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EISSN:1943-541X|ISSN:0733-9445|Disc:One of the oldest and most respected periodicals in the field, the Journal of Structural Engineering has a history of reporting on fundamental knowledge that advances the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice in structural engineering. Authors discuss the art and science of structural modeling and design; develop, apply and interpret the results of novel analytical, computational and experimental simulation techniques; propose new structural systems and study the merits of existing ones; pioneer methods for maintenance, rehabilitation and monitoring of existing structures; and investigate the properties of engineering materials as related to structural behavior. Papers making a fundamental contribution in the field of structural engineering at the intersection of structural engineering and other disciplines are welcome|Priority:12|Publisher:American Society of Civil Engineers|
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Hybrid Simulation Tests of Real-Scale Squat Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Specimens
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Squat reinforced concrete shear walls usually have diagonal shear– or sliding shear–controlled behavior. Due to the lack of experimental data, there is uncertainty on how squat wall design parameters define their behavior ... -
Fire Testing and Modeling of a Novel Hybrid Timber Floor System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To maximize the amount of carbon-sequestering mass timber and demonstrate the potential for mass timber across a range of building types and scales, DIALOG and EllisDon have developed a hybrid timber floor system (HTFS) ... -
Evaluation of Key Performance Aspects of a Novel Precast Noise Barrier Wall System Based on Nonlinear Finite-Element Simulations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)An extensive experimental program was performed to evaluate the structural behavior of a novel fully prefabricated noise barrier wall system. The experimental investigation entailed the fabrication and testing of two ... -
Cyclic Tests Performed on Real-Scale Squat Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls: Transition between Diagonal Shear and Sliding Shear Controlled Behavior Modes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Squat reinforced concrete shear walls are commonly used as primary gravity and lateral load–resisting systems in structures. Such low aspect ratio walls respond to load in diagonal or sliding shear. A series of real-scale ... -
Shake-Table Testing of a Full-Scale 10-Story Resilient Mass Timber Building
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)As part of a collaborative research effort (The NHERI TallWood Project), an extensive shake table test program was undertaken on a full-scale 10-story mass timber building with a resilient posttensioned mass timber rocking ... -
Implementation of Cold-Formed Steel Stress–Strain Relationships Using Limited Available Material Parameters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Implementation of existing stress–strain models for cold-formed steel requires the input of key material parameters determined from corner coupon tests on cold-formed portions. This paper proposes various approaches that ... -
Postfire Seismic Responses of High-Strength RC Columns: Experiments and Simulations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Significant research has been conducted in the field of high-strength RC. This body of work encompasses a wide range of topics from material behavior to seismic performance, which has been instrumental in shaping design ... -
Mechanical Behavior of Timber Joints with Laterally Loaded Multiple Densified Wood Dowels under the Loading Parallel to the Grain
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Aside from aesthetic appearance, recycling, ease of disassembly, decent resistance against corrosion, and no intense moisture condensing and thermal bridge, compared with steel fasteners, wooden fasteners also have the ... -
Data Set for Fire-Induced Collapse Test on an Existing Building with a Truss Roof
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This paper presents a data set of a fire-induced collapse on an existing building with a truss roof. The data set contains the thermal and structural responses of the tested building, the mass loss of the fuel, the heat ... -
Cyclic Tension–Compression Behaviors of Large-Dimensional Superelastic Shape Memory Alloy Buckling-Restrained Plates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This study proposed novel designs for achieving self-centering (SC) behavior using superelastic shape memory alloy (SMA) buckling-restrained plates (BRPs). Compared with previous studies relying on small-diameter SMA bars, ... -
Cyclic Behavior of Central Columns in Subway Stations Subjected to Highly Variable Axial Compression Ratio
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The failure mode of concrete columns in subway stations during seismic events can be affected by the dynamic fluctuation of the axial forces. This study conducted quasi-static tests with bidirectional loading on three ... -
Cyclic Behavior of Steel Tube-Confined Circular RC Columns under High Axial Load
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This study builds on existing researches to further investigates cyclic responses of the steel tube-confined reinforced concrete (RC) columns, with a primary focus on those subjected to high-axial load. A total of eleven ... -
Seismic Performance of Highly Eccentric Reinforced Concrete Beam–Column Joints
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Beam–column joints are critical in reinforced concrete moment-resisting frames. Adequately designed beam–column joints support the plastic hinging of the adjoining beams under seismic actions and transfer gravity loads, ... -
Bidirectional Cyclic Loading Performance of a Prefabricated Self-Centering Metallic-Damped Steel Column Base
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)A prefabricated seismic-resilient steel column base capable of accommodating bidirectional loading, enabling fast onsite construction and causing minimal disturbance to building function, is proposed. The column base ... -
Development of Novel Buckling-Restrained Steel Braces Enabled by Partial Induction Hardening
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)A new type of buckling-restrained brace (BRB), called induction-hardened buckling-restrained brace (IHBRB), is proposed in this study. The IHBRB uses a round bar as the core steel and a hollow round section as the restrainer. ... -
Experiment Investigation of Viscoelastic Low-Prestressed Self-Centering Braces
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Self-centering braces are an attractive new type of brace able to reduce structural residual deformations after earthquakes, with no requirement of major modifications to structural joints. One primary challenge in widespread ... -
Study of Fire Resistance and Flexural Capacity of EEBM Connections under Postearthquake Fire
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This paper investigates the fire resistance of extended end-late beam-column middle (EEBM) joints, taking into account the gradient temperature effect under postearthquake fire (PEF). First, finite element (FE) models of ... -
Numerical Simulation and Design of Progressive Collapse of Steel Frame Composite Structures Considering Falling-Floors Impact
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Progressive collapse is a phenomenon where initial local failure of a component spreads to surrounding components, resulting in the collapse of the entire structure or most of it. This research is based on the component ... -
Three-Dimensional Digital Documentation of Tornado-Damaged Heritage Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In December 2021, an EF-4 tornado swept through several Midwest states in the United States, with Kentucky being the worst hit. Among the impacted towns was Mayfield, KY, where the historic buildings in downtown suffered ... -
Development of a Compression-Only Self-Centering Brace with Buckling-Restrained Bars for Energy Dissipation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)A steel brace is effective to retrofit old reinforcement concrete (RC) buildings by increasing the horizontal load capacity of structures. However, concrete cracks that easily occur in the surrounding RC members under ...