Abstract: The pressure exerted on an axisymmetric indentor by a thin layer of crushed ice modeled as a Mohr‐Coulomb material is solved approximately, resulting in a closed‐form solution that is shown to hold for plane strain situations ...

Abstract: Seven concrete beams reinforced internally with varying amounts of steel and externally with precured carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) plates applied after the concrete had cracked under service loads were tested under ...

Abstract: For the database-assisted design (DAD) of low-rise building purlins and girts, a method is proposed that explicitly accounts for wind directionality by using directional wind tunnel measurements, directional wind speed ...

Abstract: In accordance with the ASCE Standard 7-05, in regions subjected to wind and earthquakes, structures are designed for loads induced by wind and, separately, by earthquakes, and the final design is based on the more demanding ...

Abstract: The design of a large proportion of the low-rise metal buildings in the United States is based on the ASCE 7-93 Standard and the use of allowable stress design (ASD). In this paper we examine, for a typical case, the ...

Abstract: In order to prevent critical effects due to pulsed detonation propulsion, e.g., incidence fluctuations, an elastomer-piezo-adaptive stator blade with a deformable front part is developed. Numerical investigations with ...

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental program to investigate the progressive collapse resistance of reinforced-concrete (RC) building structures subjected to a loss of a penultimate-external (PE) column that is the exterior ...