Fatigue Strength of Welded Steel Mesh
Welded steel mesh (WSM) is prefabricated by welding cold-drawn wires in a grid-like mesh. Engineers avoid using WSM as main reinforcement in highway structures due to their lack of knowledge...
The Fatigue Performance of Welded Joints in a Marine Environment
The fatigue lives of plate-plate, pipe-plate, and tubular welded joints tested in seawater under free corrosion, optimum cathodic protection and cathodic overprotection measured in the...
Inspection Strategies for Offshore Structures
The fatigue limit state is the governing limit state for the structural dimensions in several parts of offshore structures. Prediction of the fatigue life of tubular joints and other welded...
Effect of High Frequency Response on Fatigue of Offshore Structures
Welded steel specimens have been tested under several loading spectra to determine the effect on fatigue life of high frequency components in the psd of the stress or strain in the joint....
Low-Cycle Fatigue Reliability of Offshore Structures Subjected to Earthquakes
This paper develops and implements a methodology for predicting probabilistically the damage an offshore structure will experience in an earthquake. The analysis begins with the probability...
Concrete Strength-Quality Assurance
The usual criterion for establishing grades of structural concrete is the compressive strength measured in an arbitrary manner on a standardized specimen stored in a stipulated fashion...
Early Age Strength Detection for In-situ Concrete
In recent years it has become increasingly beneficial to know the quality of concrete as soon as possible after it has been placed. This is especially true for high-rise concrete buildings...
Lessons Learned in Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Accelerated Strength Tests for Quality Control of Concrete Pavements
This paper describes the results of an accelerated strength testing program performed to evaluate flexural strength potential at 28- and 90-days. Based upon a literature review of previous...
Flexural and Shear Moduli of FRP Beams
The analysis and design of structures of pultruded fiber reinforced plastic (FRP), constant cross-section, commercially produced, beams is discussed in the context of a shear deformation...
Development of High Strength Composite Cables
Fiber reinforced composite materials offer significant advantages over conventional materials, for such factors as corrosion resistance, lighter weight, and higher strengths. These advantages...
Application of Fiber-Composites in Civil Engineering
Two potential applications of Glass-Fiber-Reinforced-Plastics (GFRP) in civil engineering type structures are investigated: (1) GFRP rebars in concrete beams; (2) strengthening of concrete...
Long-Term Buckling of Composite Columns
A consistent theoretical study of the creep buckling behaviour of viscoelastic laminated columns is presented. The problem is treated by means of the quasi-elastic method. The analysis...
Compressive Deterioration of Cracked Concrete
When shear behavior of reinforced concrete (R/C) members is to be simulated, the compressive strength and the stiffness reduction of cracked concrete must be taken into consideration....
Behavior of a Crack Under Reversed Cyclic Loading
The results of two series of basic experimental studies for opening and closing behavior in RC members are reported. For the first series, axial forces were applied to the specimens in...
Ultimate Strength and Deformation of RC Panels
In this study, twenty reinforced concrete panels have been tested under pure shear. Test results showed that the compressive strength of concrete strut was strongly affected by bond characteristics...
Shear Strength of P.P.C. Beams
50 beams of partially prestressed concrete were tested and 82 data of the ultimate shear-strength were obtained. Based on these results, this paper studies the effects of the degree of...
Macroscopic Models for R/C Shear Walls
In this paper, the discussion is mainly focused on four macroscopic models, recently proposed by Japanese researchers, for predicting ultimate strength of reinforced concrete (R/C) shear...
Verification of Macroscopic Models for R/C Walls
Macroscopic models utilized in a plastic analysis for predicting the ultimate strength of reinforced concrete members have been developed in Japan as well as in Europe. In the JCI committee,...
An Overview of the Round-Robin Analysis of the 1:6-Scale Reinforced Concrete Containment Model
The results of nonlinear structural analyses of a 1:6-scale reinforced concrete model, which were independently conducted by ten different organizations, are briefly described and compared...
Development of a Test Validated Methodology for Predicting Concrete Containment Leakage
In the past several years, considerable research effort has been devoted by the Electric Power Research Institute and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the behavior of reactor...
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