Evaluation of the Inter-Lok Retaining Wall System
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC), a CERF/IIEC Innovation Center. This report describes a HITEC evaluation designed...

Performance of Masonry in Disasters: Lessons Learned and Research Needs Identified
This presentation described in this extended abstract is one of several in a panel discussion entitled Enhanced Research in Masonry. The objectives of the presentation are to discuss the...

Towering Achievement
A new headquarters complex being constructed for Goldman Sachs in New York City will rise where a Colgate factory once stood. The complex will incude a high-rise main building, a mixed-use...

Evaluation of the ISOGRID Retaining Wall System
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center, a CERF service center. This report presents the results of a HITEC evaluation of the...

A Race to Innovate
The annual Concrete Canoe Competition, which is co-sponsored by the ASCE and Cleveland-based Master Builders, fosters several engineering breakthroughs that are ignored or forgotten by...

Saving Face
Inspections revealed that the glass-fiber-reinforced concrete (GFRC) and ceramic tile cladding on a wing of the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, failed and needed to be...

Evaluation of the Tensar ARESTM Retaining Wall System
Prepared by the Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center (HITEC), a CERF Service Center. This report evaluates the ARES Retaining Wall System,...

Comparison of Water Backwash and Brush Cleaning Systems for Vertical Panel Fish Screens
Vertical plate fish screens have been installed at a number of locations within the Pacific Northwest The vertical orientation of the screen panels requires screen cleaning systems designed...

Postbuckling Response of Doubly-Curved Shallow Panels Under Complex Loading Conditions
The static postbuckling of laminated doubly-curved shallow panels subjected to the complex action of a system of in-plane compressive edge loads and a transverse pressure field is investigated....

Analysis of Composite Panels Using Newton's Method
Postbuckling response prediction of composite panels using Newton's method will be discussed. The traditional approach of nonlinear finite element analysis is to use a Newton-Raphson approach...

Hygrothermal Effects in Composite Sandwich Panels
The macromechanical analysis of a composite panel with laminate facings and a honeycomb core is carried out by taking into account mechanical and hygrothermal loads. In this analysis the...

Lateral Bracing Criteria of the Composite Braces
In order to simplify the hysteretic characteristics of diagonal steel braces, a lateral bracing problem of unbonded braces embedded in the concrete panel is treated here. Lateral bracing...

Testing of Concrete Curtain Wall Panels Reinforced with FRP Grids
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the suitability of Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) grids for use as a structural; reinforcement in concrete curtain wall panels. This paper describes...

Reliability Analysis of Stiffened Panels
This paper presents a methodology to assess the reliability against collapse of structural members, as typified by the buckling collapse of stiffened deck panels in ship structures. This...

Glass-covered Lightweight Spatial Structures
The double curved reticulated spatial structure with triangular mesh is the most favorable basis for a translucent roof. But this structure, especially is directly glazed without intermediate...

Current State of Development and Future Trends in Employment of Air-Supported Roofs in Long-Span Applications
Considered here is the low-profile, long span air-supported roof, as opposed to the high-profile 'bubble' variety, which has seen a substantially different development and expectation....

Behaviour of Concrete Masonry Infill - Steel Frame Structures
Twenty-eight masonry shear panels infilled in steel frames were tested to ultimate strength under in-plane, horizontal loading applied at roof level. The parameters investigated in this...

Lateral Response of Unreinforced Masonry Infill Frame Panels
This paper presents the results of the out-of-plane testing phase of the National Science Foundation Grant BCS 9102347. This project addresses the out-of-plane response to lateral loading...

Road to Recovery
The effect of the Loma Prieta earthquake on San Francisco's elevated viaduct system is still being felt more than four years later. Immediately after the quake, the entire...

Full-Scale Testing of Unreinforced Masonry Infill Frame Panels
This paper presents the results of the out-of-plane testing phase of the National Science Foundation Grant BCS 9102347. This phase of the program addresses the out-of-plane response to...

 

 

 

 

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