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Wanqi Wang and Wenge Qiu
Large deformations can easily occur when tunneling through weak surrounding rock with high underground stresses. Under high-stress environments, the surrounding rock stores a large amount of strain energy, and the strain energy stored in the soft and wea...
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Lucas Mazzon, Giada Frappa and Margherita Pauletta
A case study where a tuned mass damper (TMD) was installed at the top of a five-story reinforced concrete (RC) building is presented. The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the TMD in changing the structural behavior of medium-rise ...
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Yousef Almashakbeh, Eman Saleh and Nabil M. Al-Akhras
The evaluation of half-cell potential measurements in reinforced concrete (RC) members can be a key issue for civil engineers. The primary reason for this is that the interpretation of half-cell potential measurements based on the available standards pro...
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Wutong Yan, Liangjiang Chen, Bing Han, Huibing Xie and Yue Sun
Interfacial slip effects and the unbonded phenomenon of external tendons are the key mechanical features of the externally prestressed steel-concrete composite beams (EPCBs). In this paper, an 8-node fiber beam element is built for the nonlinear analysis...
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Alfred Strauss, Panagiotis Spyridis, Ivan Zambon, Fabian Sattler and Eftychia Apostolidi
In the past few years, there has been an increasing societal and industrial demand for the reliable assessment and design of structural systems with service-life criteria of at least several decades. The life cycle characterisation of engineering structu...
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