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Surface Stability of a Biaxially Pre-tensioned Soft Elastic Film Interacting with a Contactor Ling Qiao1, a and Linghui He2,b 1 Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210096, PRC 2 CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PRC aqiaoling@seu.edu.cn, blhhe@ustc.edu.cn Keywords: Pattern selection, Pattern formation, Static buckling and instability.

Study on the seismic performance of block masonry Lei Sun1, a, Zhaoyan Cui1,b ,Fusheng Liu*1, c,Shaojie Wang2,d 1 College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, China, 271018 2 Key Laboratory of Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Structures of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, China, 210096, atumusunlei@126.com, bzhaoyan.cui@163.com, cliufsh@sdau.edu.cn,dtumuwsj@126.com, Keywords: concrete hollow block masonry, seismic behavior, concrete damaged plasticity, core columns, ring beams Abstract.
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 1998, 124(8): 892―900

Moisture Resistance and Durability of the Ternary Gypsum-based Binders DOLEŽELOVÁ Magdaléna 1,a, SCHEINHERROVÁ Lenka 1,b and VIMMROVÁ Alena 1,c* 1Czech Technical University in Prague – Faculty of Civil Engineering – Department of Materials Engineering and Chemistry, Thákurova 7, 166 29 Prague 6, Czech Republic amagdalena.dolezelova@fsv.cvut.cz,blenka.scheinherrova@fsv.cvut.cz cvimmrova@fsv.cvut.cz Keywords: Gypsum, ternary binder, density, porosity, mechanical properties, water vapor transport properties, moisture resistance.

Compressive and Splitting Tensile Strengths of CoconutCoirFibreReinforced Concrete: Effect of Fibre Volume Allif Imran Jaleel Faiyaz Ahmed1,2,a*, Mohamed Mubarak Abdul Wahab1,3,b, Syed Ahmad Farhan4,5,c, Siti Nooriza Abd Razak1,6,d, Nadzhratul Husna3,e 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia 2JFA Jaya Sdn.
Bhd., Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia 3Institute of Autonomous Systems for Autonomous Facilities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia 4Institute of Self-Sustainable Buildings for Smart Living, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia 5Faculty of Engineering, Gaza University, Gaza, Palestine 6Laboratoire Angevin de Mécanique, Procédés et Innovation, École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, Angers, France aallif_17000100@utp.edu.my, bmubarakwahab@utp.edu.my, csyfarisk@gmail.com, dsiti_0008995@utp.edu.my, enadzrahusnaz@gmail.com Keywords: agricultural waste, agro-waste, coconut coir, coconut fibre, fibre-reinforced concrete Abstract.

Sugarcane-Bagasse-Fibre-Reinforced Concrete: Evaluation of Compressive and Splitting Tensile Strengths Syed Ahmad Farhan1,2,a*, Mohamed Mubarak Abdul Wahab3,4,b, Nur Hazimah Shokib3,c, Allif Imran Jaleel Faiyaz Ahmed3,5,d, Nadzhratul Husna4,e, Siti Nooriza Abd Razak3,6,f, Nasir Shafiq1,3,g 1Institute of Self-Sustainable Building for Smart Living, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia 2Faculty of Engineering, Gaza University, Gaza, Palestine 3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia 4Institute of Autonomous Systems for Autonomous Facilities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar, Malaysia 5JFA Jaya Sdn.

The Effect of the Type of Gelling Agent on the Speed of Gelation of Sol-Gels Jana Majerová1,a*, Dorothea Sklenářová1,b and Lenka Nevřivová1,c 1Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Veveří 331/95, Brno, Czech Republic amajerova.j@fce.vutbr.cz, bsklenarova.d@fce.vutbr.cz, cnevrivova.l@fce.vutbr.cz Keywords: refractory castable, sol-gel, silica, nanotechnologies, Abstract.
The method is used in electronics and electrical engineering, in surface treatments, optics, glassmaking, medicine and biotechnology [1].

Vibration of Long-span & High Pier Continuous Rigid-frame Bridge due to Traffic Load Dong-huang Yan1,a, Si-wei Hong2,b, Ming Yuan3,c 1,2,3School of Civil and architecture Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China ayandonghuang@126.com,bhswei.0718@foxmail.com,cyuanming_dt@163.com Keywords: bridge engineering; vibration due to traffic; coupling vibration theory of traffic-bridge; long-span & high-tower continuous rigid-frame bridge; fundamental frequency; comfort level Abstract: The bridge vibration problem would be highlighted due to flexibility of bridge when traffic is run on the long-span & high-tower continuous rigid-frame bridge.
Engineering Mechanics, 2008, 25(3): 230-240.
Engineering Structures, 2011, 33 (1) :591-601
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 2004, 92: 991-1024.

Optimization on Closure Scheme of Multi-Span Prestressed Concrete Box-Girder Bridge Ming Yuana, Dong-huang Yanb School of Civil and architecture Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China ayuanming_dt@163.com, byandonghuang@126.com Keywords: Bridge Engineering; Prestressed Concrete Box-Girder Bridge; Finite Element Analysis; Healthy Monitoring Data; Closure Scheme; Optimization Abstract: The stress state of finished bridge and service stage is influenced by various closure schemes in cantilever construction of multi-span prestressed concrete box-girder bridge.
Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of this project (research no. 09KFGG01) from open fund in critical laboratory of bridge and tunnel engineering (Changsha University of Science and Technology).

Examples of Engineering Application Daxihe Bridge is located in Suqiao Industrial park of Yongfu County in Guangxi of China.
The text analyzes the bridge structure by Midas civil, the computational model is shown in Fig.2.
Journal of Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering (In Chinese).

Finite Element Analysis of Bending Resistance for RC Beams Strengthened with AFRP Sheets Qing Dun Zeng1,a and Yong Lu Zhou1,b 1School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China aemqdzeng@scut.edu.cn, b07078214@163.com Keywords: AFRP sheet, RC beam, Reinforcement, 4-point bending, Cracking load, FEM.
Accumulated experimental data and engineering experiences are relatively less.