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Wind Uplift Resistance of Discontinuous Metal Roofing Systems: Literature Review and Experimental Research
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Damage to building envelopes, roofing, and wall cladding systems remains a major concern during high wind speed events such as hurricanes and tornadoes. Roofing systems are particularly vulnerable to wind damage, which can ... -
Wildfire Risk Mitigation through Systems Analysis of the Planetary Emergency
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Recognizing wildfires as a multiscale planetary emergency, this paper describes a systems analysis of technology countermeasures, with special attention to Sicily, California, and several other regions. The paper describes ... -
What Organizational Justice Brings to Project Dispute Negotiation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Negotiators having the intention to settle (ITS) is crucial to accomplishing the negotiated settlement of construction disputes. Organizational justice (i.e., procedural, distributive, and interactional justice) might ... -
Wetting Deformation and Constitutive Modeling of Predisintegrated Carbonaceous Mudstone Subjected to Drying–Wetting Cycles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Predisintegrated carbonaceous mudstone (PCM) that exhibits low strength and continuous disintegration is prone to wetting deformation after repeated seasonal rainfall. A reasonable assessment of wetting deformation is ... -
Water Pressure Prediction in a Water Supply Network Using the Informer Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Water pressure scheduling is important for the normal operation of urban water supply networks, and water pressure prediction provides the basis and guidance for water pressure scheduling. Informer, as a deep learning model ... -
Augmented Reality Applications for the Excavation Industry: Locating and Protecting Underground Utilities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The construction industry constantly pursues innovative methods to improve safety, enhance productivity, and reduce costs and project durations. Augmented Reality (AR) is a promising technology, potentially bringing about ... -
Waste Polyethylene and Polypropylene Particles as Mechanical Reinforcements of Polyester Polymer Mortar: Gamma Radiation as Postcuring Treatment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The excessive use of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) to produce materials with a very short useful life has caused environmental problems due to the lack of sustainable recycling routes and end-use ... -
Wage Variances and Disparities: Unraveling the Impact of Spanish-Required Language Skills and Locational Variables in the Construction Job Market
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The major objective of this research is to investigate wage variations and disparities within the construction job market by employing a comprehensive approach that intertwines the influence of Spanish-required language ... -
Voluntary Workplace Proenvironmental Behavior on Construction Project Sites: Antecedent Roles of Green Human Resource Management Practices, Environmental Awareness, and Job Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Green human resource management (GHRM) has been tagged as one of the surest means of encouraging voluntary workplace proenvironmental behavior (VWPB) among an organization’s employees. However, previous studies have not ... -
Volume Change Behavior of Cement Kiln Dust
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Industrial wastes cause damage to the environment and pose a threat to public health. The utilization of industrial wastes is inevitable if a circular economy needs to be achieved. Cement kiln dust (CKD) is a potential ... -
Visualized Analysis of Mapping Knowledge Domains for Oil and Gas Pipelines Failure Research
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Failure analysis is a vital technique that is intended to strengthen the integrity management of oil and gas pipelines. The significance is to reduce economic losses and avoid or minimize major failure incidents. The aim ... -
Vision-Based Body Pose Estimation of Excavator Using a Transformer-Based Deep-Learning Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Devoted to safety, efficiency, and productivity management on construction sites, a deep-learning method termed transformer-based mechanical equipment pose network (TransMPNet) is proposed in this research to work on images ... -
Viscoelastoplastic Constitutive Model for the AC Lower Surface Layer Considering Time-Varying Characteristics during the Intelligent Compaction Process
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Intelligent compaction (IC) technology based on the continuous compaction control (CCC) technology enables real-time monitoring, evaluation, and feedback of compaction quality. However, the lack of a viscoelastoplastic ... -
Verification and Validation of Agent-Based Models for Resilience Analysis and Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Natural hazards can inflict significant damage on communities. It may take a long time for hazard-stricken communities to recover from the losses induced by natural hazards. The concept of community resilience has received ... -
Velocity Profiles in Gravel Beds Based on Refractive Index Matching Experiments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The space-and time-averaged velocity profiles in gravel beds show some features that differentiates them from that established in smooth beds, but the obstruction posed by the gravel hampers the experimental measurements ... -
Velocity Distributions in Open Channels and the Calculation of Discharge
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The accurate representation and integration of velocity measurements in open channels is important in irrigation and river engineering. The traditional approach for velocity is to use an approximate physical theory, giving ... -
Attenuation of Aqueous Naphthalene through a Constructed Wetland System Employing Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Naphthalene (NAPH), a common polyaromatic hydrocarbon from the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, significantly contaminates water bodies due to its resistance to degradation. This study investigated the use of ... -
Velocity Distribution and Separation Zone Characteristics in the Confluence of the Pipeline Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The ability of urban pipe networks to transport water over time is significantly affected by the sedimentation of the pipe network, particularly at the pipe confluence area, where pollutants are frequently deposited and ... -
Vehicle Trajectory Reconstruction from Sparse Data Using a Hybrid Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Vehicle trajectories deliver precious information, supporting traffic state estimation and congested traffic mitigation. However, collecting fully sampled vehicle trajectories is difficult due to unaffordable data-collection ... -
Vehicle and Pedestrian Detection Algorithm in an Autonomous Driving Scene Based on Improved YOLOv8
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Aiming at the problems of insufficient lightweight and slow running speed of vehicle and pedestrian detection model in autonomous driving scenarios, a vehicle and pedestrian detection algorithm based on improved YOLOv8 ...