- ISBN: 9780415426923 | 0415426928
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/3/2006
This is a collection of peer-reviewed papers originally presented at the 19thAustralasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials by academics, researchers and practitioners largely from Australasia and the Asia-Pacific region. The topics under discussion include: composite structures and materials; computational mechanics; dynamic analysis of structures; earthquake engineering; fire engineering; geomechanics and foundation engineering; mechanics of materials; reinforced and prestressed concrete structures; shock and impact loading; steel structures; structural health monitoring and damage identification; structural mechanics; and timber engineering. It is a valuable reference for academics, researchers, and civil and mechanical engineers working in structural and material engineering and mechanics.
| The ductility of suspended reinforced concrete slabs containing Class L welded wire fabric | p. 3 |
| Upgrading of transmission towers using tension bracing diaphragm | p. 13 |
| Assessment and prediction of remaining safe and serviceable life for corroding infrastructure | p. 17 |
| Progress in advanced modeling of building structures exposed to fire | p. 25 |
| Behaviour of composite beams stiffened by a longitudinal plate accounting for time effects | p. 37 |
| Coupled geometric and viscoelastic nonlinearities in parabolic concrete-filled steel tubular arches | p. 43 |
| Behaviour of the longitudinal shear connection in secondary composite beams incorporating trapezoidal steel decking | p. 49 |
| Composite concrete slab and LVL flooring systems | p. 57 |
| Eccentric loading of externally confined fibre reinforced concrete columns | p. 63 |
| Experimental study of two-way FRP composite slab | p. 69 |
| Local facesheet buckling of a sandwich plate with a graded core | p. 75 |
| Joining materials with glass fiber reinforced plastics - an experimental study | p. 81 |
| Strength of High Performance Ferrocement (HPF) composites under axial compression | p. 87 |
| Shear connection in composite secondary beams with trapezoidal profiled fibre reinforced concrete slabs | p. 95 |
| Elasto-plastic post-buckling analysis of plates resting on tensionless foundations | p. 103 |
| Comparison of seismic performance of HSC columns confined by FRP tubes and steel reinforcement | p. 109 |
| The axial crushing of nanotubes | p. 115 |
| Full scale testing on composite connection using trapezoid web profiled steel section | p. 121 |
| Behaviour and design of high performance steel (HPS) sections with concrete infill subjected to abnormal loading | p. 127 |
| Bond tests on FRP retrofitted URM prisms | p. 133 |
| Behaviour of T-stub connection to concrete-filled circular column with blind bolts and extensions | p. 141 |
| Longitudinal and transverse partial interaction analysis of composite beams accounting for time effects and shear-lag effects | p. 149 |
| Transient analysis of dynamic soil-structure interaction using the scaled boundary finite-element method | p. 157 |
| Interfacial stresses of dissimilar thermorheologically anisotropic media | p. 163 |
| Thermal stresses in multi-layered media with straight or circular boundaries | p. 171 |
| Limited rotation CMM model for FE analysis of RC membranes | p. 177 |
| The analysis of skew plates with two opposite simply supported edges | p. 185 |
| Boundary integral equations for the bending-stretching coupling analysis of composite laminates | p. 191 |
| General variational principle based shear correction method | p. 197 |
| Geometrically non-linear analysis of composite stiffened & sandwich structures using the finite element method | p. 203 |
| Buckling of thick plates using finite strip-elements | p. 209 |
| Finite element analysis of cold-formed stud wall systems, lined on one side, under axial loads | p. 215 |
| A probabilistic traffic load model for reliability assessments of bridges | p. 223 |
| Finite element analysis for predicting lateral-torsional buckling modification factor | p. 229 |
| Combined limit and deformation analysis of strain softening structures | p. 235 |
| Evaluation of RHT model for modeling concrete in numerical simulation | p. 243 |
| Using fundamental solutions to recover the Green's functions in the scaled boundary finite element method | p. 249 |
| A p-adaptive scaled boundary finite element technique using projection-based interpolation and the steepest descent method | p. 255 |
| Structural system identification of MR device-plane frame systems | p. 261 |
| Influence of non-uniform abutment and pier movements on pounding responses of an isolated bridge structure | p. 269 |
| Effects of interface material on the dynamic behaviour of rigid blocks | p. 275 |
| Semi-active management of structures subjected to high frequency ground excitation | p. 283 |
| Slab effects on building seismic performance | p. 289 |
| Prediction of dynamic response due to distributed structural modifications | p. 295 |
| Effect of spatial ground motion at a canyon site on dynamic structural responses | p. 303 |
| Dynamic testing of the Sale Swing Bridge - before and after deck replacement works | p. 311 |
| Laboratory measurements of dynamic properties of rail pads subjected to incremental preloads | p. 319 |
| A two-degree-of-freedom model for rain-wind-induced vibration of inclined cables | p. 325 |
| Simple, robust hybrid test systems for non-linear structural dynamic research and development | p. 331 |
| Semi-active tuned mass damper systems | p. 337 |
| Elasto-plastic response of a bar by combination of bending and twisting moment | p. 343 |
| The collapse behaviour of columns with low aspect-ratios | p. 349 |
| Vibration of a simply supported functionally graded plate | p. 357 |
| Dependency of building fragility to source mechanisms of records selected for incremental dynamic analysis | p. 363 |
| Multi-storey semi-active tuned mass damper building system | p. 371 |
| Seismic protection of a four-storey one-fifth scale structure using semi-active resetable tendon elements | p. 379 |
| Behaviour of brick veneer walls under in-plane racking load | p. 385 |
| Seismic strengthening of low strength concrete columns by external confinement using prefabricated SFRCC panels | p. 393 |
| The dynamic out-of-plane behaviour of unreinforced masonry walls | p. 401 |
| Partial capacity design, an alternative to the capacity design method | p. 409 |
| High force-to-volume extrusion dampers and shock absorbers for civil infrastructure | p. 415 |
| Off-diagonal 2-4 damping technology using semi-active resetable devices | p. 421 |
| A rapid financial seismic risk assessment methodology with application to bridge piers | p. 429 |
| Performance of a damage-protected highway bridge pier subjected to bi-directional earthquake attack | p. 437 |
| The effects of soil-pile foundation interaction on the inelastic seismic response of building structures | p. 443 |
| A component-based approach for modelling the effect of fire on steel joints | p. 451 |
| Fire performance of steel portal frame buildings | p. 457 |
| Simple method for modelling hollow core concrete slabs under fire | p. 463 |
| Fire resistance of connections in laminated veneer lumber (LVL) | p. 469 |
| The behaviour of multi-bay, two-way reinforced concrete slabs in fire | p. 477 |
| Cold-formed steel columns under simulated fire conditions | p. 485 |
| Thermal bowing of steel members due to non-uniform temperature distribution | p. 493 |
| Effect of temperature prediction methods on fire resistance of steel members | p. 499 |
| Experimental investigation of open and closed ended piles in soft clay | p. 507 |
| Investigation of the effect of critical depth on the shaft resistance of closed ended piles in clay | p. 513 |
| Mechanical properties of quarry by-products | p. 519 |
| Electrokinetic treatment of soft Australian clay | p. 527 |
| Dynamic interaction analysis of soil pile and structure due to harmonic waves | p. 535 |
| Analysis and design of pile-prestressed anchor supporting structure | p. 541 |
| Evaluation of rapid chloride permeability test results using systematic increase of pozzolanic materials | p. 551 |
| Cracking tendency of concretes made with slag blended cements subjected to restrained shrinkage conditions | p. 557 |
| A model for compressive failure in unreinforced masonry | p. 563 |
| Dynamic properties of fibre reinforced and plain ultra high performance concrete | p. 569 |
| Tension and size effects of unreinforced concrete | p. 575 |
| Direct shear tests with gamma ray imaging on steel fibres in cementitious materials | p. 581 |
| Usage of sulphur and sulphur containing waste products in pavement materials technology | p. 587 |
| Use of reclaimed asphalt pavement as an aggregate in asphalt concrete | p. 591 |
| Mechanical properties of ultra low density glass micro-sphere filled syntactic foam composites | p. 595 |
| A review of permeable concrete and its application to pavements | p. 601 |
| The effect of controlled permeability formwork on the curing of concrete | p. 611 |
| Load balancing of post-tensioned concrete beams with friction losses | p. 617 |
| Performance of Damage Avoidance beam-column joint subassembly subjected to bi-directional earthquake excitation | p. 625 |
| Damping in high strength concrete beams - prediction and comparison | p. 631 |
| Ultimate load behaviour of concrete wall panels with varying opening configurations | p. 637 |
| Polymer fibre reinforced normal and high strength concrete beams in shear | p. 645 |
| Prediction of punching shear failure behaviour of slab-edge column connections with varying size and location of openings | p. 651 |
| Tension stiffening in lightly reinforced concrete beams or slabs containing either steel or FRP reinforcement | p. 659 |
| Behaviour of R/C beam confined with FRP cylinder | p. 667 |
| Torsional resistance of high-strength concrete beams | p. 673 |
| Finite element analysis of reinforced concrete walls with openings in one- and two-way action | p. 681 |
| Fatigue behaviour of CFRP-repaired corroded RC beams | p. 687 |
| An investigation into the behaviour of reactive powder concrete columns | p. 693 |
| Research on the property of concrete slabs with type II cold-rolled deformed bars | p. 699 |
| The effect of corrosion on the capacity and behaviour of a 45 year-old post-tensioned concrete bridge beams | p. 705 |
| Shear strengthening of cracked RC beam using external post-tensioning | p. 711 |
| The influence of chloride induced corrosion cracks on the strength of reinforced concrete | p. 717 |
| Effect of concete tensile zones on the anchorage of bar reinforcement | p. 723 |
| Modelling single span and continuous deep beams using Strut-and-Tie Method | p. 731 |
| Behaviour and Strut-and-Tie modelling of asymmetrically loaded deep beams | p. 739 |
| Simple model for overturning and damage | p. 749 |
| Response of light-framed clad walls to blast vibrations | p. 755 |
| Modelling localised response of steel fibre reinforced ultra high-strength concrete panels under high velocity impact | p. 761 |
| Human-induced vibration of floor systems and stadia - some practical observations from field measurements | p. 769 |
| Numerical modelling of simply supported square tubular beams subjected to a uniform blast load | p. 777 |
| Blast induced ground vibration limits on infrastructure | p. 783 |
| The teaching of impact dynamics | p. 789 |
| Analytical model of glazing panel subject to impact loading | p. 797 |
| Transmitted shock on contact with rubber | p. 805 |
| Strength of concrete-filled stainless steel tubes under impact loading | p. 811 |
| Impact resistance of reinforced concrete columns : experimental studies and design considerations | p. 817 |
| Impact response analysis of railway track structure using vehicle-track interaction modelling | p. 825 |
| Heterogeneous model for concrete under blast loading | p. 833 |
| Yielding shear panel device for passive energy dissipation | p. 843 |
| Structural failure of compact tubes in bending | p. 849 |
| Structural collapse of slender and noncompact tubes in bending | p. 855 |
| Basic behaviour of round press-joints used in an ultra long-spanning hybrid steel deck | p. 861 |
| The effect of diffusible hydrogen on tensile properties of high strength steel bead on plate weldments | p. 867 |
| Experimental study of high strength steel beams subject to local buckling effects | p. 873 |
| Effectiveness of a common leg reinforcing method used for strengthening existing transmission towers | p. 881 |
| Analysis of seismic damage using time series models and artificial neural networks | p. 889 |
| Determining the seismic transfer function infimum for a structural design | p. 895 |
| Damage database for residential structures | p. 903 |
| Modal-based damage identification methods for plate-like structures | p. 909 |
| Multi-chemo physical approach to life-cycle assessment of structural concrete | p. 915 |
| Real-time integral based structural health monitoring | p. 925 |
| Towards a rule-based matrix for evaluating distress mechanisms in bridges | p. 931 |
| Condition assessment of Balla Balla River Bridge in Western Australia | p. 937 |
| Buckling of thin rectangular plates by shearing force | p. 945 |
| Simulation of crack interaction in a concrete beam | p. 953 |
| Flexural torsion in a thin rectangular bar | p. 961 |
| An explicit finite element method for the analysis of masonry shear walls containing reinforcement | p. 967 |
| An inverse approach for the evaluation of plastic constitutive parameters from structural response | p. 975 |
| Verifications of shear strength of masonry walls retrofitted using FRP | p. 981 |
| Variational formulations in nonlinear frame analysis including shear deformation | p. 989 |
| Concrete stresses and strengths for gravity loading in a Roman theatre | p. 995 |
| Damage evaluation of a timber beam using a modal-based method | p. 1005 |
| Defining appropriate limit states for design of timber connections in Australia and New Zealand | p. 1011 |
| Accessible and reliable design of stressed-skin panels-an Australian perspective | p. 1017 |
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