American Journal of Civil Engineering

Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2016

  • Effect of Design Ductility on the Progressive Collapse Potential of RC Frame Structures Designed to Eurocode 8

    Mark Adom-Asamoah, Nobel Obeng Ankamah

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2016
    Pages: 40-49
    Received: 8 February 2016
    Accepted: 18 February 2016
    Published: 1 March 2016
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    Abstract: Progressive collapse is the cause of most structural failures around the world. The US General Service Administration (GSA) has presented guidelines for the assessment of the vulnerability of building structures to progressive collapse. It has been established in literature that the philosophy of ductility and redundancy used in seismic design is b... Show More
  • Study on the Influence of Chloride Ions Content on the Sea Sand Concrete Performance

    Wu Sun, Junzhe Liu, Yanhua Dai, Jiali Yan

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2016
    Pages: 50-54
    Received: 27 February 2016
    Accepted: 9 March 2016
    Published: 23 March 2016
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    Abstract: The influence of chloride ions content on the sea sand concrete performance was investigated through testing the sea sand mortar strength in this paper. The concrete strength rule was analyzed to discover the early strength for the sea sand concrete by the presence of chloride. In addition, the XRD microscopic analysis and TG/DTA were observed the ... Show More
  • Experimental Study on the Quality of Concrete Strengthened by the Means of Infrared Thermal Imager

    Fuchun Song, Jie Zhao, Mengchen Li

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2016
    Pages: 55-60
    Received: 6 April 2016
    Published: 7 April 2016
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    Abstract: Testing of concrete quality of bonded steel reinforcement by the means of infrared thermal imager, study of sticky steel reinforcement concrete component under the irradiation of an external heat source surface temperature with time, spatial distribution and variation analysis internal hollowing defect thickness, size and thermal infrared imager ve... Show More
  • The Research of High Slope Instability Mechanism Based on Slide

    Peng Qu, Cong Li, Xueming Jia

    Issue: Volume 4, Issue 2, March 2016
    Pages: 61-67
    Received: 10 April 2016
    Published: 11 April 2016
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    Abstract: In the highway engineering, as lacking cognition of mechanism in high slope stability caused landslide and collapse, which brought great damage to highway operation. The high slope protection and disaster management are given more and more attention with the continuous development of highway construction. This paper focus on slope stability analysi... Show More