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      <title>Stability Analysis of the Embankment Model</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In analysis of embankment model affected by dynamic force, employment of shaking table is a scientific way in assessment of earthquake behavior. This work focused on saturated loose sandy foundation and enbankment. The results generated through the pore pressure sensors indicated pore water pressure playing main role in creation of liquefaction and stability of the system, and also revealed deformation, settlement, liquefaction intensity and time stability of system in direct correlation with the strength and characteristics of soil. One of the economical methods in stabilization of soil foundation is improvement of some part soil foundation.]]></description>
      <dc:creator>G.S.  Gopalakrishna; Abdoullah  Namdar</dc:creator>
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      <title>Classes of Construction Cost Estimates</title>
      <description><![CDATA[There are many ways of classifying construction cost estimates. The most significant of these are the degree of project definition. The degree of project definition is based upon the percentage of completed architectural and engineering designs. It defines available input information to the estimator. Related to input informations, a prudent owner or contractor must associate the “expected accuracy range” The estimate accuracy is an indication of the degree to which the future final (true) cost of construction varies from the estimate prepared earlier. Accuracy is usually expressed as a positive or negative percentage range surrounding an estimated future cost. In this way it defined “classes of construction cost estimates”. This paper represents a proposition to a possible classification of classes of estimates.]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Eduard  Antohie</dc:creator>
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      <title>Environmental Impact of Concrete</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The cement and concrete industries are huge. What does this mean in terms of the environment? Concrete and other cementitious materials have both environmental advantages and disadvantages. This paper takes a look at how these materials are made, then reviews a number of environmental considerations relating to their production and use.
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      <dc:creator>Dan  Babor; Diana  Plian; Loredana  Judele</dc:creator>
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      <title>Beams on Elastic Foundation. The Simplified Continuum Approach</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The key aspect in the design of flexible structural elements in contact with bearing soils is the way in which soil reaction, referred to qualitatively as soil’s reactive pressure (p), is assumed or accounted for in analysis. A magnitude and distribution of p might be preliminary assumed, or some mathematical relationships could be incorporated into the analysis itself, so that p is calculated as part of the analysis. In order to eliminate the bearing soil reaction as a variable in the problem solution, the simplified continuum approach is presented. This idealization provides much more information on the stress and deformation within soil mass compared to ordinary Winkler model, and it has the important advantage of the elimination of the necessity to determine the values of the foundation parameters, arbitrarily, because these values can be computed from the material properties (deformation modulus, Es, Poisson ratio, νs and depth of influence zone, H, along the beam) for the soil. A numerical investigatio proach is also presented.]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Iancu-Bogdan  Teodoru</dc:creator>
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      <title> Study on the Influence of the Structural Asymmetry on the Torsional Response</title>
      <description><![CDATA[For the composition and the structural design to lateral loads, the distribution of horizontal lateral forces on vertical structural elements is an important issue, which can become complicated, depending on the considered structural system. In this paper is presented a study regarding the influence of the asymmetry on the response of a mix structure (frame with coupled walls). The structure has 11 floors and is analysed in three different cases of walls positioning, in order to verify their influence on the lateral rigidity and torsional response of the structure.]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Mihaela  Anechitei; Doina  Ştefan; Ioana  Olteanu</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Ductile Design Concept for Seismic Actions in Miscellaneous Design Codes</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The concept of ductility estimates the capacity of the structural system and its components to deform prior to collapse, without a substantial loss of strength, but with an important energy amount dissipated. Consistent with the „Applied Technology Council” (ATC-34), from 1995, it was agreed that the reduction seismic response factor to decrease the design force. The purpose of this factor is to transpose the nonlinear behaviour of the structure and the energy dissipation capacity in a simplified form that can be used in the design stage. Depending on the particular structural model and the design standard the used values are different. The paper presents the characteristics of the ductility concept for the structural system. Along with this the general way of computing the reserve factor with the necessary explanations for the parameters that determine the behaviour factor are described. The purpose of this paper is to make a comparison between different international norms for the values and the distribution of the behaviour factor. The norms from the following countries are taken into consideration: the United States of America, New Zealand, Japan, Romania and the European general seismic code.
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      <dc:creator>Ioana  Olteanu; Ioan-Petru  Ciongradi; Mihaela  Anechitei; M.  Budescu</dc:creator>
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      <title>Gelivity Effects on Construction Elements</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Complex nature of environment effects on concrete structures has imposed an improvement of material characteristics, an adequate design, accurate execution and inspection, maintenance and prevention of deterioration risks. Large complexity of concrete elements deterioration processes, it is determined by the relation between adopted structural conceptions, exposing climatic conditions, concrete composition, quality of execution processes, but also due to synergetic action of destructive agents. When water freezes in a porous material, like cement stone, raise its volume about 9%, and can lead to concrete cleavage, when pores are saturated with water. Using deicers on concrete surface for melting of ice or snow, cause a thermal shock. Temperature difference between the surface and the core of concrete leads to interior stress and deformation state, capable to influence cracking of concrete layer from the surface of element. Prevention of damages and their amplification needs inspection, maintenance and overhauling of structures.
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      <dc:creator>Bogdan  Rujanu</dc:creator>
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      <title>Evolution of Flat Roofs</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Roofs are constructive subassembles that are located at the top of buildings, which toghether with perimetral walls and some elements of the infrastructure belongs to the subsystem elements that close the building. Roofs must meet resistance requirements to mechanical action, thermal insulating, waterproofing and acoustic, fire resistance, durability, economy and aesthetics. The man saw the need to build roofs from the oldest ancient times. Even if the design of buildings has an empirical character, are known and are preserved until today constructions that are made in antiquity, by the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans with architectural achievements, worthy of admiration and in present time. General composition of civil construction has been influenced throughout the evolution of construction history by the level of production forces and properties of building materials available in every historical epoch. For over five millennia, building materials were stone, wood and ceramic products (concrete was used by theRomans only as filling material).]]></description>
      <dc:creator>Şt.  Vasiliu</dc:creator>
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      <title>Art of Film – A Way of Architectural Communication</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The art of film, the most popular art of the 20th century, can represent for architecture a means of teaching and promoting its specific values, an inspirational source and a good example of efficient and accessible cultural communication. The architecture presents many resemblances with the world of film regarding the concept and space exploring for communicating some ideas or concepts. Both film and architecture have narrative qualities, work with the world of illusions and representations and compose various elements in order to carry on certain significances. The film makers are making available the suggestive and semantic potential of architecture to render states and attitudes, to outline certain meanings or to emit opinions and comments on political, psychological and social issues.
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      <dc:creator>Liliana  Petrovici</dc:creator>
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