Coupled thermo-mechanical damage modelling for structural steel in fire conditions [PDF]
, 2020 This paper aims at developing a coupled thermo-mechanical damage model for structural 6 steel at elevated temperatures. The need for adequate modelling of steel deterioration behaviour 7 remains a challenging task in structural fire engineering because ...
Ayoub, A., D'Mello, C., Lu, W.
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Virtual Reality of Earthquake Ground Motions for Emergency Response [PDF]
, 2017 Ground motions interface earthquake science and engineering to advance understanding of seismic hazards and risk. Virtual reality provides an attractive tool to extend knowledge of the research community to a larger audience.
Lin, Ting
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Introduction of Structural Health Monitoring to Civil Engineering Education [PDF]
, 2019 This paper describes the development of a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Education Unit; its initial implementation and assessment at Louisiana State University (LSU) and the University of Louisiana- Lafayette (UL-Lafayette) during the 2016-17 ...
Gopu, Vijaya, Okeil, Ayman, Seals, Roger
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Study on energy conservation and carbon emission reduction design of timber structure building
The Journal of Engineering, 2019 Replacing traditional building materials with renewable and sustainable materials such as timber can control environmental pollution such as energy consumption and carbon emission in the whole life cycle of a building, which is conducive to energy ...
Miao Yue +5 more
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Deflection characterisation of rotary systems using ground-based radar
The Journal of Engineering, 2019 In the last two decades, an increase in large rotary machines/systems has been witnessed. To ensure safe operation of these systems especially due to extreme stress caused by centrifugal forces as well as the wind or water loadings, regular structural ...
Francis X. Ochieng +6 more
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Earthquake resilient coupling beams: a state-of-the-art review
Shenzhen Daxue xuebao. Ligong ban, 2022 Coupling beams are significant members to dissipate energy in shear wall structures among which the earthquake resilient coupling beam possesses such advantages as good capacity of energy dissipation, effectiveness of reducing the inter-story drift and ...
GUAN Minsheng, LI Zhenying, DU Hongbiao
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Periodic Layout Optimization of Cyclic Symmetric Structure
IEEE Access, 2019 This paper proposes a new optimization method to solve periodic layout optimization of a cyclic symmetric structure by means of the guide-weight method.
Hong-Yu Jiao, Ying Li, Lan-Yu Yang
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Vulnerability and Robustness of Civil Infrastructure Systems to Hurricanes
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2017 Civil infrastructure systems play an important role in community resilience. Without proper functioning of the infrastructure, especially power delivery, society will not recover quickly from disruptive events, such as hurricanes.
Shuoqi Wang, Dorothy A. Reed
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Protein-based materials, toward a new level of structural control [PDF]
, 2001 Through billions of years of evolution nature has created and refined structural proteins for a wide variety of specific purposes. Amino acid sequences and their associated folding patterns combine to create elastic, rigid or tough materials.
Tirrell, David A., van Hest, Jan C. M.
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Mechanical properties of a degradable phosphate glass fibre reinforced polymer composite for internal fracture fixation [PDF]
, 2010 NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Materials Science and Engineering. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality ...
Brauer, DS, Kobayashi, HYLS, Russel, C
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