Journal of Structural Design and Construction Practice: Recent submissions
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Seismic Performance Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Moment Frames with Gravity Columns
(ASCE, 2020)Moment frames with gravity columns in reinforced concrete (RC) buildings have been used extensively for the last decade in the United States. Unlike traditional beam–column–slab structures, they provide some advantages in ... -
Isolated Rectangular Footings under Biaxial Bending: A Critical Appraisal and Simplified Analysis Methodology
(ASCE, 2020)The case of isolated rectangular footings being subjected to eccentric loads along both directions is very conventional as columns are ordinarily subjected to horizontal loads, vertical loads, and moments simultaneously. ... -
Anchor Gallery Designs for Tainter Gate Active Anchorage Systems
(ASCE, 2020)This paper reviews the design of accessible anchor galleries that allow the inspection, testing, and replacement of post-tensioned trunnion girder anchorage systems. Various means of egress were reviewed along with features ... -
Effects of Wearable Light Systems on Safety of Highway Construction Workers
(ASCE, 2020)Recent statistics indicate that the number of injuries and fatalities on highway construction projects continues to rise. This increase is attributed primarily to unsafe driver behavior, such as distracted driving, and the ... -
Utilizing Emerging Technologies for Construction Safety Risk Mitigation
(ASCE, 2020)Despite the use of traditional and novel approaches to improve construction safety management, safety performance in the construction industry is still considered poor, especially when compared with other US industries. ... -
Dynamic Axial Response of Tapered Piles Including Material Damping
(ASCE, 2020)Tapered piles are used in place of cylindrical piles for their improved geotechnical performance. When tapered piles are subjected to axial dynamic loading, as is the case with machine foundations, an appropriate theoretical ... -
Lateral Displacement in Walls with Openings: Importance of Floor System Stiffness
(ASCE, 2020)Approximations obtained with the equivalent frame method and the equivalent shear-connection method to assess the elastic average lateral displacement profiles of walls with symmetric and asymmetric openings are compared ... -
Development of Innovative Block Charts for a Box-Type Cross Drain with a Constant Width for Various Depths of Soil Cushion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)A cross-drain structure provides an opening under a highway. Cross drains must be provided transversely under highway embankments to cross obstructions such as canals, streams, and natural depressions. A cross drain is ... -
Analysis and Design of Tensile Membrane Structures: Challenges and Recommendations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Tensile membrane structures (TMS) are increasingly in demand due to their ability to span large distances with elegance and structural efficiency. Because TMS is comparatively new to the structural engineering world, there ... -
Optimal Depth-to-Span Ratio for Composite Rigid-Frame Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The depth-to-span ratio is not only an important part of steel-concrete composite rigid-frame bridges (CRFBs) but is also one of the important parameters in designing CRFBs, determining the appearance of the bridge, volume ... -
Continuous Reinforced Concrete Rigid-Frame Bridges in China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Continuous reinforced concrete rigid-frame bridges in China have undergone rapid development in recent decades. Great progress has been made in the design and construction of these types of bridges. Therefore, it is useful ... -
Efficient Preconditioned Soil–Foundation–Structure Interaction Approach to Compute Tall-Building Time Periods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The present paper suggests an efficient preconditioned two-iteration substructure approach—namely, preconditioned soil–structure interaction (PSSI)—to couple the analysis of a superstructure over fixed bases (which is ... -
Approximate Fundamental Period for Seismic Design of Steel Buildings Assigned to High Risk Categories
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Seismic analysis provisions in ASCE/SEI 7-16 (ASCE. 2016. Minimum design loads and associated criteria for buildings and other structures. ASCE/SEI 7-16. Reston, VA: ASCE.) use an approximate fundamental period as a proxy ... -
Behavior of Reactive-Powder Concrete Deep Beams with CFRP-Strengthened Openings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This research offers an experimental study of the behavior of reactive powder concrete (RPC) deep beams with openings externally bonded by carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) strips. The beam specimens are classified ... -
Assessment of Structural Behavior of Vertical Curved Hollow Steel Beams Strengthened Using CFRP Composite
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)In recent years, retrofitting and strengthening of steel structures with carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs) is a rapidly developing technique that has attracted the attention of many researchers. Most previous studies ... -
Reducing Damages to Underground Infrastructure: Performance Evaluation of One-Call Notification Program
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Reducing damages to underground utilities is one of the primary goals of construction stakeholders. The societal and economic impacts of such damages are substantial. To minimize potential damages to underground utilities, ... -
Holistic Approach to Resilience of Steel-Frame Construction in Fire
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Current governing codes and standards in the United States provide engineers with an option to design structures for the load effects caused by a fire. This process consists of calculating the required thickness of fire ... -
Rande Bridge Widening: A 400-m-Span Cable-Stayed Bridge Expansion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Built between 1973 and 1977 and first opened in 1981, the Rande Bridge was at the time of its completion one of the largest cable-stayed bridges in the world. By 2006, the bridge had reached its maximum capacity and either ... -
Real and Apparent Direction of Inertia in the Ultimate Limit State in Doubly Symmetrical Reinforced Concrete Sections
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The principal direction of inertia in the ultimate limit state under axial load and biaxial bending of a doubly symmetrical reinforced concrete section is not the same as the direction of the principal axis of symmetry. ... -
Methodological Contribution of K. W. Johansen to Structural Analysis of Long Cylindrical Roof Shells: Beam Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Evaluating the state of stress of a cylindrical shell based on elastic analysis originally involved a series of hypotheses concerning the conditions around it and the structural material used. All of these hypotheses ...