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Sami W. Tabsh and Moussa Leblouba
Over the years, structural engineering codes and specifications in Canada and elsewhere have moved from an allowable stress design (ASD) approach to a load and resistance factor design (LRFD) philosophy. LRFD methodology takes better account of the inher...
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Sin-Zeon Park, Seong-Hoon Jeong, Hyerin Lee and Kee-Jeung Hong
Glass-fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) decks have been widely used in the rehabilitation and construction of bridges as a replacement for conventional deck materials, such as steel, concrete, and wood. In this study, an analysis method for checking the lo...
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Pengran Shang, Hao Wang, Di Zhang, Wenkui Zheng, Fulai Qu and Shunbo Zhao
A prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP) is created with a complex composition of concrete core, welded steel cylinder, prestressed steel wire, protective mortar and anti-corrosion coating. Due to the economy and complexity of structural prototype tes...
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Yit-Jin Chen, Cheng-Chieh Hsiao, Anjerick Topacio
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This study evaluates the analysis models of side resistance in rock sections by utilizing a wide variety of load test data. Available analytical models including the empirical adhesion factor versus the rock?s uniaxial compressive strength and its root a...
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Ilaria Capanna, Angelo Aloisio, Franco Di Fabio and Massimo Fragiacomo
The city of L?Aquila (Italy) includes a significant amount of masonry palaces erected from the middle of the 13th century up to the first half of the 20th century. This paper focuses on the seismic response of a masonry palace built during the first half...
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Peter Kote? and Josef Vican
During the years of bridge exploitation, many degradation processes and external influences attack its structure. Therefore, bridge reliability and durability is decreasing in time. On the other hand, the traffic load remains almost the same or even high...
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Tiago Fazeres-Ferradosa, João Chambel, Francisco Taveira-Pinto, Paulo Rosa-Santos, Francisco V. C. Taveira-Pinto, Gianmaria Giannini and Piet Haerens
The offshore wind is the sector of marine renewable energy with the highest commercial development at present. The margin to optimise offshore wind foundations is considerable, thus attracting both the scientific and the industrial community. Due to the ...
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Nikola Ba?a, Nata?a Kopitovic Vukovic, Mladen Ulicevic and Mladen Muhadinovic
Fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) are commonly used as internal reinforcement in RC structures in aggressive environments. The design of concrete elements reinforced with FRP bars is usually ruled by serviceability criteria rather than the ultimate limit s...
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Jacob Andersen, Rune Abrahamsen, Thomas Lykke Andersen, Morten Thøtt Andersen, Torben Ladegaard Baun and Jesper Lykkegaard Neubauer
The design of large diameter monopiles (8?10 m) at intermediate to deep waters is largely driven by the fatigue limit state and mainly due to wave loads. The scope of the present paper is to assess the mitigation of wave loads on a monopile by perforatio...
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María-Belén Prendes-Gero, Antonio Bello-García, Juan-José del Coz-Díaz, Francisco-José Suárez-Domínguez, Paulino-José García Nieto
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Among all the optimization techniques, the genetic algorithms (GAs) stand out because of their mathematical simplicity, the no necessity of information about the objective function or the constraint functions, and the possibility of working with any type...
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