Book Description

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Civil, Architechture and Building Materials (CEABM 2014), May 24-25, 2014, Haikou, China. The 638 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Geotechnical Engineering, Chapter 2: Geological Engineering, Chapter 3: Tunnel, Subway and Underground Facilities, Chapter 4: Seismic Engineering, Chapter 5: Hydraulic Engineering, Water Resources and Hydrology, Chapter 6: Coastal Engineering, Chapter 7: Construction Technology, Chapter 8: Water Supply and Drainage Engineering, Chapter 9: Heating, Gas Supply, Ventilation, Air Conditioning Works and Daylighting Design,Chapter 10: Oil, Gas and Mineral Exploration, Chapter 11: Disaster Prevention and Mitigation,Chapter 12: Cartography and Geographic Information System, Chapter 13: Surveying Engineering, Chapter 14: Applied and Computational Mechanics, Chapter 15: CAD/CAE/Computer Technology Keyword: Geotechnical Engineering; Geological Engineering, Tunnel, Subway and Underground Facilities; Seismic Engineering; Hydraulic Engineering, Water Resources and Hydrology, Water Supply and Drainage Engineering; Heating, Gas Supply, Ventilation, Air Conditioning Works and Daylighting Design; Oil, Gas and Mineral Exploration Over 600 papers accepted for presentation and publication explore a wide range of topics within the areas of civil and industrial engineering. Among them are the experimental study of static disintegration on unsaturated soil, the numerical simulation analysis of bearing characteristics on super-large diameter rock socketed pile, physical and mechanical features of clay shale in the Bayingobi Basin of Inner Mongolia, the status of research and remaining problems in the nondestructive testing of bolts, the seismic response of assembled precast concrete residences, the numerical simulation of the flow field in a micro-pressure inner loop reactor, calculating and analyzing gravity head coefficient in a hot water heating system, and the mechanical behavior of concrete short columns pushed out from over-thick steel tubes. -- Civil engineering-- Engineering-- Mechanical engineering.