Gabion-boxes, made with steel wire mesh and filled with stones of appropriated size, are normally stacked up one into another to form a retaining wall. Given their reduced costs and the easy availability of their constituting materials, gabion-box walls have been extensively used in developing countries (such as Nepal) also to realize simple one-storey residential buildings. In recent years, ma...

Described is a simulation model of cruising for garage parking, intended both for the calibration and evaluation of real-time parking recommendation methods, and as a base for predictive guidance to available parking. The model combines the event-based and agent-based simulation approaches to represent the parking garage and the driver behavior. It is validated by simulating a real-world parkin...

Potential problems could arise when drivers leave their parking stalls and merge into the main traffic stream. These problems could partly be attributed to finding acceptable gaps to merge into with safety and without causing undue difficulties to following vehicles. Observations from a variety of sites show different distributions of gap acceptance depending mainly upon the design and layout o...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the fire performance in a multi-storey cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS v.6.7). study investigates temperature, heat release rate (HRR), and gas concentration (O2, CO2). importance research ensure that buildings adequate for occupant safety property protection. Mo...

The aim of this paper is to study the effects of Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) on the seismic response of coupled wall-frame structures on pile foundations considering the non-linear behaviour of the superstructure. According to the substructure method, the kinematic interaction analysis is performed by means of a numerical procedure obtaining the dynamic impedance functions and the foundati...

Intra Infilled reinforced concrete (RC) frame (IF) is one of the most common types of structures used in low and medium rise building, especially in the area where affordable materials and labor are available, including in the area with high seismicity. Opening on the wall is part of the architectural design to house windows and doors of various sizes and location within the wall. Though openin...

This paper investigates the correlation between ground motion parameters and displacement demands of mid-rise RC frame buildings on soft soils considering soil-structure interaction. The are represented by using 5, 8, 10, 13, 15-storey building models with no structural irregularity. A total 105 3D nonlinear time history analyses were carried out for 21 acceleration records 5 different models. ...