Overview
- Gathers the proceedings of the 1st Global Civil Engineering Conference, GCEC 2017, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 25–28, 2017
- Presents the latest developments in the field of Civil Engineering from industry and academia
- Provides a valuable reference guide for professionals in the Civil Engineering industry
- Highlights interdisciplinary work and provides new insights to help solve key problems in Civil Engineering
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 9)
Included in the following conference series:
Conference proceedings info: GCEC 2017.
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (110 papers)
-
Front Matter
-
Structural and Construction Engineering
-
Front Matter
-
Other volumes
-
GCEC 2017
Keywords
- Structural and Construction Engineering
- Structural Integrity
- Optimization of Structures
- Water Resources Engineering
- Dam Engineering
- Groundwater Engineering
- Disaster Modeling
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Rock Mechanics
- Freight Transport Vehicles
- Road and Highway Engineering
- Reinforced Concrete
- Groundwater Contamination
- Numerical Modeling in Geotechnics
- remote sensing/photogrammetry
- climate change impacts
About this book
This book gathers the proceedings of the 1st Global Civil Engineering Conference, GCEC 2017, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 25–28, 2017. It highlights how state-of-the-art techniques and tools in various disciplines of Civil Engineering are being applied to solve real-world problems. The book presents interdisciplinary research, experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insights that will advance civil engineering methods. The scope of the book spans the following areas: Structural, Water Resources, Geotechnical, Construction, Transportation Engineering and Geospatial Engineering applications.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Professor Pradhan received his B.Sc. degree with honors from Berhampur University in Odisha (India), his M.Sc. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay (India), and his M.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering from the IIT in Kanpur (India) and Dresden University of Technology (Germany). He received his Ph.D. degree in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Geomatics Engineering from the University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. From 2008 to 2010, he was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship from Germany. In 2011, he received his Habilitation in Remote Sensing from Dresden University of Technology (Germany). Since March 2015, he has been serving as the Humboldt Ambassador Scientist for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany).
Professor Pradhan was also a recipient of the prestigious German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship Award, Saxony State Fellowship from 1999 to 2002, Keith Atherton Research Award, and Georg Forster Research Award from the German Government. He is currently a Faculty Member at the Department of Civil Engineering, University Putra Malaysia. He has more than seventeen years of teaching, research, consultancy and industrial experience. Out of his more than 430 articles, more than 290 have been published in science citation index (SCI/SCIE) technical journals. He has written five books on GIS data compression and disaster management, edited three volumes, and written 12 book chapters. He specializes in Remote Sensing, GIS application, and soft computing techniques in natural hazard and environmental problems. He has completed 21 research projects.In addition, Dr. Pradhan is a member of many professional bodies such as the Committee of Space Research (COSPAR), Senior Member of IEEE, United Nations Outer Space Research Programme (UNOOSA), and many more. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE-GRSS Malaysia Chapter. He is a board member of many national programs in Malaysia and South-East Asia, and a regular reviewer for many international bodies like the Dutch Research Council, European Science Foundation, Austrian Science Foundation, Research Council UK (RCUK) and many more. He was listed as the World’s Most Highly Cited Researcher by ISI Thomson Reuters’ Report in 2016 and 2017, and as one of the world’s most influential minds.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: GCEC 2017
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 1st Global Civil Engineering Conference
Editors: Biswajeet Pradhan
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8016-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8015-9Published: 13 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4042-0Published: 24 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8016-6Published: 12 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2366-2557
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2565
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 1541
Number of Illustrations: 205 b/w illustrations, 681 illustrations in colour
Topics: Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Hydrology/Water Resources, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Image Processing and Computer Vision