Building for the Future: Durable, Sustainable, Resilient


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This book presents the proceedings of the fib Symposium “Building for the future: Durable, Sustainable, Resilient”, held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 5–7 June 2023. The book covers topics such as concrete and innovative materials, structural performance and design, construction methods and management, and outstanding structures. fib (The International Federation for Structural Concrete) is a not-for-profit association whose mission is to develop at an international level the study of scientific and practical matters capable of advancing the technical, economic, aesthetic, and environmental performance of concrete construction.




Fibre-reinforced Concretes for High-performance Structures


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Fibre-reinforced Concretes for High-performance Structures presents key information about the development, performance and design of fibre-reinforced concrete, ultra-high-performance fibre-reinforced concrete and geopolymer concrete, and critically analyses their key mechanical properties and durability characteristics.







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Mariners Weather Log


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Mariners Weather Log contains articles, news and information about marine weather events and phenomenon, storms at sea, weather forecasting, the NWS Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) Program, Port Meteorological Officers (PMOs), cooperating ships officers, and their vessels. It provides meteorological information to the maritime community, and contains a comprehensive chronicle on marine weather. It recognizes ships officers for their efforts as voluntary weather observers, and allows NWS to maintain contact with and communicate with over 10,000 shipboard observers (ships officers) in the merchant marine, NOAA Corps, Coast Guard, Navy, etc.




Principles of Management in Agribusiness


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Origin of and introduction to the U.S. agribusiness industry;origin;evolution;and composition of basic managerial principles; the human behavioral aspect of management; time/value relationshipo in agribusiness finance; specific financial strategre; long range flaming for growth and profit;managements specific operational drallenges; managing the management conssultant; managerial methodology; contemporagy issues confronting agribusiness management.







Impact of Distributed Energy Resources on the Reliability of a Critical Telecommunications Facility


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Documents a probabilistic risk assessment of an existing power supply system at a large telecomm. office. The focus is on characterizing the increase in the reliability of power supply through the use of two alternative power configurations. Failures in the power systems supporting major telecomm. service nodes are a main contributor to major telecomm. outages. A logical approach to improve the robustness of telecomm. facilities would be to increase the depth and breadth of technologies available to restore power in the face of power outages. Distributed energy resources such as fuel cells and gas turbines could provide one more onsite electric power source to provide backup power, if batteries and diesel generators fail. Illustrations.