Advanced Design and Modeling for Modular Construction

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-12-822907-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Woodhead Publishing Civil and

On-site construction methods are increasingly viewed as slow, inefficient, and bad for the environment. Modern modular construction on the other hand, using off-site manufacturing and on-site installation, solves inefficiencies in traditional construction methods, allowing buildings to be ready in days rather than months. It promises to transform construction into made-to-measure structural production off-site, as found in advanced manufacturing. However, civil infrastructure construction currently lags behind manufacturing industries that have already embraced advanced automated processes.

Advanced Design for Modular Construction presents the latest research and best practice in design for advanced modular building construction. The book describes how three-dimensional structural units can be prefabricated, assembled and finished under factory conditions. The title consists in twelve chapters covering all aspects of modular construction, including lean methodologies and techniques; intermodal transportation of building modules; accelerated responses in road transportation; performance of non-structural, beam-column and column-column connections; transport of building modules; analyses of structural robustness and reliability in modular buildings; fire performance; and composites for modular construction. This book provides state-of-the-art, practical guidance for the design of modern modular construction, allowing the completion of an entire building system offsite, speeding up, optimizing and economizing the production of civil infrastructure using the most advanced automated manufacturing processes.

Zielgruppe

Engineers, managers, technicians in construction; Postgraduate students and researchers in construction; Professional associations in construction industries; Developers and owners of civil infrastructure and developments; Architects involved in design for manufacturing and assembly; Investors involved in advanced manufacturing and modern construction technologies; Governmental and quasi-governmental departments related to construction and civil infrastructure developments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bai, Yu

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauingenieurwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction2. Lean methodologies and techniques for modular construction3. Intermodal transportation of building modules4. Acceleration responses in road transportation5. Performance of non-structural connections6. Performance of beam column connections7. Performance of column-column connections8. Performance of building modules during transportation9. Structural robustness analysis of modular buildings10. Structural reliability analysis of modular buildings11. Fire performance of modular systems12. Composites for modular construction

Über Autor(innen)

Bai, Yu
Yu Bai is Professor of Structural Engineering, in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University, Australia. He received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, EPFL. He leads research into smart structures and construction. He has won funding support from government, industry, and academia, and has published over 160 research articles.