Abstract: Terrorist bombing and accidental explosion may generate extreme loading conditions on nearby structures, resulting in damage and even collapse of structures. The degree of damage to a structure depends on the capacity of ...

Abstract: Aluminum foam is a newly developed mobile and lightweight material with excellent energy absorption capacities. Applying aluminum foam as a sacrificial protection layer on the bearing faces of protected structures can ...

Abstract: A load-cladding-structure (LCS) model was used to study the mitigating effect provided by metallic foam cladding against blast loading on reinforced concrete (RC) structural members. The model considered the interactions ...

Abstract: The use of near surface mounted (NSM) fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) strips for strengthening reinforced concrete structures shows great promise as the strains at intermediate crack (IC) debonding are generally much greater ...

Abstract: Ductility of RC structures has always been a classical area of concrete research. Given the complexity of the problem, the great mass of research investigating ductility, and specifically, moment redistribution and rotational ...

Abstract: The lateral impact behavior of hybrid fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-ultrahigh-performance concrete (UHPC)-steel double-skin tubular columns (DSTCs) was experimentally investigated in this study. Seven specimens, which had ...

Abstract: An implicit numerical integration algorithm is presented for the unified yield criterion, which could encompass most other yield criteria. The modification matrix, which is used to convert the continuum tangent modular ...

Abstract: Concrete-filled double-skin tubes (CFDST) have been widely used in constructing high-rise buildings, arch bridges, and factories over the past years. Although a number of researches have been conducted to study the behavior ...