Towards Structural Strength and Safety Evaluation Within Bridge Management Systems
Bridge management systems being implemented by transportation departments in the United States are limited in their ability to consider structural strength and safety when preparing recommendations...
A Multimedia Learning Environment for Statics
A multimedia learning environment (MLE) is being developed in the area of statics within the framework of SUCCEED's Curriculum 21. An overview is presented which includes: discussions...
Innovative Design of Steel Gable Frames
Common wisdom holds that conventionally designed gable frames fabricated from rolled sections cannot compete with metal building system frames fabricated from plate and bar stock, from...
Discontinuous Control of Seismic-Excited Nonlinear and Hysteretic Structures
Based on the theory of variable structure system (VSS) or sliding mode control (SMC), discontinuous control methods are presented for application to seismic-excited nonlinear civil engineering...
Lateral Load Resisting Systems for Circular Buildings
The design of structural systems to economically limit inter-story drift and building acceleration for circular high rise buildings is presented within the framework of two recently constructed...
Methods to Control Wind-Induced Building Motions
The wind-induced response of tall buildings can be controlled by global design modifications that can be placed in three broad categories, namely, design changes in structural systems,...
The Challenge of Housing the Largest Detector
The most innovative part of the structural-civil design of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) is that of the underground experimental halls located alongside the 86 kilometer collider...
Multi-mode Aerodynamic Analysis of Long-Span Bridges
Multi-mode responses to wind excitation have been estimated in the past by considering the response of each mode and then taking the root-sum-square for the total response. Other procedures,...
Fires Deemed to Have Tested Structural Performance
This paper provides an overview and progress report of a survey and study of fire incidents deemed to have tested the structural performance of large buildings. This ongoing effort was...
Consequential Fire Loads on Structures
Much less consideration has been given to the performance of modern structural and architectural systems during fires and to the minimization of damage that threatens the integrity of...
Condition Assessment of Highway Bridges
An application of modal testing and structural identification in the condition assessment of bridges is presented. Damage definition and conceptualization is discussed. Damage detection...
Bridge Evaluation Using a Hybrid Information System
The objective of this paper is to discuss the developments and implementation of a hybrid system consisting of a rule-based information system and hypermedia technology for use by inspectors...
Sensors and Techniques for Structural Monitoring
This paper summarizes measurement requirements for the monitoring of engineering structures and describes new sensor/system configurations that are finding useful application in field...
Design and Analysis of the 712 Fifth Avenue Structure
New York City's 712 Fifth Avenue is an extremely-slender concrete tube tower. This text addresses the structure's lateral structural system, wind analysis, computer model, thermal analysis...
The Slender Tower of 52-54 East End Avenue
The structural system for the 52-54 East End Avenue project is presented. The 40 story residential tower with as aspect ratio of 12: 1 is one of the most slender buildings constructed...
Roof Space Frame Design of the C.K.S. Airport Passenger Terminal II
This article attempts to provide a description of the characteristics of the Second Terminal Airport. To comply with the functional requirement of the magnificent facade and spacious design...
On some Problems of the Multicriteria Optimization of the Spatial Grid Structures
One can not think contemporary structure designed without consciously complying with optimization methods. Creative activity of engineers have to be optimal or semi-optimal. It is necessary...
Dynamic Analysis of Unstable Structural Systems With Prescribed Velocities
Structural systems that have large inextentional deformation, or in other words, deformation without stain are called 'Unstable Structural Systems.' They include cable structures, membrane...
Continuous Pulse Control of Structures with Material Nonlinearity
A control method is presented for reducing the dynamic response of structures in the inelastic material range using a control force from an active control system. The proposed method of...
Possibilities and Problems of Latticed Structures
Several fundamental aspects of space frames which are sometimes referred to as latticed structures are discussed. Terminology of the structural system is first considered. Special features...
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