Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle cost (LCC) is important for assessing and balancing the economic and environmental impact of buildings, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers a potential way of doing this. However, despite an ample amount of published work about the integration of LCA and LCC using BIM, no thorough re...
About this book: In a fast-moving global industry how does anyone know what the next trend will be? To answer this question, fashion professionals engage in a systematic, analytical process to predict and understand changes in society and consumer behavior. Forecasting companies and developers collect information related to culture, the economy, po...
The structural performance of a newly developed lightweight and thermally efficient alternate of normal concrete (NC) i.e. infra-lightweight concrete (ILC) had been under question due to its low elastic modulus, surface roughness, and cracking. In the present study, the structural performance of ILC has been improved by using a layer of high streng...
White mica has been widely used to date microstructures and tectonic events in faults, shear-zones and folds because of its suitability for radiogenic dating. However, complex (i) microstructural evolution, (ii) individual chemical evolution of the K-bearing phases, (iii) mixing of ‘detrital grains’ with newly formed and/or recrystallized or chemic...
Purpose: Convergence plays a fundamental role in the performance of near visual tasks. We measured the effect of two levels of convergence on anterior scleral thickness and shape in emmetropes, low to moderate myopes and high myopes. Methods: Forty-five healthy young adults aged between 18 and 35 years including 15 emmetropes, 15 low/moderate myope...
Background: Observational studies have linked vitamin D deficiency with acute respiratory tract infection, but results from randomised controlled trials are heterogeneous. We analysed data from the D-Health Trial to determine whether supplementing older Australian adults, recruited from the general population, with monthly doses of vitamin D reduce...
The current design methods for built-up back-to-back cold-formed steel (CFS) channel compression members are considered inadequate despite several research studies in recent times. These research studies have proposed improved DSM based design equations, however, they have in general led to predictions of varying accuracy. Further, there were some ...
Resistive switching in lateral devices using vanadium oxide sheets is reported. The devices undergo an electric field induced insulator-to-metal transition (E-IMT). A sudden jump in the current level up to two orders in magnitude at a defined bias voltage and linearly increasing with a further increase in the bias voltage is observed. Further, the ...
The microstructure of plant-based food materials (PBFM) is mostly composed of assemblies of irregular cellular compartments. Dynamically changing mechanical properties play a vital role in the drying kinetics, deformation, and the quality attributes of PBFM. Therefore, understanding the micro-level mechanical properties and their relationships with...
There is a growing demand, across the globe, for smart mobility solutions to reduce negative social, environmental and economic externalities of private automobile travel. Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is an integrated system that through a single online interface enables commuters to plan, book, and pay for trips which utilise a range of mobility p...
