Advances in Building Materials, CEBM 2011

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).This collection of 367 peer-reviewed papers covers the latest advances in Concrete Materials, Green Building Materials, Nanotechnology and Nano-Materials, Experimental Studies of Materials Properties, New Building Materials, Steel and Alloy Materials, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Geotechnical Engineering and Geosynthetics. Taken together with its coverage of their applications, this collection will be welcomed by anyone interested in these topics.The three-volume set from the July 2011 conference gathers 350 papers on concrete materials for building, steel and alloy materials, applied mechanics, nanotechnology, utilization of industrial waste, and green building materials. Researchers working at Chinese universities explore load resistance in bamboo-reinforced concrete slab, recycling titanium chips as an energy absorption material, flat geotextile tubes filled with inhomogeneous slurry, and concrete hollow blocks made from mining slag. A team at the Kunming University of Science and Technology proposes a new method for calculating the response spectrum of random pedestrian loads, evaluates human comfort during repeated ground vibrations, and investigates the effect of fly ash and silica fume on mortar corrosion. The third volume is devoted to geotechnical engineering and geosynthetics, reporting recent work on drilling tunnels, modeling soil stability, calculating seismic loads, analyzing digital photos, and improving red clay.