Books by Keyword: Reinforced Concrete

Description: We present our readers with the 42nd volume of "International Journal of Engineering Research in Africa". This volume contains articles describing the research results in the fields of materials science, applied mechanics, mechanical engineering, power distribution and power efficiency, construction materials and technologies, biodiesel production, information technologies, and industrial engineering. The articles will be useful for many engineers as well as for academic teachers and students majoring in these fields of engineering science.

Description: Presented book was collected by results of the 24th International Conference Concrete Days 2017 (Litomyšl, Czech Republic, November 22 – 23, 2017)
The papers introduce recent research results in the area of modern concretes and concrete structures, discuss modelling and design of concrete structures, bridges and buildings, properties of concretes as well as significant structural projects and their realizations.

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The concept of the 22nd Concrete Days (CD 2015) allowed a rich programme of expert lectures and posters but also enough time for professional discussions, informal business negotiations and friendly meetings.

The Czech Concrete Society CSSI as the organizing body of the conference has done its best to ensure a convenient stay for 22 times. There were more than 310 participants at the conference this time.

The selected papers include recent results of scientific and engineering decisions in area of researching of properties and manufacturing technologies of modern concretes; modelling and design of structure elements from concrete and realization of significant construction projects.

Description: Experimental programs in laboratories give real results to identify nonlinear behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) structures but they are limited to knowledge of particular cases under restricted structural dimensions, sizes, shapes, loading and boundary conditions but the computational simulation approach has no limit to its application. Constitutive models are developed to simulate the dynamic nonlinear response of concrete and steel reinforcement subjected to cyclic loading varying randomly in magnitude. The behavior of structural concrete under monotonic loading is affected by important material aspects including cracking, crushing, tension stiffening, compression softening and bond slip. Reversed cyclic loading introduces further complexities such as stiffness degradation in concrete and the Bauschinger effect in reinforcing steel. In this research the validity and reliability of some proposed constitutive models for concrete considering general loading i.e. cyclic, monotonic, partial, common point and transition loading are evaluated.  Comparisons with test results showed that the proposed model provides a good fit to a wide range of experimentally established hysteresis loops.

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 3rd Global Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (GCCSEE 2014), October 21-22, 2014, Chengdu, China.
The 682 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Geotechnical and Geological Engineering;
Chapter 2: Tunnel, Subway and Underground Facilities;
Chapter 3: Coastal and Marine Engineering;
Chapter 4: Hydraulic Engineering;
Chapter 5: Road and Railway Engineering;
Chapter 6: Bridge Engineering;
Chapter 7: Structural Engineering, Strength and Dynamics;
Chapter 8: Seismic Engineering;
Chapter 9: Construction Technology;
Chapter 10: Building Technology Science;
Chapter 11: Building Environment and Equipment Engineering;
Chapter 12: Construction and Building Materials Engineering;
Chapter 13: Computational Mechanics, Biomechanics and Applied Mechanics;
Chapter 14: Ventilation and Air Conditioning Works;
Chapter 15: Energy Efficiency and Applications, Ecological and Energy Saving Building, Lighting;
Chapter 16: Surveying Engineering, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems;
Chapter 17: Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, Safety Engineering;
Chapter 18: Project Management;
Chapter 19: Engineering Management, Civil and Construction Industry Management, Infrastructure Demand and Supply, Engineering Education;
Chapter 20: Architectural Design and Its Theory;
Chapter 21: Outdoor and Indoor Decoration Design and Environment;
Chapter 22: Urban and Regional Planning, Land Resources Planning;
Chapter 23: Landscape Planning and Design;
Chapter 24: Sustainable City and Regional Development;
Chapter 25: Hydrology, Water Resources, Flood and Drought Management;
Chapter 26: Environmental Engineering and Environmental Protection;
Chapter 27: Transportation Planning, Traffic Control and Information Technology, Carrying Tools and Operation Engineering;
Chapter 28: Electricity Infrastructure and Power Transmission;
Chapter 29: Computer Applications and Intelligent Algorithms

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters BCI (WoS).
Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) refers to a 'highly flow-able,non-segregating concrete that can be spread into place, fill the formwork,and encapsulate the reinforcement without the aid of any mechanicalconsolidation. SCC is regarded as one of the most promising developments inconcrete technology due to significant advantages over Conventional Concrete(CC). In this study cracking caused by external loads in reinforced SCC andFRSCC slabs is examined experimentally and analytically. The mechanismsassociated with the flexural cracking due to the combined effects ofconstant sustained service loads and shrinkage are observed. One of theprimary objectives of this study is to develop analytical models thataccurately predict the hardened mechanical properties of SCC and FRSCC.Subsequently, these models have been successfully applied to simulatetime-dependent cracking of SCC and FRSCC one-way slabs.