{"title":"Integrated Solution to the Problem of Resource-Saving Fixing of Moving Sands","authors":"M. Mirakhmedov","doi":"10.19080/cerj.2019.07.555723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/cerj.2019.07.555723","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Deserts and semi-deserts occupy 31.4 million km2 on the surface of the Earth, including the Sahara (covers 11 countries of North and West Africa), and Namib (South Africa, Namibia) in Africa, Rub al-Khali (Arabian Peninsula), DashtiNaumid (Iran), Karakum and Kyzylkum (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tar (Pakistan, India), Gobi and Takla-Makan (China) in Asia, Mojave with its Death Valley in North America, the Great and Small Sandy Deserts, the Simpson Desert in Australia [1]. Building engineering communications in these conditions over the past two centuries have tended to expand. Eniyu [25] Construction sandy deserts associated with the negative impact of exogenous process deflation and its activation brittle fracture bioravnovesiya-destruction of vegetation, which is formed very slowly [6-11]. In the Republic of Uzbekistan, mobile sands occupying more than 30% of the territory are sources of blowing and drifting irrigation networks, roads and railways, gas pipelines and, as a result, the reason for reducing the safety of their operation [12]. Therefore, in the construction and operation of engineering structures in sandy deserts, the problem of protecting them from blowing and from drifts is given significant importance [13-15].","PeriodicalId":30320,"journal":{"name":"Constructii Journal of Civil Engineering Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72450451","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":"Law Education for Civil engineers","authors":"K. Holschemacher","doi":"10.19080/cerj.2019.07.555722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/cerj.2019.07.555722","url":null,"abstract":"As demanding the job of a civil engineer is, as challenging are the today’s legal requirements on construction projects. Nevertheless, there is widespread opinion that civil engineering is a profession where legal knowledge and skills are not necessary at all. But construction projects normally touch many different legal aspects, such as of civil and public construction law, neighbor law, environmental law, professional rules of engineers and sometimes criminal law as well. Of course, architects and construction managers are more involved in law related construction issues than a civil engineer is. However, also the civil engineers every day work live is influenced by diverse rules and regulations. A fundamental understanding of the home countries legal system, of legal relationships in construction projects as well as relevant law sources are necessary to avoid legal pitfalls that possibly can result in a financial or personal disadvantage.","PeriodicalId":30320,"journal":{"name":"Constructii Journal of Civil Engineering Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78824341","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":"Structural Fire Design-Statement on the Design of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT)","authors":"J. Schmid, N. Werther, Michael Klippel, A. Frangi","doi":"10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555721","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, some comments about Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) appeared in journals, online press and lobby documents that highlighted “inconsistencies” of the product when it comes to its fire safe use. The actual document summarizes relevant fire characteristics of CLT, which were brought up, and addresses them accordingly with respect to common understanding, established experience, European standardization and available design guidance. This document shows that currently fire design is not fully covered by codes, but safe design is possible using additional sources as guideline and state of the art documents. The authors of this document share the opinion with CEN/TC 250/SC5/WG4 that fire safe design of CLT is achieved when actual state of the art guidance is","PeriodicalId":30320,"journal":{"name":"Constructii Journal of Civil Engineering Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86240747","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":"Industrial Development Conflicts in Modern Developmental State: Taiwan taken as an Example","authors":"A. Cheng","doi":"10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555716","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid growth of Taiwan’s economy was contributed to manufacturing and a specific economic development model, developmental state strategy, in the later 20th century. As a developmental state, the government has high state autonomy; its decision-making organizations are composed by professional technocrats; the policy decision put a priority on economic development to facilitate rapid industrialization with positive interventions. In addition, government will subsidize strategic industries and provide the preferential loans for enterprises to promote the development of the emerging industries [1]. Shi-jie [2] also generalized three main features of developmental state. First, government highly intervenes markets and establishes the dedicated agencies (such as Ministry of International Trade and Industry in Japan, National Development Council in Taiwan, Economic Development Board in Singapore, etc.) to formulate developing strategies to lead the economic development [3]. Second, government adopts flexible industrial policies to support the strategic industries with various subsidies and safeguards. Third, government implements land reform with clear social policies, maintains social and economic equality to prevent serious political conflicts. The features mentioned above could be found in Taiwan’s government as well, it was centralized and dominated industrial development to accumulate great wealth for Taiwan in a short time. In 1949, the Republic of China government withdrew to Taiwan, first invested in light industry to supply domestic demand market, and then turned to export after 1960. Since 1972, the gross production of heavy industry was finally equal to light industry; Taiwan transformed into an industrialized society afterward Shu-Yuan [4]. However, under the impacts of international political situation and economic environment in the early 1970s, Taiwan’s government implemented “Ten Major Construction Projects” to strengthen infrastructures in terms of transportation, heavy industry and energy development to improve economy.","PeriodicalId":30320,"journal":{"name":"Constructii Journal of Civil Engineering Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77005193","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":"Substantiation of the Way of Modernization of Shunting Diesel Locomotives","authors":"O. Pasko","doi":"10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555714","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of the reconstruction process of traction means on the world railways shows that the railway polygon operated by diesel locomotive traction and the transport volume carried out by diesel locomotives on the railways occupy the leading place. Despite the fact that in the countries of Western Europe and the USA the process of introducing advanced types of traction has been completed or is almost completed, demand for diesel locomotives will remain stable worldwide. Moreover, these countries will require the replacement and modernization of outdated diesel locomotives. All this is driving the leading global diesel locomotive companies such as Brush Traction, Alstom, Toshiba, General Electric to work intensively on the creation of new diesel locomotive constructions. The global trend towards energy efficiency makes it necessary to move to more environmentally friendly and reliable shunting diesel locomotives. Given the fact that shunting diesel locomotives are often used as suburban railway locomotives in short, inactive sections, the issue of reducing fuel and energy consumption is currently an acute and priority task. They are also one of the most important elements of railway stations ensuring their uninterrupted operation, therefore the creation of hybrid units for shunting traction with advanced control systems is one of the actual scientific and technical tasks of the railway transport. The article addresses the problems of inefficient use of fuel and energy resources by shunting locomotives. The proposed functional scheme of the hybrid diesel locomotive makes it possible to introduce traction engine control systems to improve their properties..","PeriodicalId":30320,"journal":{"name":"Constructii Journal of Civil Engineering Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77239477","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":"The current state of nuclear electrical power in the United States","authors":"G. Sandquist","doi":"10.31031/acet.2019.03.000553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31031/acet.2019.03.000553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30320,"journal":{"name":"Constructii Journal of Civil Engineering Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84743626","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":"Empirical Study of Optimal Capital Structure and the Debt Capacity of BOT Projects","authors":"Borliang Chen","doi":"10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555713","url":null,"abstract":"It is world widely trend for governmental agencies to promote private sectors to participate in the development of infrastructures, such as BOT projects. However, BOT projects are inherently risky due to too many uncertainties during the project period. Overoptimistic in revenue and lack of risk analysis in BOT projects might usually lead the concessionaire to misestimate the project feasibility. This may result in high probability of defaults (PD) of BOT projects and cause financial disaster toward concessionaire. In the worst situation, it could make the projects become unbackable. However, it is rarely to discuss the probability of defaults and bankruptcy cost in the conventional BOT financial model. In general, capital structure of BOT projects is assumed 30% of equity and 70% of debt, and debt repayment is arranged in repaying equivalent uniform annul cost debt in repayment periods. This kind of repayment arrangement does not consider the erratic nature of revenue. It is risky to repay the debt obligation with inflexible repayment term. And, it may lead to high PD of the projects. The objective of this study was to alleviate the risk of project defaults due to the volatility of revenue. A student dormitory project of the national United University in Taiwan is used as an empirical study to demonstrate the analysis. The repayment arrangement proposed in this paper could make the 35% PD of the project reduce to less than 1% PD.","PeriodicalId":30320,"journal":{"name":"Constructii Journal of Civil Engineering Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79070105","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":"Discussion on Seismic Performance of Non-seismically Designed Structures","authors":"H. Wong","doi":"10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555712","url":null,"abstract":"This article briefly reviews the critical construction practices which were widely adopted for existing building structures in low to moderate seismic regions. The corresponding effect to seismic performance is discussed and it is concluded that further study is required to retrofit existing buildings which are without seismic considerations.","PeriodicalId":30320,"journal":{"name":"Constructii Journal of Civil Engineering Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79644803","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":"Following Status and Percent Followers on Two-Lane Highways: Empirical Investigation","authors":"A. Al-Kaisy","doi":"10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/CERJ.2019.07.555711","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an empirical investigation into car following interactions. Detector data from 15 study sites in Idaho, Montana and Oregon representing all three highway classes were used in this investigation. Investigation of speeds and headways suggests that the headway at which vehicles start the car-following interaction (referred to in this study as the critical headway) varied in a range that is site-specific, with the lower limit generally varying between 1 and 2 seconds, and the upper limit varying between 6 and 7 seconds. The study also found that vehicles traveling at a perceived minimum safe headway increase in number as headways get smaller and more vehicles enter the car following state. Further, the study introduced a new approach for estimating percent followers in the traffic stream and used field data in deriving headway cut-off values. Headway cut-off value for percent followers at class I sites varied between 1.8 and 2.8 seconds, while those for class II and class III sites are slightly above 3 seconds. This paper presents an empirical investigation into the car-following interaction and the estimation of percent followers on rural two-lane highways. Field data from 15 study sites in Idaho, Montana and Oregon were used in this investigation. The most important findings of this study are summarized as follows:","PeriodicalId":30320,"journal":{"name":"Constructii Journal of Civil Engineering Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82725541","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":"Preference Index of the Acoustic Quality Assessment of Sacral Sound Field","authors":"Chiung-Yao Chen","doi":"10.19080/cerj.2019.07.555710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.19080/cerj.2019.07.555710","url":null,"abstract":"The characteristics of sacral sound perception were surveyed by using two different measurements in four churches of the Ando [1] suggested that sound quality has four decisive parameters: A. initial Listening levels and inter-aural correlation The classical music Motif A, B and a chorus of poem were employed to evaluate the sound perception in the liturgy hall of churches by using Ando’s model. Furthermore, the questionnaire was implemented by using a five-point Likert scale of a thirteen audible perception dialogue. The results of the global index of these two measures are quite agreement. But the variation occurred at high reverberation of the lower frequency band with respective to the sense of hearing in such band which is a crucial element in sacral sound perception.","PeriodicalId":30320,"journal":{"name":"Constructii Journal of Civil Engineering Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83008589","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}