e9780080441009v1 -- Front Cover -- ADVANCES IN BUILDING TECHNOLOGY -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- International Advisory Committee -- Organizing Committee -- Executive Committee -- PART 1: KEYNOTE PAPERS -- Chapter 1. Advances in Materials and Mechanics -- Chapter 2. Advances in Concrete Technology -- Chapter 3. Human Requirements in Future Air-Conditioned Environments -- Chapter 4. Creating Competitive Advantage and Profits with Technology in the Construction Sector -- Chapter 5. Advances in IT for Building Design -- Chapter 6. Information Technology Support to Improved Construction Processes: Inter-Disciplinarity in Research and Practice -- Chapter 7. Recent Topics in Wind Engineering Focusing on Monitoring Techniques -- Chapter 8. A Conception of Casualty Control Based Seismic Design for Buildings -- Chapter 9. Thermal Radiation Effects and Their Determination in Room Fires -- PART 2: TEAM PRESENTATION: Advances in Panel Systems -- Chapter 1. Wood Frame Shear Walls with Metal Plate Connected Framework -- Chapter 2. Toward Engineering Design of Gypsum Board Fire Barriers -- Chapter 3. Barrier Materials to Reduce Contaminant Emissions from Structural Insulated Panels -- Chapter 4. Novel Microcellular Plastics for Lightweight and Energy Efficient Building Applications -- Chapter 5. Long-Term Creep Response of Borate-Modified Oriented Strandboard -- Chapter 6. Mechanical, Physical, and Biological Properties of Borate-Modified Oriented Strandboard -- PART 3: TEAM PRESENTATION: Commissioning and Energy Management -- Chapter 1. Re-commissioning of an Air Handling Unit -- Chapter 2. Automated Commissioning of Air-Handling Units Using Fuzzy Air Temperature Sensors -- Chapter 3. Modeling of Package Air-Conditioning Equipment -- Chapter 4. Automatic Diagnosis and Commissioning of Central Chilling Systems.

PART 4: TEAM PRESENTATION: Composite Construction -- Chapter 1. Design of Simply-Supported and Continuous Beams in Steel-Concrete Composite Construction -- Chapter 2. Innovations in Composite Slabs Incorporating Profiled Steel Sheeting -- Chapter 3. Web-Side-Plate Framing Connections in Both Steel and Composite Construction -- Chapter 4. Novel New Reinforcing Components for Composite Beams -- Chapter 5. The Influence of Material Properties on the Local Buckling of Concrete Filled Steel Tubes -- PART 5: TEAM PRESENTATION: Composites for Housing -- Chapter 1. Low-Cost, Bio-Based Composite Materials for Housing Applications -- Chapter 2. Durability of Pulp Fiber-Cement Composites to Wet/Dry Cycling -- Chapter 3. Extruded Fiber-Reinforced Composite -- Chapter 4. Reversed In-Plane Cyclic Behavior of Post-Tensioned Clay Brick Masonry Walls for High Performance Modular Housing -- Chapter 5. An All-Natural Composite Material Roof System for Residential Construction -- Chapter 6. Comparison of Optimal Designs for Stick-Frame Wall Assemblies of Different Bay Sizes -- PART 6: TEAM PRESENTATION: Earthquake Resistant Theory and Applications -- Chapter 1. A Macro-Model of RC Shear Wall for Push-Over Analysis -- Chapter 2. Torsional Effect of Asymmetric R/C Building Structure -- Chapter 3. Experimental Investigation on Axial Compressive Behavior of FRP Confined Concrete Columns -- Chapter 4. Dynamic Properties and Seismic Response of RC Structures Characterized by Abrupt Change in Horizontal Connection Stiffness -- Chapter 5. A GIS System Integrated with Vulnerability for Seismic Damage and Loss Estimation of Hong Kong -- Chapter 6. Rules of Drift Decomposition and Drift-Based Design of RC Frames -- Chapter 7. Seismic Fragility Curves for Wind-Designed-Buildings in Hong Kong -- Chapter 8. A Preliminary Study of Structural Semiactive Control Using Variable Dampers.

PART 7: TEAM PRESENTATION: Flexible Manufacturing System in Construction -- Chapter 1. Dynamic Monitoring of the Boring Trajectory in Underground Channel for Driving Communications -- Chapter 2. Façade Cleaning Robot -- Chapter 3. Advanced Construction Design and Technology by Robotics -- Chapter 4. Embedded System and Augmented Reality in Facility Management -- Chapter 5. Robots for Location and Spacing of Wood -- Chapter 6. Assembly and Disassembly of Interior Wall -- Chapter 7. MUNITEC-Fast-Connectors - Key Technology for Prefab Houses -- PART 8: TEAM PRESENTATION: Industrialized Housing -- Chapter 1. Initial Thoughts on Industrialised Solution for Low-Cost Housing in China's Rural Area -- Chapter 2. Industrialized Housing Construction - The UK Experience -- Chapter 3. A Perspective of Industrialised Housing in Chongqing -- Chapter 4. Impact on Structure of Labour Market Resulting from Large-Scale Implementation of Prefabrication -- Chapter 5. Priority Setting of Preferential Parameters for Home Purchase in Chongqing - An Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach -- PART 9: TEAM PRESENTATION: Research at the ATLSS Center on New Materials and Systems to Resist Earthquakes and Wind -- Chapter 1. Steel Moment Frame Connections that Achieve Ductile Performance -- Chapter 2. Lateral Load Behavior of Unbonded Post-Tensioned Precast Concrete Walls -- Chapter 3. Design of High Strength Spiral Reinforcement in Concrete Compression Members -- Chapter 4. Modelling and Behavior of Composite MRFs with Concrete Filled Steel Tubular Columns Subject to Earthquake Loading -- Chapter 5. The Use of Post-Tensioning to Reduce Seismic Damage in Steel Frames -- PART 10: TEAM PRESENTATION: Smart Structures for Dynamic Hazard Mitigation -- Chapter 1. Stochastic Approach to Control and Identification of Smart Structures.

Chapter 2. Building Hazard Mitigation with Piezoelectric Friction Dampers -- Chapter 3. A Research and Development of Smart Building Structures by Magneto-Rheological Damper -- Chapter 4. Structural Health Monitoring System Using Support Vector Machine -- Chapter 5. Performance of Structures with Passive Dampers Subject to Near-Fault Earthquakes -- Chapter 6. Reliability and Control Performance Verification of an Actual Semi-Active Structural Control System -- Chapter 7. Hybrid Response Control of Closely Spaced Buildings -- Chapter 8. Model Testing of a Nonlinear Base Isolation Concept -- Chapter 9. Risk Control of Smart Structures Using Damage Index Sensors -- Chapter 10. Seismic Protection of Base-Isolated Structures Using Semi-Active MR Dampers -- Chapter 11. Semi-Active TLCDS using Magneto-Rheological Fluids for Vibration Mitigation of Tall Buildings -- Chapter 12. Phenomenological Model of Large-Scale MR Damper Systems -- PART 11: TEAM PRESENTATION: Structural Analysis Research at the Beijing Polytechnic University -- Chapter 1. The Practical Anti-Earthquake Optimum Design of Civil Infrastructure Network System -- Chapter 2. Earthquake Analysis of Arch Dam with Joints Including Dam-Foundation Rock Nonlinear Dynamic Interaction -- Chapter 3. Earthquake Analysis of Arch Dam Including Dam-Foundation Rock Nonlinear Dynamic Interaction -- Chapter 4. Stability Analysis of Large Complicated Underground Excavations -- Chapter 5. Evaluation of Ground Vibration Induced by Subway -- Chapter 6. Nonstationary Response of Spatial Lattice Shells Under Multiple Seismic Inputs -- Chapter 7. Interaction Between Pile and Raft in Piled Raft Foundation -- Chapter 8. The Method of Calculating the Interior Force of Soil Nails and Case Analysis -- Chapter 9. Structural Bamboo and Bamboo Scaffolding in Building Construction.

Chapter 10. Stability of Modular Steel Scaffolding Systems - Theory and Verification -- Chapter 11. Recent Developments on Bamboo Scaffolding in Building Construction -- Chapter 12. Reliability Analysis for Mechanical Properties of Structural Bamboo -- Chapter 13. Erection of Bamboo Scaffolds and Their Recent Developments -- Chapter 14. Structural Design of the Bamboo Pavillion, Berlin -- Chapter 15. Full Scale Tests of Bamboo Scaffolds for Design Development Against Instability -- PART 12: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES: Construction Technologies/Plants -- Chapter 1. Causes of Lumps and Balls in High Slump Truck-Mixed Concrete: An Experimental Investigation -- Chapter 2. Advances in Concrete Placement Methods and Finishing Techniques for High Performance Industrial Pavements in Australia -- Chapter 3. Review of Design and Construction Innovations in Hong Kong Public Housing -- Chapter 4. Static Loading Test of a Self-Balanced Approach to a Pile in the Yangtze River -- Chapter 5. The Design and Construction of Two International Finance Centre Hong Kong Station -- Chapter 6. The Construction of Deep and Complex Basements Under Extremely Difficult Urban Environment - 3 Representing Projects in Hong Kong -- Chapter 7. Novel Three-Step Consolidation Method to Eliminate Foundation Soil Liquefying -- PART 13: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES: Earthquake Engineering -- Chapter 1. Testing of a Transfer Plate by Pseudo-Dynamic Test Method with Substructure Technique -- Chapter 2. Seismic Design and Inelastic Seismic Response of Lumped Mass MDOF Dual Structure -- Chapter 3. Seismic Assessment of Low-Rise Building with Transfer Structure -- Chapter 4. Ultimate Drift Ratio of Non-Ductile Coupling Beams -- Chapter 5. Effect of Uncertain Evolutionary PSD Function of Seismic Excitation on Peak Response of MDOF Systems.

Chapter 6. Simplified Method and Parametric Sensitivity Analysis for Soil-Pile Dynamic Interaction Under Lateral Seismic Loading.