Abstract: Owing to their high chemical resistance, alkali-activated materials (AAMs) may represent a promising option for repairing concrete structures affected by acidic media. However, AAMs have some technical limitations with ...

Abstract: Inelastic, large displacement behavior of reinforced concrete hyperbolic cooling towers is studied using a finite-element program developed on the Cray Y-MP supercomputer. The large displacement effects are formulated based ...

Abstract: The problem of setting, balancing, and determining priorities of design targets among the subsystems constituting an engineering system, i.e., managing the targets, is addressed. A new norm-based ...

Abstract: An in-situ collapse test for collapsible soils was developed. The test is conducted in a borehole with a load applied to a loading plate at the base of the hole. Water is introduced, and the load-displacement response of ...

Abstract: This paper reports numerical results on turbulent buoyant axisymmetric jets in a coflowing ambient stream. The objective of this study is to compare the performance of the Reynolds stress ...