The mechanical performance of concrete connection plays an important role in the response of precast concrete structures. Unlike conventional small concrete shear key which is mainly to help with alignment at installation, ...

Columns that are at the intersection of frames in two different directions are subjected to biaxial shear when lateral loads are simultaneously applied in two directions. Using the resultant shear and evaluating one-way ...

RC structural slender walls under large seismic excitation are expected to reach base moment capacity mainly affected by the first vibration mode. However, the base shear could be affected by higher modes once yielding in ...

Liners are important impermeable constituents of sanitary landfill to contain the transport of pollutants to the unsaturated zone. The system can be made of different kind, being the compacted soil and geosynthetics widely ...

We propose a regularization method for estimating the wavefront from shearing interferometric patterns generated in vectorial shearing interferometry. The method considers shearing patterns with variable magnitude and ...

This article presents an experimental study aimed at understanding the effect of openings on the seismic response of partially grouted reinforced masonry (PG-RM) walls. For this purpose, four full-scale PG-RM walls with ...

The co-seismic and post-seismic behaviour of pyroclastic ash deposits and its influence on slope stability remains as a challenging subject in engineering geology. Case studies in volcanic areas of the world suggest that ...

A simple methodology to model shear bands as strong displacement discontinuities in an adaptive meshfree method is presented. The shear band is represented by a displacement jump at discrete particle positions. The ...