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Current Trends in Civil & Structural Engineering An Overview Water Resources Management in Turkey In Turkey, there are surface and underground water resources. However, environmental pollution due to rapid urbanization and industrialization causes pollution of our fresh water resources. This situation has a negative impact on living beings as well as many environmental problems. For these reasons, it is necessary to protect our water resources and prevent pollution. The most important structures in the management of water resources are dams and ponds. Thanks to the dams, water needs for both drinking and irrigation can be met. Read More... Full Text For More Articles in Current Trends in Civil & Structural Engineering please click on https://www.irispublishers.com/ctcse For More Open Access Journals in Iris Publishers please click on https://irispublishers.com/journals.php  

Current Trends in Civil & Structural Engineering Usage of Optimization Techniques in Civil Engineering During the Last Two Decades  In the real world, there are many problems in which it is desirable to optimize one or more objective functions at the same time. These are known as single and multi-objective optimization problems respectively and continuous research is being conducted in this field and nature inspired heuristic optimization methods (also called advanced optimization algorithms) are proving to be better than the classical deterministic methods and thus are widely used. These algorithms have been applied to many engineering optimization problems and proved effective for solving some specific kinds of problems. In this paper, a review of the most popular optimization algorithms used in different problems related to the civil engineering during the last two decades is presented. It is hoped that this work will be useful to researchers involved in opt...

Current Trends in Civil & Structural Engineering Engineering Innovation (EI) and Network Operation  Civil engineering operations are experiencing structural changes throughout the value chain. At the upstream, major engineering companies consolidate their global operations with aggressive mergers and acquisitions. Examples in 2017 include Jacob’s acquisition of CH2M Hill, SNC-Lavalin’s acquisition of Atkins, and John Wood’s acquisition of Amec Foster Wheeler. At the downstream, large construction companies are on the brink of crisis as exemplified by Carillion’s liquidation in 2018 and Wanda’s reform towards asset-light service operations [1]. These changes, which are often intertwined with unprecedented digital transformations brought by new possibilities such as Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things, prompt us to rethink whether the current operations capabilities for civil engineering are still useful and keeping up with the actual need o...