Rush hour traffic is a common daily occurrence in the USA. Highway and bridge construction further aggravates the situation. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Departments of Transportation in several states ...

Since the last few decades the world population has been increasing in a faster rate. With the increasing population, the needs of the people have also increased. Because of that more people have lean towards to move to ...

Construction projects are commonly delayed due to price escalation of building materials and faulty management in Pakistan. This research paper focused on the main reasons of delay and cost overruns. This research activity ...

This paper investigates the behaviour of ferrocement encased square reinforced concrete (RC) columns subjected to monotonically increasing small eccentric load. Three different types of square jacketing techniques have ...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has received widespread attention in the management of built environment with the potential to change the traditional construction practices. BIM promotes an integrated project delivery ...

Coal mass has the potential to store substantial amounts of CO2 in the coal matrix and that CO2 has the ability to move through the coal seam pore and fracture systems, which influences the release of gases during coal ...

The codes, invariably, define the design seismic hazard in terms of an idealized acceleration response spectra, which is scaled to the desired hazard level either using PGA or spectral ordinates corresponding to different ...

Various methods have been proposed for improving seismic resisting performance of steel columns representing highway bridge piers. One such attractive method is to use linearly tapered steel plates at the critical part of ...

Condition monitoring diagnosis of distress and forecasting deterioration, strengthening and rehabilitation of aging bridge structures is a challenge faced by many road authorities in the world. The accurate prediction of ...

In this paper a crack diagnosis method based on an improved twodimensional (2D) finite element (FE) with an embedded edge crack, and micro genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed. The crack is not physically modeled within ...