this paper describes experimental and numerical investigations on two specimens of frames composed of steel reinforced concrete beam and angle-steel concrete column under horizontal low cyclic loading. based on the test results, the relationship curves of the horizontal load-displacement and the failure modes are acquired. meanwhile the hysteretic behaviors, skeleton curves, stiffness degradati...

In this article on increasing the efficiency of steel combined structures, tasks rational design, regulation and control structural parameters elements, use steels with increased mechanical properties are considered. It is shown that for a six-span stiffening girder truss elastic supports, which operates under distributed load, moment 72 times smaller than single-span beam. suggested to high-st...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Construction Metrology and Automation Group, in cooperation with the NIST Intelligent Systems Division, is researching robotic structural steel placement through an ongoing program entitled ‘‘Performance of Innovative Technologies for Automated Steel Construction.’’ This program, initiated in response to an American Institute of Steel Co...

Cast steel nodes are being increasingly popular in steel structure joint application as their advanced mechanical performances and flexible forms. This kind of joints improves the structural antifatigue capability observably and is expected to be widely used in the structures with fatigue loadings. Cast steel node joint consists of two parts: casting itself and the welds between the node and th...

The use of fly ash is not only in harmony with the concept of sustainable development, but also beneficial to some mechanical properties of concrete. This paper discusses steel corrosion rate time-changing law in concrete with different replacing ratios of low calcium fly ash(10%~30%) and the microcosmic characteristic of concrete-steel interface. The steel corrosion rate was tested by linear p...

The dependency of uniform corrosion of structural steel on the average grain size (D) should be quantified for design purposes. In the present work, a spectrum of grain sizes was obtained by simple heat treatment routes in st37 structural steel. It was revealed that the corrosion current density (icorr) increased by grain refinement, which was related to the increased density of grain boundarie...