Bond and Dowel Action of a Main Bar in a RC Beam
The bond and dowel action are analytically treated independently on each other in most cases. The bond behavior may be, however, much affected by the dowel action in structural members....
Structural Considerations in Design and Construction Process of a 25 Story Office Building
This paper introduces an example in which a steel office building of 25 stories above the ground was constructed employing innovative techniques. One of them was the use of precast concrete...
Amelioration of Stirrup and Compression Reinforcement on the Ductility of Reinforced High-Strength Concrete Beam
18 rectangular high strength concrete beams were tested to investigate their ductile behavior. The results show that it will be more advantageous, for ductility, to choose the compressive...
Deformability of Reinforced Concrete Members
A large volume of test data has been evaluated to establish deformability of reinforced concrete beams, columns, and structural walls in the inelastic range. Experimentally observed deformation...
Reevaluation of Reinforced Concrete Slabs Subjected to Blast Effects
Failures in reinforced concrete shallow-buried structures subjected to the effects of severe dynamic loads are reevaluated by employing a modified Timoshenko beam formulation which includes...
The Church on Stilts
Christ Church Cathedral is an Anglican church situated in the heart of downtown Montreal. Constructed in 1859, it is a perfect example of English neogothic architecture, characterized...
Beams on Elastic Foundations: A New Approach
Using the Vlasov model, Vallabhan and Das have developed an effective iterative technique to solve the beam-on-elastic-foundation problem where the soil is assumed to have a uniform thickness...
Steel Structures
The seventy-eight papers included in this volume cover the fifteen sessions generally associated with steel structures presented at the Seventh Annual Structures Congress held on May 1-5,...
Glitches in Flitch Beam Design
Wiesenfeld proposes a set of design criteria for flitch beams. These beams, in which wood and steel sections are bolted together to act as a single structural unit, are currently covered...
No. 1 Water Wheel Project, Gilman, Vermont
This paper describes the replacement of an old generating unit with a new unit in a turn-of-the-century mill building where three other such units were already operating. The key issues...
Orthogonal Expansion for Beam Variability
A new method for the solution of problems involving random media is proposed. The medium property is represented by a stochastic process. The method makes use of an orthogonal expansion...
Stochastic Finite Element Analysis of Frames with Flexible Connections
A procedure is proposed in this paper for the stochastic finite element analysis of frames with stochastic connection rigidity. A beam-column element is used to simulate the connection...
Reliability Methods for Steel Members Subjected to Axial Load and Moment
There has been a significant amount of research performed on determining the reliability of elastic-plastic frames where failure is through the formation of a plastic collapse mechanism....
Reduction of Imposed Loads for Beam and Column Design
Imposed loads on beams and columns are generally reduced to effect in economy in design. A study to evaluate the reduction criteria by evaluating the Equivalent Uniformly Distributed Loads...
Response of Two-Span Beam to Spatially Varying Earthquake Excitation
The effect of the spatial variation of strong ground motion should be considered in the analysis and design of large structures such as bridges, lifelines, dams, etc. The stochastic response...
Reliability Study of Randomly Imperfect Beam-Columns
In this study, the effect of random initial geometric imperfections was treated as a set of equivalent random initial forces. This concept enables the direct employment of existing stochastic...
Rehabbing the Underground Railroad
The Park Ave. Railroad Tunnel brings three commuter rail lines into New York City's Grand Central Station. The four tracks occupy three tubes from 97th St. to 57th St., where...
Dynamic Analysis of the Joint Dominated Beam
A method is presented herein to determine the vibration modes of the Joint Dominated Beam. An example of a cantilever beam is selected for this purpose. The truss type beam is analysed...
Containerless Coating Processes for Large Space Structures
Large space structures (LSS) in low earth orbit (LEO) must be able to withstand the deleterious effects of in situ ultraviolet radiation, atomic oxygen, and thermal-cycling-induced microcracking....
The Strategic Exploration Initiative - Lunar Basing
The Strategic Exploration Initiative (SEI), as conceived by the author in 1987, applies the weaponry of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to non-military goals. These include directed...
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