In recent years, old reinforced concrete (RC) buildings have increasingly been protected as historic symbols in Italy. The conversion of these buildings can resolve the increasing need for new structures, reducing much social, economic, and environme...
Design codes provide the necessary tools to check the torsional strength of reinforced concrete (RC) members. However, some researchers have pointed out that code equations still need improvement. This study presents a review and a comparative analys...
The design provisions in current codes for shear resistance of concrete-to-concrete interfaces exhibit significant differences. In this study, the accuracy of design provisions for interface shear resistance was evaluated and compared. From the liter...
This study develops a finite element analysis model to predict the ultimate strength of the base metal block shear fracture based on previous experimental results and compares the experimental results with the analysis results to verify the effective...
This research collected and summarized a total of 455 experimental tests of axially loaded square and rectangular concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) stub columns. The recently published papers were used to evaluate the current design equations from...
To achieve efficient design and ensure the safety of concrete structures, the use of high-strength concrete, reinforcing steel, and prestressing tendons has been steadily increasing. In this study, for flexural design of prestressed concrete (PSC) st...
In the design of phase shifters, the modeling equations are too complicated and require some approximations to be derived correctly by hand. In response to this problem, this paper presents a generalized concept, algorithm, and MATLAB code that provi...
Steel angles connected by bolts have been commonly used in transmission towers. Due to the limited length of steel angles, double-shear splice connections are generally adopted to connect steel angles in main members. The stability of this type of me...
Numerical simulations of laminar boundary-layer equations are used to investigate the origins of skin-friction drag, flow separation, and aerodynamic heating concepts in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level fluid dynamics/aerodynamics courses....
Hardware-in-the-loop testing is usually a part of the design cycle of control systems. Efficient and fast models can be created in a Hardware Description Language (HDL), which is implemented in a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Control engineer...
This study presents a numerical investigation of the elastic critical lateral-torsional buckling of a steel beam subjected to simultaneous transverse loading at the top flange and negative end moments. Here, the elastic critical buckling of the steel...
The X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) have stimulated the growing interest of researchers in different fields. This gives rise to an increasing simulation work of design and optimization of FEL facilities and demonstrations of novel FEL ideas. Most o...
The embedment strength is a key parameter in the design of timber connections with metal fasteners. This property can be determined by the equations given by design codes such as the Eurocode 5, which are based on the European Yield Model proposed by...
This paper is the outcome of experiments on the shear performance of reinforced concrete beams with approved composite-recycled aggregates. The strength grade of composite-recycled aggregate concrete (CRAC) was between 30 MPa and 60 MPa. The shear sp...
This paper focuses on a numerical approach to finding the p–y curves for laterally loaded piles. The Drucker–Prager plastic model is employed and implemented within a finite element MATLAB code. The pre- and post-processing code for Gmsh and related...
The design practice of timber structures in Malaysia is still based on permissible stress codes as stated in Malaysian Standard (MS) 544: Part 2 and MS 544: Part 3, which was adopted from the British Standard (BS) 5268. The British Standard was later...
The most frequent parameter used to quantify seismic site response in ground motion models is time-averaged shear wave velocity in the top 30 m of a site (Vs30), used by many engineering design codes and most recently by published empirical-scaling e...
The main part of the computational cost required for solving the problem of optimal material design with extreme properties using a topology optimization formulation is devoted to solving the equilibrium system of equations derived through the implem...
Currently, the use of recycled aggregates (RA) in new concrete is allowed by several international regulations, although their replacement is limited to low percentages of the coarse fraction. In order to increase the percentage of RA, several author...
Computer simulation of reservoir sediment management strategies is becoming more important as worldwide water supply shrinks due to sediment deposition, while population growth continues. We identified the physical processes underlying each of the se...
This paper presents comprehensive empirical equations to predict the shear strength capacity of reinforced concrete deep beams, with a focus on improving the accuracy of existing codes. Analyzing 198 deep beams imported from 15 existing investigation...
In the current design codes, the effective compressive strength can be used to reflect decrease in load-transfer performance when upper/lower columns and slabs have different concrete compressive strengths. In this regard, this study proposed a metho...
The aerodynamic noise of an open rotor is one of the critical challenges that must be considered in its design and application. FODNOPP, a program specifically programmed to predict the aerodynamic discrete noise of single- and counter-rotating open...
Existing design codes for predicting the strength of stud shear connections in composite structures are limited when adapting to constant changes in materials and configurations. Machine learning (ML) models for predicting shear connection are often...
Reinforced concrete (RC) columns are often placed under confinement to increase their strength and ductility. Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials have recently been recognized as favorable confinement systems. At present, a number of nat...
In recent years, Chinese offshore wind farms have experienced varying degrees of foundation scour since their completion. The maximum scour depth of pile foundations has far exceeded the design scour depth, which seriously threatens the safety of win...
Nowadays there is still a lack of requirements for the out-of-plane design of confined masonry walls. Current code requirements are mainly based on the in-plane behavior of those walls. This research is divided into two parts. In the first part, two...
Time–domain simulation of electronic and thermal circuits is required by a large array of applications, such as the design and optimization of electric vehicle powertrain components. While efficient execution is always a desirable feature of si...
The fundamental period is one of the most important parameters for the design of new structures as well as for estimating the capacity of existing ones. Thus, to estimate it, various design codes and researchers have adopted several approximate analy...
Adding steel fibers to concrete improves the capacity in tension-driven failure modes. An example is the shear capacity in steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) beams with longitudinal reinforcement and without shear reinforcement. Since no mechanic...
Boundary layer pumps, although attractive due to their compactness, robustness and multi-fluid and phase-handling capability, have been reported to have low experimental efficiencies despite optimistic predictions from analytical models. A lower-orde...
Nowadays there is still a lack of requirements for the design of non-structural masonry walls. For the case of non-structural autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) walls with perimeter flexible joints, experimental studies are scarce, and there are no ex...
This research aimed to ascertain the prerequisites for the advancement of the slow food movement in Iran. Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, it adopted a descriptive and survey-oriented design. Semi-structured interviews were conduc...
We developed a health-monitoring methodology for high-temperature steam pipes that estimated the life prediction of creep–fatigue interaction by directly measuring the displacement of hot parts. Three different methods (boiler code, design stress, an...
Tensile perpendicular to grain is an important mechanical property in the design of joints in timber structures. However, according to the standards, this strength can be determined using at least two different methods: uniaxial tensile and three-poi...
The role of a pre-cooler is critical to the sCO2-BC as it not only acts as a sink but also controls the conditions at the main compressor’s inlet that are vital to the cycle’s overall performance. Despite their prime importance, studies on the pre-co...
The future of the Internet of Things (IoT) is interlinked with digital communication in smart cities. The digital signal power spectrum of smart IoT devices is greatly needed to provide communication support. The line codes play a significant role in...
Shock-to-detonation transition (SDT) is the detonation of explosive charge triggered by the shock pressure from a nearby detonated explosive or an impact at high speed. A good prediction of SDT is a key in the design of explosives’ use, storage...
This paper is in the field of elastic flexural-torsional buckling of steel beam-columns of bisymmetric narrow-flange and wide-flange I-section shape. Investigations are focused on the derivation of the strain components and the energy equation, based...
The development of density functional theory and the tremendous increase of compute power in recent decades have created a framework for the incredible success of modern computational materials engineering (CME). CME has been widely adopted in the ac...
Headed shear studs are an essential interfacial connection for precast steel–concrete structures to ensure composite action; hence, the accurate prediction of the shear capacity of headed studs is of pivotal significance. This study first estab...
This paper proposes a parallel direct solution of flexible multibody systems based on block Gaussian elimination. The Craig–Bampton method is utilized to model flexible bodies within the multibody system, resulting in a reduction in the size of...
In this article, an open-source code for the simulation of fluid flow, including adsorption, transport, and indirect hydromechanical coupling in unconventional fractured reservoirs is described. The code leverages cutting-edge numerical modeling capa...
Reinforced concrete cantilever retaining walls (RCCRWs) are widely used in civil engineering projects as a common type of retaining structure. The design of these structures focuses on ensuring safety against various failure scenarios and compliance...
The construction of self-dual and linear complementary dual (LCD) codes over finite rings, particularly over semi-local and local structures, is an active area of research due to their algebraic richness and applications in communications and cryptog...
Pronghorn-SC is a subchannel code within the Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment (MOOSE). Initially designed to simulate flows in water-cooled, square lattice, subchannel assemblies, Pronghorn-SC has been expanded to simulate liquid-m...
In recent years, technological advances in nanofabrication have opened up new applications in the field of nanophotonics. To engineer and develop novel functionalities, rigorous and efficient numerical methods are required. In parallel, tremendous ad...
The flanged, barbell, and rectangular squat reinforced concrete (RC) walls are broadly used in low-rise commercial and highway under and overpasses. The shear strength of squat walls is the major design consideration because of their smaller aspect r...
In this study, the structural behavior of reinforced concrete flat plates shear reinforced with vertical grids made of a glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) was experimentally evaluated. To examine the shear strength, experiments were performed on...
Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (BCH) codes are broadly used to correct errors in flash memory systems and digital communications. These codes are cyclic block codes and have their arithmetic fixed over the splitting field of their generator p...
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