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Yashi Yang, Peng Zhang, Lingjun Wu and Qian Zhang
High-pile foundation is a common form of deep foundation commonly used in ocean environments, such as docks and bridge sites. Aiming at the problem of bearing capacity of high pile foundations, this paper proposes the calculation of bearing capacity and ...
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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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Liang Yang, Miaoer Liu, Yun Liu, Tao Zhang, Hailong Lu, Qingzhen Lu and Jun Yan
A cryogenic hose is used to transport liquefied natural gas at sea, where flexible fittings are sealed by corrugated lining and end flange welding. However, the extreme cryogenic temperatures of the conveyed fluid introduce substantial challenges to the ...
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Fan Zhu, Meng Zhang, Fuxuan Ma, Zhihua Li and Xianqiang Qu
Wind turbine towers experience complex dynamic loads during actual operation, and these loads are difficult to accurately predict in advance, which may lead to inaccurate structural fatigue and strength assessment during the structural design phase, ther...
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Miao Li, Hao Li and Yang Wen
A new type of spherical node was used to design a laboratory-scale prototype of a six-leg lattice of steel tubes and concrete for application as a wind turbine tower. Repeated load tests were performed on the prototype tower for several weeks to evaluate...
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Fabrizio Ascione, Francesco Esposito, Giacomo Iovane, Diana Faiella, Beatrice Faggiano and Elena Mele
The paper focuses on tall timber buildings. The major aim of this paper is to identify the most sustainable and efficient structural system to increase the height of timber buildings, also considering steel?timber hybrid structures. First of all, a brief...
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Bin Chi, Yuhu Quan, Fenglai Wang and Xu Yang
Prestressing technology is an effective way to improve the seismic performance of masonry structures such as concrete masonry wall. Therefore, bonded prestressing technology applied to integrated concrete masonry wall (ICMW) was proposed in this study, a...
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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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Pan Gao, Chuangchuang Li, Hui Wang, Qiang Gao and Youan Li
Crush load is one of the common loads for offshore composite rubber hoses. It may induce the damage of the hose on the reel and the tanker reel hose. A theoretical approach is proposed to evaluate the response of the hose to the crush load, which is fulf...
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Kuan Ren, Annan Jiang, Xinping Guo and Qinghua Min
The section of Jialingjiang Road Station to Xiangjiang Road Station along Qingdao Metro Line 13 is located in Qingdao, China. All of them show obvious characteristics, being soft on the top and hard on the bottom, and the interval tunnel is faced with th...
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