STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROCEDURES FOR CONCRETE ARMOUR UNITS

New Trends and Procedures of Program Assessment for Academic Units

Some consider assessment in terms of a systematic way of gathering and evaluating information within educational system and particularly higher education. Since, the term ‘’assessment’’ refers and relates to administrative processes, this paper has shed light some consideration on how it can benefit the members of department and program. Program assessment ultimately emphasizes on direction for...

Techniques and Procedures for Bonded Concrete Overlays

Materials design principles of ancient fish armour.

Knowledge of the structure-property-function relationships of dermal scales of armoured fish could enable pathways to improved bioinspired human body armour, and may provide clues to the evolutionary origins of mineralized tissues. Here, we present a multiscale experimental and computational approach that reveals the materials design principles present within individual ganoid scales from the '...

Implementation Procedures for the Risk in Early Design (RED) Method

Risk assessments performed at the conceptual design phase of a product may offer the greatest opportunity to increase product safety and reliability at the least cost. This is an especially difficult proposition, however, as often the product has not assumed a physical form at this early design stage. This paper introduces the Risk in Early Design (RED) method, a method for performing risk asse...

Geometric Considerations of Plasticity in Structural Concrete Analysis and Design

The shift, provoked perhaps by a world war involving air raids, away from a linear elastic idealisation of material performance in structural analytical methods to one of perfect plasticity inspired research in many countries but the pioneering research in Cambridge and Copenhagen continues to stand out as a landmark. Such methods have been embraced by the designer for reasons of simplicity and...