Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities: Recent submissions
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Factors Influencing Facilities Management Cost Performance in Building Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Buildings are complex systems, and therefore truly understanding their performance is difficult. The cost of maintenance is a real problem and a major issue in building projects, and it constitutes a significant part of ... -
Structural Response of Masonry Infilled Timber Frames to Flood and Wind Driven Rain Exposure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)In the current changing climate historic timber frame buildings are exposed to ever more severe and frequent extreme weather conditions such as floods and wind driven rainstorms. These structures are especially vulnerable ... -
Feasibility of Stochastic Gradient Boosting Approach for Evaluating Seismic Liquefaction Potential Based on SPT and CPT Case Histories
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Earthquakes have always attracted civil and geotechnical engineers’ attention, especially when it comes to the liquefaction potential of soil. This paper investigates the feasibility of classifier based on stochastic ... -
Review of <i>Progressive Collapse of Structures</i>, 2nd Edition, by Uwe Starossek
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Forensic Investigation of a Water Inrush Accident during Ground Freezing Recovery Work
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)An accident involving the collapse of a running tunnel along Nanjing metro occurred when the tunneling shield arrived at the receiving shaft. Then vertical ground freezing was adopted to recover the collapsed tunnel. ... -
Performance of North Anchorage Excavation of Fuma Yangtze River Bridge in Wanzhou, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)To ensure the safety of constructing the north anchorage excavation of Fuma Yangtze River Bridge, an extensive instrumentation program was carried out to monitor the performance of the excavation. This monitoring effort ... -
Performance of Nondestructive Parallel Seismic Testing Method in Determining Depth of Shallow Foundations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Parallel Seismic (PS) is considered a versatile method capable of determining the specifications of unknown bridge foundations made of common materials such as wood, steel, and reinforced concrete. Although many studies ... -
Predicting Power-Transformer Bushings’ Seismic Vulnerability Mounting Stiffness and Coupling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Large power transformers are both expensive and vulnerable to seismic failure. Excessive amplification of earthquake loading to power-transformer bushings beyond the bushings’ rated strength can occur if the system’s ... -
Optimum Design of a Controlled Cable-Stayed Footbridge Subject to a Running Event Using Semiactive and Passive Mass Dampers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Pedestrian-induced actions cause high vibration amplitudes in flexible and lightweight structures such as cable-stayed bridges. The high vibrational response is considered a serious serviceability problem that must be ... -
Response of a Composite-Adjacent Box Beam Bridge with Skewed Beams under Static and Quasi-Static Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Adjacent box beams are widely used for constructing short- and medium-span bridges on roadways throughout the United States. The performance of a straight, noncomposite-adjacent box beam bridge under a live load is well ... -
Cost Savings Resulting from Optimum Material Selection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This paper presents the forensic analysis undertaken on two rehabilitation projects toward highlighting the cost savings achieved by implementing the optimum rehabilitation option and material made from these studies. ... -
Vibration Serviceability of Building Floors: Performance Evaluation of Contemporary Design Guidelines
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The drive toward innovative designs of structural systems assisted by more efficient materials has resulted in ever more slender spans and lighter weight constructions. This has also been accompanied by the growing trend ... -
Wind Turbine Tower Failure Modes under Seismic and Wind Loads
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This paper studies the structural responses and failure modes of a 1.5-MW horizontal-axis wind turbine under strong ground motions and wind loading. Ground motions were selected and scaled to match the two design response ... -
Failure of Roadway Subbase Induced by Overuse of Phosphogypsum
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Field investigations and laboratory tests were performed to determine the cause of engineering distress due to the swelling of lime-stabilized and phosphogypsum-stabilized soil and subsequent cracks on a roadway in China. ... -
Influence of Design on the Service Life of Indirectly Fastened Natural Stone Cladding
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Indirect fastening is not yet a well-vetted method for attaching stone cladding from the point of view of designers and contractors, and a high incidence of failures has been observed in the field, suggesting inadequate ... -
Baseline-Free Hybrid Diagnostic Technique for Detection of Minor Incipient Damage in the Structure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)One of the practical difficulties in implementing the structural health monitoring schemes in the field is the challenge involved in detecting the incipient minor damage (subtle cracks) at the earliest possible stage. The ... -
Failure of Concrete-Face Sand-Gravel Dam Due to Water Flow Overtops
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Based on field investigations and model tests on Gouhou concrete-face sand-gravel dam (CFSGD) breach case, a simplified numerical model for CFSGD breach was developed. The two major highlights of the model are the adoption ... -
Viscous Damping and Contraction Joint Friction in Underwater Explosion Resistant Design of Arch Dams
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The aim of this study is to clarify the parameter-determination issue with regard to the viscous damping and contraction joint friction in the underwater explosion (UNDEX) resistant design of arch dams. A 141-m-high ... -
Performance of a Far-Field Historical Church during the 2016–2017 Central Italy Earthquakes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Churches are an essential part of the historical and architectural heritage of several countries, and various earthquakes have highlighted the significant seismic vulnerability of ancient religious buildings. On August 24, ... -
Experimental Studies on Mitigating Local Damage and Fragments of Unreinforced Masonry Wall under Close-in Explosions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Debris hazard causes most of the casualties and injuries in terrorist or accidental explosions. It is defined as high-velocity fragments originating from structural components and building envelope systems induced by a ...