International Journal of Structural Integrity: Volume 13 Issue 1

Recent advances in reliability analysis of aeroengine rotor system: a review

Xue-Qin Li, Lu-Kai Song, Guang-Chen Bai

To provide valuable information for scholars to grasp the current situations, hotspots and future development trends of reliability analysis area.

Analysis of uncertainty in the strength of spot welding car body solder joint

Zhaoyu Ku, Qiwen Xue, Gaping Wang, Shuang Liu

Aiming at the problems of poor accuracy and limitation in strength assessment of spot welding vehicle body caused by uncertain factors, such as key component size and nugget…

Experimental study on bending behavior of glulam beams strengthened with bamboo scrimber

Tong Wang, Jing Di, Hongliang Zuo

In view of the defects of glued wood beams, a new composite member – reconstituted bamboo board reinforced glued wood beams is proposed to improve the bearing capacity of glued…

The knock-on effects of green buildings: high-rise construction design implications

Laura Blackburne, Koorosh Gharehbaghi, Amin Hosseinian-Far

The aims and objectives of this research are to establish whether or not the transition into green building in high-rise construction is practical. This is after considering…

Porosity formation studies in high pressure die castings of Al-9Si-3Cu alloy based on Taguchi method

K. Ch Appa Rao, Anil Kumar Birru, Praveen Kumar Bannaravuri, E. Daniel Francis

Nowadays, ample industries are fascinated to look for high strength and light weight materials for the development of robust parts. Because of light weight and high stiffness to…

Multi-objective design optimisation of steel framed structures using three different methods

Abdalhakem Alkhadashi, Fouad Mohammad, Rasheedah Olamide Zubayr, Hynda Aoun Klalib, Piotr Balik

The optimality objectives are the structure weight and embodied energy as well as calculating the cost and embodied carbon of the resulting optimum options. Three optimality…

Study on static load test of simply supported hollow slab bridge flexural strengthened with polyurethane–cement composite

Chunwei Li, Quansheng Sun, Yancheng Liu

As the service time of bridges increases, the degradation of bending capacity, the lack of safety reserves and the decrease in bridge reliability are common in early built…

Sensor number and placement optimization for detection and localization of damage in a suspension bridge using a hybrid ANN-PCA reduced FRF method

Djamila Cherid, Nouredine Bourahla, Mohamed Said Laghoub, Anis Mohabeddine

Despite the fast progress in structural health monitoring (SHM), the efficient use in practice of emerging techniques for large civil engineering structures is still a challenge…

Enhancing the tensile strength of SiC reinforced aluminium-based functionally graded structure through the mixture design approach

M. Poornesh, Shreeranga Bhat, E.V. Gijo, Pavana Kumara Bellairu

This article aims to study the tensile properties of a functionally graded composite structure with Al–18wt%Si alloy as the matrix material and silicon carbide (SiC) particles as…

Shaking table test on single segment prefabricated concrete bridge pier connected by grouting sleeve

Junming Xu, Yanmin Jia, Dongwei Liang

Prefabricated pier technology has the advantages of quick construction time, relatively little traffic interference and relatively small environmental impact. However, its…