Despite the attractive merits of high-capacity strands, application in bridge girders is limited due to concerns, including concrete cracking, excessive stress, and cambers. An efficient defect-free production first step wide application. The objective this research was alleviate concerns prestressed using strands. A gigantic box girder 18-mm strands produced; its entire fabrication process (fr...

The numerical analysis was used to predict the rockfill dam displacement, and model parameters were calibrated using triaxial experiments on scale-down samples. Due scale effect of material, displacements usually underestimated in design phase. This study focused material an extrapolation proposed extrapolate prototype modulus from laboratory modulus. By conducting confined compression experime...

the main role ofcore in earth dams is to reduce and control the seepage flow through the dam. in order to achieve this purpose, the core material is usually selected from pure or mixed clays.due to very small coefficient of permeability, the clay cores can prevent water leakageeasily. however, pore water pressures developed inside the core during construction, can not be dissipated quickly. as ...

Deformation mechanism in the core rockfill dams with heavy load and high-stress level is difficult to predict control, which one of key problems be solved dam operation safety management control. Aiming at large error obtained by parameter-based functional models (regression model, grey theory etc.) deformation prediction dams, a fractal method its technical process combining variable dimension...