The article focuses on the structural and architectural design of buildings for civic amenities in the city in conditions of different climatic zones, maps the current construction in the context of the principles of sustainability. Construction trends show that the aim of society is to focus on modern construction technologies, while applying a co...

By Hamed Afsoosbiria, Darja Kubečková

Concrete is a fundamental material in construction, but its production, particularly the manufacturing of cement as a binding agent, is a significant source of CO₂ emissions, contributing  to global climate change. With the continued demand for concrete in infrastructure development, there is an urgent need to identify and implement sustainabl...

By Hesam Afsoosbiria, Hamed Afsoosbiria, Agnieszka Machowska

Koenigs meshes should be more explored in the field of architectural design due to their various fabrication efficiency factors for doubly curved grid-shells. Beside being planar quad meshes (PQ-meshes) they have additional property of duality and are closely linked to graphical statics: their diagonals and those of their dual mesh represent form a...

By Zlata Tošić, Ahmed Elshafei, Daniel Lordick

Because of their construction efficiency, regular tessellations are standardly applied in the design of discrete spatial structures. However, digital fabrication enables the application of intricate patterns that may be structurally even more rational, such as patterns based on isostatic (principal stress) lines or the application of patterns inspi...

By Jelena Milošević, Maša Žujović, Milijana Živković, Marko Gavrilović, Andrej Josifovski

Large housing estates were the dominant form of housing in socialist cities, with more than half of the urban population residing in them – sometimes even exceeding 80%. While the primary focus in housing construction was on efficiency and quantity, attention was also given to the quality of living. The layout of these estates, featuring...

By Jelena Đekić, Milena Dinić Branković, Milica Ljubenović, Milica Igić

Numerical simulations of laboratory tests in triaxial apparatus have become increasingly important for modeling soil behavior in geotechnical earthquake engineering. These simulations provide valuable insights into soil mechanics and help validate experimental results. The constitutive models in numerical simualtions should provide a mathematical d...

By Vlatko Sheshov, Elefterija Zlatanovic, Julijana Bojadjieva, Aleksandra Bogdanovic, Kemal Edip, Toni Kitanovski, Dejan Ivanovski

The built heritage of the rural areas of the Balkans is characterized by decades of neglect, which developed as a consequence of the abandonment of rural areas, strong urbanization of cities, emigration of residents, and low birth rates. Most of the built heritage fund consists of residential and auxiliary buildings dating from the 19th and 20th ce...

By Milena Metalkova-Markova, Ana Stanojević, Antonela Karapandzheva, Boris Rančev, Alexander Mladenov, Sam Brooks, Musab Ak, Kremena Dimitrova

The most significant amount of electrical energy is obtained by burning fossil fuels, which release substantial amounts of harmful gases, that contribute to environmental degradation. Because the most crucial part of the energy produced is used during the construction and operation of buildings, it is necessary to build buildings that can provide t...

By Jelena Jović, Dušan Ranđelović, Vladan Jovanović, Jelena Stevanović

In order to ensure the durability of masonry structures, prevent their deterioration and serious damage, it is necessary to carry out regular inspections of the condition of building elements. Determining the condition of masonry structures is most often done manually, by visual inspection, which is a time-consuming process, the quality of which la...

By Bojan Milosevic, Zarko Petrovic, Nenad Kojic

Previous research demonstrated a link between wood strength and brightness intensity in X-ray images. Wood samples were subjected to compression testing along and across the grain, with X-ray imaging performed on the same specimens before the mechanical tests. Differences in the brightness of X-ray images of test specimens were clearly noticeable, ...

By Andrej Josifovski, Irina Živković, Nebojša Todorović, Marko Veizović, Jelena Milošević, Aleksandar Rajčić