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Xuhui He, Zhiyu Wang, Chao Li, Ce Gao, Yongfeng Liu, Changpeng Li and Bin Liu
This paper presents an experimental study on the box girder of a low-tower cable-stayed railway bridge with a W-shaped section that consists of prestressed concrete diagonal braces. A 1:6 scale test model was designed and constructed for the experiment. ...
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Niki Balkamou and George Papagiannopoulos
Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW) provide significant lateral load capacity and can be utilized in the seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing reinforced concrete (r/c) buildings. In this study, the application of SPSW to retrofit a r/c building designed a...
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Ali Ghamari, Chanachai Thongchom, Ramadhansyah Putra Jaya and Thandiwe Sithole
Concentrically braced frame (CBF) systems are susceptible to buckling (which causes a decrease in energy absorption), although this system has considerable lateral stiffness and strength. To over this shortcoming, researchers have suggested the use of I-...
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Silvia Costanzo
The seismic design of steel systems recently experienced profound changes and progress; in Europe, the research on this topic is very prolific in terms of importance and number of results achieved, even pushed by the recent process of the updating of Eur...
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Dengqun Wang, Shuaihua Ye and Liangliang Xin
This study aims to apply performance-based safety-assessment methods to the monitoring and numerical simulation of excavation engineering projects in order to comprehensively enhance engineering risk management and decision support. In this paper, a deep...
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Lucrezia Lazzarini, Marco Civera, Vito Burgio, Mariana Rodriguez Reinoso, Paola Antonaci and Cecilia Surace
This study outlines a novel procedure for the Finite Element Modelling and Analysis of motocross knee braces under race conditions. The aim is to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of such stabilisers in reducing the risk and consequences of muscu...
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Weiheng Liu, Jianwei Zhang, Hang Liu, Fei Wang, Juan Liu and Mingjie Han
Based on a practical engineering case of seismic strengthening, this paper used the enlarging cross-section method and an external self-centering substructure to improve the seismic performance and seismic resilience of existing frame structures. Among t...
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Pyounghwa Kim, Whi Seok Han, Jeong Hun Kim, Jeonghwa Lee, Young Jong Kang and Seungjun Kim
High-voltage transmission towers consist of structures that are designed to avoid the risk of electric shock and prevent the risk of collapse. Hence, for efficiency, they are generally designed as high-rise towers. The main tower posts are the primary st...
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Slawomir Grycuk and Piotr Mrozek
Orthoses are of critical importance in the field of medical biomechanics, particularly in the correction of spinal deformities. The objective of the current research was to improve the utility characteristics of the scoliosis brace without compromising i...
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Fali Huo, Changdong Wei, Chenyang Zhu, Zhaojun Yuan and Sheng Xu
During the towing of semisubmersible platforms, waves impact and superpose in front of the platform to form a ridge shaped ?water ridge?, which protrudes near the platform and produces a large slamming pressure. The water ridges occur frequently in the t...
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