Abstract: Recent experience has demonstrated that concrete dams designed with traditional procedures may be vulnerable to damage from excessive tensile stresses. Presence of these tensile stresses and the determination of risk level ...

Abstract: In precast large-panel multistory buildings, prefabricated jointed panels form the shear wall to carry the lateral loads due to wind, etc. The in situ vertical and horizontal joints form slip surfaces and the interaction ...

Abstract: The concrete membrane face rockfill dam, in spite of its increasing popularity with construction engineers, is perhaps one structure where the design is still largely empirical and is based on past experience rather than ...