Abstract: Rolling friction pairs in the tower saddle of suspension bridges could significantly reduce the horizontal load that is transferred to the tower. To investigate the dependence of the rolling friction coefficient (μ) of a ...

Abstract: Traditional crack assessment methods for concrete structures are time consuming and produce subjective results. The development of a means for automated assessment employing digital image processing offers high potential ...

Abstract: The widely used orthotropic steel deck system is subject to several durability problems: fatigue cracking of the steel, wearing of the surfacing, and corrosion. Thus, the composite deck system composed of an orthotropic ...

Abstract: Shear panel dampers made of the low-yield-point steel exhibit significant overstrength under cyclic loading—a phenomenon that has been observed to depend not only on accumulated plastic deformations but also the loading ...

Abstract: This paper presents finite-element analysis (FEA) and experimental study on the seismic behavior of joints between steel K-style outrigger truss and concrete core in tall buildings. Two new joint types with different ...

Abstract: A new triaxial constitutive model [Tsinghua University Concrete Three-dimensional (THUC3)] of concrete was developed for high-fidelity finite-element (FE) simulation of composite plate shear wall–concrete encased (C-PSW/CE), ...

Abstract: Steel-concrete-steel (SCS) composite structures with bidirectional steel webs and ribs exhibit superior performance in capacity, rigidity, ductility, blast resistance, waterproofness, and construction efficiency compared ...

Abstract: Perfobond connectors are commonly used to transfer the shear force with the transverse bar sheared off as the failure mode in steel–concrete composite structures. However, the perfobond connectors used to prevent the ...

Abstract: Perfobond connectors are commonly used to transfer the shear force with the transverse bar sheared off as the failure mode in steel–concrete composite structures. However, the perfobond connectors used to prevent the ...

Abstract: Four shear-critical RC shear walls were tested under a tension-bending-shear load to replicate seismic behavior of the bottom shear wall in high-rise buildings. The axial tension ratio ranged from 0 to 0.5 and the aspect ...