Civil engineering structures, such as tall buildings and long span bridges, are typically designed based on the principles of material and structural mechanics. Finite element model (FEM) analysis and wind tunnel tests of scaled models are often carried out to assist structural design (see, e.g., Penman et al. 1999). However, loading conditions in the real world are always much more complicated...

The impact of motorcyclists against the posts of the roadside barriers is one of the most frequently and harmful accidents. In order to avoid or minimize impact effects, different safety systems are being installed in many roads in the world. These safety systems should conform technical standards. European Technical Specification 1317-8 defines how it should be the testing procedure and placem...

In this paper, a nonlinear finite element (FE) analysis of hybrid-steel concrete connections is presented. The detailed experimental results of the four full-scale hybrid-steel concrete connections with limited seismic detailing have been discussed in a different paper. However, due to the inherent complexity of beam–column joints and the unique features of the tested specimens, the experimenta...

This paper describes the design of a test rig to apply a representative pressure load to full-scale composite sandwich secondary aircraft structure. A generic panel was designed with features to represent those in composite sandwich secondary aircraft structure. To provide full-field strain data from the panels, the test rig was designed for use with optical measurement techniques such as therm...

This paper presents a new numerical approach for the full extraction of coupling-of-modes (COM) parameters by stationary and eigenfrequency analyses in finite element method (FEM). is fast extracting from results static analysis analysis. It avoids long calculation time admittance frequency response analysis, which commonly used COM parameters. In addition to usual (velocity, reflection coeffic...