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March 13, 2010
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Roller–Compacted Concrete for Heavy Duty Pavements
Due to high costs of bitumen and inappropriate efficiency of flexible pavements in areas such as coastal regions, warehouses, aprons and heavily trafficked places, concrete pavement have widely been used around the world. Among different types of...
Authors:
Behrooz Saghafi Zanjani, A. Hassani

Story Dependent Response Modification Factors for Eccentrically Braced Frames
Almost in all seismic design codes, the “response modification factor” appears in the calculation of the building total seismic shear force rather than the lateral load distribution calculations. This is the case while the latter is believed...
Authors:
Dr. Mahmood Hosseini, Mehdi Esmaeili

Accelerated Testing for Evaluating the Reliability of FRP Bonded to Concrete and Steel Under Severe Environments
The research presented herein focuses on accelerated degradation testing techniques, and discusses the life prediction of identical samples of carbon FRP composites bond to concrete and steel subjected to severe environments. This paper presents...
Authors:
Professor Hamid Saadatmanesh, J. Woods

Energy Dissipation Systems for Seismic Resistance
This research reviews four well-known energy dissipation devices (EDD) used in practical structural applications and the effect of viscous damper on the behaviour of steel frames. The response of the one, two and five storey steel frames has been...
Author:
Ali Sehat Tabatabaei

Nano/Meso Porous Silica Aerogel (The state of the art and possible new applications)
Aerogel, is synthesized using sol-gel processing followed by supercritical solvent extraction, which leaves the original gel structure virtually intact. Although aerogels have been formed from metal oxides, polymers and carbon, the most...
Authors:
S. Sarkar, Maziar Sahba Yaghmaee, T. Faez