... WATER CEMENT RATIOS DURABILITY SURFACE ABSORPTION CARBONATION FREEZE THAW ABRASION RESISTANCE SULPHATES TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURE RECYCLING MATERIALS STUDIES EXPERIMENTS FRESH WORKABILITY STABILITY PROPORTIONS HARDENED CURING AIR LOSS CUBES FILLERS PFA PULVERISED FUEL ASH ASH...

... and two full-scale ®re tests at Cardington are modelled using VULCAN to demonstrate the current capability of the program. A number of parametric studies were carried out to investigate the in¯uence of the rigidity of the connections used and the ¯oor slab details on the behaviour of the structure in ®re...

... will not always be the case for other less well-researched arches, and therefore a parametric study involving the arch's elastic modulus, its compressive strength, its tensile strength and the back®ll's load dispersal angle was carried out. The progressive development of cracking in the arch ring due...

...M M K LEE; A LLEWELYN PARRY; A L PARRY WALES UNIVERSITY SWANSEA OFFSHORE STRUCTURES T JOINTS JOINTS TUBULAR RINGS STIFFENED STRENGTH PREDICTION MODELS THEORY THEORETICAL STIFFNESS RESEARCH ASSESSMENT STRUCTURAL PLATFORMS STATIC PARAMETRIC STUDIES AXIAL LOADS INTERNAL...

... on the non-linear load de ection curves of the connecting beams obtained using the softened truss model, the elastoplastic behaviour of the slit shear wall structure as a whole was evaluated using a non-linear nite-element method. A parametric study was then carried out to investigate the effects...

...T M ROBERTS; A W DAVIES; M H OSMAN; M SKALOUD; EUROCODE 3 WALES UNIVERSITY CARDIFF CZECH REPUBLIC SCIENCES ACADEMY © Thomas Telford and ICE 1997 STEEL SLENDER PLATES WEBS FATIGUE ASSESSMENT SHEAR BUCKLING REPEATED EXPERIMENTS THEORY STUDIES CRACKS INITIATION...

... CALCULATING RATIOS STUDIES NUMERICAL PARTIALLY CONNECTORS MIDSPAN CHARTS LOADS LOADING FLEXIBILITY MOMENTS REDUNDANT Computation of de ections for continuous composite beams with partial interaction N. A. Jasim, BSc, MSc, PhD Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs Structs & Bldgs, 1997, 122, Aug., 347 354...

... MODULUS RELAXATION PROCEDURE NUMERICAL INTEGRATION MEMBERS STUDIES PARAMETRIC CROSS SECTIONS CRACKED UNCRACKED SPANS DEPTH RATIOS STRESS DEFLECTION MEASUREMENT CODES STANDARDS CONCRETE STEEL MOMENTS STRENGTH EFFECT Long-term service-load behaviour of simply supported pro led...

... STUDIES PARAMETRIC EFFECTIVE SECTIONS PROPERTIES OUTSTANDS MODELS RIGS INSTRUMENTS INSTRUMENTATION FLEXURE AXIAL FORCES SPECIMENS RESEARCH STIFFNESS ELASTIC Local ange buckling in plate girders with corrugated webs R. P. Johnson, MA, FEng, FICE, FIStructE and J. Cafolla, PhD, MSc Proc...

...M RAOOF; Z LIN Structural characteristics of RC beams with exposed main steel M. Raoof, PhD, DIC, CEng, MIStructE and Z. Lin, MSc, PhD Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs Structs & Bldgs, 1997, 122, Feb., 35 51 Paper 11024 s A pilot study is initially reported based on a series of tests on 44 simply...

...P DESAYI; H K SESHADRI CONCRETE REINFORCED CONNECTIONS SHEAR STRENGTH PUNCHING SLABS FLAT CORNERS COLUMNS STUDIES BEHAVIOUR METHODS QUASI EMPIRICAL TESTS EXPERIMENTS PREDICTION CODES PRACTICE STANDARDS SYSTEMS STRUCTURAL CRACKS FAILURES LOADS SPECIMENS REINFORCEMENT...

...P DESAYI; H K SESHADRI © Thomas Telford and ICE 1997 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE CONCRETE REINFORCED CONNECTIONS SHEAR STRENGTH PUNCHING SLABS FLAT CORNERS COLUMNS STUDIES BEHAVIOUR TESTS SPECIMENS REINFORCEMENT RATIOS MOMENTS LOADS ECCENTRICITY FIBRES VOLUME...

... SHEAR STRESS MOMENTS CALCULATIONS FAILURES DEFLECTION BOUNDARIES CONDITIONS PROPERTIES PARAMETRIC STUDIES MULTIPLE INTERMEDIATE WEB STIFFENERS Some approaches are based on critical buckling, the design criterion being that the stiffener should be sufficiently stiff to ensure...

...T G HUGHES BRIDGES MASONRY ARCHES TWIN SPAN ANALYSIS ASSESSMENT SIMPLE MECHANISMS METHODS PARAMETRIC STUDIES REGRESSION BEHAVIOUR LOADING LOADS PATTERNS MULTI SPAN SPANS SINGLE SPAN TESTS EXPERIMENTS GEOMETRY SEVEN PIN © Thomas Telford and ICE 1995 WALES...

... experiments Compression Construction 6. The experiments in this study have involved the testing of 72 specimens. The tests were undertaken for both elastic and inelastic local buckling. Three different profile rib shapes were considered within this study, and these were the re-entrantL, dove-tailed...

...I C NEVES; J C VALENTE; F A BRANCO © Thomas Telford and ICE 1995 LISBON TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY FIRES STUDIES CITIES CENTRES HISTORICAL BUILDINGS DESTRUCTION REHABILITATION DAMAGE MODELS NUMERICAL TESTS RISKS ANALYSIS PROPAGATION MATERIALS COMBUSTION SIMULATION...

... PURE FRICTION SLIDING STOCHASTIC STUDIES RESPONSES ISOLATION DAMPING EXPERIMENTS IMPLEMENTATION Proc. Instn Ciu. Engrs Structs & Bldgs. 1995.110, May, 186-203 Structuranl d Building Board Structural Panel Paper 10654 Wtitten discussion closes ISJuly 1995 R. S.Jangid. Lecturer. Indian...

... VOUSSOIRS MODELLING SAND DISPLACEMENT PARAMETRIC STUDIES SOILS STRUCTURES Model tests to determine eftfheect of fill on buried arches Proc. IEnSnslrfgnurscCfsiv&. Bldgs, 1994, 104, Nov., 471-482 C. A . Fairfield, BEng, MIHT, and D. A. Ponniah. BSc. MEna. PhD. MBA, CEng, MICE 'Structuraland...

... study SCF stress concentration factor t thickness of brace t, thickness of doubler plate T thickness of chord Introduction In the offshore industry, when somofethe tubular jointsof a structureneed to be reinforced a s a result of last minute alteration and/or additionof loading conditions, the most...

...C GIBBONS; D A NETHERCOT; P A KIRBY; Y C WANG; BRE © Thomas Telford and ICE 1993 OVE ARUP NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT BRE FRAMES STEEL PARTIALLY RESTRAINED COLUMNS BEHAVIOUR PARAMETRIC STUDIES THREE DIMENSIONAL SEMI RIGID...