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Han Li, Shengze Tian and Xinzhi Dang
Unbonded steel-mesh-reinforced rubber bearings (USRBs) have been proposed as an alternative isolation bearing for small-to-medium-span highway bridges. It replaces the steel plate reinforcement of common unbonded laminated rubber bearings (ULNR) with spe...
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Jin-Long Guo, Shuang Pan, Xiao Guo and Zheng-Yu Wu
The concrete-filled double steel tube (CFDST) has been more and more widely used in infrastructure due to its greater moment of inertia compared to the ordinary concrete-filled steel tube (CFST). With the increase in collision accidents occurring in rece...
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Qi Liu, Juanmian Lei, Yong Yu and Jintao Yin
The bending deformation can affect the lateral force of spinning projectiles with large aspect ratios, thus interfering with their flight stability. Based on the established spin?deformation coupling motion model, the unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier?St...
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Marco Menegozzo, Andrés Cecchini, Ryan Christian Ogle, Uday Kumar Vaidya, Isaac Acevedo-Figueroa and Jaine A. Torres-Hernández
Honeycomb cores are widely used in the aerospace and automotive fields as a part of protective structures. Unfortunately, standard prismatic honeycomb cores offer a limited amount of energy absorption under lateral loads and suffer from degradation of th...
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Weijun Lin, Mengzhen Li, Pu Li, Qianning Li and Wei Chen
In this paper, the negative Poisson?s ratio and rigidity of a protective structure are improved to allow the structure to exert a negative Poisson?s ratio effect in multiple directions and to enhance the structural load-carrying capacity. Therefore, a 3D...
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Yunyang Wang, Shengwei Sun, Liqing Zhang and Yandong Jia
The development of self-compacting concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubular columns is a potential strategy to ease the challenge of conserving resources in society, which are largely consumed by the quickly developing civil industry. However, the appli...
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Yuguo Liu, Kai Xia, Botong Wang, Ji Le, Yanqing Ma and Mingli Zhang
Rapid advancements in construction technologies have accelerated the development of complex and deep underground structures, raising concerns about the impact of groundwater on structures, particularly anti-floating measures. Traditional tensioned anchor...
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Yuan Tian, Bangcheng Han, Xinyu Liu, Kai Shen and Jiangbo Li
Using experimental methods to study the influence of hole and cracks on the mechanical properties and fracture characteristics of rock-like mortar materials under biaxial compression conditions. The double crack specimens with hole depths from 0?100 mm a...
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Safal Lama and Taher Deemyad
This paper introduces a new gripper mechanism that is capable of grasping objects of various sizes and shapes without the need for a closed-loop control system. Industries such as the food and beverage industry are seeking innovative soft grippers with a...
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Athiq Ulla Khan, Nanjundaswamy Sateesh Kumar, Alireza Bahrami, Yasin Onuralp Özkiliç, Mohammed Imran, Essam Althaqafi and Saiful Islam
The performance of self-compacting concrete (SCC) is gaining popularity in construction due to its exceptional strength and durability. However, the properties of combined steel and concrete at elevated temperatures lack experimental data from previous r...
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