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Experimental Investigation on Size-Effect of Rubble Stone Masonry Walls Under In-Plane Horizontal Loading: Overview and Preliminary Results

Rubble stone masonry is a common construction typology of historical city centres and vernacular architecture. While past earthquakes have shown that it is one of the most vulnerable masonry construction typologies, there are few experimental campaigns giv ...

2024

Full-scale testing of European steel beams with reduced beam section under reversed cyclic loading

Dimitrios Lignos, Hiroyuki Inamasu

Steel beams with reduced beam section (RBS) are often used as part of prequalified connections in seismic regions. However, RBS connections are not as common in Europe. Reasons relate to easiness in fabrication, which requires on-site welding, and the seis ...

Springer Nature2022

Damage Assessment of Stone Masonry Piers Using Imaged Surface Cracks

Amir Rezaie

After an earthquake, the structural safety of all buildings in the affected region needs to be assessed. This is currently done by a visual inspection of each building. This approach is very time-consuming and requires a significant amount of expertise fro ...

EPFL2021

Development of Dissipative Steel Column-Base Connections for Steel Moment-Resisting Frames under Seismic Loading

Hiroyuki Inamasu

In capacity-designed steel moment resisting frames (MRFs), column base connections feature a strong-base/weak-column design philosophy. Prior studies on fixed-end wide flange steel columns featuring seismically compact cross sections subjected to coupled a ...

EPFL2021

Advances in the Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis -- from Surface Footings to Thermoactive Deep Foundations

Cristiano Garbellini

Mutual interactions between soil and foundation play a fundamental role in the overall behaviour of constructions. Therefore, it is not surprising that soil-structure interaction has been the subject of numerous research works. This doctoral thesis is a th ...

EPFL2021

Experimental and numerical investigation of the thermo-mechanical behaviour of an energy sheet pile wall

Lyesse Laloui, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria, Marianna Adinolfi

One-of-a-kind experimental and numerical investigation is provided in this paper about energy sheet pile walls: earth retaining structures that embed heat exchanger probes within piles for the exploitation of shallow geothermal energy. The study resorts to ...

ELSEVIER2021

Uplift mechanics of unanchored liquid storage tanks subjected to lateral earthquake loading

Konstantinos Bakalis

Motivated by the seismic response of unanchored liquid storage tanks, their uplift mechanism under strong lateral loading is examined. Using three-dimensional finite element models, nonlinear static analysis is conducted to define the moment-rotation relat ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Tensile response of Ultra High Performance PE Fiber Reinforced Concretes (PE-UHPFRC) under imposed shrinkage deformations

Emmanuel Denarié, Mohamed Abdul Hafiz, Amir Hajiesmaeili

PE-UHPFRC is a new Ultra High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC), which is developed to reduce the environmental impact of conventional UHPFRC by replacing the steel fibers with synthetic ones and reducing the clinker content in the mix. The de ...

2021

Long‑term strain measurements of traffic and temperature effects on an RC bridge deck slab strengthened with an R‑UHPFRC layer

Eugen Brühwiler, Bartlomiej Wojciech Sawicki

This paper presents the results of 28-month-long monitoring of a slab portion of the Chillon viaducts in Switzerland using strain gauges and thermocouples. This post-tensioned reinforced concrete structure was strengthened with a layer of reinforced ultrah ...

2020

TERRE project: interplay between unsaturated soil mechanics and low-carbon geotechnical engineering

Alessio Ferrari, Jacopo Zannin, Gianluca Speranza

The geotechnical construction industry is a major component of the overall construction sector and is strategically important in infrastructure development (transportation, flood and landslide protection, building foundations, waste disposal). Although ind ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

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