Journal of Structural Design and Construction Practice: Recent submissions
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Double Round Tube-Form Yielding Damper with Similar Behaviors in Tension and Compression for CBFs Buildings’ Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To enhance energy dissipation and prevent buckling in concentrically braced frames (CBFs), steel yielding dampers have been suggested, however, most of them have drawbacks, including differing tension-compression behaviors, ... -
Self-Healing Assessment and Biresponse Optimization of Hybrid Fiber–Reinforced Bioconcrete
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study quantified the crack healing efficiency of hybrid fiber (polypropylene and glass fibers)-based bacterial concrete. Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus megaterium, supplemented with calcium lactate and yeast extract, ... -
Exploring and Modeling Critical Success Factors of Value Management in Small Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Value management (VM) is the practice of making a balance between benefits and costs in order to maximize value for money without lowering quality and/or reducing production. Many construction projects, especially those ... -
Enhancing Axial Behavior of RC Columns: Experimental Study on GFRP Confinement
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This research goal is to measure the effect of both fully and partially wrapping glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) laminates strengthening on the axial performance of reinforced concrete (RC) by considering the corner ... -
Application of Confined Concrete for Double-Composite Steel Box Girders
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Double-composite steel box girder bridges present many advantages, especially in the negative-moment region, over single-composite steel box girders by increasing the load-carrying capacity and stiffness. However, additional ... -
Sustainability of Highway Infrastructure Projects in Brazil
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The concept of sustainability grows in importance with innovation and adaption being fundamental to preserving environmental, economic, and social resources, in line with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. ... -
Estimation of Residual Flexural Capacity of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Beams through Algorithmic Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Corrosion in reinforced concrete (RC) structures is one of the foremost and most severe causes of early degradation. This deterioration leads to structural failure, impacting human life as well as the environment. Furthermore, ... -
Investigation of Crack Propagation Exercising DIC Technique in Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregate Using Recycled Materials
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The research objectives of this paper are to investigate the influence of replacing sand with crumb rubber (CR) on the mechanical properties of concrete, specifically the compressive and flexural strength. Digital image ... -
An Innovative Data-Driven Approach for Detection of Linear and Nonlinear Damage in Building Structures Using Signal Processing and BiLSTM-Based Deep Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper introduces a new method to detect damage in building structures using a data-driven approach. The method undergoes testing on two benchmarks, one featuring linear damage and the other nonlinear damage. The ... -
Shear Strength of Captive and Short Columns Made of Ultrahigh Strength Concrete with Nanobasalt Particles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Short columns attract extreme shear force during earthquakes, which may lead to severe column damage and even catastrophic structure collapse. In this research, nanobasalt is produced to construct ultrahigh performance ... -
Preliminary Investigation on the Performance of Glass Powder–Reinforced Concrete Columns Subjected to Cyclic Loading
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Incorporating sustainability into infrastructure projects is essential for environmental protection. Preliminary studies on concrete having a partial substitution of cement by 30% glass powder (GP) were carried out to ... -
An Explainable Numerical Procedure for the Seismic Fragility and Integrity Evaluation of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The present numerical scheme deals with the investigation related to seismic fragility and integrity of RC columns of residential buildings situated in high seismic vulnerable locations. An explainable and interpretable ... -
Numerical Approach to Assess the Performance of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Stub Columns under Fire Hazards
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) stub columns made of various steel thicknesses and concrete types subjected to combined thermomechanical load were investigated using the finite element (FE) program, and optimization of ... -
Experimental and ANN Analysis of Cold-Formed Steel Build-Up Columns with and without Intermediate Web Stiffeners under Axial Compression
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To evaluate the performance of cold-formed steel (CFS) build-up columns with and without intermediate web stiffeners, an experimental study and an artificial neural network (ANN) analysis were performed on six column ... -
Improvement of Rainer Technique to Reconstitute Sand Bed Modeling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)One of the most significant aspects of physical modeling geotechnical engineering is the repeatability of bed preparation. The pluviation technique is one of the most reliable methods of preparing beds because it enables ... -
Predicting the Mechanical Strengths of Steel Fiber–Reinforced Concrete Using Machine-Learning Methods and Feature Selection Techniques
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The purpose of this article is to predict the mechanical strength of concrete reinforced with three types of macrosteel fibers: straight; crimped; and hooked-end. This paper compares well-known machine learning algorithms ... -
Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Cyclic Behavior of an Innovative Multilevel Control Damper
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Multilevel dampers are a developed type of metallic yielding damper that belong to a category of passive energy dissipation devices. This study presents a proposed multilevel energy dissipation device for enhancing the ... -
Influence of Characteristics of Lead Rubber Bearing Isolator on the Seismic Response of a Base-Isolated Building
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper investigates the characteristics of lead rubber bearing (LRB) isolators on the seismic performance of base-isolated buildings, focusing on how variations in LRB characteristics, such as initial stiffness (K1) ... -
Advanced Simulation of Cyclic Construction Operations: A Case Study Utilizing EZStrobe and MicroCYCLONE
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper enriches the body of knowledge by demonstrating the practical application and comparative effectiveness of EZStrobe and MicroCYCLONE in simulating cyclic construction operations, particularly in bridge and other ... -
Performance of Steel Buildings with Pretensioned Steel Cable Braces under Seismic Loading
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Concentric braced frames are one of the most effective measures for controlling damages induced by earthquakes in buildings. In compression, conventional concentric hot-rolled steel braces buckle under seismic loading, ...