Abstract: The resolution of claims for loss of productivity can be one of the most controversial and challenging areas in construction projects. The challenges usually come from labor productivity’s susceptibility to many factors, ...

Abstract: Industry has recognized that the cumulative impact of changes is a factor that may possibly affect labor productivity. The ripple effect of changes may be impossible to capture in the discrete effects of individual changes. ...

Abstract: In construction claims, in order to prevail, contractors must establish entitlement, causation, and quantum. Though all these aspects can be very challenging, proof of causation often is subtle and intangible. There is no ...

Abstract: Changes’ cumulative effects are often seen as the cascading ripple impact of multiple changes and can influence labor productivity in construction projects. Because individual change orders for scope modifications typically ...

Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical study of Biot flow–induced damping in saturated soil during shear wave excitations. The solid skeleton is treated as equivalent linear. Biot flow–induced damping is evaluated for the cases ...

Abstract: It was experimentally shown that transverse stitching can provide an over 20 percent improvement in the strength of composite single-lap joints manufactured using the Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM) ...

Abstract: Analytical solutions for the three displacements are obtained, in the form of power series, directly from the three governing equations for free vibration of laminated conical shells under axial ...

Abstract: An analytical solution in the form of a power series is obtained for the three governing equations of free vibrations of axially loaded orthotropic conical shells. Numerical results are presented ...

Abstract: Multiple fatigue crack growth behavior has been studied in model transparent GFRP laminates. Detailed experimental observations have been made on the growth of individual fatigue cracks and on ...