Accurate prediction of the prestressed steel amount is essential for a concrete-road bridge’s successful design, construction, and long-term performance. Predicting required can help optimize design construction process, also project managers engineers estimate overall cost more accurately. The model was developed using data from 74 constructed bridges along Serbia’s Corridor X. study examined ...

Coarse-grained molecular models of the erythrocyte membrane's spectrin cytoskeleton are presented in Monte Carlo simulations of whole cells in micropipette aspiration. The nonlinear chain elasticity and sterics revealed in more microscopic cytoskeleton models (developed in a companion paper; Boey et al., 1998. Biophys. J. 75:1573-1583) are faithfully represented here by two- and three-body effe...

Spliced joints are used widely in retrofitting traditional timber structures, especially in heritage conservation applications where as much original material as possible needs to be retained. However, in practice this method is mainly applied based on experience, and there is a lack of understanding and quantification of the mechanical behaviour of retrofitted timber members. This paper presen...

There is an increasing interest in the performance and serviceability of concrete crossties and elastic fastening systems due to the loading demands of increasing freight axle loads and the development of new high-speed passenger rail infrastructure in North America. In the light of these increasing demands, it is essential to examine and improve current design practices of prestressed concrete...

This paper presents the application of the genetic algorithm to the design of some common concrete structures in Hong Kong, namely, tall reinforced concrete building frameworks, long-span concrete portal frames and prestressed concrete beams or bridges using spreadsheet. Cross-sectional dimensions of member groups are treated as discrete design variables and the method aims to minimize the weig...

In this study, stress relaxation phenomenon has been examined generally. Experiments were carried out on carbon steel wires with diameter 8 mm which are particularly used in prestressed concrete composites. Thermomechanically heat treatment was also carried out on this wire in order to relieve the residual stresses accumulated after the cold work. The heat treatment temperature and the stretch ...

A prestressing procedure for reduction of adhesive peel and shear stresses at the leading edge of a skin–flange assembly is analyzed for tensile and bending loads applied to the skin. Both an analytical solution based on the Green’s functions and a finite element solution are presented for specific examples, together with design diagrams. Substantial shear and peel stress reductions are obtaine...

16. Abstract Four scale microconcrete model bridges were tested. Experimental variables included span, skew angle, stiffness, location and number of diaphragms. Service load level behavior was studied under static, cyclic and impact loads with successive removal of diaphragms. Behavior at overload and ultimate load conditions was documented from ultimate static and impact load tests. Characteri...

Composites have been in application for the past 3 – 4 decades, but only in the last decade that engineers have been given any serious consideration for its application in civil infrastructure: such as bridges, roads, earthquake retrofitting of buildings etc. In this paper the growth of application of composites in civil infrastructures and some of its implications are discussed. This paper is ...

The prestressing force is transferred to the concrete during the slack period of precast concrete structures fabrication. To contribute to a better understanding of the armor compliant behaviors during the mentioned process, a custom quasidistributed Bragg Grating optical fiber sensor system is designed, fabricated and embedded into a prestressed concrete prismatic beam. The experimental works,...