HEALTH MONITORING OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS USING CT-XRAY by F. Nateghi Alahi, S.S. Kamali

“…According to the results, defects such as cracks in concrete or knots in wood can be observed.…”
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Damage Concentration Effect of Multistory Buckling-Restrained Braced Frames by Hanqin Wang, Yulong Feng, Jing Wu, Qing Jiang, Xun Chong

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Experimental and numerical study on seismic behaviors of SRC column-RC slab joints in NPP by Dayang Wang, Qiang Liu, Yuanqi Song, Yong Zhu, Yongshan Zhang

“…This paper presents an innovative design of a steel-reinforced concrete (SRC) column-reinforced concrete (RC) slab joint based on a concept of the strong column and weak slab. …”
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Optimized Transverse–Longitudinal Hybrid Construction for Sustainable Design of Welded Steel Plate Girders by Iván Negrin, Moacir Kripka, Víctor Yepes

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Numerical Analysis of the Seismic Response of Tunnel Composite Lining Structures across an Active Fault by Zude Ding, Mingrong Liao, Nanrun Xiao, Xiaoqin Li

“…Results showed that the ECC material displays excellent tensile and compressive toughness, with respective peak tensile and compressive strains of approximately 300- and 3-fold greater than those of ordinary concrete at the same strength grade. The seismic response law of the new composite lining structure was similar to that of the conventional composite structure. …”
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Evaluation of Airport Buildings Against Terrorist Attacks in the Context of Architecture and Planning Criteria: Five Case Study by SARICIOĞLU Pelin, YILDIZ Aslı, SOYLUK Asena

“…It was also found that perimeter walls do not provide sufficient visual and physical barriers at airports. Instead of concrete shear walls, most of the structures are secured with wire fences between concrete pillars. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Effect of Surrounding Rock and Supporting Construction of a Large Soil Tunnel by Wanjun Ye, Yuntao Wu, Ming Chen, Chong Gao

“…Most of the test points of the second lining concrete show a compression state, which is far less than the ultimate compressive strength. …”
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Life cycle assessment and mechanical strength of cement composites with conventional, and recycled fine aggregate by Sk. Rakibul Islam, Sanjima Nabila Majumder, Rupak Mutsuddy

“…Generally, sand as a filler material in the concrete composite is mined from the riverbed, which is the primary source of the entailed fine aggregate to keep pace with the emergent demand for concrete production. …”

A Study on Internal Explosion Testing of the “Rigid-Flexible-Rigid” Three-Layer Sealed Structure by Y. L. Xue, D. G. Tang, Z. Z. Li, L. Z. Shao, Z. Liao, W. X. Chen, R. L. Zhen

“…One model used foam concrete as the energy absorbing material and the other used dense sand. …”
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Fire Resistance of Composite Beams with Restrained Superposed Slabs by Junli Lyu, Qichao Chen, Huizhong Xue, Yongyuan Cai, Jingjing Lyu, Shengnan Zhou

“…It was found that the temperature of the concrete superposed slabs decreased long their heights from the bottom. …”
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传统风格建筑方形CFST-圆形RC截面混合柱侧移刚度及延性分析 by 薛建阳, 马林林, 林建鹏

“…通过4根传统风格建筑方钢管混凝土(concrete filled steel tube,CFST)-圆钢筋混凝土(reinforced concrete,RC)混合柱的低周往复加载试验,分析了传统风格建筑CFST-RC混合柱的破坏形态及侧向变形分布,根据CFST-RC混合柱的简化力学模型,给出了试件的弹性侧移刚度计算公式,计算结果与试验结果吻合较好。…”
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Dynamic Response Simulation of Lining Structure for Tunnel Portal Section under Seismic Load by Guoqing Liu, Juntao Chen, Ming Xiao, Yang Yang

“…Based on different damage evolution processes of concrete under tension and compression conditions, the tension and compression damage variables were defined and solved, respectively. …”
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Od porodní báby k porodní asistence by Milena Lenderová

“…We can also use topographic and statistic manuals that say us a lot about the rate of midewives in concrete regions and about their efficiency. Very valuable but seldom preserved resources are also the booklets in which the midewives wrote about the course of concrete childbirths. …”
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Development of a New Rubber Buckling-Restrained Brace System for Structures by Nima Ostovar, Farzad Hejazi

“…The new design incorporates Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) filler and hyper-elastic rubber components as primary load-bearing elements. …”
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Explainable prediction model for punching shear strength of FRP-RC slabs based on kernel density estimation and XGBoost by Sheng Zheng, Tianyu Hu, Nima Khodadadi, Antonio Nanni

“…Abstract Reinforced concrete (RC) slabs are widely used in modern building structures due to their superior properties and ease of construction. …”
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Recycling of Building Interior Decoration and Renovation Waste: A Case Study in China by Wenjia Pan, Hong Zhang, Shanggang Hei, Yingjian Yang, Xifeng Xu, Chao Zhou, Baolin Huang, Haochen Xu

“…The results show that (i) concrete, stone, and other hard inorganic materials accounted for about 35–55% of the total. …”
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Innovative use of air-cooled blast furnace slag as a subgrade material for embedded track slabs: In situ and laboratory tests and simulations by Bin-Chen Benson Hsiung, Muhammad Dwiyanto Agung Prakasa

“…Air-cooled blast furnace slag (ACBFS) is often ground into powder and mixed with concrete or cement mortar to increase the strength of concrete but has not been directly adopted as a subgrade material in railway or tram projects. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Mechanical Behavior of a Novel Bidirectional, Prestressed, Prefabricated, Composite Hollow-Core Slab by Junyan Jin, Weicheng Hu, Fuyan Zheng, Bitao Wu

“…By implanting a kind of specially designed concrete movable core rib with the same geometry as the cavity in the hollow-core slab at medium spacing, the transverse stressing performance of the structure is enhanced without affecting the unidirectional structural performance. …”
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Artificial intelligence for the prediction of the physical and mechanical properties of a compressed earth reinforced by fibers by Bentegri Houcine, Rabehi Mohamed, Kherfane Samir, Boukansous Sarra

“…This study presents a prediction a model- and simulation-based approach using artificial neural networks (ANN) to predict tensile strength and compressive strength. of earth-friendly concrete containing different types of natural fibers. …”
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Deformation Characterisation and Distress Diagnosis of a Metro Shield Tunnel by Adjacent Constructions by Ting-jin Liu, Si-wei Chen, Hong-yuan Liu

“…While the station expansion project is being conducted beside the tunnels, a series of tunnel distresses, including large-area water seepage, spalling concrete blocks, and segmental cracks, are recorded. …”
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