Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities: Recent submissions
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Impact of Maintenance, Rehabilitation, and Other Interventions on Functionality of Heritage Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The maintenance of heritage buildings can be extremely complex; usually, practitioners face many difficult decisions regarding when and how to intervene. The data recovered over time of the conservation and rehabilitation ... -
Three-Dimensional Location-Based O&M Data Management System for Large Commercial Office Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Owing to long building life cycles, facility management (FM) entails a significant responsibility. Furthermore, it is difficult to effectively manage the numerous operation and maintenance (O&M) data generated during ... -
Settlement Characteristics of Jacked Box Tunneling underneath a Highway Embankment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The rapid expansion of urban road systems inevitably results in engineering challenges when new road construction requires the safe crossing of existing roads. Therefore, there has been increased interest in box culvert ... -
Progressive Collapse Analysis of Steel Moment Frames: An Energy-Based Method and Explicit Expressions for Capacity Curves
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This paper presents a simplified model to evaluate progressive collapse response of steel beam–column substructures in a midspan column removal scenario. The model accounts for the influence of the span:depth ratio of the ... -
Experimental Seismic Response of a Japanese Conventional Wooden House Using 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Records
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Immediately after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake series, a detailed damage assessment of more than 2,500 wooden houses was conducted at Mashiki Town, Kumamoto. Severe structural and nonstructural components damages were ... -
Strain Monitoring on PHC Pipe Piles Based on Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors emerged as a relatively new strain-sensing technology for civil engineering applications. This study presents a field test to assess the feasibility of FBG sensors in monitoring the strain ... -
Experimental and Numerical Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Walls Retrofit Systems for Blast Mitigation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)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 ... -
Optimal Charge Scheme Calculation for Multiring Blasting Using Modified Harries Mathematical Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)A new optimization method for optimal charge scheme calculation is proposed to reduce undesired phenomenon in ring blasting, including brow damage, overcrushing, and bulking yield, which are caused by the unreasonable ... -
Fatigue Life Evaluation of Welded Joints in OSD for Railway Bridges Considering Welding Residual Stress
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)An orthotropic steel deck (OSD) has a complicated structure, and its fatigue life is mainly determined by various welding details. Fatigue assessment of deck-to-rib welded joints under long-term train loads is an important ... -
Development and Application of Water-Saving and Moisture-Retaining Membrane Made from Controllable High Polymer Materials for Concrete Curing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The conventional curing methods for cement concrete pavement have been frequently criticized for their high levels of water consumption, high labor intensity, high cost, nonuniform curing quality, and other problems. In ... -
System Identification of a Six-Span Steel Railway Bridge Using Ambient Vibration Measurements at Different Temperature Conditions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This paper presents modal parameter estimation work on a steel railway bridge at three different temperature conditions using ambient vibration test data. The bridge was built at the end of the 19th century using the ... -
Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Live-Load Distribution Factors for Double Tee Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)In this study, the Icy Springs Bridge, located in Coalville, Utah, was load-tested to quantify the effects of significant deterioration on its live-load behavior. Visual inspection and load testing of this double tee ... -
Monitoring-Based Assessment of the Construction Influence of Benoto Pile on Adjacent High-Speed Railway Bridge: Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)With the rapid expansion of the high-speed railway (HSR) network in China, some new lines must be constructed near or across existing HSRs, which will likely have an effect on the operational safety of the HSRs. The existing ... -
Load Effect, Safety Assessment, and Traffic Strategy of Multigirder Bridges under Lateral Eccentric Customized Transport Vehicle
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Customized transport vehicles (CTVs) are usually required to travel along the bridge centerline at low speed. However, emergency situations might occur on the bridge during the passing of a CTV and result in partial closure ... -
Bridge Performance Evaluation via Dynamic Fingerprints and Data Fusion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Rapidly aging bridges are a serious problem plaguing the transportation industry. Bridges are subjected to accumulative damage due to environmental effects, traffic, and inappropriate management, which commonly render them ... -
Risk Evaluation for Bridge Engineering Based on Cloud-Clustering Group Decision Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)A combined analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method, Delphi method, and cloud model, i.e., a cloud clustering–based group decision method, is proposed. The risk probability and risk loss of the main risk factors are ... -
Using Metallic Dampers to Improve Seismic Performance of Soft-Story RC Frames: Experimental and Numerical Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)The poor seismic response of gravityload-designed reinforced concrete (RC) frames with a soft story can be effectively controlled by using metallic dampers as passive energy dissipation devices. However, the absence of ... -
Postevent Reconnaissance Image Documentation Using Automated Classification
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Reconnaissance teams are charged with collecting perishable data after a natural disaster. In the field, these engineers typically record their observations through images. Each team takes many views of both exterior and ... -
Data Analysis of Inspection, Diagnosis, and Rehabilitation of Flat Roofs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)This paper presents the data collected from the inspection of 105 Portuguese flat roofs. The inspections were based on a system of inspection, diagnosis, and rehabilitation created and validated previously for flat roofs. ... -
Mechanism and Treatment Technology of Three Water Inrush Events in the Jiaoxi River Tunnel in Shaanxi, China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019)Water inrush events in tunnels are geological hazards that pose a special engineering problem for tunnel construction in water-rich areas. To clarify the engineering background and hydrogeological conditions of water inrush ...