Abstract: U-section steel sheet piles are used for constructing retaining walls and they are connected together to form continuous walls using sliding joints located along their centerlines. Interpile movement along these joints ...

Abstract: This study reviews research carried out in the U.K. to understand and improve the robustness of buildings when subject to blast from high explosive bombs. The work concentrates on the performance of ordinary civilian ...

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the problem that structural joints in whole-frame models cannot, at present, be replicated in sufficiently minute detail to realistically represent their behavior. It is well recognized that ...