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  • Study on the utilization of waters of ‘Deçani Bistrica’ river basin 
    Islamaj, Musa; Daka, Sylejman; Fazliu, Sali (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    The catchment in Republic of Kosova can be divided in basins of the rivers as following: Basin of Drini i Bardhë in village Radavc, Peja municipality, basin of river Ibër, Mitrovica municipality, basin of river Morava e ...
  • Modifying Ritchie equation for estimation of reference evapotranspiration at coastal regions of Anatolia 
    Cobaner, Murat; Citakoglu, Hatice; Haktanir, Tefaruk; Kisi, Ozgur; Yurtal, Recep; Karaboran, Orkun (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Evapotranspiration (ET) is of great importance in many disciplines, including irrigation system design, irrigation scheduling and hydrologic and drainage studies. A large number of more or less empirical methods have ...
  • Water intake structures for hydropower 
    Bratko, Dritan; Doko, Alban (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    In the age of industrial development, lakes, rivers and canals have been exploited to an ever increasing extent, and dams and weirs for the diversion of river water have been constructed on flowing waterways for various ...
  • The effect of hydraulic jump on the aeration efficiency 
    Bostan, Tuba; Coşar, Ali; Yetilmezsoy, Kaan; Topçu, Saadettin; Ağaçcıoğlu, Hayrullah (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    One of the most important parameters to determine the quality of water is the amount of the dissolved oxygen (DO) in water body. Microorganisms as bacteria need high concentration of oxygen in water to the able to continue ...
  • Urban water demand forecasting based on climatic change scenarios 
    Birge, Özkan; Yurdusev, Mehmet Ali; Turan, Mustafa Erkan (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Water resources projects, are designed to serve for many years to meet water needs. Therefore, the future water demand forecasting is of great importance for planning and management of water resources. In this study, a ...
  • Effects of hydraulics structures on dissolved oxygen concentration: A case study from the stream Harsit, Eastern Black Sea Basin, Turkey 
    BAYRAM, Adem; ONSOY, Hizir; BULUT, Volkan Numan; BAYRAK, Aydin (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    A sufficient supply of dissolved oxygen (DO) is vital for all higher aquatic life. The problems associated with low concentrations of DO in rivers have been recognized for over a century. The impacts of low DO concentrations ...
  • An investigation of water potential of lakes district, Turkey 
    Aslanbaş, Tevfik; Keskin, M.Erol (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Recent increase in urban population, water pollution due to industrialization, and climate changes revealed the need to revisit water utilization policies, to use water resources adequately, redo critical analysis for ...
  • Kinetic energy and momentum correction factors in a stream 
    Ardıçlıoğlu, Mehmet; Vapur, Mücella; Genç, Onur (2013-05-23)
    In this study, discharge, kinetic energy, , and momentum,  , correction coefficients in a stream were calculated precisely. For this purpose the point velocities of a section were measured using an Acoustic Doppler ...
  • Velocity distribution in natural streams 
    Ardıçlıoğlu, Mehmet; Genç, Onur; Özdin, Serkan; Vapur, Mücella (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Velocity profiles were investigated for a natural stream by entropy theory. Flow was measured by Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV) at different times and periods during seven site visits on the Sarımsaklı stream, which ...
  • The south-eastern Anatolia project (GAP) in Turkey and Middle East in terms of economic, strategic and politic 
    AKPINAR, Adem; ONSOY, Hizir; KOMURCU, Murat Ihsan; BAYRAM, Adem (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    The South-eastern Anatolia Region has political, economic, commercial and strategically importance as well as religious due to the fact that it has been used as settlement, and hosted for divine religions. This region ...
  • Turkey’s need for manual and general specifications for flood hazard mapping studies 
    Haltaş, İsmail (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Flooding is a serious natural disaster in Turkey similar to rest of the world causing significant economical damage and loss of lives every year. Statistical analyses show that in Turkey, after the earthquake, flooding ...
  • Corrosion of reinforcement in a mixture of limestone-clay and perlite based blended concrete 
    Zeybek, Sadrettin; Karacif, Kubilay; Asan, Abdurrahman; Aykul, Halil; Özyılmaz, Emre (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    This paper reports the results of experiments evaluating the corrosion resistance of a mixture of limestone-clay (MLC) and perlite in concrete mixes. Variables were MLC and perlite additions of 0–15% as cement replacement ...
  • Mechanical properties of lightweight concrete made with cold bonded fly ash pellets 
    Yıldırım, Hasan; Özturan, Turan (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    In this paper, compressive and splitting tensile strengths, modulus of elasticity and steel rebar-concrete bond strength of lightweight aggregate concretes (LWAC) produced at 0.40 w/c with sand and mixture of crushed ...
  • Analytical and Experimental Behavior of a Novel Anchorage Layout for FRP Confined Rectangular Columns 
    XHAHYSA, Anila; YARDIM, Yavuz (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    In the last two decades, FRP systems have been largely used to improve the performance of structural members, due to their high strength to weight ratio and corrosion resistance. Application of this strengthening procedure ...
  • Experimental comparison of cracks width and cracks spacing results for beams of self-compacting concrete (SCC) and conventional concrete for period t = 400 days 
    Sadiku, Hajdar E.; Hoxha, Zijadin; Osmanaj, Berim; Sadiku, Fatos (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Concrete is a material which has found a wide usage in engineering especially in construction engineering and road infrastructure facilities. Development trends for high rise constructions, modern skyscrapers indicate ...
  • Determination of Fundamental Properties of Masonry for different cities of Albania 
    Lalaj, Ornela; Yardim, Yavuz (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    This study deals with the properties of unreinforced masonry. Masonry is a two phase material, and the properties of the assemblage depend on that of bricks and mortars. On the other hand, the quality of bricks mostly ...
  • Behaviour of concrete elements under the transversal forces and strengthening with the FRP 
    Kabashi, Naser; Krasniqi, Cene; Hajrizi, Burim (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    The behaviour of concrete elements, in this case the beams under the different loadings result with the capacity of section. In analyzing process results are followed with the deflections of beams and the cracks. In this ...
  • Size effect in splitting diagonal cubes 
    Ince, Ragıp; Yilmaz, Senem; Gör, Mesut (2nd International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-04-23)
    The experimental investigations on fracture mechanics of cement-based materials until 1970s indicated that classical linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) is invalid for quasibrittle materials such as concrete. This ...
  • The structural tree: new experimentation with reinforced stone 
    Fallacara, Giuseppe; Bagnéris, Marine; Calabria, Claudia (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    Starting from the reinterpretation of the natural forms that recurs in the consolidated shapes of historical buildings, the research proposes the umbrella vault as isolated selfsupporting cover. The research outcome, ...
  • Value and development of the relaxation, with new test’s mode - under the influence of fatigue 
    Cipi, Maksim (International Balkans Conferance on Challenges of Civil Engineering, 2013-05-23)
    In the prestressed structures and elements, of important influence are the steel losses -of different nature, course, performance and value- during the time or as final value. One of these losses is from the relaxation ...

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