The life of a concrete bridge exposed to deicing salt or seawater has often been limited by corrosion of the steel reinforcement. The service life of a concrete structure, degraded by corrosion, is considered to be the sum of the initiation and propagation periods. The initiation phase is the time required for sufficient accumulation of aggressive species at the rebar surface to initiate corros...

Compared to hot-rolled steel structures, cold-formed steel structures are susceptible to extreme winds because of the light weight of the building and its components. Many modern cold-formed steel structures have sustained significant structural damage ranging from loss of cladding to complete collapse in recent cyclones. This article first provides some real damage cases for light steel struct...

Article history: Received 29.05.2012. Received in revised form 27.07.2012 Accepted 03.09.2012. The influence of sub-temperature quenching temperature on the tensile strength, hardness and toughness of 60Si2Mn steel has been studied, and the ferrite content, austenite grain size and martensite morphology of the microstructure of this steel after sub-temperature quenching analyzed. The results sh...

Lightning stroke is the main threaten to the safe operation of UHVAC transmission lines. The magnetic steel rod method had been widely used as a traditional method for lightning accident and lightning current investigation in high voltage transmission lines. For the application of the magnetic steel rod method on UHVAC transmission lines, this paper proposed a practical and easy improved method...

A piece of automation equipment such as a robotic crane for steel erection has no intrinsic knowledge of the process it automates. Thus, geometric and spatial information about a component such as a steel member, and the motion sequences that must be executed to move that component from a staging area to its installed final location must both be programmed into the equipment. In automated steel...

Lightweight steel framing is a method in housing and construction that have been widely used in lightweight steel construction. In this method, the structure is built by cold formed steel elements. They are cost-effective, light, and easy to assemble. However, the performance of lateral load resisting systems in cold-formed steel structures specially the behavior of cold-formed steel shear wall...

joining of titanium alloys to other materials especially steels has attracted much attention in recent years due to the exceptional properties of titanium such as excellent corrosion resistance and mechanical properties and its increasing application in various industries. according to the fe-ti binary phase diagram, these two elements do not have complete solubility. this leads to difficulties...

B. Wang, Z. G. Yang, X. F. Zhang, Y. T. Wang, C. P. Nie, Q. Liu, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China Z. G. Yang, Special Steel Plant, Laiwu Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Laiwu, China B. Wang, H. B. Dong, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK In the current study, a 260 mm × 300 mm bloom mould was investig...