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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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Melisa Herrera, Diego Sosa, Sigifredo Díaz and Jessica Thangjitham
Current construction codes require detailed analyses for structural retrofitting, which must consider performance during seismic events. Therefore, the computational models used to evaluate existing infrastructure require nonlinear structural analysis an...
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Hassan Al-Budairi, Zhiwei Gao and Andrew Steel
Low-energy rockfall catch fences are designed to protect infrastructure such as railways and roads wherein the kinetic energy of falling rocks is less than 100 kJ. The typical design consists of a double-twisted steel wire mesh supported by ground posts ...
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Ming-Gin Lee, Yung-Chih Wang, Wei-Chien Wang, Hung-Jen Chien and Li-Chi Cheng
Pervious concrete (PC) has gained popularity as an environmentally friendly solution for mitigating the urban heat island effect and promoting sustainable construction. However, its lower compressive strength, attributed to its higher porosity required f...
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Fei Chen, Sibo Pang and Wanhong Yu
Widely used in the making of sculptures and prefabricated building components, ferrocement is considered to be beneficial to environmental preservation. However, there is still little attention paid to the making shape and design of the ferrocement in th...
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Xinyao Xie, Zixiong Guo, Syed Humayun Basha and Qunxian Huang
A new type of strengthening technique for existing reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls was proposed using steel wire mesh (SWM) and polymer mortar. The experimental campaign consists of testing one conventional RC shear wall specimen and four specimens ...
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Cheng Liu, Jian Liu, Jie Wei, Shenchun Xu and Yu Su
This paper conducts a parametric analysis on the response of geopolymer-based ultra-high-performance concrete (G-UHPC) slabs reinforced with steel wire mesh (SWM) subjected to contact explosions using the validated Continuous Surface Cap (CSC) model. Fir...
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Adnan Al-Sibahy and Rodger Edwards
Infrastructure through the masonry walls (for example, wiring and piping works) are usually installed using chases in different directions. Introducing these chases in a newly built wall will affect its overall load carrying capacity. However, there has ...
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