Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology: Volume 16 Issue 2

The knowledge enablers of knowledge transfer: a study in the construction industries in Ghana

De-Graft Owusu-Manu, David John Edwards, Erika Anneli Pärn, Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari, Clinton Aigbavboa

This research aims to investigate and identify knowledge transfer (KT) enablers within the developing country of Ghana. These enablers act as mechanisms to stimulate knowledge…

Monitoring joint quality: Taguchi approach and structure investigation

Reham Reda, Mohamed Saad, Mohamed Zaky Ahmed, Hoda Abd-Elkader

This paper aims to monitor, evaluate and adjust the joint quality of dissimilar friction stir welded AA2024-T3 and AA7075-T6 Al alloys.

Analysis of runway pavement response under aircraft moving load by FEM

Gholamali Shafabakhsh, Ehsan Kashi, Mojtaba Tahani

Given the importance of airports and the need to develop this issue in runway, the purpose of this study, pavement response values under loading of different aircraft have been…

Unsteady state of a solar chimney power plant accoupled with a turbine: case study

Ahmed Ayadi, Haythem Nasraoui, Zied Driss, Abdallah Bouabidi, Mohamed Salah Abid

The purpose of this paper is to study a solar thermal system. Solar chimney power plants (SCPPs) produce electrical energy and thermal heat from solar radiation. The thermal study…

Longitudinal jet ventilation calculation and application of long highway tunnel

Binghua Zhou, Yiguo Xue, Mingtian Li, Zhiqiang Li, Xueliang Zhang, Yufan Tao

When a vehicle passes through a long highway tunnel, the smoke it discharges accumulates in the tunnel. High smoke concentration has an important influence on the driver’s health…

Drivers of value management in the Nigerian construction industry

Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke, Douglas Omoregie Aghimien

The paper aims to determine the possible drivers of value management (VM) in the construction industry with a view of providing better-quality construction and achieving value for…

Application of constraint infeasibility detection methods in engineering design problems

Emad Khorshid, Abdulaziz Alfadli, Abdulazim Falah

The purpose of this paper is to present numerical experimentation of three constraint detection methods to explore their main features and drawbacks in infeasibility detection…

Antecedents of building information modelling adoption among quantity surveyors in Ghana: An application of a technology acceptance model

Michael Addy, Emmanuel Adinyira, Joshua Ayarkwa

The purpose of this paper is to empirically study the factors that facilitate adoption of building information modelling (BIM) among quantity surveyors (QSs) using the unified…

The fuzzy in evaluation of concrete structure engineering

Le Wang

During the service condition of residential constructions with concrete structure, the influence of inside and exterior factors will result in different degrees of harm to…