Infill walls are used frequently as interior or exterior partitions in reinforced concrete frames in the world. The behavior of infill wall frames have been studied experimentally and analytically by a number of researchers ...

E-business in general and e-commerce in particular is changing the way people do business and sell their product and services to the entire world without the need of physically existing around the globe. As enterprises ...

This paper is aimed at emphasising the advantages of structural steel in general and composite floor construction in particular. It is typical of engineers in developing countries, such as those in the Middle East, Gulf ...

The current thesis provides energy and economic analyses for Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power plants driven by solar and bioenergy. The system comprises of an ORC power unit, an auxiliary gas heater with evacuated tube ...

Northridge-USA and Kobe-Japan earthquakes in mid 1990s caused numerous structural damages to 3, 6 and 12 story buildings, in relation to structural design and framing type. Hence, this research was aimed at studying the ...

Corrosion is a long-term process resulting in the deterioration of the reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Most of the structural problems observed under the impact of either earthquakes or service loads might occur due ...

One of the challenges that has been faced by civil engineers is the damage to structures due to expansive soils. When such soils get wetted, their volume increase and due to drying, they shrink and the volume decreases. ...

ABSTRACT: To date, there have been number of studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of helmet during head impacts in car or motorcycle accidents, but these studies were focused on frontal impacts to the head only. There ...

In this study the spanning behavior of submerged pipes are analyzed and discussed. In the order to do so the limits of Reynolds number less than 3.5 105 and Keulegan Carpenter number is between 4 and 7acsepted as limitation ...