... reserved 2022 bridges buildings, structures & design columns computational mechanics fluid mechanics wind loading & aerodynamics The new generation of civil engineering structures is tending towards taller and more slender designs, while concurrently their shapes are becoming...

...Laura Cannon, BEng, PhD, AMIMechE; Jack Denny, BEng, PhD, CEng, MIMechE; Simon Clubley, BEng, MBA, PhD, EUR, ING, CEng, MICE, MInstP ‘Long-duration’ blast waves can exert damaging drag loads on finite structural columns that are complex to characterise. In the absence of suitable drag coefficients...

... by a dedicated software. The analysis, which is notably focused on the seldom examined situation where the native clay cannot withstand any tensile stresses (tension cut-off condition), leads to relevant conclusions as regards the relative performances of the stone column and cross-trench reinforcement...

...Jimmy C. K. Tong, PhD, PE; John Patrick Abraham, PhD; J. M. Y. Tse, PhD; Ephraim M. Sparrow, PhD A comprehensive study of the drag forces acting on flat-sided columns is presented. The study considers a range of plane-sided column sections, from a sharp-cornered square section to varying degrees...

...Philip Isaac, MEng; Antony Darby, PhD, CEng, MIStructE; Tim Ibell, PhD, CEng, MICE, FIStructE, FHEA; Mark Evernden, MEng, PhD, FHEA The lack of simplified methods for accurately predicting the response mode of reinforced concrete structural members (predominantly beams and columns) to impulsive...

...Shan-Shan Huang, BEng, MSc, PhD; Ian Burgess, BA, PhD, CEng, MIStructE; Zhaohui Huang, BEng, PhD; Roger Plank, BSc, PhD, CEng, MICE, FIStructE This paper presents a study of the mechanics of inelastic buckling using a Shanley-like simplified column model. The model is an extension of the original...

...A. G. Razdolsky, PhD Solving the flexural buckling problem of a laced column as a statically indeterminate system is reduced to the two-point boundary value problem for a difference equation system that comprises recurrence relations between the displacements and the force parameters of column...