About 450 selected and peer-reviewed papers discuss matters relating to advanced and sustainable materials and innovation in civil and hydraulic engineering, architecture and building construction, bridge and underground engineering, and earthquake and seismic engineering. Among the topics are a new method for generating arbitrary polygonal aggregate of concrete, semi-circular bending tests using a digital image correlation method, an experimental investigation of the structural effect of soft clay under low-frequency cyclic loading, the diagnosis of structural damage based on the strain model, safety measures against fire in a single-highway tunnel for subtended traffic, support techniques for excavating deep rock mass, water saving irrigation and food security in China, an efficient calculation method for seismic spectral analysis under multiple support excitation, and applying tubular truss structures in engineering. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)