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This volume contains special contributions presented at the 14th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation (COMPRAIL/14) held in Rome. It is a companion to the Volume conta …

Containing papers presented at the 38th of long line of conferences covering the most recent advances in Boundary Elements and Mesh Reduction Methods (BEM/MRM), this book contains an important chapte …

Containing the proceedings of the third International Conference on Defence Sites: Heritage and Future, this book deals with the scale, design and functions of defence sites, with particular attentio …

Containing papers presented at the first international conference on the topic, this book examines architecture in the Islamic world and the influence it has had in non-Islamic countries. …

Sustainable Tourism VII contains papers presented at the seventh in a series of meetings on the topic organised by the Wessex Institute. The papers included in the book address problems, including so …

Waste Management and the Environment VIII contains papers present at the 8th International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment, organised by the Wessex Institute. The contents were con …

Delegates to the 3rd International Conference on Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development contributed the peer-reviewed papers contained in this book. The papers consider the impa …

Infrastructure Risk Assessment & Management contains papers dedicated to all aspects of risk management and hazard mitigation alongside papers examining how structures behave under a variety of load …

This volume contains special contributions presented at the 5th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability, held by the Wessex Institute of Technology. It is a companion to the Volume cont …

Covering the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability held in Alicante, Spain, this volume addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of urban planning; …

Containing the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics held in Ancona Italy, AFM 2016 followed the success of previous global conferences in the series, the fi …

Discussing the future of energy production and management in a changing world, this book presents the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Energy Production and Management in the 21st C …

Starting in Portsmouth in 1988, Heat Transfer XIV: Simulation and Experiments in Heat Transfer and its Applications contains the proceedings of the fourteenth conference in the well-established serie …

Comprising the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature, the papers deal with topics such as building technologies, design by passive systems …

This title incorporates the 15th proceedings of the very successful International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation (COMPRAIL) series, which began in Frankfurt in 1987. …

In these proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, international academics and air pollution practitioners contribute to the evolving …

Containing studies from all over the world Urban Transport XXII consists of papers presented at the 22nd International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment. The conference has been succe …

Water Pollution XIII is the proceedings of the 13th International Conference in the series of Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Water Pollution. The papers presented at this conference, and inc …

This volume contains papers dedicated to the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water Systems and the Management and Response to Flood Risk. These papers deal with thr …

Containing papers from the 2nd High Performance Design of Structures and Materials and the Optimum Design of Structures conference, following the success of a number of meetings since 1989, this book …

The 8th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning is part of a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development which began in Greece in 2003. Th …

The papers contained in this volume were originally presented at the 2015 International Conference on Complex Systems in Business, Administration, Science and Engineering. Included are the latest wor …

This collection of research papers, presented at meetings organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT), concerns a variety of issues relating to the area of sustainable development. WIT has …

The papers presented at Building Information Modelling 2017 (BIM) are from a range of forums, including plenary papers, workshops, seminars, and panel sessions. The conference was attended by experts …

Encompassing papers presented at the 25th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, this book is the latest from a successful conference series. International …

Papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Coastal Cities and their Sustainable Future are contained in this volume. Since its successful introduction in 2015 the conference has continue …

Originating from the work of the late Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine, ECOSUD 2017 was the 11th International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development in this long-standing series. This boo …

Comprising papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture this volume brings together global contributions from scientists, archite …

Material and contact characterisation is a rapidly advancing field that requires the application of a combination of numerical and experimental methods. Including papers from the International Confer …

Papers presented at the CMEM 2017 conference form this book, which includes research from scientists, researchers and specialists who perform experiments, develop computer codes and carry out measure …

Reporting on the latest research on preparation for and mitigation of future earthquakes, this volume examines an area of increasing importance to many countries around the world. These papers presen …

Containing papers from the ninth International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management, this book presents the work of scientists, practitioners and other experts regarding recent techno …

Forming the 9th volume from this successful international conference series, this book marks a growing global interest in the planning, design and management of river basin systems. The included pape …

Papers presented at the 7th in a series of interdisciplinary conferences on safety and security engineering are contained in this book. The papers include the work of engineers, scientists, field res …

This book contains papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Timber Structures, which was held in collaboration with the Technical Centre of Wood Industry in Belgium. It explores the la …

Grouping a selection of papers from the Sustainable City 2017 conference, this book refers to all aspects of urban environment and provides solutions that lead towards sustainability. The series main …

Containing papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability, this volume includes collaborative research between different disciplines, including materials, energy ne …

Formed of presented papers this volume contains research from BEM/MRM 40, recognised as THE international forum for the latest advances in these techniques and their applications in science and engin …

Containing papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning this volume brings together the work of academics, policy makers, practitioners and others and …

Containing papers presented at the 2016 New Forest Conference on Complex Systems, this multi-disciplinary book presents new approaches for resolving complex issues that cannot be resolved using conve …

This book contains papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Islamic Heritage Architecture and Art. The papers deal with the design of many types of buildings in Islamic countries and t …

Including papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability held in Alicante, Spain, this book addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of urban planning; …

Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims countless lives worldwide each year. Beginning in 2008 at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London this book contains papers presented at the 5th confe …

This title incorporates papers presented at the 15th meeting of the very successful International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation (COMPRAIL) series, which began in Frankfurt in …

Delegates to the 3rd International Conference on Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development contributed the peer-reviewed papers contained in this book. The papers discuss the most …

Studies, repairs and maintenance of heritage architecture are becoming increasingly important in modern society. Comprising specially selected papers, this book address a series of topics related to …

The selected papers in this book deal with Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations. The papers demonstrate the interdisciplinary character of BIM, bringing togethe …

Containing selected papers on the fundamentals and applications of Complexity Science, this multi-disciplinary book presents new approaches for resolving complex issues that cannot be resolved using …

It is important to understand the nature of global disaster risks in order to develop strategies to effectively prepare and respond to both natural and human-made events. The selected papers containe …

Containing a series of specially selected papers, this book deals with advances in disciplines contributing to sustainable development, such as planning, architecture, engineering, policy making, env …

Containing selected papers on material and contact characterisation this volume presents the latest research in the field. Contributions come from both industry and research communities using computa …

Comprising specially selected papers on the subject of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements, this book includes research from scientists, researchers and specialists who perform experi …

The selected papers contained in this book present the latest research in one of the most challenging, yet most universally applicable areas of technology. Multiphase flows are found in all areas of …

Safety and Security Engineering is an interdisciplinary area of research and this book includes specially selected papers. These papers encompass the work of engineers, scientists, field researchers …

Research studies on the preparation for and mitigation of future earthquakes, an area of increasing importance to many countries around the world, comprise this volume. The selected papers included i …

Transportation in urban areas, with its related environmental and social impacts, is of significant concern for government policymakers and for the urban citizens who need efficient transport systems …

The use of fossil fuels has generated an increasing amount of interest in renewable energy resources. This volume includes collaborative research between different disciplines, including materials, e …

Comprising specially selected papers, this book refers to all aspects of urban environment and provides solutions that lead towards sustainability. These research studies include contributions that h …

Comprising specially selected papers this book presents trans-disciplinary research on issues related to the nature of water, and its use and exploitation by society. The valuable research contained …

The topic of multiphase flow is broad, encompassing a variety of fluids, transported solids and flow regimes. Research in multiphase flows is driven by the challenge of understanding such complex phe …

This volume contains most of the papers presented at the 12th International Conference on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements (CMEM) held in Malta in 2005. These biannual conferences …

This book contains the edited proceedings of the 28th World Conference on Boundary Elements, an internationally recognized forum for the dissemination of the latest advances on Mesh Reduction Techniq …

Originally presented at the Sixth International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics, this book contains work at the cutting edge of fluid mechanics. The basic formulations of fluid mechanics an …

This book contains the edited papers presented at the Third International Conference on High Performance Structures and Materials and it addresses issues involving advanced types of structures, parti …

Pollution is widespread throughout the world, and elimination of the risks to human health is of the utmost importance. Air Pollution XIV examines the development of experimental as well as computati …

Many leading discoveries have been prompted by parallels between nature and human design. Today, advances in scientific knowledge coupled with powerful computers and simulation models have made possi …

This volume contains the papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Environmental Problems in Coastal Regions and includes Oil and Chemical Spill Studies. The high population density in …

Containing papers from the 2nd International Conference on Evolution, Monitoring, Simulation, Management, and Remediation of the Geological Environment and Landscape this book highlights important re …

This book contains papers presented at the First International Conference on Monitoring, Simulation, Prevention and Remediation of Dense and Debris Flows. The contents stress the importance and possi …

As modern society evolves, new types of hazards are introduced and consequently new research is needed to quantify these risks and prepare adequate mitigation strategies. Covering a series of importa …

The continued growth of Internet-based technologies and the increasing emergence of mobile and wireless high-speed access dramatically affects the ways in which we work, learn, communicate, play and …

Unlike the mechanistic buildings it replaces, Eco-Architecture is in harmony with nature, including its immediate environs. Decisions have to be taken on ecological grounds concerning locations, siti …

Waste management is one of the key issues of modern society and requires constant advancement in the adopted practices and technologies in order to keep up with the new industrial technologies and co …

Heat Transfer topics are commonly of a very complex nature. Often different mechanisms like heat conduction, convection, thermal radiation, and non-linear phenomena, such as temperature-dependent the …

In the last two years, several major events have characterised the international financial markets. The most significant one was certainly the explosion of the price of commodities, in particular of …

This book contains the papers presented at the ninth International Conference on Structures Under Shock and Impact.The shock and impact behaviour of structures is a challenging area, not only because …

Containing papers presented at COMPRAIL 2006, this book represents the latest research, development and application of computers to the management, design, manufacture and operations of railways and …

Transportation in cities, with its related environmental and social concerns, continues to be a topic of the utmost priority for urban authorities and central governments around the world. This is re …

This book features papers from the Seventh International Conference on Data Mining and Information Engineering. State-of-the-art research results are brought together with practical development exper …

Urban areas produce a series of environmental problems arising from the consumption of natural resources and the consequent generation of waste and pollution. These problems contribute to the develop …

This book focuses on the problems facing the public and private sectors and the engineering and scientific communities in terms of the decrease of available new land for development purposes. Given t …

Fresh water is becoming an increasingly precious commodity. In the near future, control of it could lead to the type of political instability that is now associated with energy shortages. This book a …

Tourism has become a major international industry, with many countries all over the world relying on the income it produces. The demands of tourism can however contribute to the destruction of the na …

Consisting of over 70% of the Earth’s surface, water is undoubtedly the most precious natural resource that exists on our planet. The pollution of rivers and streams with chemical contaminants has be …

This book addresses the need for the exchange of scientific information among experts on issues related to environmental toxicology, toxicity assessment and hazardous waste management. Publishing pap …

The current emphasis on sustainable development is a consequence of the general awareness of the need to solve numerous environmental problems resulting from our modern society. This book addresses t …

In the early stages of its employment, architects approached computer technology as an assistance technique that would enhance architectural practice. The scope of this engagement was captured in the …

The state of our planet continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate. We have arrived at a situation where we need to determine urgent solutions before we reach a point of irreversible damage.This bo …

Air pollution represents one of the most challenging issues that humankind is facing. With the economic growth of emerging countries leading to an increase in the demand for energy, the prevention of …

The increasing urbanisation of the world, coupled with the global issues of environmental pollution, resources shortage and economic restructuring, demand that we make our cities places worth living …

The increasing urbanisation of the world, coupled with the global issues of environmental pollution, resources shortage and economic restructuring, demand that we make our cities places worth living …

Adding optimisation methods enforces engineering design and the influence of these methods cannot be over-emphasised. The resulting solutions provide an efficient way of dealing with some of the most …

Electrochemical processes are the basis of diverse areas of interest ranging from corrosion to fabrication processes. While computational modeling is stressed, the need to understand the underlying p …

The combination of surface treatment and contact mechanics is an important one. The surface of a component is usually the most important engineering factor. While it is in use it is often the surface …

This book includes specialized areas of interaction problems of fluid with a variety of structures encountered by the flow ranging from wind, current, biofluids and ocean waves to tall buildings, oce …

Water is one of the most important natural resources found in the world. Therefore, population growth and higher living standards will cause ever increasing demands for good water quality in the futu …

River Basin Management IV is the fourth of a successful series of international conferences. It took place on the Greek island of Kos, birthplace of Hippocrates, the father of Medicine. The papers pr …

This book contains selected papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Earthquake Resistance and Engineering Structures. This book provides a forum for the discussion of the latest dev …

Multiphase flow remains one of the unsolved problems in fluid mechanics. There are many factors which make it difficult to deal with such flows. They are very diverse in nature, and as a consequence …

In an age of dwindling resources, knowledge of the behavior of materials takes on an even more important role than was traditionally the case. Not only must a material perform its basic function, but …

The International Conference on Boundary Element and other Mesh Reduction Methods is now in its 29th year. The papers presented at the conference are contained in this volume. The continued success o …

The study of computational ballistics is one of the most challenging scientific endeavours, not only because of the diversity of time and space scales involved in practically all problems, but due to …

Recent advances in the speed and efficiency of computers, and in computational techniques, have been major factors in the growth of numerical methods that now affect not only engineering, but our eve …

This volume has gathered the most recent advances in research and up-to-date studies of heritage buildings resulting in STREMAH becoming the most important conference of its kind. The book contains m …

Safety & Security Engineering, due to its special nature, represents an interdisciplinary area of research and applications that brings together, in a systemic view, many disciplines of engineering, …

Sustainable energy production is one of the key issues of modern society and requires new ideas to advance the technologies and strategies currently in use. The main fields, which are the focus of ma …

This book contains most of the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors in Health (Environmental Health Risk 07). The Conference aimed to foster …

According to the ancient Greeks, nature was composed of four elements: air, fire, water and earth. Engineers are continuously faced with the challenge imposed by those elements, in activities such as …

Urban Transport is a topic of primary importance for all countries around the world. The growth of transportation in the cities has led to the emergence of a series of environmental and social proble …

Combining sciences and thoughts is essential for the sustainability of ecosystems as well as for understanding human life. Ecology, economics, chemistry, physics, climatology, informatics are pieces …

This Volume contains copies of most of the papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Modelling in Medicine and Biology (BIOMED/07), which took place at the Wessex Institute of Technolog …

Advances in computational methods and the ability to model systems more precisely now enable hazards to be quantified, their effects to be simulated and risk analysis to be pursued with greater accur …

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Prevention, Assessment, Rehabilitation and Development of Brownfield Sites that was held in Cephalonia (Greece) in May 2 …

This Volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on High Performance Structures and Materials, which was held in The Algarve, Portugal, in May 2008. HPSM is not just a conf …

The shock and impact behaviour of structures is a challenging area, not only because of the obvious time-dependent aspects, but also because of the difficulties in specifying the external dynamic loa …

This book contains papers presented at the ninth International Conference on Data Mining, Protection, Detection and other Security Technologies held at the University of Cadiz in Spain, 2008. The app …

This book contains most of the papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Environmental Problems in Coastal Regions. The conference provides a forum for the discussion of problems that a …

This book covers a wide range of edited papers in the areas of fluid mechanics presented at the Seventh International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics held at The New Forest, UK in May 2008. …

One of the main topics discussed at the 2006 conference was the explosion of the price of commodities, in particular oil which, back then, reached the price of 74 dollars. Analysts at that time were …

The current emphasis on sustainable development is a consequence of the general awareness of the need to solve numerous environmental problems resulting from our modern society. This has resulted in …

The environmental problems caused by the increase of pollutant loads discharged into natural water bodies necessitate setting up a framework for regulation and control. This framework needs to be bas …

This book contains most of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on Sustainable Irrigation, Management, Technologies and Policies. The meeting follows the success of the first C …

Waste generation is rapidly becoming one of the key problems of the modern world, due to the increasing waste generation rate as well as the complexity of waste composition. Damage to the environment …

Environmental toxicology is one of the most interdisciplinary sciences. Biologists, microbiologists, chemists, engineers, environmentalists, ecologists and other scientists work together in this new …

Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Evaluation, Monitoring, Simulation, Management and Remediation of the Geological Environment and Landscape the papers included in this volume bring to …

This book contains papers presented at Second International Conference on Debris Flow including all aspects of Debris Flow Monitoring, Modelling, Hazard Assessment, Mitigation Measures, Case Studies …

This book contains papers presented at the second International Conference on Eco-Architecture. The original Conference was the first to be held worldwide on the subject of sustainable architecture i …

Design in engineering and science has often been inspired by nature. This has been more evident in recent years, after a period during which our civilization thought in terms of taming rather than wo …

The major motivation behind the Boundary Element Method (BEM) was to reduce the dependency of analysis on the definition of meshes. This has allowed the method to expand naturally into new techniques …

In engineering design and development, reliable and accurate computational methods are requested to replace or complement expensive and time consuming experimental trial and error work. Tremendous ad …

Flooding is a global phenomenon that each year claims around 25, 000 lives worldwide. Additionally, many more people must endure the homelessness, disease and crop failures that are left in the wake …

Forest fires appear as a complex major problem, which is way beyond the simple relationship with climate, at the origin of many environmental social and economical consequences. This book contains th …

Transportation in cities, with related environmental and social concerns, continues to be a topic of the utmost priority for urban authorities and central governments around the world. Frequently, th …

The archetypal tourist is at present slowly evolving towards a cultural model in which human labour, on one hand, and nature and landscape, on the other, constitute the most important attractions wit …

Underground spaces are becoming increasingly important for a wide diversity of uses. They range from classical excavations to subway constructions, underground sports halls, power stations, waste rep …

COMPRAIL 2008 the eleventh in a series of well-established and successful international conferences on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and Other Transit Systems, was held in Toled …

Air pollution remains one of the most challenging problems facing the international community; it is widespread and growing in importance and has clear and known impacts on health and the environment …

A sustainable city is widely recognised as one which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In The Sustainable City V many inte …

The problem of protecting the built environment in earthquake-prone regions of the world involves not only the optimal design and construction of new facilities, but also the upgrading and rehabilita …

Fluid Structure Interaction 2009 is the fifth conference in this successful series. It brings together international experts from various application fields to exchange information and knowledge on f …

This book includes the topics from the Eighth International Conference on Modelling in Medicine and Biology: Cardiovascular System; Computational Fluid Dynamics in Biomedicine; Biomechanics; Model of …

Data mining is seen more and more not only as a key technology in business, engineering and science but as one of the key features in security. The 10th International Conference on Data Mining is par …

Particular emphasis is placed on computational methods to model, control and manage new structural solutions and material types. This integration of their design together with optimisation technologi …

The importance of contact and surface effects in modern engineering and their combined effects led the organisers to reconvene this 9th International Conference, which covers two related topics: Comp …

As computer models become more reliable and able to represent more realistic problems, detailed data is leading to the development of appropriate new types of experiments. Experimental measurements a …

Together with turbulence, multiphase flow remains one of the most challenging areas of computational mechanics and experimental methods and numerous problems remain unsolved to date. Multiphase flows …

Until recently, engineering materials could be characterised successfully using relatively simple testing procedures. As materials technology advances, interest is growing in materials possessing com …

Transportation in cities with its related environmental and social concerns is a topic of priority for urban authorities and central government organisations around the world. Urban Transport systems …

Modern Industry applies a wide range of electrochemical process to protect against corrosion, to provide surface treatments, and to manufacture products. This book contains papers from the Third conf …

Safety & Security Engineering, due to its special nature, represents an interdisciplinary area of research and applications that brings together, in a systemic view, many disciplines of engineering, …

ECOSUD is a challenge for the creation of a new science in line with Prigogine’s statement that "at all levels we observe events associated with the emergence of novelties and narrative elements …

The Seventeenth Annual Meeting in the successful series of International Conferences dealing with Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution discussed papers dealing with a wide variety of …

STREMAH 2009 is the Eleventh International Conference on Structural Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture, which covers a broad spectrum of topics. …

This volume contains papers presented at the thirty-first conference in the series, Mesh Reduction Methods and Boundary Elements (MRM/BEM) which is recognised as the international forum for the lates …

This title contains papers from River Basin Management 2009, which is the fifth Conference in the series that marks the growing international interest in the planning, design, and management of river …

The Fifth International Conference on Water Resources Management presents the more recent technological and scientific developments associated with the management of surface and sub-surface water res …

This title contains papers from the International Conference on Physical Coastal Processes, Management and Engineering Wave modelling and prediction in coastal regions held in 2009. …

Environmental Health Risk 2009 is the Fifth International Conference in this successful series and covers topics on health problems worldwide related to the environment. …

This volume contains papers from the First International Conference on Disaster Management and Human Health Risk: Reducing Risk, Improving Outcomes, covering the following topics: Emergency preparedn …

Our current civilisation has fallen into a self-destructive process by which natural resources are consumed at an increasing rate. This process has now spread across the planet in search of further s …

The Conference addresses the subjects of regional development in an integrated way in accordance with the principles of sustainability. It has become apparent that planners, environmentalists, archit …

The Conference addresses the subjects of regional development in an integrated way in accordance with the principles of sustainability. It has become apparent that planners, environmentalists, archit …

Presentations in the conference were related to topics like building technologies, design by passive systems, design with nature, ecological and cultural sensitivity, life cycle assessment, quantifyi …

This series of conferences addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of urban planning, a result of the increasing size of the cities, the amount of resources and services required and the complexity o …

This book contains papers dealing with projects, initiatives and experiences related to different island issues. By using the experience of economically developed island environments, it is possible …

The book addresses these problems of primary importance to Society, discussing and proposing a more constructive and progressive approach to ensure sustainability. Methodologies to address these impo …

This volume contains the edited versions of the papers presented at the third International Conference on Environmental Toxicology. The papers are grouped into the following broad subject areas: Envi …

This book contains the papers presented at the Third International Conference, arranged into the following subject areas: Design Tools; Test Methods; Surface Engineering; Tribology under Extreme Cond …

This book contains the edited versions of the papers presented at the third International conference on Monitoring, Simulation, Prevention and Remediation of Dense and Debris Flow. The Conference bro …

This volume contains papers presented at the second International Conference on Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response. The conference provides a forum for researchers, academics and practitioners a …

Attracting researchers in academia and industry, as well as professional practitioners and policy makers, the Third International Conference provides a platform for a review of the state of the art f …

This book contains papers presented at the Tenth International Conference and includes the following topics: Water Quality; Pollution Prevention and Control; Remediation; Lakes and Rivers; Agricultur …

The Eighteenth Annual Meeting in the successful series of International Conferences dealing with Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution discussed papers dealing with a wide variety of …

This book contains peer-reviewed papers presented at the Second International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires held in Kos, Greece, in 2010. The papers covered impor …

Nature has shown an extraordinary capacity to develop dynamic structures and systems over many millions of years and there is still much to be learnt. Aimed at providing researchers in this subject w …

The continuing requirement for better urban transport systems in general and the need for a healthier environment has led to an increased level of research around the world. This is reflected in the …

Tourism has become a major international industry, with many countries all over the world relying on the income it produces. Because it is a major source of finances and employment, government and ot …

Waste management poses numerous problems and there is a significant need for more research on current disposal methods. Following the introduction of legislation in many countries the emphasis is now …

Research and development of computational methods for solving and understanding heat transfer problems continue to be important because heat transfer topics are commonly of a complex nature and diffe …

This book contains the edited papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on High Performance Structures and Materials. The Conference addresses issues involving advanced types of structur …

The shock and impact behaviour of structures presents challenges to researchers, not only because of its obvious time-dependent aspects, but also because of the difficulties in specifying the externa …

The International Conference on System Design and Operation in Railways and other Transit Systems (COMPRAIL) has become the most successful conference in its field in the world since it started in 19 …

The topics of the latest conference include: Fluid Flow; Damage Mechanics and Fracture; Dynamics and Vibrations; Electrical Engineering and Electromagnetics; Advanced Meshless and Mesh Reduction Meth …

Scientific knowledge is essential to our better understanding of risk. This book encompasses a wide range of topics such as: Risk Assessment; Risk Management; Hazard Prevention, Management and Contro …

This book discusses the basic formulations of fluid mechanics and their computer modelling, as well as the relationship between experimental and analytical results. …

This book contains a collection of papers presented at a series of meetings organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) dealing with sustainability, the environment and ecological issues. …

The Third International Conference convened on the subject is the latest in a biennial series that brings together experts from around the world. Their papers, contained in this book, include researc …

Conference topics include: Ecosystems modeling; Natural resources management; Environmental indicators; Sustainable development studies; Data mining applications; Energy and the environment; Soil con …

This book contains the papers presented at the 6th Fluid Structure Interaction Conference, a meeting that provided a forum for the presentation and exchange of new ideas and the latest work in the sp …

Water Management and Planning; River Basin Management; Urban Water Management; Hydrological Modelling; Hydraulic Engineering; Water Quality; Pollution Control; Irrigation Issues; Special Session on S …

This book contains papers presented at the 6th International Conference on River Basin Management, held in Riverside, California, representing the state of the art in this important topic. They inclu …

This book presents contributions on the latest research in these techniques, presented at the sixth in a biennial series of conferences on the subject that began in 2001. Featured topics include: Mul …

Urban transportation systems can enhance or degrade the quality of urban life by their impact on the environment as well as their operation and accessibility. Municipal authorities put a priority on …

Safety & Security Engineering, due to its special nature, represents an interdisciplinary area of research and applications that brings together, in a systemic view, many disciplines of engineering, …

This volume contains papers presented at a conference that covered two important topics–the study and modelling of Environmental Health Risk and Biomedical problems. The interdisciplinary nature of …

This book looks deeper into the importance of the historical identity of a region, town or nation. It is clear that we have the necessity to look beyond borders and share experiences and knowledge re …

This book contains papers presented at the nineteenth meeting in a series of annual International Conferences dealing with Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution. The papers deal with …

In particular, the focal point in this book is on Experimental and Numerical Tests; Computer Simulation; Multiscale Experiments and Modelling; Fracture Fatigue and Mechanics; Surface Modification; Su …

The transdisciplinary papers in this book, presented at the Third International Conference on Management of Natural Resources of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development, and Ecological Hazards, su …

Although coastal zones are narrow areas extending a few kilometres on either side of the shoreline, and occupying small strip of ocean and land, they play a very important role as they account for ne …

Topics covered include: Disaster Analysis, Monitoring and Mitigation; Emergency Preparedness; Risk Mitigation; Surveillance and Early Warning Systems; Socio-Economic Issues. …

The wide range of topics covers mechanical characterisation and testing, corrosion problems and thermal analysis as well as recycled materials, nano-composites and energy materials. …

While computer models are now more reliable and better able to represent more realistic problems, experimental measurements need to be conditioned to the requirements of the computational models. Pro …

The papers presented at the latest conference, contained in this volume, cover topics such as: Advances in Solid Mechanics; Fluid Flow Applications; Computational Methods; Advanced Formulations; Adva …

This book contains the proceedings of the latest in a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development that began in 2003. Organised by the Wessex Institute of Technolo …

This volume contains papers covering the following topics: The 2009 Abuzzo Earthquake; Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation; Ground Motion; Soil Structure Interaction; Structural Performance. …

This book contains papers presented at the first International Conference on Lighting in Engineering, Architecture and the Environment, held in Poznan, Poland, 2011, which brought together scientists …

Topics include: Impact of food production on the Environment; Contamination of Food; Food Processing Issues; Traceability and Temperature Control; Characterisation of Foodplants. The book will be of …

This book contains the papers presented at a conference co-organised by the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and the Wessex Institute of Technology to facilitate trans-disciplinary communication on iss …

As the demands of society increase in their quest for safer, better and more convenient products, the chemical industry is faced on the one hand with the possible depletion of natural resources and o …

This book is ambitiously inter-disciplinary. Its eleven works, in full colour, form a striking contribution to the commonwealth of colour studies and to a possible unification of C. P. Snow’s Two Cul …

The considerable improvements and evolution of the field has led to some of the best scientists, who have participated in our conferences, to write an article on their most recent research. This has …

The present volume contains the papers presented at the First International Conference on the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water Systems. …

Containing research on sustainable urban redevelopment presented at the latest in a biennial series organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology and first held in 2000, these proceedings, split in …

This book contains the seventeenth proceedings of the annually held international conference on Urban Transport and the Environment. …

Containing the papers presented at the twentieth in a series of annual International Conferences dealing with Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution this proceedings deals with advance …

Forest fire analysis and mitigation requires the development of computer codes that can take into consideration a large number of different parameters. These papers, presented at the third in a succe …

The papers presented at the conference deal with Debris Flow Modelling; Monitoring and Measurement; Risk Assessment; Sediment Transport and Debris Flow; Protective Barriers; Landslide Phenomena. The …

This book covers the following topics: Flood Risk Management; Flood Risk Vulnerability; Emergency Preparedness and Response; Flood Forecasting; Flood Case Studies; Responses to Reduce Vulnerability t …

Presenting a number of case studies, this book highlights examples of good practices that can help to transfer knowledge between different partners across the world. …

Throughout history, many leading thinkers have been inspired by the parallels between nature and human design, in mathematics, engineering and other areas. Today, the huge increase in biological know …

The topics include the following: Emergent strategies for tourism development, Tourism strategies, Environmental issues; Tourism as a tool of development; Climate change and the effects of natural ha …

Containing the edited papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on High Performance Structures and Materials, this book addresses the issues involved with advanced types of structures, p …

Presenting the latest research discussed at the Twelfth International Conference on Computer Aided Optimum Design in Engineering, this book contains papers describing case studies in engineering; con …

Containing papers from the 9th International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics, this book discusses the basic formulations of fluid mechanics and their computer modelling, as well as the rela …

Containing papers for the first International Conference on Environmental Impact and Development, this book fills the need for inter-disciplinary coverage of the most serious problems that affect sus …

Featuring papers published at the Sixth International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment, this book contains contributions on various topics relating to the management of waste and th …

Papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Water Pollution are included in this book. Various topics are covered including: Water quality; Ground …

Containing papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Tribology and Design, Tribology and Design II brings together work by colleagues from different disciplines interested in problem …

Of interest to engineers from civil, military, nuclear, offshore, aeronautical, transportation and other backgrounds, this book contains the proceedings of a well-established conference on the subjec …

Containing the proceedings of the latest in a series of conferences on the emerging topic of eco-architecture, this book presents the newest research in the field. …

Containing the proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Design and Operation in Railway Engineering, this book presents the latest developments in the use of computer-based technique …

Containing the papers presented at the second conference organised on island sustainability, this book addresses the massive scale of seasonal population mobility that has such a profound effect on c …

Comprised of the papers presented at the eighth International Conference on Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation, this book covers a topic of increasing importance. Scientific knowledge …

This book contains papers presented at the Thirty Fourth International Conference on Boundary Elements and other Mesh Reduction Methods (BEM/MRM); recognised as the key international forum for the la …

Containing papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on the subject, the book covers varous aspects of irrigation management. It includes not only the scientific and technical aspects o …

The contents of the book reflect that interdisciplinary approach, and include the following topics: Sustainable Development and Planning; Energy and Sustainability; Food and Environment; Water Resour …

The aim of ecodynamics is to relate ecosystems to evolutionary thermodynamics, which can lead to appropriate solutions for sustainable development. This compilation of influential papers previously u …

A collection of extended versions of papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Lake Sustainability form this unique title. A wide spectrum of contributions focusing on lake sustainabili …

This best-selling text provides a simple introduction to the Boundary Element Method. …

This book presents BEM in a simple fashion in order to help the beginner to understand the very basic principles of the method. It initially derives BEM for the simplest potential problems and subseq …

Containing papers presented at the Third International Conference on Physical Coastal Processes, Management and Engineering, this book examines coastal zone dynamics, which involve complex interactio …

Containing papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on the topic, this book covers new developments in fluid structure interaction problems. …

While advances in food production have made it possible to feed the world population, food production and processing have also had detrimental effects on the environment, product quality, and human h …

Containing contributions presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health this volume covers various topics including: Risk prevention; Disaster mana …

This book contains the proceedings of the tenth in a series of biennial conferences begun in 2001 on the topic of advances in medical and biological computation. The conference topics cover a broad s …

Containing the papers presented at the first International Conference on Data Management and Security with applications in Medicine, Sciences and Engineering, this book focuses on the modern techniqu …

Containing research on recent technological and scientific advances associated with the management of surface and sub-surface water, this book consists of papers presented at the Seventh Internationa …

Containing papers presented seventh international conference on the topic, this book reviews the advances that have been made in the development and application of software tools for predicting the f …

This book contains the proceedings of the sixth conference on the topic of sustainable regional development organized by the Wessex Institute of Technology. First held in 2003, the conference facilit …

This book contains the papers presented at the nineteenth annual International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment. The papers cover research on how to minimise ecological and environme …

Containing papers presented at the twenty-first in a successful series of conferences on the modeling, monitoring and management of air pollution, the book Air Pollution XXI covers what has become a …

Papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Computational Methods and Experiments in Materials Characterisation are included in this book. The papers share recent works from researchers w …

Containing the papers from the eleventh biennial conference on the topic, this book covers contact mechanics and surface effects and their interaction. The life and performance of structural componen …

The Boundary Element Method, as well as other meshless techniques continue to evolve and grow in importance, with new applications developed every year. The proceedings of the Wessex Institute’s conf …

These proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability were written by experts from around the world. Their papers cover areas that are vital to our development, since ind …

Architectural heritage is now recognised to have great bearing on the historical identity of a region, town or nation. It is thus of great importance to take care of this heritage. This volume shares …

While computer models are now more reliable and better able to represent more realistic problems, experimental measurements need to be conditioned to the requirements of the computational models. Thi …

This book presents contributions on the latest research in the techniques for solving multiphase flow problems, presented at the seventh in a biennial series of conferences on the subject that began …

In earthquake-prone regions of the world it is important not only to ensure that new facilities meet optimal standards but also that existing structures and infrastructure be retrofitted and rehabili …

The increased threats of large-scale natural disasters are the topic of the Third International Conference on Disaster Management and Human Health Risk, convened so that experts on public health, sec …

Containing the proceedings of the Second International Conference on the title topic, the book examines issues related to the nature of water, and its use and exploitation by society. Topics include: …

This book contains the proceedings of an interdisciplinary conference on safety and security engineering. Research and applications on the topic by necessity bring together many engineering disciplin …

Each transdisciplinary conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability has brought together experts from multiple disciplines to share their research on sustainable urban planning. They address n …

The proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment follow on from the success of previous meetings beginning in 2002. Topics covered include: Environmenta …

This book contains papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Environmental and Economic Impacts on Sustainable Development incorporating Environmental Economics, Toxicology and Brownfie …

This book contains the 14th proceedings of the, very successful, International conference on Railway Engineering Design and Optimization (COMPRAIL 2014), which began in 1987. Topics covered include: …

This multi-disciplinary proceedings volume contains papers presented at the fourth International Conference on Mobile, Adaptable and Rapidly Assembled Structures. Topics covered include: Rapidly erec …

This proceedings volume is the first from a new edition of the High Performance Design of Structures and Materials and the Optimum Design of Structures conferences, which follows the success of a num …

Water Pollution XII contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference in the series of Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Water Pollution. The book will be of interest to scientists, …

Urban Transport XX contains the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment. Topics covered include: Environmental impact; Transport strategies; Public tra …

Urban Water II is the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water Systems. The meeting was reconvened following the …

The proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, builds upon the prestigious outcomes of the 21 preceding meetings beginning in 1993. …

Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims numerous lives worldwide each year. Set up to promote research into this area of study, this book contains the proceedings of the 4th International Confere …

Irrigation, the biggest water user in most regions of the world is facing serious challenges in balancing social, economic and environmental needs for water. Topics relating to irrigation and water u …

Containing the proceedings of the tenth International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics, it follows the success of all previous conferences in the series, the first of which took place in 199 …

Containing papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation this book covers a series of important topics of current research interes …

Heat Transfer XIII: Simulation and Experiments in Heat and Mass Transfer contains the proceedings of the thirteenth conference in the well established series on Simulation and Experiments in Heat Tra …

SUSI XIII contains the proceedings of the 13th International Conference in the successful series of Structures Under Shock and Impact. Since the first meeting in 1989 the conference has brought toget …

This volume forms the proceedings of the 6th International Conference in this successful series on Sustainable Tourism. To protect the natural & cultural landscape new solutions are needed which mini …

Discussing the future of energy production and management in a changing world, this book contains the proceedings of the first international conference on Energy Production and Management in the 21st …

Containing the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability this book addresses the multi-disciplinary aspects of urban planning; a result of the increasin …

This book contains the proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature.The papers in this book deal with topics such as building technologies, desig …

Containing the proceedings of the second International Conference on Defence Sites, Heritage and Future this book promotes the knowledge of the scale, design and functions of defence sites. It brings …

Energy and Sustainability V is the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability, held by the Wessex Institute of Technology.This book covers topics related to sustaina …

The Conference on Boundary Elements and Mesh Reduction Methods (BEM/MRM) is recognised as the international forum for the latest advances in these techniques and their applications in science and eng …

Featuring contributions from the Sixth International Conference on Modelling in Medicine and Biology, this book covers a broad spectrum of topics. It will be of interest both to medical and physical …

This book comprises a series of papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health. …

Containing many of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health, this volume includes contributions from a variety of different countri …

This book features edited versions of papers presented at the First International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health. The papers are divided under the following headings: Air …

Containing papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Computer Simulations in Biomedicine, the book covers a broad spectrum of topics in this area. The contributions featured are arran …

Since 1978 the conference on Boundary Elements and Mesh Reduction Methods has produced a successful series of volumes in which all major developments in the field have been presented. The 37th volume …

Urban Transport XXI contains the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment. The series of annual conferences organised by the Wessex Institute was first …

The Tenth International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development is the latest in a well established series that originated from the work of the late Nobel laureate, Ilya Prigogine. This …

This book contains papers presented at the International Conference on Coastal Cities and their Sustainable Future. First held in 2015, the conference evolved from a series of conferences on coastal …

The proceedings of the BIM 2015 conference give details of how Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools and techniques have fundamentally altered the manner in which modern construction teams opera …

Containing papers presented at the seventeenth in a series of biennial meetings organised by the Wessex Institute and first held in 1984, this book includes the latest research from scientists who pe …

This book contains the proceedings of the seventh in a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development that began in 2003. Organised by the Wessex Institute, the confe …

The contents of this volume consist of papers presented at the fourth in a series of conferences convened to assess the potential risk from various disasters and discuss ways to prevent or mitigate d …

This book contains the proceedings of the sixth in a series of interdisciplinary conferences on safety and security engineering. The papers from the biennial conference, first held in 2005, include t …

Containing the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability this book addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of urban planning; a result of the increasin …

Diverse topics covered in this title containing the conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability involve interdisciplinary cooperation to arrive at optimum …

This book presents the latest research in one of the most challenging, yet most universally applicable areas of technology. Multiphase flows are found in all areas of technology and the range of rela …

Containing papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Materials Characterisation, this book presents the latest advances in a rapidly developing field that requires the application o …

The book contains papers from the twelfth in a series of biennial conferences, first held in 1993, on the topics of contact mechanics and surface effects and their interaction. The papers in the book …

Water Resources Management VIII contains papers presented at the eighth conference in a biennial series organised by the Wessex Institute. First held in 2001, the Conference includes the work of scie …

The proceedings of the eighth international conference on River Basin Management include all aspects of Hydrology, Ecology, Environmental Management, Flood Plains and Wetlands. Included papers presen …

Containing the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, this book addresses various aspects of a topic that is of considerable worldw …

Containing the latest research on preparation for and mitigation of future earthquakes, this book addresses an area of increasing importance to many areas around the world. It contains research prese …

Containing the proceedings of the 14th Conference on Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture (STREMAH 2015), this book provides the necessary scientific knowledge required to formul …

This book contains papers presented at the fourth in a series of trans-disciplinary conferences on Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development, and Ecological Hazards, first held in 2006 …

The proceedings from The Water and Society Conference 2015 aim to encourage trans-disciplinary communication on issues related to the nature of water, and its use and exploitation by society. The pap …