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11 Jul 2007: Failure of these structures causes great economic losses, serious impediment to post-earthquake emergency operations and long-lasting disruption of social and economic life. ... Element tests were carried out to evaluate the performance of sand under

11 Jul 2007: Thirdly, the program was used to predict the failure mode anderimental tests on concrete slabs. ... Values ranged from 0.87 in test A2 to 1.33 in test C2, with the range being between 1.04 and 1.33 for the first 11 tests.

11 Jul 2007: The test program was designed to examine the effectiveness of spirals as lateral reinforcement. ... Fig. 9 shows the shear load test comparison for the cycled and the reference beams.

11 Jul 2007: Two different yield criteria were considered in Ref [16] both of which approximate observed results from tests on standard monolithic specimens. ... section. Using fc in lieu of Neilsen’s use of the compressive test strength (fcu ) the reinforcement

11 Jul 2007: 1 INTRODUCTION Experimental studies with reinforced concrete structures demonstrate that to achieve the ductility that you plan to study, the experimental test pieces have to be designed very carefully [1]. ... Microzonation study). Casualty model. Loss

30 Nov 2007: ACI Structural Journal, 89(1), 13-19. 1992 A design-build-test project on bridge erection. ... 1992 A design-build-test project on bridge erection. In 'Education for Structural Engineering', ed.

29 Nov 2007: Pipe uplift behaviour in clay was studied by a series of centrifuge tests. ... Tests were conducted in uniform silica sands with grain sizes varying over an order of magnitude and at different densities.

29 Nov 2007: Index tests were performed to investigate effects of foam and polymer conditioning treatments on the undrained strength of London Clay samples. ... Tests were performed with consolidated kaolin and compacted conditioned natural clay soil samples.

29 Nov 2007: Seismic behaviour of MSW was then studied by performing dynamic tests on landfill models with the model waste. ... The criteria for crack initiation in clay were investigated by performing 4-point bending tests on consolidated clay beams.

6 Nov 2007: Experiments, including Tension, bending and torsion tests are performed to characterise the behaviour of PP/Glass laminated composite.

29 Nov 2007: Pseudo-static BNWF models have been developed which can determine the complete post-buckling response of the system and have been fully validated against centrifuge test data. ... The BNWF analyses and empirical settlement equations were combined to map

29 Nov 2007: In all simulations and tank tests, PITT-based PCE volume estimates showed wide ranges of accuracy, ranging from 70% under prediction to 20% overprediction.

25 Jul 2007: Load. (kN. ). Test. Predict. Load-dis. profile - C3-20-75-20-125. 0. 200. ... Test. Predict. (a) (b). Load-dis. profile - C3-30-75-20-125. 0. 200.

11 Jul 2007: Figures 6 and 7 show typical results from tests carried out to validate the program. ... tion is:. (A4). [11] Marti P. et al. (1987) Torsion tests on reinforced concrete slab elements, J.

5 Apr 2007: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. V. Compression Tests. Compression tests on thin composites are notoriously difficult, as the failure mode of interest is fibremicrobuckling but other test-dependent failure modes ... Instron cross head.

18 May 2007:  (10). V. Verification Test Cases. V.A. Experimental Validation of Viscoelastic Subroutine. ... The structure was inflated five times to a very small differential pressure before the test series started.Additionally, two tests were carried out

11 Jul 2007: concrete control specimens to get theory to agree with the results of tests on structures. ... Plots of load against central deflection for Kiilu’s tests are given in Fig.

11 Jul 2007: and Kiat, C. H., “Test of a 14-column irregular flat-plate floor”, Research. ... N., Irawan P. and Kiat, C. H., “Test of a 7-column irregular flat-plate floor”.

11 Jul 2007: practicality, these tests do confirm that the size effect is controlled by crack spacing rather than absolute size. ... For these seven bridge girders, the average test to predicted ratio is 0.99 and the COV is 2.4%.

12 Jul 2007: However this was successful for membrane elements and not enough tests were conducted for bending loads to. ... Polak and Vecchio [9] tests showed that many more experimental and analytical studies have to be carried out in this field to come up with a

6 Feb 2007: Figure 8. Stress-strain response for Koconsolidated undrained direct simple shear tests on Boston Blue Clay (Ladd andEdgers, 1972). ... 1972). Consolidated-undranineddirect simple shear tests on Boston blue clay. Res. ReportR72–82, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

30 Jul 2007: After each test, photographs were taken of everyfracture surface. The fracture plane was seen to intersect oneor more tensiometers in 7 out of 17 tests. ... This. Table 2. Test programme. Type of four-pointbending test. Test Initial suctionmeasured, s9i:

11 Jul 2007: These relations can be found in and have been verified using published test data in [8].

11 Jul 2007: cover. For example, in Japanese tests with beams varying from 100 mm to 3 m effective depth [7] the bars in the three deepest beams are distributed vertically over depths of

17 Apr 2007: A n m. 1.82 104 1.63 -0.925. 3.2 Shear Test Data Option. ... Another possibility is to use the viscoelastic command in conjunctionwith shear test data, in order to generate a viscoelastic model based onexperimental data from either creep or relaxation

11 Jul 2007: They concluded that effectiveness factor models based primarily on concrete strength are found to have poor correlation with test results of 135 nonflexural structural elements. ... 53] Ashour, A. F., and Rishi, G., “Tests of Reinforced Concrete

10 Apr 2007: In the case of a uniaxial test in the machine direction the effective stress reduces to σ̄ef f = σ1.Similarly A22 can be found from uniaxial tests in the transverse direction. ... 1Cathey, H.M. Test flights of the NASA ultra-long duration balloon.

11 Jul 2007: summarised in Table 1. These are similar to test specimen ML3 of Marti et al [18], although, perhaps somewhat unrealistically, the reinforcement in each face is here assumed to lie at ... 9] Marti, P.; Leesti, P.; Khalifa, W. U., [1987]. “Torsion Tests

11 Jul 2007: laboratory test furnace but whether they are likely to survive other exigencies and be around and able to fulfil their task in a real fire.

11 Jul 2007: He has conducted many tests to show that, despite being an Upper Bound, his predictions are sufficiently close to the true collapse load that they can be used as the basis ... The values of the moment capacity determined by Collins from material tests

2 Jul 2007: The test shows that the stronger the material was the more tensile force we could apply. =>