Abstract: In the past two decades, accidental failure of conical-shaped steel water tanks under hydrostatic pressure has been reported. For safety analysis, the limit analysis of such structures is formulated as a linear programming ...

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental observation of the relation between the plastic damage and the acoustic emission (AE) events in concrete subjected to uniaxial compressive loading. To examine the effect of the degree ...

Abstract: The discrete crack approach, which has been extensively used for analyzing single cracks, is extended for the numerical analysis of multiple cracks, based on the fictitious crack model and the crack-tip-controlled numerical ...