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BONDING STRENGTH OF EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE (EPS) BEADS ENHANCED WITH STEEL FIBER IN REINFORCED LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE (LWC) Jamilah Abd.Rahim1, a *, Siti Hawa Hamzah2,b and Hamidah Mohd Saman3,c 1,2,3Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA 40450 Shah Alam Selangor ajamilahabdrahim@yahoo.com, bshh@salam.uitm.edu.my, chamid929@salam.uitm.edu.my Keywords Lightweight Conrete, Expanded Polystyrene Beads, Steel Fiber, Bonding Strength.
L. (2011), Flexural Test on Recycled Polystyrene, Procardia Engineering, vol. 10, pp. 930–935 [2] Sadrmomtazi A., Sobhani J., and Mirgozar M.A. (2013), Modelling Compressive Strength of EPS Lightweight Concrete using Regression, Neural Network and ANFIS, Construction and Building Materials., vol. 42, pp. 205–216 [3] Tang, W.C., Lo, T.Y., and Balendran (2008), Bond Performance of Polystyrene Aggregate Concrete (PAC) Reinforced with Glass-fibre-reinforced Polymer (GFRP) bars, Building and Environment, Vol.43, pp. 98-107 [4] Chen, B. and Liu, J. (2004), Properties of Lightweight Expanded Polystyrene Concrete Reinforced with Steel Fiber, Cement and Concrete Research, vol.34, pp. 1259–1263 [5] Aiello, M., A., Leuzzi, F., Centonze, G., and Maffezzoli, A. (2009), Use of Steel Fibres Recovered from Waste Tyre as Reinforcement in Concrete: Pull-out Behaviour, Compressive and Flexural Strength, Waste Management, Vol. 29, pp. 1960-1970 [6] Muhammad, H.
N. (2008), Bond High Strength Concrete with High Strength Reinforcing Steel, The Open Civil Engineering Journal., pp. 143-147 [7] Alnaki, A.
A. (2013), Behavior of High-Performance Pull-out Bond Strength of Fibers Reinforced Concrete Structures, Jordan Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 1

Experimental Study of Mix Proportion on Masonry Mortar’s Common Strength Grade in Material Engineering and its Application Hongliang Huanga, Huifang Zhangb, Yanfang Lic, Guoqing Mad and Minfeng Lie Hebei Institute of Architecture Civil Engineering, Zhangjiakou 075000, China ahuanghong.5055@163.com, bzhfsyf_79@sohu.com, cshxianlmf@126.com, d23606745@qq.com, eliminfeng11@163.com Keywords: Masonry mortar, Mix proportion, Experimental study, Material engineering, Application Abstract.
It’s aimed for seeking the optimum mix proportion of masonry mortar through the comparative analysis of strength of Various proportions of masonry mortar, Promotion and application to be in material engineering.
Material engineering and its application In modern society, with the development of the construction industry, the popularity and application of new walling materials also set even higher requirements for masonry mortar’s functions.
This subject optimum mix proportion of masonry mortar, promotion and application in materials engineering.

Research on strengthening methods of traditional timber structural dwellings in Shennongjia region Jia Huang 1, a, Shupei Wang 2,b 1College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China Three Gorges University, YiChang, China 2College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China Three Gorges University, YiChang, China a804696038@qq.com, b504559120@qq.com Keywords: traditional timber structural dwelling; structural destruction; structural strengthening methods Abstract.
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 1992: 300 – 317
Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2000: 899–906

Resistance of Refractory Cement Composite to Cyclic Temperature Loading HOLČAPEK Ondřej1 a * 1Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Experimental Centre, Thákurova 7, 166 29, Prague 6, Czech Republic aondrej.holcapek@fsv.cvut.cz Keywords: Elevated temperatures, bonding test, refractory composite, aluminous cement, ceramic powder, basalt fibers, refractory slabs.
Concrete, as a widely used structural material for civil and transport structures has appropriate fire safety properties (in contrast with steel) [2].
Author would like to gratefully acknowledge the assistance given by technical staff of the Experimental Centre – department of Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU in Prague.
Kodur, Properties of Concrete at Elevated Temperatures, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, ISRN Civil Engineering 2014, 15 pages, doi: 10.1155/2014/468510 [3] G.
Konvalinka, Fracture characteristics of refractory composites containing metakaolin and ceramic fibers, Advances in Mechanical Engineering 7(3) (2015), doi: 10.1177/1687814015573619 [12] S.

As shown in Table 1, in the Chinese civil building design code, it has been divided into top and 1~5 altogether 6 ranks according to the importance of projects.
Table 1 Gradation of disaster prevention sign setting Rank of civil buildings design Top, first-rank Second, third-rank Fourth, fifth-rank Sign important level I II III The different rank corresponds to a different importance.
Saeki, Study on residents’ recognition of a flood hazard map and promotion measures of its recognition, Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 48 (2004) 433-438
Katada, The Characteristics of Inhabitants’ Cognition Involving Heavy-Rainfall Hazard in Small Mountainous River Basins, Annual Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 45 (2001) 43-48.

Soemardi1, Mei Sutrisno2 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Department of Civil Engineering, Universitas Sriwijaya, Palembang, Indonesia 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia 3 Department of Civil Engineering, Politeknik Negeri Bandung, Indonesia a email: bettysusanti0401@gmail.com Keywords: Functional Performance, Performance Based Contract, Road Maintenance.

FABRY3,c 1Department of steel and timber structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, STU in Bratislava, Slovak republic 2Department of steel and timber structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, STU in Bratislava, Slovak republic 3Department of steel and timber structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, STU in Bratislava, Slovak republic atomas.zivner@stuba.sk, brudolf.aroch@stuba.sk, cmichal.fabry@stuba.sk Keywords: Slab concreting sequence, continuous composite girder bridge, creep, dead-load, normal stresses, deflections Abstract This paper deals with the slab concreting sequence and its influence on a composite steel and concrete continuous highway girder bridge.
There is not enough time in the civil engineering practice to consider the process of concreting exactly.

Ivanov 1,2 a and Tomasz Sadowski2,b 1 Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Rousse, Studentska 8, Rousse 7017, Bulgaria 2 Lublin University of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Sanitary Engineering 20-618 Lublin, Nadbystrzycka 40 str., Poland a ivivanov@ru.acad.bg, bt.sadowski@pollub.pl Keywords: wooden veneers, micromechanical models, finite element models, damage mechanics.
The plywood material is widely used in civil engineering and furniture industry as cheap, strong, and lightweight material.
Introduction Wood is one of the oldest materials used for many engineering structural applications.
The stiffness matrix of the structure can be assembled from the element stiffness matrices: 61 e eA==K K (3) The relationship between the nodal forces, f, and the nodal displacements, u, =f Ku (4) could give us the relationship with the RVC strain if the displacements are given as follows: =u Λx (5) where x is the vector with nodal coordinates with respect to the RVC coordinate system, and the matrix       =       Φ 0 0 0 0 Φ 0 0 Λ 0 0 Φ 0 0 0 0 Φ (6) consists of the matrices 2 2 xy x xy y γ ε γ ε       =      Φ (7) which includes the 2-D engineering strain components , , andxy xy ε ε γ .

Quainoo1,d 1Department of Civil Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, South Africa 2Department of Civil Engineering, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa 3Department of Engineering Sciences, University of the Free State, South Africa akwandiwemagugu@gmail.com, bstephen.ekolu@mandela.ac.za, cnaghizadeha@ufs.ac.za, dhquainoo@uj.ac.za *naghizadeha@ufs.ac.za Keywords: Fly ash geopolymer, Compressive strength, Ferrochrome slag, Drying shrinkage.
Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, 14(4), pp. 12-16
International Journal of Civil Engineering, Volume 17, pp. 1571-1583
[33] Naghizadeh A. 2019, Mix design and alkali resistance of fly ash geopolymer binders, PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, 316p
[34] Pather B. 2022, Acid resistant portland cement and geopolymer concretes, MEng Dissertation, Department of Civil Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, 173p

Estimation of Hysteretic Energy of MDOF Structures Based on Equivalent SDOF Systems Hong-Nan Li1,a, Feng Wang1,b and Zhao-Hui Lu1,2,c 1 State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China 2 Department of Civil and Arthitectural Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology Nagoya, Japan a hnli@dlut.edu.cn, b Win_0803@163.com, c lu@archi.nitech.ac.jp Keywords: MDOF structures; equivalent SDOF systems; hysteretic energy; deformation energy; reversal Pushover analysis.
Yet, it will incline safely in engineering seismic design. 3.
Earthquake Engineering and Structure Dynamics, 2000, 29:1441-1455
Department of Bridge Engineering College of Civil Engineering Tongji University, 2001
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2001, 21:113-137