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The Story of China’s Unfinished Skyscraper
When construction began 13 years ago, Goldin Finance 117 in Tianjin was going to be the fifth tallest skyscraper ever built – today, it's probably most well known as that building those daredevils on YouTube climbed. Despite reaching its full height of 597 metres in...
Improving the Structural Characteristics of Heavy Concrete by Combined Disperse Reinforcement
Author(s) evon R. Mailyan, Alexey N. Beskopylny, Besarion Meskhi, Aleksandr V. ShilovSergey A. Stel’makh, Evgenii M. Shcherban’, Alla. Smolyanichenko and Diana El’shaeva Abstract The development of perspective concrete mixes capable of resisting the action of...
Geopolymers and Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Composites in Civil Engineering
Author(s) Aamir Mahmood, Muhammad Tayyab Noman, Miroslava Pechočiaková, Nesrine Amor , Michal Petrů, Mohamed Abdelkader, 5OrcID,Jiří Militký , Sebnem Sozcu and Syed Zameer Ul Hassan Abstract This paper discusses the influence of fiber reinforcement on the...
he Cover Depth Effect on Corrosion-Induced Deterioration of Reinforced Concrete Focusing on Water Penetration: Field Survey and Laboratory Study
Author(s) Shingo Asamoto, Junya Sato, Shinichiro Okazaki, Pang-jo Chun Abstract Reinforced concrete bridges were visually surveyed in Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam to study the deterioration caused by internal steel corrosion under different climates, focusing...
Cyclic Tests and Numerical Analyses on Bolt-Connected Precast Reinforced Concrete Deep Beams
Author(s) Jing Li, Lizhong Jiang, Hong Zheng, Liqiang Jiang and Lingyu Zhou Abstract A bolt-connected precast reinforced concrete deep beam (RDB) is proposed as a lateral resisting component that can be used in frame structures to resist seismic loads. RDB can...
Physical and Mechanical Properties of Rural-Road Pavement Concrete in South Korea Containing Air-Cooled Blast-Furnace Slag Aggregates
Author(s) Byung-Hwan Ahn, Su-Jin Lee and Chan-Gi Park Abstract The purpose of this study was to assess the physical and mechanical properties of pavement concrete for rural roads of South Korea made with air-cooled slag aggregate, which is an industrial...
Tunnel Connecting Scandinavia to the Mediterranean
The SCAN-MED corridor runs from Finland all the way down to Malta - and, thanks to a bridge over the sea at Copenhagen, it’s all pretty easy-going, until you reach that rather major mountain range called the Alps.For decades that’s slowed travel down, creating a...
Fire Resistance of High-Volume Fly Ash RC Slab Inclusion with Nano-Silica
Author(s) Mohamed H. Mussa, Noor Azim Mohd Radzi, Roszilah Hamid and Azrul A. Mutalib Abstract The study aims to investigate the fire performance of reinforced concrete (RC) slab fabricated from high volume fly ash inclusion with nano-silica (HVFANS) under ISO...