Double Angle Bracing Members
It has been pointed out that when a single line of bracing is used, the member is usually made from structural tubing. It has been suggested that when the loads are not too great, consideration...
Preliminary Design Considerations for Flat Deployable Structures
Deployable structures are prefabricated frames that can be stored in a compact configuration, and can be easily deployed into a large-span, load-bearing space structure. The interest in...
Some Examples of Latticed Structures in Spain
Since the middle of the last sixties latticed structures have extensively been used in Spain to cover different large areas as factories, churches, marketplaces, exhibition palaces etc....
Analysis of Tapered and Stepped Columns by Analogy to Cantilever Deflection
An analysis is developed for handling the buckling design of tapered and stepped columns with the aid of the so called 'amplification factors'. When these factors...
Design Issues in Steel Buildings
The Committee on Design of Steel Building Structures of the Committee on Metals of the Structural Division of ASCE was formed in 1981, with the express purpose of studying problems that...
Pure Building
This paper outlines the need for building integration in the design of fabric structures by examining the different necessary components and how they fit together. It provides examples...
Structural Computing in Engineering Practice
Since its emergence some thirty years ago, finite element technology has penetrated a significant part of the structural engineering profession. It serves as a most graphic illustration...
Object-Oriented Design of Finite Element Programs
This paper describes an implementation of the finite element method based on computational abstractions of both mathematical and engineering concepts. In contrast with conventional approaches,...
Finite Element Computations on a Linear Systolic Array
This paper describes a linear systolic architecture designed specifically for finite element computations. Examples of various sparse matrix and vector operations are given. Applications...
A Study of the Precision of Optimum Design Using Suboptimization
As the scale of structures becomes larger and their configuration become more complicated, the design variables and constraint conditions increase, and numerical calculation of the optimum...
Stress Computations for Nearly Incompressible Materials
Computation of stresses by the finite element method (FEM) in the case of nearly incompressible isotropic elastic materials is discussed. It is shown that for moderately high Poisson's...
Experience with the p-Version Program PROBE
The conventional approach in the FEM is known as the h-version, in which the solution accuracy depends on the size h of elements. The alternative approach is the p-version, in which the...
BABE: An Expert System for Structural Design of Bridge Abutments and Piers
A knowledge-based expert system named 'BABE' (Bridge and Building Evaluation) has been developed for the purpose of helping the user in planning, analysis and...
Computers in Civil Engineering Education at Clemson University
This paper describes the current use of computers in the civil engineering undergraduate education of students at Clemson Univrsity, the land-grant university of the State of South Carolina....
CADD for the Structural Engineer
There is a need for educating structural engineers on Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) programs. Many structural engineering firms use a combination of in-house and commercially...
Early Integration of Computational Methods in the Engineering Curriculum
Practicing civil engineers are continuing to take greater advantage of computers to solve structural problems of increasing complexity. To prepare for practice, engineering students must...
Some Interactive Graphics and Parallel Processing for Earthquake Engineering
Ongoing research at Cornell University on computer-aided earthquake engineering of building structures is exploiting innovations in computing in several areas. Although some of the approaches...
Superquadric Object Representation for Dynamics of Multi-Body Structures
While the finite element representation of an object in terms of nodal coordinates and shape functions is ideal for representing the stress and energy state, it is not well suited to the...
Parallel Computation for Linear Programming
In this paper, the basic Simplex algorithm is reexamined. Computational steps which can be done in parallel are identified, and a parallel version of the Simplex method is implemented...
Sulfur Polymer Concrete for Special-Purpose Applications
Special-purpose sulfur concrete construction materials, based on sulfur polymer cement (SPC) and mineral aggregate, have been developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines as part of a program...
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