Concrete is an extremely versatile building material. It is being used extensively as a building material for defense and civilian structures and infrastructure. In defense applications, concrete is often used as the primary structural component in facilities that are hardened against enemy attack, especially projectiles that can impact the structure with a high rate of speed and a large explos...

The policy of driving organization such as Highways Agency is towards the use of performance related specifications. This policy and adoption of European wide aggregate standards on the one hand, and sustainable construction pressures on the other, all strongly emphasize on further need for more developments to specifications and performance assessment methodologies inst...

recently, offshore and ocean engineering have been dealing with novel materials that play a significant role in reducing the weight of structures used in the ship construction industry. 5xxx series of aluminum alloys are of the novel alloys are suitable for construction of ship hulls and the topside structures of offshore platforms. within different 5xxx aluminum alloys, aa5083 is of great impo...

The research program consists of a series of investigations in the field and in the laboratory. First, four short-span bridges are installed so as to outline the construction-related issues associated with the use of these materials. The bridges are located in a residential area of St. James, Missouri and each bridge utilizes FRP materials in a slightly different way, demonstrating the versatil...

The paper aims to illustrate the relevant use of infrared thermography as a nondestructive, non-contact and real time technique (a) to observe the progressive damage process and failure mechanism of wood, and (b) to detect the occurrence of intrinsic dissipation localization. The investigated parameter is the heat generation due to intrinsic dissipation caused by inelasticity. Thanks to the the...