Abstract: Stress‐laminated T‐system timber bridges consist of laminated deck sections combined with glued‐laminated timber beams compressed transversely with high‐strength steel bars. In the design of these structures, a deck‐and‐beam ...

Abstract: Several experimental studies were conducted to evaluate the energy-absorption capacity of conventional and nonconventional cold-formed steel (CFS) stud walls for blast resistance. Recently, experiments were performed to ...

Abstract: The design of a deck-and-stringer bridge system is usually reduced to the analysis of a T-beam section, loaded by concentrated loads corresponding to an equivalent fraction of the applied truck load. This equivalent load ...

Abstract: Sandwich wall systems provide resistance over a large deformation range, making them useful for blast resistance. This paper analyzed three sandwich panel systems: walls with symmetric concrete layers (SW), unsymmetric ...

Abstract: Various ductile sheet materials are currently being considered to retrofit existing concrete walls to mitigate the effects of external blast. In this paper, the blast mitigation of the soft and rigid sheet retrofit systems ...