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: A method is presented for calculating the uncertainty associated with the estimation of peak pressure coefficients from wind tunnel test records of various lengths and how this uncertainty influences design wind effects. ...

Abstract: Current design procedures in the United States use the envelope of individual hazard demands on a structure to ensure safety against multiple hazards. A difficulty in multihazard design for wind and earthquake is that the ...

Abstract: Estimating properties of the distribution of the peak of a stochastic process from a single finite realization is a problem that arises in a variety of science and engineering applications. Furthermore, it is often the ...