1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910645973203321

Autore

Eicker Friedhelm

Titolo

Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa : : Current Situation and Development / / Friedhelm Eicker, Gesine Haseloff, Bernd Lennartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : W. Bertelsmann Verlag, 2017

Bielefeld : , : wbv Media, , 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Soggetti

Political Science

Political science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

There is a rising demand for specialist workers in several countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The area still lacks a consistent system of professional training and further education. The conference transcript comprises practical knowledge collected by the authors to depict the current state of professional training within the Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper also introduces the reader to concepts for the development of a professional training system and provides an overview of the strategies and plans of different countries and institutions. The included articles were written within the framework of a symposium on the status quo and the perspective of professional training and further education. This gathering took place in Namibia in August 2016 and brought together researchers and business actors from the Sub-Saharan states, Europe, Australia, and Asia.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483493003321

Autore

Lu Xinzheng

Titolo

Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures : From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas / / by Xinzheng Lu, Hong Guan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

981-15-9532-1

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVI, 934 p. 789 illus., 644 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

363.3495

Soggetti

Civil engineering

Buildings - Design and construction

Natural disasters

Civil Engineering

Building Construction and Design

Natural Hazards

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- High fidelity Computational Models for Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Tall Buildings.-Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Typical Supertall Buildings -- Comparison of Seismic Design and Resilience of Tall Buildings based on Chinese and US Design Codes -- Simplified Models for Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Supertall Buildings -- Seismic Resilient Outriggers and Multi-hazard Resilient Frames -- Building Models for City-scale Nonlinear Time-history Analyses -- Regional Seismic Loss Estimation of Buildings -- Visualization and High-performance Computing for City-scale Nonlinear Time-history Analyses -- Fire Following Earthquake and Falling Debris Hazards -- Emergency Response and Post-earthquake Recovery using City-scale Nonlinear Time-history Analysis -- Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Typical Urban Areas -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

The first edition of this monograph, presenting accurate and efficient simulations of seismic damage to buildings and cities, has received significant attention from the research community. To keep abreast of the rapid development in recent years, our latest breakthrough achievements have been added to this new edition, including novel



resilient structural components, secondary disaster simulations, emergency responses and resilient recovery of communities after earthquake. This edition comprehensively covers a range of numerical modeling approaches, higher performance computation methods, and high fidelity visualization techniques for earthquake disaster simulation of tall buildings and urban areas. It also demonstrates successful engineering applications of the proposed methodologies to typical landmark projects (e.g., Shanghai Tower and CITIC Tower, two of the world's tallest buildings; Beijing CBD and San Francisco Bay Area). Reported in this edition are a collection of about60 high impact journal publications which have already received high citations.