El-taly, Boshra A. Abd El Hameed, Mohamed F.
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
In the current study, the influence of notch or opening parameters and the positions of the applied load on the structural performance of steel box beams up to failure was investigated using Finite Element analysis program, ANSYS. The Taguchi-based design of experiments technique was used to plan the current study. The plan included 12 box steel be...
Ranjbaran, Fariman Rezayfar, Omid Mirzababai, Rahmatollah
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
An experimental study has been conducted to study the cyclic behavior of reinforced concrete beams in which steel fibers were added to the concrete mix. Seven similar geometrically specimens in full scale were studied under four- point bending test in the form of slow cyclic loading. One sample as a control specimen was made without steel fibers or...
Vafaei, Mohammadreza Alih, Sophia C. Shad, Hossein Falah, Ali Halim, Nur Hajarul Falahi Abdul
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
The level of strain in structural elements is an important indicator for the presence of damage and its intensity. Considering this fact, often structural health monitoring systems employ strain gauges to measure strains in critical elements. However, because of their sensitivity to the magnetic fields, inadequate long-term durability especially in...
Vivio, Francesco Fanelli, Pierluigi Ferracci, Michele
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
In aeronautical and automotive industries the use of rivets for applications requiring several joining points is now very common. In spite of a very simple shape, a riveted junction has many contact surfaces and stress concentrations that make the local stiffness very difficult to be calculated. To overcome this difficulty, commonly finite element ...
Momtaz, Ali Ajilian Abdollahian, Mohamadreza Akhavan Farshidianfar, Anooshiravan
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
In recent years, construction of tall buildings has been of great interest. Use of lightweight materials in such structures reduces stiffness and damping, making the building more influenced by wind loads. Moreover, tall buildings of more than 30 to 40 stories, depending on the geographical location, the wind effects are more influential than earth...
Vitório, Paulo Cezar Jr. Leonel, Edson Denner
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
The structural design must ensure suitable working conditions by attending for safe and economic criteria. However, the optimal solution is not easily available, because these conditions depend on the bodies’ dimensions, materials strength and structural system configuration. In this regard, topology optimization aims for achieving the optimal stru...
Bendine, Kouider Wankhade, Rajan L.
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
Piezoelectric actuators are effectively used to control the response of light weight structures in shape, vibration and buckling. Optimization for the shape control of piezoelectric beam is the recent challenge which requires proper numerical technique to perform. The shape control of a composite beam using surface-bounded piezoelectric actuators h...
Saberi, Reza Alinejad, Majid Mahdavi, Mir Omid Sepanloo, Kamran
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
An aircraft crashing into a nuclear containment may induce a series of disasters related to containment capacity, including local penetration and perforation of the containment, intensive vibrations, and fire ignited after jet fuel leakage. In this study, structural safety of a reinforced concrete containment vessel (RCCV) has been studied against ...
Taheri, Ali Moghadam, Abdolreza S. Tasnimi, Abass Ali
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
Ductility of high-strength concrete (HSC) columns with rectangular sections was assessed in this study by reviewing experimental data from the available literature. Up to 112 normal weights concrete columns with strength in the range of 50–130 MPa were considered and presented as a database. The data included the results of column testes under axia...
Alavi, Arsalan Rahgozar, Reza Torkzadeh, Peyman Hajabasi, Mohamad Ali
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International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
In modern tall and slender structures, dynamic responses are usually the dominant design requirements, instead of strength criteria. Resonance is often a threatening phenomenon for such structures. To avoid this problem, the fundamental eigenfrequency, an eigenfrequency of higher order, should be maximized. An optimization problem with this objecti...
