To reduce occurrence of fires in buildings as efficiently as possible, it is necessary to take into account active and passive fire protection measures during construction of building. This paper will show more about passive ...

Testing the clay hollow-brick masonry non-load-bearing wall helps us to understand the behaviour of this type of wall during a fire. It is important to know the fire resistance of hollow brick walls so that we can prevent ...

Many new requirements in the field of testing of metals, emphasize traceability and accuracy of test results as of the end goal. These requirements have hidden context with emphasis on energy efficiency too., which is ...

Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a standardized way of quantifying the impact of a product or system on the environment. This study evaluates the environmental impact of 1 tone of clay roof tiles, produced in ...

Fractal geometry theory implied in a composite surface topographic analysis as a means of explanation of the structural characteristics has hardly been reported so far. This paper proposes a new method of roughness peaks ...

Critical infrastructure can be demaged, destroyed or disrupted by deliberate acts of natural disasters,negligence, terrorism, sccidents or computer hacking, criminal activity and malicious behaviour. When it comes to the ...

Innovative construction systems, increasing use of combustible material in facades, less and less space between buildings, increased energy requirements; the transformation of facades in response to these changes requires ...

Researchers in the field of fracture mechanics, today predominantly developing appropriate solution algorithms for problems of solid bodies with cracks. Problems in mechanics generally, related with fracture and fatigue ...

This paper presents the new approach for solving the non-linear dynamics of complex mechanical systems, which contains two or more deformable bodies in contact. The developing of presented approach is motivated by problems ...

The aim of the paper is to point up the possibilities of biomimetics principles in the machine elements design. During last decades, the new requirements in machine elements design are placed in front of the experts. The ...