Buildings & Structures
Tower Road Bascule Bridge, Birkenhead, UK
Author(s) Ray Langley Abstract The A554 Tower Road connects Wallasey and Birkenhead on the Wirral, north west England. The road crosses the entrance to Birkenhead docks from the River Mersey by way of a moveable bridge, which is of major strategic importance in...
Assessing the Impact of Groundwater Extraction on the Performance of Fractured Concrete Subsurface Dam in Controlling Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers
Author(s) Asaad M. Armanuos, Hossam E. Moghazy, Martina Zeleňáková and Zaher Mundher Yaseen Abstract Among the well-known approaches for controlling seawater intrusion during extensive freshwater abstraction from coastal aquifers is the construction of...
A New Method for Structural Safety and Reliability Analysis of Offshore Wind Turbines
Author(s) Yingguang Wang, PhD Abstract With the motivation to overcome the shortcomings of the Rosenblatt inverse-first-order reliability environmental contour method (IFORM), in this study, the use of bivariate kernel density estimation with smoothed...
Flexural Performance of Pretensioned Spun Concrete Piles Reinforced with Steel Strands
Author(s) Xuwei Zhang Shunfeng Gong Quanbiao Xu Gang Gan Xiaodong Yu Yong Lu Abstract The application of pretensioned spun high-strength concrete (PHC) piles in high-intensity seismic areas has been limited by insufficient horizontal load resistance and poor...
Interface Behaviour of Carbon-fabric-reinforced Cementitious Matrix Composites with ICCP Technique
Author(s) Ran Feng Jingzhou Zhang Yanwen Li Ji-Hua Zhu Abstract This paper studies the interface bonding performance of carbon-fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (C-FRCM) composites with the impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) technique. Single...
Evaluation and Numerical Investigations of the Cyclic Behavior of Smart Composite Steel–Concrete Shear Wall: Comprehensive Study of Finite Element Model
Author(s) Hadee Mohammed Najm, Amer M. Ibrahim, Mohanad Muayad Sabri Sabri, Amer Hassan 1ORCID,Samadhan Morkhade 4,Nuha S. Mashaan, Moutaz Mustafa A. Eldirderi and Khaled Mohamed Khedher Abstract The composite shear wall has various merits over the traditional...
Using Geophysical Data to Quantify Stress Transmission in Gap-graded Granular Materials
Author(s) Masahide Otsubo* Reiko Kuwano† Catherine O'Sullivan‡ Thomas Shire§ Abstract The behaviour of gap-graded granular materials – that is, mixtures of coarse and cohesionless finer grains with measurable differences in particle size – does not always...
Interface Behaviour of Carbon-Fabric-reinforced Cementitious Matrix Composites with ICCP Technique
Author(s) Ran Feng Jingzhou Zhang Yanwen Li Ji-Hua Zhu Abstract This paper studies the interface bonding performance of carbon-fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (C-FRCM) composites with the impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) technique. Single...
A Semi-empirical Model for Bond Strength Between FRP Composites and Concrete
Author(s) Rami H. Haddad Nasser Al-Huthaifi Abstract An accurate estimate of fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP)–concrete bond is essential for a successful FRP repair. The present work aims at developing a semi-empirical model employing a large database (about 500...