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Meen-Wah Gui and Ravendra P. Rajak
Soil nailing is a prevalent and cost-effective technique employed to reinforce and enhance the stability of precarious natural or cut slopes; however, its application as a primary support system to prevent collapses or cave-ins during foundation excavati...
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Ioulios Tselios, Elizabeth Vintzileou, Despina Karagiannaki, Konstantinos Christidis, Vasiliki Palieraki and Georg Welz
This paper presents a part of an extensive experimental campaign performed at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) with the purpose of investigating the behavior of chemical anchors embedded in solid brick masonry. Anchors are tested in ten...
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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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Abdulnaser M. Alshoaibi and Abdullateef H. Bashiri
The objective of this study is to examine the behavior of fatigue crack growth (FCG) in the mixed mode (I/II) of the AISI 316 austenitic stainless steel alloy, considering mode mixity angles of 30°, 45°, and 60°. This particular alloy is widely used in t...
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Haiyan Xing, Cheng Xu, Ming Yi, Shenrou Gao and Weinan Liu
Metal magnetic memory (MMM) is a nondestructive testing technology based on the magnetomechanical effect, which is widely used in the qualitative detection of stress concentration zones for welded joints. However, there is inevitable residual stress afte...
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David Z. Yankelevsky, Yuri S. Karinski and Vladimir R. Feldgun
Crack width is a major performance criterion in reinforced-concrete structures, in general, and is of utmost importance in ensuring bridge performance, in particular. A reliable theory-based method is required to assess crack widths and gain insight into...
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Yuri S. Karinski, David Z. Yankelevsky and Vladimir R. Feldgun
Cracking is an inherent characteristic of a reinforced-concrete (RC) element subjected to tension or bending. The crack width growth with loading depends on the rebar-concrete bond behavior. RC bridges are designed under strict requirements to ensure the...
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Yusuf O. Busari, Yupiter H. P. Manurung, Martin Leitner, Yusuf L. Shuaib-Babata, Muhd F. Mat, Hassan K. Ibrahim, David Simunek and Mohd Shahar Sulaiman
This research presents the numerical evaluation of fatigue crack growth of structural steels S355 and S960 based on Paris? law parameters (C and m) that are experimentally determined with a single edge notched tension (SENT) specimen using optical and cr...
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Inkyu Rhee
The shear failure of a reinforced concrete member is a sudden diagonal tension failure; flexible failure is gradual, associated with significant cracks, and leads to extensive sagging. Therefore, reinforced shear rebars are commonly used to ensure that f...
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Rihua Yang, Yiming Yang, Peng Liu and Xinzhong Wang
To study the effect of the local corrosion of prestressed steel strands on the shear failure mode and shear bearing capacity of concrete beams, unilateral steel strands in four post-tensioning prestressed concrete (PC) beams are corroded, and the shear t...
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