId":163364,"journal":{"name":"Advancements in Civil Engineering & Technology","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122546660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machine learning and Data Mining Techniques in Health Monitoring of Artificial Satellites Mission","authors":"A. Darwish","doi":"10.31031/acet.2018.02.000541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31031/acet.2018.02.000541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":163364,"journal":{"name":"Advancements in Civil Engineering & Technology","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121905319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suitability of Soil for Earth Construction as Building Material","authors":"H. Danso","doi":"10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000540","url":null,"abstract":"In order to check the suitability of soil to be used as construction material for earth construction, its geotechnical properties are required to be assessed. The purpose of this study is to review previously published studies soil samples and compare them with soil suitability criteria and for selecting suitable soil for earth construction. The geotechnical properties of soil samples used in previous studies were compiled and compared with various requirements to ascertain their suitability for construction purposes. Eighty-nine (89) studies in all were consulted and useful data were found in fifty-two (52) of them. Five geotechnical properties of soil were compiled and analysed. These properties are particle size distribution, Atterberg limits, specific gravity, maximum dry density and optimum moisture content. Based on the values of soil properties found in literature, recommendations were made for the suitability of different soil samples for three main techniques (adobe, rammed earth and compressed earth blocks) application in earth construction, while other soil samples were found to be outside the recommendations. It was found that some of the earth construction techniques which were adopted in the previous studies are different from the recommended techniques. It was also observed that some of the soil samples found to be suitable for a particular property test were unsuitable for the other property tests. The study concludes that determining the suitability of the soil for earth construction is important and any soil that is found unsuitable should be enhanced with stabilisers before use.","PeriodicalId":163364,"journal":{"name":"Advancements in Civil Engineering & Technology","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116832985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of Knowledge Management in Construction Projects","authors":"K. Korkmaz, Saeed Bahidrah","doi":"10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000539","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge management is a tool that can be used by construction companies at management level to reduce time consumption on data process and transmittal in various stages of existing and future projects. This tool helps in communication between different layers of the companies and in transferring data and information from the completed projects in the past. Since the construction industry is one of the biggest industries in the world, it has lots of different applications and practices with diverse projects. Based on a comprehensive literature review of empirical research and detailed case studies, it is found that, there have been general, as well as project specific elements existing to prevent firms from applying knowledge acquired from their past performance. Lack of coordination and communication slows down the transfer of data from past to present and future projects. Complexity of projects constitutes the main obstacle blocking firms from utilizing knowledge in new settings. Further, the study proposes several strategies for effective utilization of knowledge management in existing and future projects to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge management use in construction projects resulting in reduction of time and cost and an increase in quality.","PeriodicalId":163364,"journal":{"name":"Advancements in Civil Engineering & Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130597700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}