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Open Journal of Civil Engineering (OJCE) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in civil engineering. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of c…
Alireza Maghsoudi, Behzad Kalantari
Nowadays underground structures are very important. Based on observations of engineering; properties during geotechnical construction are an integral part of the design of underground structures. This research presents instrumentation as a tool to assist with…
Marco Vona
In seismic risk mitigation policies, fragility functions of existing buildings play a fundamental role. In this paper, a procedure to develop analytical fragility curves for Moment Resisting Frame Reinforced Concrete buildings is presented. The design of the…
Ali M. Memari, Lisa D. Iulo, Ryan L. Solnosky, Christopher R. Stultz
Growing consumer interest in distributed Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Systems and industry competition to reduce installation costs are stimulating the development of deploying these materials to the residential sector of the building industry. Thi…
Lorenzo Pio Massimo Martino
Twenty years after the last archaeological researches and surveys, a new investigation has been carried out on the basement in the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome. The study has employed three-dimensional surveys with laser scanning methodology and…
Son Tung Pham
The objective of this work was to examine the changes in the microstructure and macro physical properties caused by the carbonation of normalised CEM II mortar. Samples were prepared and subjected to accelerated carbonation at 20 ° C, 65% relative humidit…
Oustasse Abdoulaye Sall, Meissa Fall, Yves Berthaud, Makhaly Ba, Mapathé Ndiaye
This article focuses on the study of the behavior of a soil mass under a plate subjected to a uniformly distributed load. The aim of this paper is to highlight the soil-structure interaction with a linear variation of the mechanical properties of the soil wit…
Ali M. Memari, Ryan L. Solnosky
A pilot study was conducted at Penn State University to determine whether the type of drywall joint compound would influence the shear strength of wood-frame stud walls sheathed with Gypsum Wall Board (GWB or drywall). In this study, five 2438 mm by 2438 mm s…
Aslam Amirahmad
Recently, the use of composite structures composed of steel plate and in filled concrete has become increasingly popular in Civil engineering structures. This is because of their excellent earthquake resistant properties such as energy absorption capacity. In…
Mahmoud Abo Bakr El Sideek
Effects of tie beam length, width and overlap stress on settlement of foundations have been investigated. In this investigation square concrete footings have been used with dimensions (B × B × d) where (d) is footing depth and (B) is footing width (1, 1.5,2 m…
Keyvan Ramin, Foroud Mehrabpour
The disorders originated from architectural design in buildings, show in different forms. One of them is the level difference originated from lot’s slope which affects structures through short column phenomenon. The great stiffness of short columns enables th…
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