Final Year Project Papers & Reports: Recent submissions
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The implementation of lightning protection system in Malaysia building
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)The study was to determine the extent of implementation of the lightning protection system in Malaysia’s building. Lightning protection system (LPS) is a system that conducts low resistance from lightning strikes to disperse ... -
Strength performance and durability of an Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) and Palm Oil Fuel Ash (POFA) concrete
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)The increase in production of palm oil has caused to the emergence of problems in dust removal of oil palm in Malaysia,the world's leading manufacturers. Realizing the problems that arise from this, various ways of solving ... -
Bond strength in indirect tensile and compressive strength of fire damaged concretes
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)The aims of this study are to investigate the compressive strength and bond strength at fire damaged concrete. The design strength of normal concrete is 30 MPa according to BS 1881. There were 12 sample of 100 x 100 x 100mm ... -
Awareness of installation lightning protection system in the building among administration worker and engineering worker in Ipoh, Perak
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)A recent study emphasizes on awareness of the importance of lightning protection systems. In our country at the moment, lightning protection system is not a requirement or a duty for all parties to install it. However, ... -
Development of spreadsheet analysis and design of reinforced concrete element using Eurocode 2
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-05)Introduction of European standards to construction is a significant event and soon it will be introduced to the Malaysian construction industries as well. The ten design standards, known as Eurocodes, will affect all design ... -
Local residence preparation toward implementation of new public transport
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-05)Generally, preparation of the various modes of transport was to give an opportunity to the public to choose the mode of transport more user-friendly, safe, comfortable and economical. This study aims to identify the readiness ... -
Carbon footprint assessment of IBS materials at construction site
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)Industrialised Building System (IBS) promotes more sustainable construction activities as compared to the conventional construction methods. However, the level of acceptance to IBS in the construction industry is still ... -
A study of civil engineering maintenance in government hospital buildings
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)Maintenance is an actions required for retaining or restoring a piece of equipment, machineries, services or system to the specified operable condition to maximize its useful life. Building defects are defined as materials, ... -
Green construction practice in construction site
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)Green construction is the current and future dominant issues in the world that become the headlines in most of the countries due to the increased world population and issues of global warming. The current practice of the ... -
Water quality assessments and the relationship with the land use activity in Terusan Utara river
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)This paper report result of a study conducted to determine the water quality of Terusan Utara river based on physical and chemical parameter and to relate the water quality parameter with the land use activity. There are ... -
Evaluate performance of precast wall-to-wall connection using finite element method
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of precast wall-to-wall connection, specifically using the interlocking type of connection via finite element method. LUSAS ANALYST v14, a finite element analysis software ... -
The performance of 1.5HP solar assisted air-conditioning unit in Sungai Petani climate
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)Heating, ventilation and air conditioning system is the use of electricity in excess of 55% of the entire interior of the building. Conditioning energy saving technology led to the research now to get the productivity that ... -
Optimization of structural embodied energy and carbon in reinforced concrete structure
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)In line with awareness campaign to love our environment, efforts in this research is to reduce energy produce for material and greenhouse gases emission to the environment. Nowadays, concrete and steel were used as a common ... -
Carbon footprint assessment on machineries usage at construction site
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)One of the major problems of construction activity towards environmental is greenhouse gases emission. This study introduces the assessment of carbon footprints on machineries usage at the construction site based on the ... -
Calibration of rainfall-reflectivity in northern region of Peninsular Malaysia
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)This project studies are about to derive new ZR relationship at the Alor Star radar. ZR relationship is applied to estimate the rainfall. A long time ago, Marshall and Palmer were created an equation to estimate the rainfall ... -
The different in sofware esteem and orion for design concrete frame structure
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)Building Information Modelling (BIM) is one of the new emerging technologies in construction, design and digital format representative. This research design involved two types of structural design software which were Esteem ... -
Landslide simulation using limit equilibrium and finite element method
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)Slope stability analysis is one of the ancient tasks in the geotechnical engineering. There are two major methods that is limit equilibrium method and finite element method are used to analyze the stability of slope. The ... -
Bond strength in shear between normal concrete and fire damaged concrete
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)Concrete is possibly exposed to elevated temperatures during the fire on when it is near to furnace and reactors. The mechanical properties such as strength, modulus of elasticity and volume stability of concrete are ... -
Development of a thermal insulating polystyrene concrete block
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)Polystyrene concrete was considered as a new invention in construction industry as the development is still not matured. Polystyrene is a good lightweight material that is used to replace aggregate in concrete because it ... -
Study on monitoring of concrete curing process using hyper terminal software
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2015-06)The study of this paper is to monitor the concrete curing process using Hyper Terminal software between two different samples of concrete mixtures. One is normal concrete mixture as a control sample and another is the ...