Abstract: A new strength theory for the design of concrete members subjected to triaxial compression stress has been developed which is an extension of the traditional Mohr’s strength theory. This new theory explicitly relates the ...

Abstract: A compressive strength model for confined concrete wrapped with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) has been developed which is an extension of Mohr’s strength theory. This model explicitly relates the confined compressive stress,

Abstract: Recent analytical research on the topic of plastic collapse has led to the development of a new method which permits the direct computation of the generalized shakedown load of conventional rigid frame structures composed ...

Abstract: This paper presents the application of field data to condition assessment and prediction of service life of highway bridges. The study examined fifteen bridges located in Illinois for damage evaluation purposes. The example ...

Abstract: Life-cycle cost analysis has been stressed by various state departments of transportation and applied to a highway bridge-management system (BMS) as a decision-making strategy in maintenance, rehabilitation, or replacement ...

Abstract: The entire spectrum of incremental collapse behavior, including alternating plasticity, shakedown, and plastic (limit state) collapse, of multibay, multistory structures composed of elastic‐perfectly plastic materials can ...

Abstract: Energy methods previously developed for the shakedown analyses of framed structures are extended to include structures subjected to cyclically varying loads in the presence of constant, or bias, loads. This approach is ...

Abstract: The entire spectrum of incremental collapse behavior of elastic‐perfectly plastic multistory rigid‐frame structures can be described by energy methods. The separation between safe and unsafe load ranges coincides precisely ...