Reliability Models for Bridge Structures
The development of rational design criteria requires efficient measures of structural performance. Traditional methods of analysis do not reveal the actual safety reserve (degree of redundancy)....
Impact of Errors on Safety During Construction
The construction process involves a number of procedures which integrate together from the first intention of building the project to the end of the structural cycle. In this study, a...
Discrete Field Stability Analysis of Latticed Towers
The design of latticed towers is often controlled by the stability of the overall system as opposed to local member buckling. The purpose of this paper is to develop an elastic stability...
Influence of Nonlinear Models on Dynamic Displacements
This research is a part of an ongoing multi-year program that is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and conducted under the TCCMAR (Technical Coordinating Committee for Masonry...
Hydrogeology Comes to the Surface
Before concluding whether groundwater is safe or contaminated, engineers must understand the science of hydrogeology. If they don't understand hydrogeology, unnecessary and...
Reliable Displacements from Integrated Quick-Release Accelerograms
A new baseline correction method has been developed which allows accelerograms collected during quick-release tests of full scale structures to be doubly integrated to displacements. The...
The Effect of Stiffness Degradation on the Three-Dimensional Seismic Response of Highway Bridges
This paper describes the effect of modeling of the inelastic pier behavior on the seismic response of three reinforced concrete bridges. Each bridge was analyzed twice once using a yield...
System Identification of a Large Structure Using Pseudo-Dynamic Test Data
This paper deals with structural modeling and the determination of optimal nonlinear models by applying system identification techniques to inelastic pseudo-dynamic test data from a full-scale,...
Characteristics of a Structure-Foundation System
The dynamic characteristics of the structure-foundation system of a 1/4 -scale nuclear power plant containment model is studied using seismic records. The model structure is treated as...
Strong-Motion Records from Buildings
Since the establishment of the California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program in 1972, over 90 buildings have been instrumented extensively to measure their response during earthquakes....
Seismic Evaluation of a Tall Reinforced Concrete Frame Building
Accelerations at basement, fifth and tenth floor levels of a reinforced concrete apartment building were recorded during the October 1st, 1987 Whittier-Narrows earthquake. These accelerations...
Seismic Load Effects on a Scaled Model Structure
A long term observation on a scaled steel braced frame model with intentionally reduced seismic strength is ongoing since 1983. This paper examines the seismic load effects of two earthquakes...
Analysis for the Seismic Response of Liquid Containers
An analytical model is presented for the nonlinear response of fluid containers whose bottom may separate from and lift off their foundation, during base excitation. First, the hydrodynamic...
A Damage Model for Reinforced Concrete
The damage index developed by the authors models concrete damage as a low-cycle fatigue phenomenon. By quantifying the energy dissipated as a fraction of the total energy dissipation capacity,...
SDOF Structural Response Model Accounting for SSI
This paper outlines the theory associated with single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) structural response models which account for soil-structure interaction (SSI) and evaluates the performance...
The Model Cleanup
Standards for hazardous waste site cleanups may be inappropriate or inadequate to protect the public health. Civil engineers responsible for remediation decisions need to know about the...
Goods Transportation in Urban Areas
The conference on Goods Transportation in Urban Areas (GTUA V) held in Santa Barbara, California, during March 6-11, 1988, focused on three major themes?truck accommodation in urban areas;...
Structures for Enhanced Safety and Physical Security
This book presents the state-of-the-art in the general subject of structures for enhanced safety and physical security. The technical papers written are by engineers and researchers who...
Tension Leg Platform
a State of the Art Review
Prepared by the Task Group on Compliant Offshore Platforms of ASCE. This report considers the analysis and design of tension leg platforms (TLPs),...
Numerical Modeling of Interface Behavior for Drilled Shaft Foundations Under Generalized Loading
To evaluate soil-foundation interaction numerically, an isoparametric thin layer element is used within a 3-D, material nonlinear, general purpose geotechnical analysis system developed...
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