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Ho Choi, Chunri Quan and Kiwoong Jin
This study focused on the in-plane rocking behavior of unreinforced masonry (URM) walls. Three URM wall specimens were designed and fabricated based on a typical masonry house in Korea. The experimental parameters were the layout of openings (its presenc...
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Hewei Liu, Kun Liu, Xiufei Wang, Zhenguo Gao and Jiaxia Wang
This paper presents an experimental, numerical, and analytical study of a novel specimen subjected to local in-plane load, to investigate its crushing deformation and resistance. The specimen was designed and fabricated to simplify the cruciform structur...
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Andrea Roncari, Filippo Gobbi and Cristiano Loss
Simplified seismic design procedures mostly recommend the adoption of rigid floor diaphragms when forming a building?s lateral force-resisting structural system. While rigid behavior is compatible with many reinforced concrete or composite steel-concrete...
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Peter L. Bishay and Christian Aguilar
Although the benefits of morphing wings have been proven in many studies in the last few decades, the wing skin design remains one of the challenges to advancing and implementing the morphing technology. This is due to the conflicting design requirements...
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Pedro J. Sousa, Francisco Barros, Paulo J. Tavares and Pedro M. G. P. Moreira
Rotating structures are important and commonly used in the transportation and energy generation fields, where a better understanding of the deformations these structures endure is essential for both the design and maintenance phases. This work presents a...
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Yannian Zhang and Moncef L. Nehdi
This study investigates the behavior of cast-in-situ masonry cavity walls subjected to in-plane quasi-static loading. Thirteen cast-in-situ masonry cavity walls and one solid wall were tested under combined axial and quasi-static lateral loads. Test para...
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Brad D. Weldon, Paola Bandini, Michael J. McGinnis, Eduardo Dávila and Diego I. García Vera
Adobe is a traditional construction technique found in historic and new construction throughout the world, often in earthquake-prone regions. Adobe structures are particularly susceptible to seismic forces due to their substantial mass and low tensile ca...
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Yu Zhou, Wu-Gui Jiang, Duo-Sheng Li and Qing-Hua Qin
The mechanical behavior of nanocomposites consisting of highly ordered nanoporous nickel (HONN) and its carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced composites (CNHONNs) subjected to a high temperature of 900 K is investigated via molecular dynamics (MD) simulations...
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Robert Blenkinsopp, Jon Roberts, Andy Harland, Paul Sherratt, Paul Smith and Tim Lucas
Numerous variables can introduce errors into the measurement chain of a digital image correlation (DIC) system. These can be grouped into two categories: measurement quality and the correlation principle. Although previous studies have attempted to inves...
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Meng-Chieh Liao, Pu-Shan Huang, Yi-Hsien Lin, Ming-Yi Tsai, Chen-Yu Huang and Te-Chin Huang
Measurements of the curvatures and warpages of a printed circuit board (PCB) during a thermal solder reflow process using strain gauges are proposed in this study. In the experiments, a shadow moiré is used for measuring the out-of-plane deformations (or...
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