Abstract: This paper presents experimental investigations on the thermal response and structural behavior of a full-scale, 2-story, steel-framed building exposed to traveling fire. In this test protocol, the fuel bed consisted of ...

Abstract: In the construction industry, the combination of Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and semantic web technologies emerges as a promising approach for project information management. However, semantic web technologies are ...

Abstract: Building construction sites are highly complex and uncertain, and frequent incidents of dangerous events can easily lead to casualties. Thus, both risk assessment and evacuation analysis are fundamental to safety management. ...

Abstract: An economic valuation of flood reductions arising from land use changes induced by the Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program (CCFGP) in China is detailed in this paper. A distributed hydrologic model is ...