Download or read book Material Characterization of Field Cast Connection Grouts written by U.s. Department of Transportation-federal Highway Administration and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accelerated bridge construction methods can help increase safety and minimize the inconveniences to the traveling public. Many new construction methods have been investigated and implemented using prefabricated subassemblies on bridges. These methods have shown great promise because prefabricated components can be produced in a controlled environment, resulting in superior products that both allow for expedited construction schedules and display robust, durable performance. The most critical field construction process for prefabricated subassemblies is the completion of the connections. Short-term construction-related issues along with long-term serviceability problems have been attributed to a variety of causes, including construction techniques, materials, and poor designs. This research effort investigated the performance of a variety of different material categories that may be used in field-cast highway infrastructure connections. The objective of this research is to evaluate grout-type materials for potential use in field-cast connections deployed as part of the prefabricated bridge elements and systems (PBES) bridge construction concept. Topics investigated included mechanical strength, shrinkage, bond strength, durability, and cost.

Download or read book Material Characterization of Field cast Connection Grouts written by Matthew K. Swenty and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Accelerated bridge construction methods can help increase safety and minimize the inconveniences to the traveling public. Many new construction methods have been investigated and implemented using prefabricated subassemblies on bridges. These methods have shown great promise because prefabricated components can be produced in a controlled environment, resulting in superior products that both allow for expedited construction schedules and display robust, durable performance. The most critical field construction process for prefabricated subassemblies is the completion of the connections. Short-term construction-related issues along with long-term serviceability problems have been attributed to a variety of causes, including construction techniques, materials, and poor designs. This research effort investigated the performance of a variety of different material categories that may be used in field-cast highway infrastructure connections. The objective of this research is to evaluate grout-type materials for potential use in field-cast connections deployed as part of the prefabricated bridge elements and systems (PBES) bridge construction concept. Topics investigated included mechanical strength, shrinkage, bond strength, durability, and cost. The results demonstrate that a wide range of grout performances are achievable, and thus owners should carefully consider the parameters critical to the successful completion of any pending project."--Technical report documentation p.

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Download or read book Maintenance Safety Risk Management and Life Cycle Performance of Bridges written by Nigel Powers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 5447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintenance, Safety, Risk, Management and Life-Cycle Performance of Bridges contains lectures and papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2018), held in Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July 2018. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts and a USB card containing the full papers of 393 contributions presented at IABMAS 2018, including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, 10 Keynote Lectures, and 382 technical papers from 40 countries. The contributions presented at IABMAS 2018 deal with the state of the art as well as emerging concepts and innovative applications related to the main aspects of bridge maintenance, safety, risk, management and life-cycle performance. Major topics include: new design methods, bridge codes, heavy vehicle and load models, bridge management systems, prediction of future traffic models, service life prediction, residual service life, sustainability and life-cycle assessments, maintenance strategies, bridge diagnostics, health monitoring, non-destructive testing, field testing, safety and serviceability, assessment and evaluation, damage identification, deterioration modelling, repair and retrofitting strategies, bridge reliability, fatigue and corrosion, extreme loads, advanced experimental simulations, and advanced computer simulations, among others. This volume provides both an up-to-date overview of the field of bridge engineering and significant contributions to the process of more rational decision-making on bridge maintenance, safety, risk, management and life-cycle performance of bridges for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. The Editors hope that these Proceedings will serve as a valuable reference to all concerned with bridge structure and infrastructure systems, including students, researchers and engineers from all areas of bridge engineering.

Download or read book Design and Analysis of Connections in Steel Structures written by Alfredo Boracchini and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book introduces all the aspects needed for the safe and economic design and analysis of connections using bolted joints in steel structures. This is not treated according to any specific standard but making comparison among the different norms and methodologies used in the engineering practice, e.g. Eurocode, AISC, DIN, BS. Several examples are solved and illustrated in detail, giving the reader all the tools necessary to tackle also complex connection design problems. The book is introductory but also very helpful to advanced and specialist audiences because it covers a large variety of practice demands for connection design. Parts that are not taken to an advanced level are seismic design, welds, interaction with other materials (concrete, wood), and cold formed connections./p

Download or read book Structural Engineering and Industrial Architecture written by Saeed Ghaffarpour Jahromi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structural Engineering and Industrial Architecture collects the contributions presented at the 6th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Industrial Architecture (ICSEIA 2023, Changsha, China, 24-26 February 2023). The book gathers cutting-edge research and achievements on a wide range of topics, including: - Civil Engineering - Engineering Structure - Environmental Protection Materials - Architectural Environment - Seismic Engineering The book is aimed at academics and engineering working or interested in the above-mentioned areas.

Download or read book Structural Health Monitoring written by N. Rajic and published by Materials Research Forum LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents the proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. With the increasing worldwide emphasis on asset sustainability, there is a trend toward Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) and Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM). Both approaches require diagnostic systems which detect damage and monitor structural health and/or prognostic systems that predict the future health of a structure. Keywords: Vibration Monitoring, Railway Bridge, Strain-based Damage, Turbine Blades, Crack and Temperature Sensing, Bone Degradation, Prefabricated Concrete Frame, Impact Damage in Composites, Ferroelectric Single Crystals, Evaluation of Human Injury, Automatic Damage Assessment, Metal-Composite Plates, Osseointegration, High-rise Buildings, Acoustic Emission Source. Earthquake, Wind Turbine Rotor Blades. Smart Cables, Thermal Damages, Cement Materials, Multi-parameter Monitoring, Petri Net Model, Maintenance Strategies, Load Bearing Antenna, Thin Metal Joints, Aerospace Structure.

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Download or read book Design and Typical Details of Connections for Precast and Prestressed Concrete written by Edward R. Sturm and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures written by Günther Meschke and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 1735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EURO-C conference series (Split 1984, Zell am See 1990, Innsbruck 1994, Badgastein 1998, St. Johann im Pongau 2003, Mayrhofen 2006, Schladming 2010, St. Anton am Arlberg 2014, and Bad Hofgastein 2018) brings together researchers and practising engineers concerned with theoretical, algorithmic and validation aspects associated with computational simulations of concrete and concrete structures. Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures reviews and discusses research advancements and the applicability and robustness of methods and models for reliable analysis of complex concrete, reinforced concrete and pre-stressed concrete structures in engineering practice. The contributions cover both computational mechanics and computational modelling aspects of the analysis and design of concrete and concrete structures: Multi-scale cement and concrete research: experiments and modelling Aging concrete: from very early ages to decades-long durability Advances in material modelling of plain concrete Analysis of reinforced concrete structures Steel-concrete interaction, fibre-reinforced concrete, and masonry Dynamic behaviour: from seismic retrofit to impact simulation Computational Modelling of Concrete Structures is of special interest to academics and researchers in computational concrete mechanics, as well as industry experts in complex nonlinear simulations of concrete structures.

Download or read book Connections Between Steel and Other Materials written by R. G. Ogden and published by Woodhead Publishing Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advances in Simulation and Process Modelling written by Yupeng Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the selected papers from the Second International Symposium on Simulation and Process Modelling (ISSPM 2020), which was held online on August 29-30, 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic. The Symposium provides a forum in virtual presentation for scholars, researchers and practitioners who are interested in the modelling and simulation of business processes, production and industrial processes, service and administrative processes, and public sector processes to develop theory and practice of simulation and process modelling.

Download or read book Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics Modelling and Design of Structural Systems written by Alphose Zingoni and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics, Modelling and Design of Structural Systems comprises 330 papers that were presented at the Eighth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2022, Cape Town, South Africa, 5-7 September 2022). The topics featured may be clustered into six broad categories that span the themes of mechanics, modelling and engineering design: (i) mechanics of materials (elasticity, plasticity, porous media, fracture, fatigue, damage, delamination, viscosity, creep, shrinkage, etc); (ii) mechanics of structures (dynamics, vibration, seismic response, soil-structure interaction, fluid-structure interaction, response to blast and impact, response to fire, structural stability, buckling, collapse behaviour); (iii) numerical modelling and experimental testing (numerical methods, simulation techniques, multi-scale modelling, computational modelling, laboratory testing, field testing, experimental measurements); (iv) design in traditional engineering materials (steel, concrete, steel-concrete composite, aluminium, masonry, timber); (v) innovative concepts, sustainable engineering and special structures (nanostructures, adaptive structures, smart structures, composite structures, glass structures, bio-inspired structures, shells, membranes, space structures, lightweight structures, etc); (vi) the engineering process and life-cycle considerations (conceptualisation, planning, analysis, design, optimization, construction, assembly, manufacture, maintenance, monitoring, assessment, repair, strengthening, retrofitting, decommissioning). Two versions of the papers are available: full papers of length 6 pages are included in an e-book, while short papers of length 2 pages, intended to be concise but self-contained summaries of the full papers, are in this printed book. This work will be of interest to civil, structural, mechanical, marine and aerospace engineers, as well as planners and architects.

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Download or read book Advanced Materials and Techniques for Structural Monitoring Analysis and Control written by Chun-Xu Qu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the service status and maintaining the safety of existing structures are critical to the sustainable operations of various engineering and cross-industry, including civil infrastructures, railways and machinery. Static and dynamic structural characteristics play a key role in the global deterioration assessment of the structural performance, which has enabled structural monitoring and analysis technology to become an active focus in the engineering area. Meanwhile, structural control has been widely used in modern structural engineering. Structural control devices are implemented to enhance deteriorating structures and mitigate natural disasters. Through advanced structural control technology, the structural responses can be controlled. These structural control techniques include passive, active or semi-active reverse forces, which aim to modify structural stiffness, mass and damping with minimal control force. Structural control, monitoring and analysis complement each other, ensuring the safety of the structure to the greatest extent.

Download or read book Novel Precast Concrete Structure Systems written by Gang Wu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically presents these findings for the first time, focusing on the composition, force mode, structural characteristics, performance advantages, and calculation methods for each new structural system, and comparing each one with traditional structural systems. In view of the persistent problems in the current equivalent cast in situ precast concrete structural systems and the development of non-equivalent cast in situ precast concrete structure systems, Southeast University and Harbin Institute of Technology have conducted extensive research and proposed several new types of precast concrete structural systems. Their findings in this regard can promote the development of basic theories and technologies for building industrialization, accelerate the advancement of China's building industrialization, promote the application of precast building technology, and realize the concept of green building.

Download or read book Journal of the American Concrete Institute written by American Concrete Institute and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each number includes "Synopsis of recent articles."