The use of continuous welded rail (CWR) track has solved many of the problems associated with tread surface discontinuities that occur in jointed tracks. However, due to the longitudinal expansion of the rails in CWR tracks ...

[EN] Nowadays, the use of new materials is becoming increasingly common in the construction world due to their improved properties. High or Very High Performance Concrete (HPC or VHPC) and Shape Memory Alloys (SMA), ...

The purpose of this paper is to present a proposal for the design of steel structures sensitive to buckling due to compression in order to fill in the gaps in the current Standard EN 1993-1-1 guidelines for obtaining the ...

Tensairity is a lightweight structural concept consisting of struts and cables stabilised by an inflated tube (Luchsinger et al. [1]). One of the latest structural developments is the application of a fabric web inside ...

This paper presents an overview of recent research aimed at understanding the behavior of aboveground steel tanks under wind loads, carried out by the author and by other researchers in this field. The tanks considered are ...

This paper describes 24 tests conducted on slender circular tubular columns filled with normal, high, and ultra-high strength concrete for plain, bar reinforced and steel fiber reinforced columns. These were reinforced and ...

[EN] Mild steel hot-rolled sections are commonly prismatic because of the rolling process with a furnace, but welded sections made from steel plates do not have such a constraint, especially when robotic welding machines ...

This paper proposes an efficient numerical model for the simulation of the behavior of slender circular concrete-filled tubular columns subjected to eccentric axial load with single curvature, for the cases of both normal ...

The paper describes 36 experimental tests conducted on rectangular and square tubular columns filled with normal and high strength concrete and subjected to a non-constant bending moment distribution with respect to the ...