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Adaptive joints are structural joints made of materials with enhanced transduction properties that can vary their stiffness via solid-state actuation (e.g. thermal, mechanical). In this work, stiffness tuning is used to switch the joint between a ‘locked’ ...

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Structurally informed exploration of a grammar-based design space

Graphic statics provide a visual understanding of the relation between a structures’ shape and its efforts, a valuable quality in the field of structural conception. When combined to a shape grammar, the graphical method has proven to be a very powerful to ...

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Optimum Truss Design with Reused Stock Elements

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Behaviour of stiffened extended shear tab connections under gravity induced shear force

Dimitrios Lignos

Stiffened extended shear tab connections (either in full-depth or partial-depth configurations) are widely used to connect simply supported beams to the web of supporting girders or columns. Full-scale laboratory tests of stiffened extended shear tab conne ...

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A mechanical model for failures in shear of members without transverse reinforcement based on development of a critical shear crack

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Cavagnis

In this paper, a mechanical model consistent with the main assumptions of the Critical Shear Crack Theory (CSCT) is proposed for shear design of slender concrete members without shear reinforcement. To that aim, the shear force that can be transferred thro ...

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On Establishing Buckling Knockdowns for Imperfection-Sensitive Shell Structures

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Measurements of internal cracking in punching test slabs without shear reinforcement

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Jürgen Einpaul

Advancing the knowledge about the punching behaviour of flat slabs has been held back by the fact that only indirect measurements of the internal failure mechanism have typically been available. In this paper, a novel experimental approach for tracking the ...

2018

Energy and Cost Assessment of Adaptive Structures: Case Studies

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This paper demonstrates how adaptive design (details published elsewhere) can be employed to save, on average, 70% of whole-life energy on a range of spatial structures, the whole-life energy deriving from an embodied part in the material and an operationa ...

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Experimental and Numerical Assessment of the Seismic Performance of a Half-Scale Stone Masonry Building Aggregate

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The region of Basel is considered one of the most seismically vulnerable in Switzerland: in 1356, a very damaging earthquake hit the city, which nowadays is characterized by a significant concentration of population and economic activities. Hence, the Cant ...

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