International Journal of Structural Integrity: Volume 9 Issue 4

Effect of diagonal cracks on shear stiffness of pre-stressed concrete beam

Jinliang Liu, Yanmin Jia, Guanhua Zhang, Jiawei Wang

During service period, due to the overload or other non-load factors, diagonal cracks of the pre-stressed concrete beam are seriously affecting the safety of the bridge structure…

Research on destructive test of pretensioning prestressed concrete hollow slab in service

Jiawei Wang, Guanhua Zhang, Jinliang Liu, Yanmin Jia

During service period, the bridge structures will be affected by the environment and load, so the carrying capacity will decline. The purpose of this paper is to research on the…

Research on resistance degradation and reliability of pre-stressed concrete structures in freeze-thaw zone

Jinliang Liu, Yanmin Jia, Guanhua Zhang, Jiawei Wang

In the freeze-thaw zone, the pre-stressed concrete of bridge structure will be damaged by freezing-thawing, the bearing capacity of structure will decrease and the safety will be…

Classical analysis of preloaded bolted joint load distributions

Michael Welch

The purpose of this paper is to develop the understanding of how external loads are reacted through preloaded bolted joints and the interaction of the joint elements. The paper…

Mesh sensitivity analysis on implicit and explicit method for rolling simulation

Evangelos Gavalas, Ioannis Pressas, Spyros Papaefthymiou

The purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of implicit and explicit integration schemes for simulating the metal rolling process using commercial software packages…

A numerical and experimental study on the dynamical behavior of 3D-Panel Wall on Piloti RC Frame

Mohammad Zaman Kabir, Parisa Shadan, Hossein Kabir

The purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamical behavior of a combined three-story building with a 3D panel wall system including a soft story irregularity at the very first…

Fracture properties of hybrid woven bamboo/woven e-glass fiber composites

Aidy Ali, Wei Kuan Ng, Faiz Arifin, Kannan Rassiah, Faiz Othman, Shauqi Hazin, Megat Hamdan Megat Ahmad

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the fracture properties of hybrid woven bamboo (WB)/woven e-glass (EG) fiber composites with various layer arrangements. This paper…

Improving the tie force method for progressive collapse design of RC frames

Arash Naji

The purpose of this paper is to recover the deficiency of existing tie force (TF) methods by considering the decrease in section strength due to cracking and by selecting limit…

Quasi-statically growing crack tip fields in plastically compressible hardening-softening-hardening solid

Sushant Singh, Debashis Khan

As the normality concept for frictional dilatant material has a serious drawback, the key feature in this numerical study is that the material here is characterized by…

Seismic application of multi-scale finite element model for hybrid simulation

Hongxing Jia, Shizhu Tian, Shuangjiang Li, Weiyi Wu, Xinjiang Cai

Hybrid simulation, which is a general technique for obtaining the seismic response of an entire structure, is an improvement of the traditional seismic test technique. In order to…

Experimental investigation of recycled aggregate effect on the concrete properties

Hamed Hemmati Pourghashti, Malek Mohammad Ranjbar, Rahmat Madandoust

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a laboratory investigation on measuring the tensile strength of recycled concrete using a double punch test. Furthermore, one of the main…