Article history: Received: 19.07.2014. Received in revised form: 02.11.2014. Accepted: 11.11.2014. Design and manufacturing of construction materials have been investigated. The aim is to identify methods to produce sustainable economic materials used for soil foundation and concrete structure. Several additives have been analyzed in order to develop acceptable economical construction materials...

Due to the rapid industrialization taking place globally, the problems generated are acute shortage of construction material and increasing in productivity of wastes. The production and consumption of plastic and the rate at which solid plastic waste (SPW) are created have increased considerably. Plastics constitute 12.3% of total waste produced most of which is from discarded water bottles. Th...

This paper presents a simplified approach for the design of semi-continuous composite beams in braced frames, where specific attention is given to the effect of joint rotational stiffness. A simple composite beam model is proposed incorporating the effects of semi-rigid end connections and the non-prismatic properties of a 'cracked' steel-concrete beam. This beam model is extended to a sub-fram...

5 Simple example problems 20 5.1 Cantilever beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5.2 Frequency calculation of a beam loaded by compressive forces . . 27 5.3 Frequency calculation of a rotating disk on a slender shaft . . . . 29 5.4 Thermal calculation of a furnace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 5.5 Seepage under a dam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

The aim of this review article is to examine solutions and challenges associated with composite construction. Structural steel and concrete, each of the two materials can be used to its best advantage and, therefore, composite structures have proved economical in terms of overall cost. Combination of steel and concrete systems has been conceived on the premises that each type of construction of...

One of the most efficient and environmentally friendly methods for preventing a landslide on a slope is to vegetate it. Vegetation-pervious concretes have a promising potential for soil protection. In this study, the vegetation-pervious concrete with low alkalinity was developed and studied. Combined with a grid beam structure system, the stability and strength between the vegetation-pervious c...

In order to study the concrete damage in sticked side-plated reinforced beam under static load, a common and were designed conduct finite element comparison experiments. The results show that compared with ordinary beams, bearing capacity of is significantly improved, range tensile reduced. It further verifies method effective reducing damage.