There are only limited studies that directly correlate the increase in reinforced concrete (RC) panel structural capacities in resisting the blast loads with different RC panel structural properties in terms of blast loading characteristics, RC panel dimensions, steel reinforcement ratio and concrete material strength. In this paper, numerical analyses of dynamic response and damage of the one-...

In this study, the flexural behavior of one-way RC slabs after adding macro discontinuous structural synthetic fiber (DSSF) under different opening sizes is investigated. Based on previously conducted research, 0.55 DSSF percentage was utilized since it reported as optimum value for enhancing slab's performance. Moreover, further increases in percentages proved to have same improvement obtained...

It is demonstrated that a waveguide consisting of two dielectric slabs may become an all-optical spring when guiding a superposition of two transverse evanescent modes. Both slabs are transversally trapped in stable equilibrium due to the optical forces developed. A condition for stable equilibrium on the wavenumbers of the two modes is expressed analytically. The spring constant characterizing...

This study emphasizes a new strengthening scheme for seismically vulnerable flat plate-column connections in existing structures. An experimental investigation on series of three half-scaled interior was conducted to explore the effectiveness proposed seismic method using postinstalled RC wing walls and analyze punching shear capacity connections. focuses typical plate structures constructed lo...

We investigate the effective interaction between two randomly charged but otherwise net-neutral, planar dielectric slabs immersed in an asymmetric Coulomb fluid containing a mixture of mobile monovalent and multivalent ions. The presence of charge disorder on the apposed bounding surfaces of the slabs leads to substantial qualitative changes in the way they interact, as compared with the standa...