We report on a large-scale effort to integrate advanced design and engineering information technologies (IT) in the North American precast/prestressed concrete industry. The effort has been undertaken by a consortium of precast producer companies formed specifically for the task. The effort involved significant process modeling work, using a unique method and set of tools. It led to the develop...

In order to study the bonding strength of joint surface double-sided laminated shear wall, a wall specimen was designed and fabricated, then bars were planted in precast layer middle post pouring specimen, normal tensile bond tested by drilling core planting bar drawing method. The results show that can be detected method drawing, according cross section sample, it known is indeed weak part mem...

It is impractical and uneconomic to design a structure that remains elastic throughout severe ground motions. The main design philosophy is that minor structural damages are acceptable as long as the structure does not collapse. Hence, seismic base isolation of structures provides a better alternative in constructing seismic resistant structures. A fixed-base structure designed in accordance to...

Data are related to the multi-objective optimization process applied to the building materials to obtain high energy-efficient precast walls for cold climate. The methodology has been explained on the paper entitled "High performance precast external walls for cold climate by a multi criteria methodology" (Baglivo and Congedo, 2016) [1]. The modeFRONTIER rel.4.3 optimization tool has been used ...

The Precast Concrete Industry (PCI) is one of the major contributors to the national economy and can be categorised as labor-intensive industry. It is currently experiencing shortcomings in terms of delivery products at a competitive cost and time. This is mainly due to the inefficiencies associate with planning and scheduling of skilled operators within crews configurations. This paper present...

Productivity estimation is a crucial task for construction managers and general estimators to efficiently allocate the required resources in order to minimize the construction costs. There is a lack of research in terms of productivity modeling for precast erection process. Therefore, this study was designed to develop a model based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) to predict the installatio...

the present study focuses on the performance of precast concrete beam-column dowel connections subjected to cyclic loading by conducting experiments. in this study, one-third scale model of two types of precast and a monolithic beam-column connection were cast and tested under reverse cyclic loading. the precast connections considered for this study is a beam-column connection where beam is con...