Repairing Infrastructures

Author : Christopher R. Henke,Benjamin Sims
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262360685

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Repairing Infrastructures by Christopher R. Henke,Benjamin Sims Pdf

An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Infrastructures--communication, food, transportation, energy, and information--are all around us, and their enduring function and influence depend on the constant work of repair. In this book, Christopher Henke and Benjamin Sims explore the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Henke and Sims offer examples, from local to global, to investigate not only the role of repair in maintaining infrastructures themselves but also the social and political orders that are created and sustained through them.

Author : Christopher R. Henke,Benjamin Sims
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262539708

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Repairing Infrastructures by Christopher R. Henke,Benjamin Sims Pdf

An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Infrastructures—communication, food, transportation, energy, and information—are all around us, and their enduring function and influence depend on the constant work of repair. In this book, Christopher Henke and Benjamin Sims explore the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Henke and Sims offer examples, from local to global, to investigate not only the role of repair in maintaining infrastructures themselves but also the social and political orders that are created and sustained through them. Repair can encompass not only the kind of work we most commonly associate with the term but also any set of practices aimed at restoring a sense of normalcy or credibility to the places and institutions we inhabit in everyday life. From cases as diverse as the repair of building systems on a university campus, a conflict over retrofitting a bridge while protecting murals painted on it, and the global challenge posed by climate change, Henke and Sims assemble a range of examples to illustrate key conceptual points about the role of repair. They show that repair is an essential if often overlooked aspect of understanding the broader impact and politics of infrastructures. Understanding repair helps us better understand infrastructures and the scope of their influence on our lives.

Author : Fernando Pacheco-Torgal,Robert Melchers,Nele de Belie,Xianming Shi,Kim Van Tittelboom,Andres Saez Perez
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780081021828

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Eco-efficient Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Infrastructures by Fernando Pacheco-Torgal,Robert Melchers,Nele de Belie,Xianming Shi,Kim Van Tittelboom,Andres Saez Perez Pdf

Eco-efficient Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Infrastructures provides an updated state-of-the-art review on eco-efficient repair and rehabilitation of concrete infrastructure. The first section focuses on deterioration assessment methods, and includes chapters on stress wave assessment, ground-penetrating radar, monitoring of corrosion, SHM using acoustic emission and optical fiber sensors. Other sections discuss the development and application of several new innovative repair and rehabilitation materials, including geopolymer concrete, sulfoaluminate cement-based concrete, engineered cementitious composites (ECC) based concrete, bacteria-based concrete, concrete with encapsulated polyurethane, and concrete with super absorbent polymer (SAPs), amongst other topics. Final sections focus on crucial design aspects, such as quality control, including lifecycle and cost analysis with several related case studies on repair and rehabilitation. The book will be an essential reference resource for materials scientists, civil and structural engineers, architects, structural designers and contractors working in the construction industry. Delivers the latest research findings with contributions from leading international experts Provides fully updated information on the European standard on materials for concrete repair (EN 1504) Includes an entire sections on the state-of-the-art in NDT, innovative repair and rehabilitation materials, as well as LCC and LCA information

Author : Francisco Martínez,Patrick Laviolette
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789203325

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Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough by Francisco Martínez,Patrick Laviolette Pdf

Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out—an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers. This volume develops an open-ended combination of empirical and theoretical questions including: What does it mean to claim that something is broken? At what point is something broken repairable? What are the social relationships that take place around repair? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have?

Author : Sehyun Tak,Sunghoon Kim,Hwasoo Yeo
Publisher : Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128066454

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Metaheuristic Applications in Structures and Infrastructures by Sehyun Tak,Sunghoon Kim,Hwasoo Yeo Pdf

Author : Fernando Pacheco-Torgal,Robert E. Melchers,Xianming Shi,Andres Saez Perez
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780443134715

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Eco-efficient Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Infrastructures by Fernando Pacheco-Torgal,Robert E. Melchers,Xianming Shi,Andres Saez Perez Pdf

Eco-efficient Repair and Rehabilitation of Concrete Infrastructures, Second Edition provides an updated state-of-the-art review on the latest advances in this important research field. The first section is brought fully up-to-date and focuses on deterioration assessment methods. Section two contains brand new chapters on innovative concrete repair and rehabilitation materials including: fly ash-based alkali-activated repair materials for concrete exposed to aggressive environments; repairing concrete structures with alkali-activated metakaolin mortars; concrete with micro encapsulated self-healing materials; concrete repaired with bacteria; concrete structures repaired with engineered cementitious composites; concrete repaired by electrodeposition; the assessment of concrete after repair operations and durability of concrete repair. The final section has also been amended to include six new chapters on design, Life-cycle cost analysis and life-cycle assessment. These chapters include maintenance strategies for concrete structures; a comparison of different repair methods; life cycle assessment of the effects of climate change on bridge deterioration; life-cycle-cost benefits of cathodic protection of concrete structures; life-cycle cost analyses for concrete bridges exposed to chlorides and life-cycle analysis of repair of concrete pavements. The book will be an essential reference resource for materials scientists, civil and structural engineers, architects, structural designers and contractors working in the construction industry. Covers the latest research findings on eco-efficient repair and rehabilitation of concrete infrastructures Provides comprehensive coverage from damage detection and assessment, to repair strategies and structural health monitoring Presents a diverse author base that offers insights on construction practice and employed technologies worldwide Includes an entire section on NDT, innovative repair, and rehabilitation materials, as well as case studies on lifecycle cost analysis and lifecycle assessment

Author : Eleni Kalantidou,Guy Keulemans,Abby Mellick Lopes,Niklavs Rubenis,Alison Gill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031468629

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Design/Repair by Eleni Kalantidou,Guy Keulemans,Abby Mellick Lopes,Niklavs Rubenis,Alison Gill Pdf

This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse sociocultural experiences. It provides an in-depth exploration of how repair manifests itself through the different lenses of governance, grassroots activism, transformative design and community-led initiatives. Most importantly, the chapters demonstrate how place-based approaches can reveal blueprints for social impact in circumstances of growing environmental and social precariousness.

Author : Jason R. Baren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN : 1617285226

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Infrastructure by Jason R. Baren Pdf

Author : Stefan Krebs,Heike Weber
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783839447413

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The Persistence of Technology by Stefan Krebs,Heike Weber Pdf

Repair, reuse and disposal are closely interlinked phenomena related to the service lives and persistence of technologies. When technical artefacts become old and worn out, decisions have to be taken: is it necessary, worthwhile or even possible to maintain and repair, reuse or dismantle them - or must they be discarded? These decisions depend on factors such as the availability of second-hand markets, repair infrastructures and dismantling or disposal facilities. In telling the stories of China's power grid, Canadian telephones, German automobiles and India's shipbreaking business, among others, the contributions in this volume highlight the persistence of technologies and show that maintenance and repair are not obsolete in modern industries and consumer societies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NASA:31769000649254

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Envisioning a 21st Century, National, Spacecraft Servicing and Protection Infrastructure and Demand Potential: A Logical Development of the Earth Orbit Economy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shun Bo Zhao,Mike Xie,Han Dong Liu,Dan Ying Gao
Publisher : Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Page : 2110 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783038262633

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Civil Engineering, Architecture and Sustainable Infrastructure II by Shun Bo Zhao,Mike Xie,Han Dong Liu,Dan Ying Gao Pdf

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2nd International Conference on Civil Engineering, Architecture and Sustainable Infrastructure (ICCEASI 2013), July 13-15, 2013, Zhengzhou, China. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The 447 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Building Materials; Chapter 2: Structural Engineering; Chapter 3: Bridge, Underground and Road Engineering; Chapter 4: Hydrology, Coastal and Geotechnical Engineering; Chapter 5: Earthquake and Seismic Engineering; Chapter 6: Civil Engineering, Urban Planning and Management.

Author : Ignaz Strebel,Alain Bovet,Philippe Sormani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811321108

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Repair Work Ethnographies by Ignaz Strebel,Alain Bovet,Philippe Sormani Pdf

This pioneering book homes in on repair as an everyday practice. Bringing together exemplary ethnographies of repair work around the world, it examines the politics of repair, its work settings and intricate networks, in and across a wide range of situations, lay and professional. The book evidences the topical relevance of situated inquiry into breakdown, repair, and maintenance for engaging with the contemporary world more broadly. Airplanes and artworks, bicycles and buildings, cars and computers, medical devices and mobile phones, as virtually any commodity, infrastructure or technical artifact, have in common their occasional breakdown, if not inbuilt obsolescence. Hence the point and purpose of closely examining how and when they are fixed.

Author : William F. Kane,John M. Tehaney
Publisher : American Society of Civil Engineers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015035011041

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Foundation Upgrading and Repair for Infrastructure Improvement by William F. Kane,John M. Tehaney Pdf

"This proceedings, Foundation Upgrading and Repair for Infrastructure Improvement, consists of papers presented at the poster session held in conjunction with the ASCE National Convention, San Diego, California, October 22-26 1995. It contains papers dealing with several state-of-the-art methods for stabilization of structures undergoing remediation. Topics include jet grouting, instrumentation and testing of a pin pile and tieback anchor insert wall system, an overview of micropile technology, and case studies involving installation and load testing helical anchors."--ABSTRACT. "Foundation upgrading and repair techniques that are thought of as experimental today will become more widely accepted as successful projects are tested. In this volume, contributors examine innovative foundation repair techniques that extend service life and/or increase the load carrying capacity of existing foundation systems. Papers review load tests, as well as provide case studies on helical anchors and jet grouting used for foundation renovation and under-pinning, instrumentation and testing of a pin pile and tieback anchor insert wall system used to stabilize a failing slope, and an international overview of micropile technology."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Galina Tachieva
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597269858

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Sprawl Repair Manual by Galina Tachieva Pdf

There is a wealth of research and literature explaining suburban sprawl and the urgent need to retrofit suburbia. However, until now there has been no single guide that directly explains how to repair typical sprawl elements. The Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economical, energy- and resource-efficient patterns, from the region and the community to the block and the individual building. As Galina Tachieva asserts in this exceptionally useful book, sprawl repair will require a proactive and aggressive approach, focused on design, regulation and incentives. The Sprawl Repair Manual is a much-needed, single-volume reference for fixing sprawl, incorporating changes into the regulatory system, and implementing repairs through incentives and permitting strategies. This manual specifies the expertise that’s needed and details the techniques and algorithms of sprawl repair within the context of reducing the financial and ecological footprint of urban growth. The Sprawl Repair Manual draws on more than two decades of practical experience in the field of repairing and building communities to analyze the current pattern of sprawl development, disassemble it into its elemental components, and present a process for transforming them into human-scale, sustainable elements. The techniques are illustrated both two- and three-dimensionally, providing users with clear methodologies for the sprawl repair interventions, some of which are radical, but all of which will produce positive results.

Author : Max Liboiron,Josh Lepawsky
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262369510

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Discard Studies by Max Liboiron,Josh Lepawsky Pdf

An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies looks at wider systems of waste and wasting to explore how some materials, practices, regions, and people are valued or devalued, becoming dominant or disposable. In this book, Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky argue that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. They show how the theories and methods of discard studies can be applied in a variety of cases, many of which do not involve waste, trash, or pollution. Liboiron and Lepawsky consider the partiality of knowledge and offer a theory of scale, exploring the myth that most waste is municipal solid waste produced by consumers; discuss peripheries, centers, and power, using content moderation as an example of how dominant systems find ways to discard; and use theories of difference to show that universalism, stereotypes, and inclusion all have politics of discard and even purification—as exemplified in “inclusive” efforts to broaden the Black Lives Matter movement. Finally, they develop a theory of change by considering “wasting well,” outlining techniques, methods, and propositions for a justice-oriented discard studies that keeps power in view.