J. L. Salinas1, A. Castellarin2, S. Kohnová3, and T. R. Kjeldsen4 1Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria 2Department DICAM, School of Civil Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 3Department of Land and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, SUT Bratislava, Slovak Republic 4Department of...

Effective design of the High Speed Civil Transport requires the systematic application of design resources throughout a product's life-cycle. Information obtained from the use of these resources is used for the decision-making processes of Concurrent Engineering. Integrated computing environments facilitate the acquisition, organization, and use of required information. Stateof-the-art computin...

interested in understanding, modeling and forecasting hydrological fluxes at large spatial scales based on land surface and climatic indices. Other topics of research include water resources planning and management and environmental assessment in developing countries. the interface of environmental process engineering and energy. This includes topics such as the conversion of waste materials to...

5 Warm climates pose challenges to building energy consumption and pedestrian comfort. 6 Knowledge of the wind flow around buildings can help address these issues through 7 improving natural ventilation, energy use and outdoor thermal comfort. Computational Fluid 8 Dynamics (CFD) simulations are widely used to predict wind flow around buildings, despite 9 Researcher, Singapore-ETH Centre, Futur...

Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of the City University of New York, T-121 Steinman Hall, Convent Avenue at 140th Street, New York, NY 10031, U.S.A. Earthquake Engineering Research and Test Center, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, U.S.A. Department of Mechanical Engineering a...

⎯ Hazard mitigation and structural dynamics have been important additions to the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum. UCIST (University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables) has worked toward improving educational opportunities in this area for nearly 10 years. For the past 8 years, the US National Science Foundation has sponsored a cyberenvironment project referred to as the Network...

1 Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Narotama, Surabaya, Indonesia, 4 Department of Civil, Environmental and Applied System Engineering, Kansai University, Suita, Japan, 5 Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional...

Civil and structural engineering have had a long and successful history in adopting computing technologies, from computer graphics, CAD, finite element analysis to virtual simulations. As computer hardware and software technologies continue to advance, demands for functionalities of engineering software have also grown. Computer programs have become ever more sophisticated and complex. The desi...

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1 Control & Dynamical Systems, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; 2 Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Department of Biological Engineering, and Synthetic Biology Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; 3 Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology...