Abstract: The paper reports the results of a research aimed at analyzing and interpreting the cracking pattern on the

Abstract: In seeking an efficient arrangement for the bearing cables of a cable-stayed bridge, inspiration is drawn from the natural wrinkling behavior of in-plane stressed triangular membranes. The bridge deck is thought of as being ...

Abstract: Earth ecosystems are not static, and they respond to environmental changes, particularly climatic and anthropogenic. Precipitation varying in its extremeness, with shifts to greater or lesser intensity of individual storms ...

Abstract: Cantilevered laminated glass balustrades present design challenges. The cross-sectional warping allowed by the end constraint induces such strong asymmetrical deformations that traditional methods, defining the effective ...

Abstract: Consider a linear elastic infinite disk, a sector of which, of arbitrary opening angle 2β, is subjected to a uniform temperature increase ΔT with respect to the complementary portion. An analytical solution is sought, ...

Abstract: Numerical approaches are elaborated to calculate the rheological response of laminated glass beams, whose viscoelastic interlayer is modeled via fractional calculus. This mathematical description is very effective when the ...

Abstract: The stiffness and strength of a composite structure formed by a slab and an underlying beam made of different materials strongly depends on the shear coupling at their interface, which in general is not perfect because of ...

Abstract: Marked differences have been observed between the global and local responses of tensile steel bars—the first traditionally defined by considering average strains (displacement of the bar's ends divided by its undistorted ...

Abstract: Laminated glass is a composite made of glass plies sandwiching polymeric interlayers, permanently bonded with a process at high pressure and temperature in autoclave. Within the quasielastic approximation, according to ...