MRT Cable Supported Roof
A cable supported roof structure for Chientan station (R18A) at Taipei Mass Rail Transit system's Tan-Sui line are under construction. Unique wind and cross sectional dynamic effect has...
Lateral Bracing of Plate Girders Using Deck Forms
The initial results of a study of the ability of stay-in-place steel deck forms to stabilize bridge girders during construction is presented. The analytical and experimental results to...
Inelastic Bridge Rating Procedures for Steel-Girder Bridges
Current bridge rating procedures for steel beam and girder bridges ignore the ability of the structure to redistribute forces both longitudinally and laterally. When rating steel bridges...
Nondestructive Inspection of Steel Bridge Members
Assessment of the conditions of an aging population of bridges in order to determine the proper maintenance or retrofit operation is a challenge of great importance to bridge engineers...
Nondestructive Evaluation of Timber
Nondestructive evaluation of materials, the science of identifying the physical and mechanical properties of materials without altering their end-use capabilities, is valuable in defining...
Proof Loads in LRFD Format for Bridge Evaluation
Proof load testing is considered as a reliable approach to evaluation of an existing structure's load-carrying capacity. It can be effectively used for highway bridge evaluation, to either...
Reliability of Highway Bridge Piers
Structural safety of reinforced concrete bridge piers supporting highway traffic is studied. Reliability indices for flexure, shear, and combined flexure and axial load limit states at...
Experimental Testing of Laterally Loaded Large Scale Bridge Abutments
The challenges to a bridge analyst in defining abutment boundary conditions and the current state of the practice are presented. Variables within the abutment system are defined and discussed...
Correction Factor Method for Building Analysis Under Sequential Dead Loads
The effect of the sequential application of dead load due to the sequential nature of construction is an important factor to be considered in the multistory frame analysis. One of the...
An Efficient Analysis of Framed-Tube Structures
An efficient model for analysis of framed-tube systems is proposed in this study. The proposed model can represent the interaction between plane frames consisting the tube system. Analysis...
Dynamic Inelastic Analysis of Tall Buildings
Members with undesirably early formed plastic hinges as well as excessive conservatism introduced in the preliminary design of tall buildings can be identified by the behavior state study...
Optimal Design of Building Structures Using the Predetermined Sections
A practical optimization algorithm for the member design of building structure is presented in this paper. The emphasis is particularly concentrated on the practical applicability of the...
Reliability-Based Design of Transmission Towers Under Wind and Ice Loadings
This study suggests a practical but rational approach for the development of reliability-based LRFD criteria for transmission towers under wind and ice loadings in Korea. Based on available...
Floor Response Spectra Analysis Including Correlations of Multiple Support Motions
This paper deals with the response spectrum analysis method of the secondary structures including the correlation effects between nonuniform support excitations. Based on the random vibration...
Damage Estimation of Existing Bridge Structures
During recent earthquakes, severe damage have been reported in many bridge structures. Regardless of many damaged structures, methods to identify damage of structures are still limited...
Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Structural Frames Using Reduced Order Models
In order to provide more realistic and economical design of large structures it is necessary to perform analyses which take into account both material and geometric nonlinearities. Unfortunately,...
A Reduced Order Model for the Seismic Analysis of Building-Soil Systems
A finite element based, reduced order, numerical model has been developed for the nonlinear analysis of building-soil systems. The reduced order system model employs an equivalent continuum...
A Shear Transfer Model for Floor-To-Wall Connections in Concrete Masonry Structures
Based upon experiments conducted at the Univ of California, San Diego (UCSD) on floor-to-wall connections in concrete masonry structures, a constitutive model was developed for the overall...
Ductility Analysis of Overload and Settlement
The concept of sufficient ductility to avoid premature or brittle failures is gaining wide acceptance in structural engineering and is an important aspect in mitigating the consequences...
Development of an Improved Rapid Seismic Analysis Procedure
New developments in computer capabilities and lessons learned from recent earthquakes have facilitated improvement of the Rapid Seismic Analysis Procedure (RSAP) currently specified in...
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