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Identifying the Inherent Factors Causing Delays in the UAE Construction Industry
(2021-04)
The construction industry is one of the most important industries that impact the economy of a country as it contributes significantly to the GDP, employment, and wealth. The UAE construction industry contributes to 8.7% ...
Performance of RC Columns Strengthened with Fabric-Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM)
(2021-05)
A recently emerging technique to strengthen existing concrete structures using Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM) is introduced to retrofit structural members. FRCM is an inorganic matrix that consists of textile ...
Finite Element Modeling of Drilling AZ91 Magnesium Foam Reinforced with Hollow Alumina Microspheres
(2021-07)
Novel AZ91 magnesium syntactic foams are a potential choice for temporary biomedical implants. In many cases, holes of various sizes need to be machined on the biomedical implants using the drilling process to facilitate ...
Sliding Resistance of Serrated-Base Quay Walls
(2021-11)
Waterfront retaining structures, such as quay walls, play important roles in the safety and operation of ports and harbours. Designing waterfront structures under critical loads and conditions is one of the important topics ...
Hybrid Energy Management System For Electric Vehicles
(2021-12)
Boosting the performance of the energy storage system (ESS) of electric vehicles (EV) is of great significance to achieve their pervasion and encourage their mass adoption, which will, in turn, curtail the emission of ...
One Dimensional Seismic Site Response Analysis of United Arab Emirates
(2021-08)
Seismic design of structures located in seismically active areas, like UAE, is primarily based on Seismic Site Response Analysis (SRA) of that area. SRA is the process of estimating the response of soil layers under ...
Flex Behavior of Green SNFRC Circ Beams with Double-Layers of Spirals and Uniformly Distributed Reinf
(2021-12)
Green Concrete has emerged as a promising sustainable alternative to Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC)-based concrete. Partial OPC replacement by Ground Granulated Blast-Furnace Slag (GGBS) promotes enhanced sustainability ...
Optimal Dispatch of Mobile Energy Storage Unit to Support EV Charging Stations
(2021-04)
s transportation electrification increases globally, new technologies emerged in the past few years to meet the growth of the electricity demand. A mobile energy storage system (MESS) could provide several services to the ...