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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Rehabilitation and maintenance"”.
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Vital Traditions: Assessing the Status of Skilled Trades Work in Toronto’s Heritage Policy
… conservation field that argue for widespread rehabilitation and maintenance of existing buildings are hampered in Canadian jurisdictions by difficulties contracting appropriately skilled workers to carry out that maintenance. This phenomenon is general, but it is produced by local market …
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Relapses in psychiatric patients in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa
… the factors that contribute to such relapses, and determining possible solutions to the problem. Admission records of the three psychiatric institutions in this province were studied to determine the relapse/readmission rates during the year 1993. Questionnaires and interview schedules were …
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Crack identification through computer vision: from non-learning-based to learning-based methodologies, and from patch-level to pixel-level detections
Modern society requires a sustainable, robust, and serviceable infrastructure to promote social welfare and boost economy. To support such infrastructure systems, an efficient health monitoring framework is needed which can promptly detect the presence of defects and perform associated …
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Evaluation of infrastructure monitoring systems using PDA and GPS technologies
… technology, the ways in which people live and work are being redefined. With the rapid expansion of Information Technology, it is much easier and efficient to complete complicated and time-consuming tasks in every industry. By implementing personal digital assistant (PDA) and Global …
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Development of a long-term, multimetric structural health monitoring system for a historic steel truss swing bridge
… the nation’s bridges are in desperate need of rehabilitation and maintenance. However, limited funds are available for the repair of bridges. Management of the nation’s bridge infrastructure requires an efficient and effective use of available funds to direct the maintenance and repair efforts. …
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DEVELOPMENT OF NEW COLD BITUMEN EMULSION MIXTURES AND FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING OF PREDICTING PERMANENT DEFORMATION
… the traditional hot mix asphalt (HMA) technology and its effects on the environment and health means that serious attention needs to be paid to building more sustainable flexible pavements. Cold bitumen emulsion mixture (CBEM) as an increasingly attractive cold asphalt mixture is therefore …
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Optimization of lateral position of autonomous truck platoons to improve roadway infrastructure sustainability
The adaptation rate of connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies correlates with the condition of transportation infrastructure. In fact, an aging and deteriorating infrastructure represents one of the main barriers to advancing CAV technologies. Given that only 41\% of U.S. roads meet …
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Development of a life-cycle assessment tool for flexible pavement in-place recycling techniques and conventional methods
… recycling has been utilized in the pavement maintenance and rehabilitation activities. Three types of in-place recycling technologies have been introduced since the late 70’s: hot-in-place recycling (HIR), cold-in-place recycling (CIR), and full-depth reclamation (FDR). The use of in-place …