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Luigi Sorrentino and Linda Giresini
This paper presents a safety tool to assess the risk of road blockage during and after emergency situations, mainly due to earthquakes. This method can be used by public authorities to calculate the risk of road paths prone to blockage in case of seismic...
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Bin Wu, Jia-Ning Wu, Yan Lu, Wei-Yi Zhang, Dong Zhang and Song-Han Wang
An ordinary double steel plate?concrete composite wall (ODSC wall) is composed of core concrete, the faceplates, and shear connectors such as studs, etc. Based on an ODSC wall, a new type of stiffened double steel plate?concrete composite wall (SDSC wall...
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Irem Zeynep Yildirim, Berk Turkel and Erol Guler
Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls perform well under earthquake loads, and hence they are preferred in earthquake-prone regions. The multifaceted load transfer between the components of the MSE wall under seismic loads can be captured using numer...
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Sipho G. Thango, Georgios A. Drosopoulos, Siphesihle M. Motsa and Georgios E. Stavroulakis
A methodology to predict key aspects of the structural response of masonry walls under blast loading using artificial neural networks (ANN) is presented in this paper. The failure patterns of masonry walls due to in and out-of-plane loading are complex d...
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Niki Balkamou and George Papagiannopoulos
Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW) provide significant lateral load capacity and can be utilized in the seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing reinforced concrete (r/c) buildings. In this study, the application of SPSW to retrofit a r/c building designed a...
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Bojan Milovanovic, Predrag Vojt, Budo Zindovic, Vladan Kuzmanovic and Ljubodrag Savic
This paper presents a methodology for estimation of hydrodynamic loads acting on the bottom and at the walls of a stilling basin of a stepped chute with converging walls, based on the pressure measurements at the selected points of a scale model. This is...
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Bora Pulatsu, Rhea Wilson, Jose V. Lemos and Neboj?a Mojsilovic
Unreinforced masonry (URM) walls are common load-bearing structural elements in most existing buildings, consisting of masonry units (bricks) and mortar joints. They indicate a highly nonlinear and complex behaviour when subjected to combined compression...
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Jian Yang, Ming Sun, Guohuang Yao, Haizhu Guo and Rumian Zhong
This study explores an advanced prefabricated composite structure, namely ECC/RC composite shear walls with enhanced seismic performance. This performance enhancement is attributed to the strategic use of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) known fo...
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Amin Habibi and Nafise Kahe
This study investigates how permeable and cool pavements, green roofs, and living walls affect microclimatic conditions and buildings? energy consumption in an arid urban setting: Shiraz. The study aims to evaluate the role of green infrastructure in mit...
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Lei Zhang, Cuikun Wang, Caihua Chen and Mingzhe Cui
Against the backdrop of China?s continuous promotion of green and low-carbon transformation and the development of construction industrialization, high-strength composite structural systems have significant development prospects. However, their research ...
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