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Jian Yang, Ming Sun, Guohuang Yao, Haizhu Guo and Rumian Zhong
This study explores an advanced prefabricated composite structure, namely ECC/RC composite shear walls with enhanced seismic performance. This performance enhancement is attributed to the strategic use of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) known fo...
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Xun Zhang, Qiankun Liu, Weiwei Xiao, Fan Yu, Liming Cai and Lianzhi Song
In this investigation, a U-shaped connection (U-C) was introduced for a prefabricated steel plate shear wall with beam-only connections. This design replaces a portion of shear bolts with tension bolts to enhance bolt efficiency and reduce the overall bo...
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Changren Ke, Yihui Fan and Junling Jiang
In order to study the effect of the support mode of a staggered truss system on the continuous collapse resistance performance of a steel structure, four finite element models were established based on the bracing arrangement of a five-story steel frame ...
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Jing Liu, Tao Zhang, Zhicheng Pan and Fanjun Ma
Concrete-filled round-ended steel tubes (CFRTs) are a unique type of composite stub columns, which have the advantage of aesthetics and a well-distributed major?minor axis. Thus, the structure has been widely employed as piers and columns in bridges. To ...
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Murat Gulen and Havvanur Kilic
In this study, full-scale laboratory tests were conducted on a 315 mm diameter HDPE pipe under shallow buried and localised surface loading conditions to investigate the effects of pipe deflection and arching on stress distribution and the lateral earth ...
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Luisa Boni, Marco Bassetto and Alessandro A. Quarta
Photonic solar sails are a class of advanced propellantless propulsion systems that use thin, large, lightweight membranes to convert the momentum of light from the Sun into thrust for space navigation. The conceptually simple nature of such a fascinatin...
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Irem Zeynep Yildirim, Berk Turkel and Erol Guler
Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls perform well under earthquake loads, and hence they are preferred in earthquake-prone regions. The multifaceted load transfer between the components of the MSE wall under seismic loads can be captured using numer...
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Miroslav Spodniak, Michal Hovanec and Peter Korba
The propulsion system for an aircraft is one of its most crucial systems; therefore, its reliable work must be ensured during all operational conditions and regimes. Modern materials, techniques and methods are used to ensure this goal; however, there is...
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Kangsu Lee and Chang-Yong Song
The destructive power of typhoons has been continuously increasing due to the influence of global warming. In a situation where the installation of floating wind turbines is increasing around the world, concerns about huge losses and collapses of floatin...
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Sungjun Park and Joonmo Choung
Fully coupled integrated load analyses (ILAs) to evaluate not only the load response but also the structural integrity are required to design a floating offshore wind turbine, since there has been no firmly established approach for obtaining the structur...
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