Abstract: The objective of bachelor programs in engineering is the acquisition, over a period of approximately four years, of technical and professional skills that will allow the young graduate to address problems of relative ...

Abstract: Recent evaluation of civil engineering infrastructure has demonstrated that most of it will need major repairs in the near future. This justifies the development of innovative rehabilitation and strengthening methods for ...

Abstract: Competence in design is an engineering skill that can only be achieved with appropriate training and through accumulation of relevant experience. While in some fields of engineering there are numerous industry-oriented ...

Abstract: Many countries around the world have tremendous needs to repair and strengthen their transportation infrastructure. Almost everywhere, traffic loads have reached levels largely exceeding design expectations. Northern ...

Abstract: An attractive technique for the shear strengthening of reinforced concrete beams is to provide additional web reinforcement in the form of externally bonded fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) sheets. So far, theoretical studies ...