Browsing Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD) by Title
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2004 An Elasto plastic constitutive model for soil tillage
(Civil and Construction Engineering Building, University of Nairobi, 2004) -
Accessibility Modelling for a Developing Economy: The Case of Inter-regional Traffic Flows in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya
(2004)Attention to participatory watershed management is increasing across the developing world as soil erosion continues to degrade agricultural land; reservoirs and irrigation infrastructure are clogged with sediment. The ... -
Accumulation Of Nitrogen And Phosphorous By Vetiver Grass (Chrysopogon Zizanioides) In A Model Constructed Wetland Treatment System For Polishing Municipal Wastewater
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Kenya is classified as water scarce country yet the existing fresh water resources are under constant threat of pollution resulting from wastewater inflows. Wastewater contains nitrates and phosphates that stimulate excessive ... -
Accurate Mapping: The first step to better Spatial Information Management by African utilities
(2004)African utilities, faced with the challenge of providing diverse services to some of the fastest growing urban areas in the world, have to improve their management systems, especially the management of their spatial ... -
Achievable capacity design for irregular and clustered high performance mesh networks
(2013)This study has presented the End to End (E2E) upper bound capacity limits for high performance mesh nodes that can be deployed in rural and remote areas. The achievable capacity limits for both irreg- ular and clustered ... -
Actors and land use planning in the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro Basin (1996) in B. Soltas (Id) Actor Orientation in Resource Management.
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 1996) -
Adaptation of Swahili architecture and identity :a case study of Lamu Island
(Africa Habitat Review, 2020-02-20)Cultural continuity and authenticity is of growing concern in Lamu today. This paper questions cultural identity and the resulting material culture of the Swahili people in Lamu. The exploration reveals that the cultural ... -
Adopting a new Eco-Ethical Philosophy of Living:
(2010)debate. Burning refuse, especially plastics and other hazardous waste that affect air quality has been a common practice. Authorities point to a well balanced environmental past. During those good old days, people used ... -
Advanced manufacturing technology adoption in manufacturing companies in Kenya
(2015)Over the past few decades, manufacturing has evolved from a more labor-intensive set of mechanical processes to a sophisticated set of information based technology processes. With the existence of various advanced ... -
Advanced photography for Technical Institutions.
(2005)The principal point has long been regarded as one of the fundamental parameters in camera calibration. In the age of film based aerial and large format terrestrial cameras, the principal point could be located by a variety ... -
Aerolevantamento com laserscanning
(Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi, 2001) -
Africa Design Review Journal
(University of Nairobi, 2023)With our last edition in volume three titled “African visual design in the digital world”, we hope to have ignited your passion for design and its extraordinary potential to shape our world. In this fourth issue of volume ... -
African Academy Of Sciences Workshop Naivasha, Kenya
(University of Nairobi,Architecture and Building Science, 1990) -
The African charcoal Stove: It
(1985)Over 125,000 fuel-efficient, ceramic-lined charcoal stoves for household cooking have been disseminated in Kenya. This program has been relatively successful because (1) it was built on the design of the traditional stove ... -
The African Development Corridors Database: a new tool to assess the impacts of infrastructure investments
(University of Nairobi, 2022)The large-scale expansion of built infrastructure is profoundly reshaping the geographies of Africa, generating lock-in patterns of development for future generations. Understanding the impact of these massive investments ... -
Afrofuturism and its Influence In Raising Contemporary East African Designers to The World Stage
(Africa Design Review Journal, 2022-06-27)A narrator on Deutsche Welle, The 77 Percent (2021) said, ‘Whether, in comics, books or designs, the art of Afrofuturism combines tradition with imagination to envision a new form of African culture.’ This paper introduces ... -
After Disaster: the role of surveying in the assessment of building structural integrity
(2002)Disasters, whether natural (such as earthquakes, typhoons, etc) or man-made (such as war bombardment, terrorist bomb attacks, etc) always leave building infrastructure in their wake destroyed or destabilized to a certain ... -
An Aggressive Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Optimum Power Allocation in a Cdma-based Cellular Network
(University of NairobiUniversity of Nairobi, 2022)This paper proposes an aggressive cuckoo search algorithm for optimum power allocation in a CDMA-based cellular network. To make the cuckoo search algorithm aggressive, adaptive parameters are used to vary the step size ...
