... the parentheses denote the standard deviation 29 04 2020 21 10 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2020 concrete structures concrete technology & manufacture strength & testing of materials Recently, there has been a growing tendency to study...

... & testing of materials withdrawal capacity Traditional construction methods consume massive amounts of resources, with incalculable damage to the environment. Guided by the vision of a community with a shared future for humanity, China has announced that it will strive to reduce carbon dioxide...

...-dimensional (2D) trusses, such as the prefabricated truss installation by WholeTrees for the Festival Foods grocery store in Madison, WI, USA (Figure 2(b)), where the truss members are loaded under tension and compression. composite structures strength & testing of materials timber structures...

... fire engineering strength & testing of materials Fire is one of the most significant hazards encountered by structures as fire exposure can lead to substantial degradation in the capacity of concrete members (Aslani et al., 2019 ; Kodur and Naser, 2020). The safety and stability...

... 2021 composite structures slabs & plates strength & testing of materials Chen and Teng (2001) proposed bond strength models for FRP–concrete and steel–concrete interfaces. The proposed models, supported by experimental studies in literature and based on existing fracture mechanics...

... & testing of materials structures & design Structural elements under the effect of eccentric transverse loading are subjected to torsional moments in addition to shear force and bending moments. Beams curved in plan, beams supporting a cantilever slab on one side, primary beams supporting...

... measurements is presented. 25 05 2021 25 05 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2021 beams & girders composite structures strength & testing of materials In the experimental programme, 12 pre-tensioned concrete beams were tested with the three-point...

... laid for the preparation of HFRP laminates (five plies) (Figure 4(c)). 14 11 2019 28 01 2021 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2021 concrete structures design methods & aids strength & testing of materials The beam–column connection is one of the essential...

... relatively large loads before collapsing (Mamalis et al., 2002). 26 04 2020 05 01 2021 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2021 composite structures computational mechanics strength & testing of materials A sandwich panel comprises a thick internal layer of low...

... Publishing: All rights reserved 2021 buildings, structures & design codes of practice & standards strength & testing of materials According to Costa et al. (2019) , 30% of world's population live in constructions made of unbaked earth. These buildings are built...

.... 24 08 2020 28 01 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2021 composite structures strength & testing of materials stress analysis In comparison with specimen CW-1, the cracks on ICS-1 were mainly concentrated in the middle and lower parts of the body...

... replacing the coarse natural aggregate partially by coarse SSA. ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 recycling & reuse of materials strength & testing of materials sustainability Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is an innovative fluid mixture which has characteristics of high...

... specimens Figure 3. Macro-encapsulated type of specimens 12 02 2020 02 09 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 energy conservation strength & testing of materials thermal effects In recent years, energy deficiency has become one of the most...

...-jackets (one or two layers) plus one layer of lengthwise strips (CBSL1 and CBSL2) (dimensions in mm) beams & girders rehabilitation, reclamation & renovation strength & testing of materials Steel cages for the RC box beams were fabricated and formed using steel bars of four...

... 30 01 2020 23 09 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 buildings, structures & design strength & testing of materials timber structures One of the biggest challenges in designing timber structures results from difficulties (geometries, stresses involved...

...-out test. Samples of tube casting and concrete core curing are shown in Figure 16 . 30 06 2020 15 09 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 composite structures recycling & reuse of materials strength & testing of materials Rubberised concrete (RuC...

...). 29 04 2019 15 05 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 anchors & anchorages brickwork & masonry strength & testing of materials Masonry is a configuration of brick units bonded together with mortar and is often categorised as a homogenous brittle...

... of the CFRP at the mid-height of the cylinders with a sudden and explosive sound. CFRP rupture occurred exactly opposite the overlapping zone (Figure 2). ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 columns concrete structures strength & testing of materials The behaviour of concrete...

... preliminary results of this experimental regime have been presented by Pasca et al. (2019) . 20 05 2019 10 06 2020 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2020 codes of practice & standards strength & testing of materials timber structures The wall consists...

... 06 2019 09 07 2020 buildings, structures & design strength & testing of materials stress analysis Concrete is a material with a relatively low tensile strength compared to compressive strength, and the tensile strength is known to be about 8–15% of the compressive...