The paper presents design of a single-nave hall with the span of 12 m and pole height from 3.0 to 4.5 m. The hall can be used for warehousing goods, garaging vehicles or shedding farm animals. Construction material is mostly round timber. The structure consists of a strut brace frame with reinforced saddle diaphragm beam in longitudinal module 3.6 m, timber binding rafter and transversal trusse...

Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe (PCCP) is a widely used water pipe all over the world. A major cause of PCCP failure is the internal wire break, which will emit acoustic signal. In this paper, a hydrophone-based PCCP real-time monitoring and failure-prediction system was proposed. By applying wavelet energy normalization analysis to signal feature extraction and Support Vector Machine (SVM) ...

The Analytical Hierarchy Process was used to characterize the bridge material selection decisions of highway engineers and local highway officials across the United States. State Department of Transportation engineers, private consulting engineers, and local highway officials were personally interviewed in Mississippi, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin to identify how various factors determin...

The increased speed and weight of modern trains puts the components of a railway track in a highly dynamic load situation. Irregularities of the wheels and rails induce substantial dynamic loads that have to be accounted for in the procedure of designing the railway track. The concrete sleeper is an essential part of the track structure and there is a growing demand for improved analytical tool...

The need for repair and strengthening of deteriorated, damaged and substandard infrastructures has become an important challenge worldwide. The demand for increasingly heavier truck loads is forcing bridge owners to upgrade existing structures. In response to the growing need for concrete repair and rehabilitation, an experimental program was conducted to investigate the feasibility of using di...

The rehabilitation of structures is a complex process that involves many considerations. This paper presents results feasibility study on the use precast prestressed concrete prisms (PCPs) as near-surface mounted reinforcement for cracked one-way slabs. PCPs were cast with high-strength and concentrically by one 9 mm diameter stress-relieved seven-wire steel strand. Six identical slabs length 3...