Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities: Recent submissions
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Self-Organizing Maps for Structural Damage Detection: A Novel Unsupervised Vibration-Based Algorithm
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The study presented in this paper is arguably the first study to use a self-organizing map (SOM) for global structural damage detection. A novel unsupervised vibration-based damage detection algorithm is introduced using ... -
Investigations of Structural Damage Caused by the Fertilizer Plant Explosion at West, Texas. II: Ground Shock
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)An explosion occurred at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, Texas, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, devastating a populated neighborhood. A total of 15 people were killed, and approximately 160 more people were injured. ... -
Investigations of Structural Damage Caused by the Fertilizer Plant Explosion at West, Texas. I: Air-Blast Incident Overpressure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)An explosion occurred at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, Texas, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, devastating a populated neighborhood. A total of 15 people were killed, and approximately 160 people were injured. ... -
Reduced-Scale Shake Table Testing of Seismic Behaviors of Slurry Cutoff Walls
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper presents a reduced-scale shake table test on the seismic responses of a section of soil-cement-bentonite (SCB) slurry cutoff wall. The geometric scale of slurry wall width was chosen as 1∶3 (model:prototype). A ... -
Progressive Collapse of Three-Dimensional Semi-Rigid Jointed Steel Frames
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In this paper, a simplified numerical model is developed for studying the progressive collapse of three-dimensional semi-rigid jointed steel frames under static loading conditions using rotational springs. So far in the ... -
Seismic Response Evaluation of Ductile Reinforced Concrete Block Structural Walls. I: Experimental Results and Force-Based Design Parameters
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The reported experimental study documents the performance of six fully grouted reinforced concrete block structural walls tested under quasistatic cyclic loading. The walls fall under the ductile shear walls and the special ... -
Performance Records System for Public Construction Contractors—Application of Smooth Roads Project
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The capability of a construction contractor greatly affects the quality of public construction. Many countries are developing assessment methods for construction contractors and establishing assessment systems for contractor ... -
Field Study of Downdrag and Dragload of Bored Piles in Consolidating Ground
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper reports a field study on the downdrag and dragload of two pairs of bored piles installed in consolidating ground in the Zhejiang coastal area, China. During and after the construction of a 2.5-m-high embankment, ... -
Probabilistic Analytical Model for Settlement Risk Assessment of High-Speed Railway Subgrade
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)It is crucial for the design and operation of a high-speed railway to estimate and control the accumulative settlement of the subgrade induced by cyclic train loading. In this study, an analytical model, considering the ... -
Performance of Masonry Walls during Kaki, Iran, Earthquake of April 9, 2013
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Failure of masonry walls during the Kaki, Iran, earthquake of April 2013 was the main damage of buildings and a major contributor to the fatalities during that earthquake. The observed damages to different masonry walls ... -
Probabilistic Vulnerability Assessment of Horizontally Curved Multiframe RC Box-Girder Highway Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Numerous concrete box-girder bridges in California are horizontally curved and also have at least one in-span hinge. The curvature and in-span hinges in multiframe bridges lead to significant differences in bridge dynamic ... -
Survey: Common Knowledge in BIM for Facility Maintenance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)As building information modeling (BIM) has become more widely adopted by the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) industry, its undeveloped potential for supporting facility management (FM) has ... -
Research and Analysis on Recurring Anomalies in Foundations and Structures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper presents a research study performed to obtain percentage data on building anomalies of and damages to the foundations and structures of residential buildings, as well as to determine their most common causes. ... -
Effects of Changing Surrounding Conditions on the Thermal Analysis of the Moste Concrete Dam
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper deals with the heat transfer analysis of the 63-year-old and 60-m-high Moste concrete arch-gravity dam, located in Northwest Slovenia. The analysis was performed after a new sophisticated monitoring system had ... -
Minimizing Fluctuation of the Maintenance, Repair, and Rehabilitation Cost Profile of a Building
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Preventive and regular maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation (MR&R) is necessary for a building to function satisfactorily throughout its lifecycle. A relatively constant MR&R budget is generally allocated to a ... -
Deterministic and Probabilistic Lifecycle Cost Assessment: Applications to Nebraska Bridges
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The main purpose of this paper is to utilize lifecycle cost analysis (LCCA) as a decision-support tool for three commonly encountered decisions in bridge management: bridge deck overlay decisions, expansion joint replacement ... -
Bond Behavior of Embedded Reinforcing Steel Bars for Varying Levels of Transversal Pressure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Because of columns loads, reinforced concrete (RC) continuous beams in skeleton structures are subjected to transverse compressive stress at support locations. Such lateral pressure can enhance the bond between the main ... -
Energy-Dissipation Performance of Typical Beam-Column Joints in Yingxian Wood Pagoda: Experimental Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper presents an experimental investigation on the structural performance of the beam-column joints of Yingxian Wood Pagoda. A scaled model of typical beam-column joints with dovetail tenon-mortise connection was ... -
Restoration of Historical Al-Askari Shrine. I: Field Observations, Damage Detection, and Material Properties
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The Al-Askari shrine, located in Samarra, Iraq, is a remarkable example of a building with ancient Islamic architecture and construction that was heavily damaged by massive bombings. The bombings were carried out by two ...