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Faham Tahmasebinia, Linda Zhang, Sangwoo Park and Samad Sepasgozar
Reinforced concrete (RC) members in critical structures, such as bridge piers, high-rise buildings, and offshore facilities, are vulnerable to impact loads throughout their service life. For example, vehicle collisions, accidental loading, or unpredicted...
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Rouhan Li, Mao Gao, Hongnan Li, Chao Li and Debin Wang
In this paper, research on dynamic behaviors of RC structural members was reviewed using experimental, theoretical and numerical perspectives. First, in a basic overview, measurement methods, main conclusions and current limitations of available dynamic ...
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Jiabin Ye, Yingtao Wang, Jian Cai, Qingjun Chen and An He
To study the residual lateral capacity of reinforced concrete (RC) columns after being subjected to static and horizontal impact action, static and horizontal impact tests of a total of sixteen RC columns were conducted. The variables considered in the t...
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Ahmed S. Eisa, Peter Sabol, Kamilia M. Khamis and Ahmed A. Attia
Geopolymer concrete is concrete made from industrial materials, such as fly ash, GGBS, silica fume, and metakaolin, used as a cement alternative. In this study, geopolymer concrete will be based on fly ash as a binder material, alkaline activators of sod...
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Udhayasuriyan Brindha, Jeyaprakash Maheswaran, Maheswaran Chellapandian and Nakarajan Arunachelam
Maintenance of reinforced concrete (RC) structures has become a global issue due to the problems associated with the corrosion of steel reinforcement. Corrosion of RC structures results in severe serviceability and strength issues, which in turn necessit...
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Walid Ahmad Safi, Yo Hibino, Koichi Kusunoki, Tomohisa Mukai, Yasushi Sanada, Izumi Nakamura and Satoru Fukai
The required base shear and drift limit for post-disaster management buildings have increased in the Japanese Building Code following major seismic events. One method to satisfy these requirements for reinforced concrete frame buildings is to cast exteri...
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Robert Bu?ic, Ivana Milicevic, Tihomir Dok?anovic and Marin Grubi?ic
Waste rubber takes many years to decompose, and thus the increasing number of tires in the world can be characterised as an important environmental issue, which generated the idea of implementing crumb rubber in structural self-compacting concrete (SCC)....
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Ricardo N. F. Carmo and Eduardo Júlio
Today, the concrete sector is being pushed to innovate in order to better address current challenges with higher competitiveness and more sustainable solutions. Different research studies have been conducted all over the world in which novel approaches a...
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Ricardo N. F. Carmo, Eduardo Júlio
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Today, the concrete sector is being pushed to innovate in order to better address current challenges with higher competitiveness and more sustainable solutions. Different research studies have been conducted all over the world in which novel approaches a...
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Ibrahim Baran Karasin
Ensuring the safety and stability of buildings during earthquakes is of utmost importance. This can be achieved by assessing the seismic performance of reinforced concrete structures with consideration of design details. This study focused on the seismic...
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Qiang Li, Jun Zhang, Rui Wang, Jing Liu and Ping Li
The keel brick wall belongs to the rural residential exterior wall unique to the southeast coastal region of China. The wooden keel inside the wall and the external tie members can improve the stability of the whole wall. However, due to the age of const...
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Czeslaw Bywalski, Michal Drzazga, Mieczyslaw Kaminski and Maciej Kazmierowski
This paper investigates composite reinforcement with regard to its use as longitudinal reinforcement. The methods used to calculate the shear strength of concrete members reinforced with fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) bars are analysed. The main paramete...
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Prabir Kumar Sarker
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The worldwide production of concrete is on the increase in order to meet the increasing rate of construction. Since cement production contributes to the greenhouse gas emission, it is vital to develop alternative low-emission binders to reduce the car...
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Min-Su Jo, Hyeong-Gook Kim, Dong-Hwan Kim, Jin-Hyeong Choi and Kil-Hee Kim
There has recently been growing interest in making a sustainable and durable fiber reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) to improve the seismic performance of RC column members. However, most studies evaluating the lateral confinement effect on FRCM jack...
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Georgia E. Thermou and Sousana Tastani
This paper investigates experimentally the structural performance of substandard reinforced concrete (RC) short columns confined with steel-reinforced grout (SRG) jackets under monotonically increasing uniaxial compression. The study comprised 24 square ...
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Zhou Lin, Hongmei Zhang, Giorgio Monti and Chiara Castoro
Shear walls are commonly adopted as main structural members to resist vertical and lateral forces, thanks to their high load capacity and high lateral stiffness. However, their lateral capacity can be impaired in the presence of openings, which can reduc...
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Fernando Gómez-Martínez and Agustín Pérez-García
Current formulations proposed by Eurocode 8 part 3 for the inelastic deformations of existing reinforced concrete members are assessed separately for wide beams (WB) and conventional deep beams (DB). The current approach, based on a large experimental da...
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Kyung-Min Kim and Ju-Hyun Cheon
Textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) has many advantages, including corrosion resistance, but TRC is a novel composite material and there is limited experimental research on the flexural behavior of TRC members. This paper aims to experimentally evaluate th...
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Francesca Vecchi and Beatrice Belletti
Existing reinforced concrete (RC) members, designed in accordance with obsolete codes, are often characterized by high stirrup spacing. The collapse mechanisms generated by high stirrup spacing are typically related to the buckling of longitudinal reinfo...
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Mohd Samsudin Abdul Hamid, Nasir Shafiq and Osamah Kiwan
The concept of a sustainable environment generally refers to the development that creates a balance between the resources consumption pattern and the rate of depletion of natural resources. For determining the level of sustainability of any project, thre...
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