Abstract: The present paper presents results of a live‐load survey in office buildings. A live‐load model for the calculation of lifetime maximum total load is calibrated by using the Sydney survey data. Loading characteristics for ...

Abstract: Loads due to extraordinary events are investigated using data from the Sydney live‐load survey. A total of 1,989 extraordinary events of normal crowding, emergency crowding, and furniture stacking are studied. Parameters ...

Abstract: A punch-through failure of a jack-up platform can occur as a result of an overall instability of the structure on the seabed even when the seabed has bearing capacity increasing with depth. The instability is analogous to ...

Abstract: This paper shows how the safety factor against a flexible structure overturning on compressible ground depends not only on the weights and lever arms involved but also on the height of the weights above the ground. A rigid ...

Abstract: An empirical equation is derived for horizontal drains. The equation is based on results of finite element analysis and verified by a set of laboratory experiments. The empirical equation provides a simple and quick way ...

Abstract: One of the primary functions of the external envelope of a building is to protect its inside from wind and rain and to give a desirable environment to its occupants. It is important that building envelopes should be ...

Abstract: This paper describes the construction and testing of six 1-m-high model embankments constructed at three different gravimetric water content (GWC) values to study their performance and to validate a set of moisture reduction ...

Abstract: This paper describes the construction and testing of six 1-m-high model embankments constructed at three different gravimetric water content (GWC) values to study their performance and to validate a set of moisture reduction ...

Abstract: The evolving floodplain management policies in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States are reviewed and compared. In each country, computerized floodplain information processing and retrieval systems have been ...