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Rooftop greenhouses in educational centers: a sustainability assessment of urban agriculture in compact cities
(Elsevier, 2018)
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Open AccessToday, urban agriculture is one of the most widely used sustainability strategies to improve the metabolism of a city. Schools can play an important role in the implementation of sustainability master plans, due their ... -
Modelling acid attack of oilwell cement exposed to carbonated brine
(John Gale, 2018-01)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyA diffusion-reaction model for the carbonation process of oilwell cement exposed to carbonated brine under CO2 geological storage conditions is presented. The formulation consists of two main diffusion/reaction field ... -
ASR expansions in concrete under triaxial confinement
(2018-02)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyIt is well known that the Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) expansion in concrete is influenced by the stress state of the material. However, the extent and nature of this influence is not completely understood due to the ... -
Environmental assessment of earth retaining wall structures
(2017-12)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyLife cycle assessment (LCA) is recognised as a powerful technique to determine the environmental impact component of sustainability assessments of structures in civil engineering projects at the time of design. This paper ... -
Life cycle and hydrologic modeling of rainwater harvesting in urban neighborhoods: implications of urban form and water demand patterns in the US and Spain
(Elsevier, 2018-04)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyWater management plays a major role in any city, but applying alternative strategies might be more or less feasible depending on the urban form and water demand. This paper aims to compare the environmental performance of ... -
Urban planning and agriculture. Methodology for assessing rooftop greenhouse potential of non-residential areas using airborne sensors
(Elsevier, 2017-12-01)
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Open AccessThe integration of rooftop greenhouses (RTGs) in urban buildings is a practice that is becoming increasingly important in the world for their contribution to food security and sustainable development. However, the supply ... -
Floods and consequential life cycle assessment: integrating flood damage into the environmental assessment of stormwater Best Management Practices
(2017-09)
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Open AccessStormwater management is essential to reducing the occurrence of flooding events in urban areas and to adapting to climate change. The construction of stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) entails a series of life ... -
Determination of the energy release rate function for an eccentrically notched center-loaded beam using elastic fracture analysis
(2017-04)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThe center-loaded beam with an eccentric notch is a simple test setup for studying non-planar fracture, which is a common cracking mode in structural elements. This work presents a methodology for obtaining the relations ... -
Stress-driven integration strategies and m-AGC tangent operator for Perzyna viscoplasticity and viscoplastic relaxation: application to geomechanical interfaces
(2017-04)
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Open AccessThe paper proposes a stress-driven integration strategy for Perzyna-type viscoplastic constitutive models, which leads also to a convenient algorithm for viscoplastic relaxation schemes. A generalized trapezoidal rule for ... -
Are we preventing flood damage eco-efficiently? An integrated method applied to post-disaster emergency actions
(2017-02)
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Open AccessFlood damage results in economic and environmental losses in the society, but flood prevention also entails an initial investment in infrastructure. This study presents an integrated eco-efficiency approach for assessing ... -
Environmental performance of rainwater harvesting strategies in Mediterranean buildings
(2017-03)
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Open AccessPurpose: The rapid urbanization and the constant expansion of urban areas during the last decades have locally led to increasing water shortage. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems have the potential to be an important ... -
Building-integrated rooftop greenhouses: an energy and environmental assessment in the mediterranean context
(2017-02)
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Open AccessA sustainable and secure food supply within a low-carbon and resilient infrastructure is encapsulated in several of The United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals. The integration of urban agriculture in buildings ...
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