A number of research concerns have arisen in the concrete research community on the fire resistance of Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) beams, despite their improved mechanical properties at ambient temperature. The traditional experimental approach to performance-based...
Download PDF ↓This dissertation investigates the effect of spectral efficiency as the number of service antennas and number of users in Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO) Long Term Evolution (LTE) network increases. The channel estimators studied namely Zero Forcing (ZF), Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE)...
Concrete is one of the most widely used construction material in the world and the construction industry is looking for ways of making concrete using greener methods so as to reduce ecological effects on the environment that come as a result of large scale exploitation of natural aggregates. The...
Download PDF ↓Stormwater management is being justified as a fundamental line of consideration in achieving sustainable urban development. Lusaka urban experiences impacts ensuing from developments in form of urban floods. This study was undertaken in Lusaka urban to assess the use of a full exfiltration...
Download PDF ↓Stormwater management is being justified as a fundamental line of consideration in achieving sustainable urban development. Lusaka urban experiences impacts ensuing from developments in form of urban floods. This study was undertaken in Lusaka urban to assess the use of a full exfiltration...
Download PDF ↓In Zambia part of the electric grid is not monitored, this means that there are no sensors in the electric grid to enable grid status information to be sent to the power utility. Without these sensors the power utility finds it difficult to determine when there is a power failure in the...
Download PDF ↓In Zambia it is estimated that the existing housing stock stands at 2.5 million units catering for about 16 million people. The national housing deficit stands at more than 2 million houses and is compounded by urbanisation. Efforts have so far been made to use alternative building technology...
Download PDF ↓Collaboration is critical to the successful implementation of construction projects; the sharing of knowledge and information on a construction project is one of the key factors of a successful contractual relationship. Currently, the visualization, coordination and management of project...
Download PDF ↓The prevalence of overloading, which is exceeding the maximum load weight, on public transport especially buses in Zambia is very rampant. This is attributed mainly to the fact that there is currently no system to measure and monitor load weight particularly at bus stations apart from few...
Download PDF ↓Recently, the use of Television White Spaces (TVWS) for broadband communication has raised interest world over. TVWS refers to regions of radio spectrum in the Ultra High Frequency(UHF)bandthatarenotusedallthetimeinaspecificgeographicallocation.TVWS spectrum brings with advantageous propagation...