In recent years, ground columns, such as vibro-concrete columns and geosynthetic-reinforced stone columns, have been increasingly used to support superstructures and embankments when they are constructed on soft foundations. Several new column technologies have emerged, including different shapes of concrete columns and composite columns. The column technologies have also been combined with oth...

Real world applications make heavy use of composite keys to reference entities. Indices over multiple columns are therefore mandatory to achieve response time goals of applications. We describe and evaluate the Composite Group-Key Index for fast tuple retrieval via composite keys from the compressed partition of in-memory column-stores with a main/delta architecture. Composite Group-Keys work d...

This study investigates the lateral impact responses of reinforced concrete (RC) and composite columns through dynamic nonlinear analysis using LS-DYNA. The simulation results were first validated against experimental performed earlier on four different cross sections. finite element show that LS-DYNA can predict well be used for further parametric analysis. overall resistance new is significan...

This study presents the results of large scale laboratory model tests to investigate the behavior of Compacted Lime – Well-graded Soil (CL-WS) rigid stone columns in soft soils. The  unit cell idealization is used for construction of composite specimens by evaluating the influence of different parameters such as the diameter of the column (D), the slenderness ratio (L/D) and the area ratio (Ar)...

some formation, such as " single column," or " double column," or " column of fours," according as the width of the road, and nature of the ground permitted. Any one who has been on active service with Indian Field Hospitals and Bearer Columns, must have observed the want of order that prevails, and how the men straggle all over the line of march. I think that all the men of the A. H. N. C. sho...

Concrete filled tube (CFT) columns have been used as primary axial load-carrying members in high-rise building especially in seismic zones. The structural member has become popular as it has a number of distinct advantages over an equivalent steel, reinforced concrete, or steel-reinforce concrete structural member. This paper is intended to presents numerical modeling of elliptical concrete-fil...

In this paper, an optimization framework is developed for performance-based seismic design of composite moment frames consisting of concrete filled steel box columns and I-shaped steel beams. Material cost of the structure and seismic damage under severe earthquake ground motions are minimized as objective functions. Two design examples are presented to demonstrate the applicability and efficie...