Abstract: Quasi-brittle solids usually contain many cracks. When numerical methods are used, it is difficult to simulate all the cracks’ behaviors, especially when the crack propagation is included. To surmount the difficulty, a new ...

Abstract: The completely overlapped joints of the eccentrically braced offshore jackets were investigated both experimentally and numerically. A full-scale specimen was tested under cyclic quasi-static loading. In the test, local ...