C ommercially available fiberbased reinforcement for concrete is made of carbon, aramid, or glass filament fibers impregnated in a resin. Some aramid fiber reinforcement consists of aramid filaments without a resin matrix. For general applications, the most important feature of fiber-based reinforcement is its resistance to corrosion, which makes it ideal for reinforcing concrete exposed to hig...

Given the development of construction industry and design and implementation of high rise buildings with complex sections and various geometrical forms, the use of self-compacting concretes has received the attention of construction engineers and provided great advantages. Due to the increasing air pollution in cities, governments encounter the important issue of repelling the pollutants in whi...

The present study compared the performance of soldier pile and concrete bearing pad anchored wall facings. Using Abaqus finite element software, two case studies have been precisely represented for the facing designs and effects of the parameters of soil type, spacing of anchors and facings, surcharge and facing sizes were investigated. The analysis results indicate that the soldier pile method...

spending costs in construction of road pavements has turned this subject into one of the significant points in transportation infrastructure of countries. concrete slabs consider as a paving method with ability of reducing the rehabilitation needs. therefore, to manage costs and optimize the thickness of concrete pavements, recognizing the amount of determinative factors’ influence will be requ...

rough sets theory is a mathematical approach for analysis of a vague description of objects presented by a well-known mathematician, pawlak (1982, 1991). this paper explores the use of rough sets theory in site location investigation of buried concrete water reservoirs. making an appropriate decision in site location can always avoid unnecessary expensive costs which is very important in constr...

Self-compacting concrete is a new high performance concrete with high ductility and segregation resistance. In recent years, construction material manufacturers have focused their attention on lightweight concrete and have strived to use lightweight concrete, if possible, in load-bearing parts of buildings. Concrete with both self-compacting and lightweight properties is favourable in this cont...

Buildings with cast-in-situ reinforced concrete shear walls are widespread in many earthquake-prone countries and regions, such as Canada, Chile, Romania, Turkey, Colombia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, etc. This type of construction has been practiced since the 960s in urban regions for mediumto high-rise buildings (4 to 35 stories high). Shear wall buildings are usually regular in...

Slender concrete walls incorporated into tilt-up construction over the past 60 years have performed remarkably well under out-of-plane wind and seismic loads. While issues associated with seismic wall anchorage gave this form of construction a black-eye in the early days, the concrete walls themselves have always performed very well even as far back as their first use in the early 1900s. Yet th...

In the case of post-tensioned or geotechnical structures, anchorage zone is considered a critical part design and construction process. Generally, failure one most common problems. High-bearing stresses create significant transverse tension. For these reasons, conventional reinforcement, usually in form closed stirrups, must be designed. The presented analysis focused on possible increase load-...

In the construction process of a plastic concrete cut-off wall, concreting is usually performed using the termie pipe method. In this method, concreting is performed from the lowest point in the excavated trench (containing the slurry) using a funnel and the pipe connected to it. The concrete poured in the funnel gradually settles in the panel through the termie pipe which is beneath the slurry...