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Hao Deng, Hong-Bin Peng and Wei Chang
Corrugated web girders with plate flanges have been widely applied in buildings and bridges due to the large shear capacity of the corrugated web (CW). However, experiments on corrugated web girders with tubular flanges are limited. Accordingly, this pap...
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Hao Chai, Xi?an Li, Biao Qin, Weiping Wang and Mani Axel
The volumetric change in unsaturated loess during loading causes serious damage to the foundation and structure, accompanied by changes in hydraulic conditions. Therefore, quantifying the change in the load effect of loess under hydraulic coupling is of ...
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Florent Grotto, Oscar Peta, Christophe Bouvet, Bruno Castanié and Joël Serra
Airworthiness certification requires proof of structure strength, which is performed generally through a building block approach. To achieve this, representative intermediate-scale experiments generated by test benches are, in general, needed, in additio...
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Jiarun Tang and Dongxia Chen
Granite residual soil (GRS) exhibits favorable engineering properties in its natural state. However, a hot and rainy climate, combined with vibrations generated during mechanical construction, can cause a notable decrease in its strength. In this study, ...
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Yadong Zheng, Lianying Zhang, Peng Wu, Xiaoqian Guo, Ming Li and Fuqiang Zhu
The physical and mechanical properties of rocks change significantly after being subjected to high temperatures, which poses safety hazards to underground projects such as coal underground gasification. In order to investigate the effect of temperature o...
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Kun Zhang, Pengbo Chang, Jianxi Ren, Zheng Liu and Ke Wang
The fractured rock mass in the western cold region is affected by freezing and thawing disasters and is prone to local damage and fracture along the fissures? ends. The fatigue damage induced by repeated frost heave and traffic loads seriously endangers ...
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Bin Wu, Jia-Ning Wu, Yan Lu, Wei-Yi Zhang, Dong Zhang and Song-Han Wang
An ordinary double steel plate?concrete composite wall (ODSC wall) is composed of core concrete, the faceplates, and shear connectors such as studs, etc. Based on an ODSC wall, a new type of stiffened double steel plate?concrete composite wall (SDSC wall...
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Bora Pulatsu, Rhea Wilson, Jose V. Lemos and Neboj?a Mojsilovic
Unreinforced masonry (URM) walls are common load-bearing structural elements in most existing buildings, consisting of masonry units (bricks) and mortar joints. They indicate a highly nonlinear and complex behaviour when subjected to combined compression...
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Hongwei Ma, Ziming Huang, Xiongbin Song and Yuhong Ling
Modular steel buildings show high assembly degree and fast installation speed. The inter-module connection (IMC) is one of the key technologies that restrict the robustness of modular steel buildings. An innovative IMC with a cross-shaped plug-in connect...
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Hongmei Zhang, Zizhao Tang, Yuanfeng Duan and Zhiyuan Chen
Shear walls are important vertical and lateral bearing element in structures. While shear walls with openings are fragile due to stress concentration and the quasi-brittle behavior of concrete in tension. Therefore, additional strengthening rebars are re...
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