A master element to be employed as a general spatial rod finite element is presented. This spatially curved and pretwisted element can have variable cross-section and variable curvature change. It may also be resting on an elastic foundation. Also, a finite element formulation for a general earthquake analysis of spatial rods is presented. The theoretical foundation has lead to a general-purpos...

A third order shear and normal deformable plate/shell theory (TSNDT) and a stress recovery scheme (SRS) are used to predict stress singularities near edges of doubly curved composite laminated shells deformed statically with tangential and normal tractions applied on the shell major surfaces. In fluidstructure interaction problems both tangential and normal tractions may simultaneously act on t...

As is known, the Schur complements of diagonally dominant matrices are diagonally dominant; the same is true of doubly diagonally dominant matrices. The purpose of this paper is to extend the results to the generalized doubly diagonally dominant matrices (a proper subset of H -matrices); that is, we show that the Schur complement of a generalized doubly diagonally dominant matrix is a generaliz...

This study aims at determining the critical seismic intensity at which cracks are expected to develop in a concrete arch dam. This intensity is referred to as crack initiation intensity. The crack initiation intensity measure implies that earthquakes with the intensity measure higher than this value are expected to induce cracks in the arch dam. This quantity is an indicator for seismic evaluat...

This paper describes the structural design, digital fabrication and construction of KnitCandela, a free-form, concrete waffle shell with KnitCrete, falsework-less formwork approach using custom prefabricated knitted textile as multi-functional, shuttering layer form-found cable net main load-bearing formwork. The digitally designed fabricated provided integrated features for inserting guiding e...