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Full-scale Impact Test Study for the New Flexible Safety Fence Zhengbao LEI 1,a, Rui WANG 2,b, Muxi LEI 3, c , Xiaoyuan ZHANG 2,d 1 Key Laboratory of Highway Engineering (Changsha University of Science and Technology), Ministry of Education, China Hunan Changsha 410004, P.R.China 2 Engineering Research Center of Catastrophic Prophylaxis and Treatment of the and Traffic Safety (Changsha University of Science and Technology), Ministry of Education, China Hunan Changsha 410004, P.R.China 3School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Hunan Changsha 410004 P.R.China.
The workshop on Civil Engineering and Energy Engineering (CEEE 2011)
[2]Jian Zhao, Zhengbao LEI, Sujuan Wang, Bifeng Ou: Research on conditions of col lision test and evaluation criterion of crash barrier of the highway (Journal of transport science and engineering. 2010) [3] JGT/T F83-01—2004, the evaluation specification for highway safety barriers[S]

Dynamic Response of Free-span Sub-sea Pipelines under Vortex Induced Vibrations Charanvarma.S1,a , A.P.Shashikala2,b 1M.Tech, Civil Engineering Department NIT Calicut, India 2Professor, Civil Engineering Department NIT Calicut, India acharan.2340@gmail.com,bapska@nitc.ac.in Keywords: Free span pipelines, Vortex-induced vibrations, Van Der Pol model, Duffing model.
The proposed model is capable of representing response of sub-sea pipelines under vortex-induced vibrations for cross-flow situations and can be extended to in-flow response References [1] Choi.H.S.,2001 ,”Free Spanning Analysis of Offshore Pipelines,” Journal of Ocean Engineering, vol.28, pp.1325-1338
[3] Gautam Chaudhury., 2011,”An Engineering SDOF Model for Transverse VIV Response of a Cylinder In Uniform Steady Flow,” Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, vol.133, pp.031106-1-6
[5] Srinil.N., Zanganeh.H., 2012,” Modelling of coupled cross-flow/in-line VIV using double Duffing & van der Pol oscillators,” Journal of Ocean Engineering  vol.53, pp.83-97

Numerical Modeling of Laminated Glass Units ZEMANOVA Alena1,a *, ZEMAN Jan1,b and SEJNOHA Michal1,c 1Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Mechanics, Thakurova 7, 166 29 Prague 6, Czech Republic azemanova.alena@gmail.com, bzemaj@cml.fsv.cvut.cz, csejnom@fsv.cvut.cz Keywords: laminated glass, finite element method, geometric non-linearity, Lagrange multipliers Abstract.
Most of the engineering software is based on the finite element method.
Norville, Structural behavior of architectural laminated glass, Journal of Structural Engineering, 119 (1993) 202–222
Bennison, Analysis of glass/polyvinyl butyral laminates subjected to uniform pressure, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 125 (1999) 435–442
Zemanova, Numerical modeling of laminated glass structures, Ph.D. thesis, Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU, Prague, 2014.

Wind tunnel test of honeycomb in Improving Flow Quality Chunguang Li1, a, Yang Liu 2, b and John.C.K.Cheung2,c 1School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Changsha University of Science & Technology, China 2School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Changsha University of Science & Technology, China 3College of Science and Engineering, City University of HK, China amrlcg@126.com, b13973198842@vip.163.com, ccheung.jck@gmail.com Keywords: wind tunnel, flow quality, honeycombs Abstract.
Introduction Wind tunnels are one of most effective facilities in investigating wind engineering problems.
Acknowledgements This work was financially supported by the National natural science foundation of china (Grant No: 51208067), and opening topic fund subsidization of Hunan Province Research Center for Safety Control Technology and Equipment of Bridge Engineering(Changsha University of Science & Technology ( 12KC02 ), Innovation Program of Hunan Education Commission.
[3] Lumley, J.L (1964), Journal of Basic Engineering, Trans.

College of Civil Engineering, Hunan Univ., Lushan South Rd, Changsha, Hunan, 410082, China 2.
Key Laboratory of Structural Engineering and Vibration of China Education Ministry, Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China a huangy09@gmail.com, b hunuyi2006@gmail.com, c niejg@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn Key words: nonlinear analysis, CFT, composite frame, floor slab Abstract.
Introduction Performance-based seismic design has attracted worldwide attention since it leads to more reasonable and economical designs in earthquake engineering.
Engineering Structures, Vol. 20(8) (1998), P.663-676. ].
Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 134(12) (2008), 1862-1872. ] was used to model the rebars in the concrete slab.

Constitutive Model for Concrete under Multiaxial Loading Conditions Li Sun1,a, Wei Min Huang2,b and Hendra Purnawali2 1School of Civil Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, PR China 2School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore asunli2001@hotmail.com, bmwmhuang@ntu.edu.sg Keywords: Concrete; Constitutive Model; Yield Surface; Stress-Strain Relationship; Crystalline Material; Non-Crystalline Material.
Previously, it has attracted great attention from many researchers from civil engineering, material engineering, and engineering mechanics to work out a proper failure criterion for concrete.
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Simplified Model of High-rise Isolated Structure for Earthquake Response Analysis Weiqing Fu1,a, Fei Chen2,b and Wenguang Liu 3,c 1Architecture and Civil Engineering College, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 150080, China 2School of Information Management, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 150080, China 3School of Civil Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, China a fuweiqing@hlju.edu.cn, bchenfei3913@126.com,cLiuwg8@yahoo.com.cn Key words: High-rise Isolated Structure, Equivalent Rule, Equivalent Simplified Model, Earthquake Response.
The simplified computation method is suitable for engineering designers [2], and is helpful to prompt the development and application of isolated technique.
The simply method is especially adapt to preliminary design and program comparison, the computation is quite simple, and it is suitable for designer to analyze the earthquake response in engineering field.
References [1] Li Z.X., and Zhou, X.Y., Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration.

Nonlinear seismic response analysis of concrete perforated brick masonry building Weijun Yang 1,a ,Mingsheng Duan1,b and Mingjuan Yin1,c 1School of Civil Engineering and Architecture ,Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114,China; amgbyrh@163.com, bduanms1247@126.com,c125917473@qq.com Keywords: Concrete Perforated Brick; Masonry Structure; Seismic Response; Nonlinear Analysis; Restoring Force Model.
V., Borzi B., Elnashai A.S. and Bommer J.J., Recent developments in the definition of the design seismic action in Europe[C]. 11th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paris, France, 1998 [3] Zhong Rui.
High-rise building truss-layer model of elastic-plastic dynamic analysis .Journal of Tongji University, 1980.1 [8] Qin Wenxin, Liu Ji, Nonlinear dynamic analysis of the resilience of the inflection point in the fuzzy approach [J], Journal of Harbin University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 1988.1 [9] Zhang Aiba, eds, Structural Vibration Mechanics [M], Tongji University Press, 1994 [10]Furumura M. and Furumura T., Basin-induced surface waves in the Tokachi basin.
Eleventh, World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Mexico City, Mexico. 1996 [11] Saragoni G.
R., Lobos C. and Gomez-Bernal A., Site and earthquake mechanism effect on Earthquake Engineering, Paris, France, 1998 [12] Teng Jialu other editor, Concrete Structure (II) - Seismic design of tall building [M],the China Construction Industry Press, 1997

Numerical Simulation of The Drying Shrinkage Process of Concrete Yongcun Zhang1, 2,a, Qingning Li2,b 1Department of Traffic Engineering, Henan University of Urban Construction,Pingdingshan467036,China 2Department of Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an710055,China azylfirst@126.com, blqn419@126.com Keywords: Surface Chemistry; Concrete Pore; Drying Shrinkage; Numerical Simulation Abstract.
Introduction It is a difficult problem which researchers and engineers and technicians are facing that there are often cracks in concrete structures.
Therefore, how to minimize concrete drying shrinkage deformation has been a competing research topic in domestic and international civil engineering.
(17) Table 1 Calculations summary for confining pressure of capillary wall Radius of the concave water surface () Additional pressure () The confining pressure () =0.02 =7.275 —— =0.015 =9.7 =2.425 =0.01 =14.55 =7.275 =0.005 =29.1 =21.825 =0.0025 =58.2 =50.925 Fig. 3 Distribution of the radial contraction displacement of capillary walls along the pore length when the radius is equal to Ri (unit: μm) a) Ri= R1 b) Ri= R2 c) Ri= R3 d) Ri= R4 The error analysis of the simulation The concrete shrinkage strain calculated by the finite element method is expressed by volume shrinkage strain, but line strain is used to express concrete shrinkage strain in engineering.
According to the engineering experience, the drying shrinkage strain of concrete is among in general.

Engineering Properties of Soils on Boubyan Island in Kuwait Shu-feng BAO1,2,3,a and Jian-hua Huang2,3,b 1School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510240, China 2 Engineering Technology Research Co.
Ltd., of CCCC Fourth Harbor Engineering Co.
So far, there is no worldwide publications relating to engineering properties of soils on Boubyan Island[3~5].
Macro-analysis of Soils Engineering Properties Soil Classification.
Engineering Geology, 1995, 39(3-4):185-202