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Fan Zhu, Meng Zhang, Fuxuan Ma, Zhihua Li and Xianqiang Qu
Wind turbine towers experience complex dynamic loads during actual operation, and these loads are difficult to accurately predict in advance, which may lead to inaccurate structural fatigue and strength assessment during the structural design phase, ther...
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Sipho G. Thango, Georgios A. Drosopoulos, Siphesihle M. Motsa and Georgios E. Stavroulakis
A methodology to predict key aspects of the structural response of masonry walls under blast loading using artificial neural networks (ANN) is presented in this paper. The failure patterns of masonry walls due to in and out-of-plane loading are complex d...
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Qunan Ouyang, Chunfeng Qi, Shipeng Sun, Bing Yan, Wenbo Pan, Yuxin Huang and Jiajie Ma
Floating, pouring, prefabrication, and temporary storage of the immersed tunnel element require mooring inside a harbor or a dock. However, the dynamics of a moored tunnel element in such semi-open waters are rarely studied, and some mechanisms are not w...
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Zhen Xie and Yongshan Zhang
The natural frequency of the long-span steel structure corridor is close to the pedestrian step frequency, which makes it very easy to cause resonance. This paper aims to study crowd-induced vibration control of long-span steel pedestrian corridors with ...
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Ali Sadik Gafer Qanber, Mohammed H. Yas and Mohammed M. Kadhum
This study has two main aims; firstly, investigating the behavior of slabs that are strengthened with different types of reinforcements and with Slurry-Infiltrated Mat Concrete (SIMCON) laminates, having different dimensions and thicknesses and subjected...
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Marame Brinissat, Richard Paul Ray and Rajmund Kuti
This paper presents the results of a recent field test carried out before the opening phases of the Szapáry motorway bridge across the Tisza River in central Hungary. The evaluation test was based on static and dynamic load tests that provided informatio...
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Yifei Dai and Lei Qin
In order to improve the progressive collapse resistance of an RC frame structure with an L-shaped plane under local component failure, X-tension reinforcement and steel trusses are applied to the progressive collapse resistance design. In this paper, the...
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Sang-Hyun Park, Sang-Hoon Yoon, Teguh Muttaqie, Quang Thang Do and Sang-Rai Cho
The residual strength of denting- and fracture-damaged box girders were experimentally and numerically investigated. The experiments were conducted under a pure bending moment using the four-point bending test method. The load, deflection, and strain wer...
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Zheng Liu, Jun Liu, Xianqi Xie, Mengyang Zhen, Yue Wang, Chen Ou and Haowen Zheng
The nature of the fracture and fragmentation processes in concrete medium under blast loading is the transformation of the medium from continuum to discontinuity. Coupled with the significant rate correlation of concrete medium, its mechanical behavior p...
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Huaibo Yao, Yixin Huang, Wenlai Ma, Lei Liang and Yang Zhao
Joints are widely used in large deployable structures but show semi-rigidity due to performance degradation and some nonlinear factors affecting the structure?s dynamic characteristics. This paper investigates the influence of semi-rigid joints on the ch...
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