The advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has accelerated the progress of intelligent design methods for building structures. However, generative AI models struggle to design inclined shear wall components due to their limited genera...
Building information modelling (BIM) is a revolution in the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. In the AEC industry, several interesting innovations are being introduced every day. Most of the code compliance work, which is t...
Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is a purely data-driven and equation-free technique for reduced-order modeling of dynamical systems and fluid flow. DMD finds a best fit linear reduced-order model that represents any given spatiotemporal data. In DMD...
This study proposes the DNN-MVLEM, a novel macromodel for the non-linear analysis of RC shear walls based on deep neural networks (DNN); while most RC shear wall macromodeling techniques follow a deterministic approach to find the right configuration...
The steel tube-reinforced concrete (STRC) shear wall plays an important role in the seismic design of high-rise building structures. Due to the synergistic collaboration between steel tubes and concrete, they effectively enhance the ductility and ene...
This study analyzes the nonlinear seismic behavior of cluster-connected prefabricated shear walls under varying axial compression ratios. The investigation focuses on the connectivity of shear wall segments assembled using cluster connections rather...
This study investigates the scale effects on the experimental shear strength of earthen walls, a critical parameter influencing the seismic performance of adobe and rammed-earth (RE) buildings. Recognized for their historical significance and sustain...
In recent decades, reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls have been one of the best structural solutions to resist lateral load in high-rise buildings. Shear wall openings are essential for preparations and architectural requirements, which weaken the...
The corrugated steel plate shear wall (CoSPSW) is a new type of steel plate shear wall, in which corrugated wall plates instead of flat wall plates are adopted. The lateral stiffness and shear buckling capacity of the shear wall system could be signi...
Based on the quasi-static tests of 12 corroded RC (reinforced concrete) shear walls, it was found that reinforcement corrosion has a great influence on the skeleton curve of RC shear walls. With an increase in the degree of corrosion, the bearing cap...
The present research aims to the evaluation of the deformation capacity of existing reinforced concrete shear walls designed with past non-conforming seismic regulations. A refined analytical model (referred to as the Proposed Model) is presented for...
In this paper, the influence of design parameters on the strength of steel–concrete composite shear walls is investigated by means of finite element (FE) simulations. The shear wall typology studied in this paper consists of multiple composite...
Medium-rise reinforced concrete (RC) framed apartment complexes with stories ranging from 15 to 50 are becoming more common in Ethiopia’s main cities. In these RC-framed structures, shear walls are included for lateral load resistance. As apert...
Though inclined under-expanded planar jets are used in many practical applications, the wall stress resulting from their impingement has not been adequately characterized. Reduced-order models for wall shear as a function of jet parameters have not b...
Multi-storey steel buildings may be susceptible to structural damage under seismic loading. Shear plate walls are often integrated in the structural system of this type of buildings in order to restrict the lateral response. This article aims, theref...
This paper aims to study the seismic behavior of squat steel-reinforced concrete (SRC) shear walls with a high axial load ratio. Nine squat SRC shear walls with varying axial load ratios, steel ratios, and horizontal distributed reinforcement ratios...
Numerical analysis was performed for the effect of the venous anastomosis angle in a forearm arteriovenous graft for hemodialysis using a multiphase blood model. The geometry of the blood vessel was generated based on the patient-computed tomography...
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...
Pulmonary vein stenosis is a serious condition characterized by restriction or blockage due to fibrotic tissue ingrowth that develops in the pulmonary veins of infants or children. It is often progressive and can lead to severe pulmonary hypertension...
In shear wall-frame systems, the foundation rotation that may occur under the shear walls changes the displacements and interstory drift ratios and changes the internal force distribution. This study investigates the effect of foundation rotations un...
This article presents a novel approach to estimate the flexural capacity of reinforced concrete-filled composite plate shear walls using an optimized computational intelligence model. The proposed model was developed and validated based on 47 laborat...
Thin-walled bars with an open cross-section are widely used in mechanical structures where weight and size control are particularly required. Thus, this paper attempts to propose a theoretical model for predicting the mechanical properties of a thin-...
A novel method is proposed for accurately determining the local wall friction through the near-wall measurement of time-average velocity profile in a Type-A turbulent boundary layer (TBL). The method is based on the newly established analytical wall-...
The intelligent design method based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) represents an emerging structural design paradigm where design rules are not artificially defined but are directly learned from existing design data. GAN-based methods have...
An advanced frequency study in thick-walled functionally graded material (FGM) spherical shells is investigated with advanced shear correction. The values of advanced shear correction can be greater than one, be a negative value, and be affected by a...
Reinforced concrete shear wall structures (RCSWs) are commonly used as explosion-resistant chambers for storing hazardous chemical materials and housing high-pressure reaction equipment, serving to isolate blast waves and prevent chain reactions. In...
The rheology, i.e., the flow and deformation properties, of hydrogels is generally a very important consideration for their functionality. However, the accurate characterization of their rheological material functions is handicapped by their ubiquito...
The design of a gravity retaining wall should be simple to construct, quick to build and the best economic solution to a problem. This can be achieved by using advanced optimization methods. Since geotechnical engineers are not always able to determi...
In structures with reinforced concrete walls, coupling beams join individual walls to produce a rigid assembly that withstands sideways forces. A precise forecasting of the critical shear capacity is essential to avoid early shear failure and attain...
The campaign life of a blast furnace is largely limited by the erosion state of its hearth section. Therefore, the study of hearth erosion is important for blast furnace ironmaking. In this study, the hearth erosion of the WISCO No. 1 blast furnace w...
Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) offer good energy dissipation capability when subjected to seismic forces as a robust lateral load resisting structure. This research investigated the cyclic behaviors of innovative infill web-strips (IWS-SPSW) and con...
One of the most important subjects of hydraulic engineering is the reliable estimation of the transverse distribution in the rectangular channel of bed and wall shear stresses. This study makes use of the Tsallis entropy, genetic programming (GP) and...
In order to produce long-span precast bridge members and reduce the transport pressure of precast members, the lightweight design of bridge components has become a key area of research. In this study, utilizing retard-bonded prestressing technology a...
Carotid artery diseases, such as atherosclerosis, are a major cause of death in the United States. Wall shear stresses are known to prompt plaque formation, but there is limited understanding of the complex flow structures underlying these stresses a...
Background: Shear forces affecting erythrocytes in PVL channels can be calculated with computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The presence of PVLs is always associated with some degree of hemolysis in a simplified model of the left ventricle (LV); howev...
Taking the frame-supported shear wall structure of a 102.1 m high metro depot as the test object, the structure has obvious vertical irregularity, and a quasi-static test was carried out on the structural model with the scale of 1/5. The damage devel...
Major flood propagation processes often cause instability and damage to the ancient waterfront city walls. To quantitatively reveal the impact of major floods on the stability of ancient city walls, this paper takes Lanxi’s ancient city wall as...
Background/Objectives: Hemodynamic stressors, including abnormal wall shear stress (low or high) or oscillatory shear index are recognized as contributors to the pathogenesis, growth, and rupture of intracranial aneurysms (IAs). Computational fluid d...
There are many horizontal joints on precast concrete (PC) wall panel structures, which certainly has a significant impact on the seismic behavior of structures. This paper proposes a novel alveolar-type horizontal joint, which has advantages of conve...
Recent direct numerical simulations (DNS) and experiments in turbulent channel flow have found intermittent low- and high-drag events in Newtonian fluid flows, at
The aim of this research was to calculate hemodynamics of intracaranial aneurysms using computational fluid dynamics. The hemodynamics research of intracranial aneurysms used patient-specific blood pressure data and anonymised DICOM images, from whic...
Glass fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite connectors used in precast sandwich insulation wall panels directly affect the safety of the wall. In practical applications, a precast concrete sandwich insulation wall panel is transported to the const...
Wall shear stress (WSS) plays an important role in the formation, growth, and rupture of atherosclerotic plaques in arteries. This study measured WSS in diseased carotid artery phantoms with degrees of stenosis varying from 0 to 60% with both steady...
The common iliac artery supplies blood to the lower extremities, and stenosis in this region severely impacts hemodynamics. This study investigates the effects of 25%, 50%, and 75% iliac artery stenosis on key hemodynamic parameters using a fluid&nda...
This study presents a novel experimental methodology enabling the synchronous observation of strain and stress evolution in granular backfill subjected to active earth pressure. A physical model of plane deformation was used in which a rigid retainin...
This study presents a systematic investigation into the seismic performance of precast concrete shear walls using cold-extruded sleeve connections for reinforcement splicing. Quasi-static cyclic loading tests were conducted on a full-scale precast wa...
A thoracic aortic aneurysm is an abnormal dilatation of the aorta that can progress and lead to rupture. The decision to conduct surgery is made by considering the maximum diameter, but it is now well known that this metric alone is not completely re...
Reinforced concrete core walls serve as the primary lateral load-resisting system in mid- and high-rise buildings, providing stability against wind and earthquake forces. Many of these walls feature non-planar cross-sections that lead to complex defo...
The magnitude of shear stress at the ciliated wall is considered as the measure of efficiency of cilia beatings as it describes the momentum transfer between the medium and the cilia. Under high shear rate, some non-Newtonian fluids behave as visco-i...
Silicone structural sealant is a key material in glass curtain wall systems, for which an appropriate hyperelastic constitutive model is essential for enhancing the accuracy of finite element analysis (FEA). Firstly, an improved comprehensive fixture...
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