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    • Major Factors Affecting Construction Waste Management in Infrastructure Projects Using Structural Equation Model 

      Naji, Khalid K.; Gunduz, Murat; Hamaidi, Munther Farouq ( American Society of Civil Engineers , 2022 , Article)
      The construction industry has grown significantly to fulfill the expanding need for accommodation, facilities, welfare, and services resulting from the rapid increase in the global population. Infrastructure projects in ...
    • Management performance assessment: A method of analytic network process 

      Gunduz, M.; Khader, B.K. ( Success Culture Press , 2019 , Article)
      The construction industry is considered risky as labor and machinery intense environment interacts with accelerating and overlapping activities. This situation would result in high number of accidents and fatalities. High ...
    • Mapping the Industrial Perception of Delay Data Through Importance Rating 

      Gunduz, Murat; AbuHassan, Mohanad H.A. ( Springer Verlag , 2017 , Article)
      The construction industry is struggling with several recorded incidents of delay due to improper planning and/or implementation of required construction measures. The common conclusion by many researchers worldwide is that ...
    • Marketing Strategies for Smart Buildings 

      Mahfouz, Ahmed; Ahmad, Ahmad Mohammad; Abdelkarim, Shimaa Basheir; Hammam, Nada; AlMulla, Maryam; ... more authors ( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Conference Paper)
      Globally, there is a growing proportion of the need to optimize monitoring and facility management of new and existing built facilities. Smart buildings provide waste reduction to the environment, flexibility to facility ...
    • Material performance and cost effectiveness of seawater-mixed rubberized concrete 

      Hamid, Salma; Naji, Khalid; Younis, Adel; Ebead, Usama ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)
      The combined use of seawater and recycled tire aggregate (RTA) in concrete is potentially a way forward towards sustainable construction. It can help control harvesting of natural aggregates, manage waste tires, mitigate ...
    • Measuring construction materials price fluctuation risk 

      Hassan, M.E.; Kandil, A.; Senouci, A.; Al-Derham, H. ( Canadian Society for Civil Engineering , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      Construction projects costs are believed to be highly susceptible to a combination of internal and external factors. One of these factors is the prices of construction materials and the risk of their fluctuation. This paper ...
    • Mechanical and durability properties of ultra-high performance steel FRC made with discarded materials 

      Abushanab, Abdelrahman; Ghous Sohail, Muazzam; Alnuaimi, Nasser; Kahraman, Ramazan; Altayeh, Nezam ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)
      This study investigates the mechanical and durability properties of 12 ultra-high performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) mixes manufactured using alternate aggregate sources. Natural gabbro aggregates (GA), steel ...
    • Methods and Techniques Used in Significant Restoration Projects in Qatar 

      Mazzetto S.; Petruccioli A. ( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2018 , Article)
      The large number of conservation and restoration works recently completed in Qatar show that there exists a need to enhance appreciation of the local architectural and building traditions, as a way of bringing to light the ...
    • Methods for modeling and evaluating construction disputes: A critical review 

      Naji, Khalid K.; Mansour, Manal M.; Gunduz, Murat ( IEEE , 2020 , Article)
      Cost and time are the targeted outcomes of any successful construction project, and disputes over these two key factors constitute a major obstacle to successful project outcomes. As escalated levels of dispute are becoming ...
    • Micro shear bands: Precursor for strain localization in sheared granular materials 

      Amirrahmat S.; Druckrey A.M.; Alshibli K.A.; Al-Raoush R.I. ( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2019 , Article)
      Recent studies have shown that detection of the onset and evolution of micro shear bands (MSBs) in granular materials can be improved using measurements of the kinematic behavior of particles. Different methods such as the ...
    • Microalgae: A potential bioagent for treatment of emerging contaminants from domestic wastewater 

      Sanjeet, Mehariya; Das, Probir; Thaher, Mahmoud Ibrahim; Abdul Quadir, Mohammed; Khan, Shoyeb; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)
      Water crisis around the world leads to a growing interest in emerging contaminants (ECs) that can affect human health and the environment. Research showed that thousands of compounds from domestic consumers, such as endocrine ...
    • Microalgal bioremediation of brackish aquaculture wastewater 

      Kashem, Abdurahman Hafez Mohammed; Das, Probir; AbdulQuadir, Mohammad; Khan, Shoyeb; Thaher, Mahmoud Ibrahim; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      Rapid aquaculture industry development contributed to a major increase in aquaculture wastewater generation. In the context of a circular economy, aquaculture wastewater treatment should simultaneously recover nutrients ...
    • Microencapsulation of calcium nitrate for concrete applications 

      Hassan, Marwa M.; Milla, Jose; Rupnow, Tyson; Al-Ansari, Mohamed; Daly, William H. ( National Research Council , 2016 , Article)
      The use of encapsulating healing agents that allow the self-healing of concrete has emerged as a potential solution to the current decay and costly maintenance of concrete infrastructure; however, many healing agents are ...
    • Microstructure investigation of seawater vs. Freshwater cement pastes 

      Younis, Adel; Ebead, Usama; Suraneni, Prannoy; Nanni, Antonio ( ISEC Press , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Recently, seawater has emerged as viable mixing water for concrete, especially in the case of non-reinforced concrete applications or with the use of non-corrosive reinforcement. Previous studies concerning seawater-mixed ...
    • Mitigation of railway-induced vibration by using subgrade stiffening 

      Thompson, D.J.; Jiang, J.; Toward, M.G.R.; Hussein, M.F.M.; Dijckmans, A.; ... more authors ( Elsevier Ltd , 2015 , Article)
      Railway-induced ground vibration is often associated with sites with soft ground. Stiffening of the subgrade beneath the railway track is one particular measure that has potential to reduce the vibration level at such ...
    • Mitigation of Traffic Congestion Using Ramp Metering on Doha Expressway 

      Khan, Muhammad Asif; Hamila, Ridha; Shaaban, Khaled Salah ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Ramp metering is the most effective and widely implemented strategy for improving traffic flow on freeways by restricting the number of vehicles entering a freeway using ramp meters. A ramp meter is a traffic signal ...
    • Mitigation of urban voids in traditional neighborhoods: The case of the Al-Najada zone in Doha, Qatar 

      Asmaa Saleh, AL-Mohannadi; AL-Mohannadi, Mooza Saqr; Pokharel, Shaligram; Ayari, Mohamed Arselene; Furlan, Raffaello ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      Urban voids and leftover spaces challenge the urban development of cities and result in land vacancy and other spatial planning issues. Such spaces have great potential for innovative intervention through piece-by-piece ...
    • A mixed space-time and wavenumber domain model for predicting ground vibration from railway tracks 

      Koroma, Samuel G.; Thompson, David J.; Hussein, Mohammed F.M.; Ntotsios, Evangelos ( National Technical University of Athens , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, a mixed model for studying ground vibration generated from surface railway tracks is presented. A ballasted track with nonlinear resilient components is modelled in the time domain using the Finite Element ...
    • Modeling and optimization of biogas production from a waste digester using artificial neural network and genetic algorithm 

      Abu Qdais, H.; Bani Hani, K.; Shatnawi, N. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2009 , Article)
      Artificial neural networks (ANNs) and genetic algorithms (GA) are considered among the latest tools that are used to solve complicated problems that cannot be solved by conventional solutions. The present study utilizes ...
    • Modeling and Parametric Study of the Reanchorage of Ruptured Tendons in Bonded Posttensioned Concrete 

      Abdelatif, A. O.; Owen, J. S.; Hussein, M. F.M. ( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2017 , Article)
      The contribution of ruptured tendons to the residual strength of bonded posttensioned concrete structures is currently assessed based on pretensioned concrete bond models. However, this approach is inaccurate due to the ...