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·  Virtual Structural Engineer

·  Events in Structural Engineering

·  Online Structural Engineering Library

·  Educational Structural Websites

·  Structural Software Listing

·  Structural Engineering History

·  Structural Engineering Journals

·  Structural Engineering Magazines

 

 

Structural Engineer Newsletter Issue #4

Available by TheStructuralEngineer.info - Center for Integrating Information on Structural Engineering

October 2007


Greetings,



Those of you who have not visited our website the last month, you will be pleasantly surprised with the amount of information that has become available through the structural engineer website.

Also, we are very pleased to announce that the Structural Engineer website owns now its own web address: TheStructuralEngineer.info.

Our intention is to create the largest collection of online databases in structural engineering. The visitors of the website are welcome to contribute material to enhance our databases.

TheStructuralEngineer.info Team

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Virtual Structural Engineer

The Virtual Structural Engineer intends to briefly present specific topics in Structural Engineering practice through photos, maps, diagrams and videos using also accompanying texts. (Currently available 26 resources).

New Additions:

Videos of a wood structure being subjected to the Northridge earthquake, Rinaldi record. Available by the NEES website at the University of Buffalo.

Skyscraper Picture Collection: pictures of skyscrapers from 52 cities in 18 different countries on 4 different continents.

Photo Gallery of Damages to Structures due to Earthquake. National Information Center of Earthquake.

American Institute of Steel Construction: Digital Case Studies, movies and animated sequences that show the production, detailing, fabrication, and erection of structural steel.

British Steel: Photographs and case studies.

British Steel Construction Manual On-Line.

Peru Earthquake of 15 August 2007: Photo Library. New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Inc. (NZSEE).

Videos and Photos of Shake-Table Test on a Nonductile Concrete Frame: Available from Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER).

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Events in Structural Engineering

2007

2007 PCI National Bridge Conference. 21-24 October 2007. Hyatt Regency Phoenix and Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center. Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

ASBI 19th Annual Convention - American Segmental Bridge Institute 19th Annual Convention. 04-07 November 2007. The Orleans Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, USA.

Bridge Management - A Structured Approach. 8th November 2007, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham.

5th International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures (ICASS 2007). 05-07 December 2007. Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore.

The 8th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering. 5-7 December 2007. Swissotel Merchant Court, Merchant Court Ballroom, Singapore.

2008

World of Concrete 2008. 22-25 January 2008. Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV USA.

International Conference on Sustainable Concrete Construction. 08-10 February 2008. Hotel Kohinoor Samudra, Ratnagiri, Western Coast, Maharashtra, India.

2009

Performance of Cement-Based Materials in Aggressive Aqueous Environments.
03-04 June 2009. Toulouse, France.

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Online Structural Engineering Library

A collection of publications available on the internet at no cost. (Currently 343 different recources in 18 sections)

New Additions:

Structural Analysis & Control

Ashraf Ayoub and F.C. Filippou, (2000). Mixed Formulation of Nonlinear Steel-Concrete Composite Beam Element. Journal of Structural Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 126, No. 3, pp. 371-381.

Khomwan N., Foster S.J., (2004). Finite element modeling of FRP strengthened beams and walls. UNICIV Report R-432. School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia.

Bridges

A. K. Gupta, (2005). Non-Destructive Testing of Bridges. Available from Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering, Pune, India.

John S. Lawler, James D. Connolly, Paul D. Krauss, Sharon L. Tracy, Bruce E. Ankenman, (2007). NCHRP Report 566. Guidelines for Concrete Mixtures Containing Supplementary Cementitious Materials to Enhance Durability of Bridge Decks. Transportation Research Board. National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Washington.

Standards and design codes

Probabilistic Model Code, (2000). Available from Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS).

Structural Reliability

Workshop on Reliability Based Code Calibration, Papers and Presentations, (2002). Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Available from Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS).

Structural Dynamics

Alastair W.M. Brown, (2003). The ensemble statistics of the response of structural components with uncertain properties. PhD Thesis, Engineering Department, Cambridge University.

Repair and Retrofit of Structures

Jong-Wha Bai, Mary Beth D. Hueste, (2007). Deterministic and Probabilistic Evaluation of Retrofit Alternative for a Five-Story Flat-Slab RC Building. Mid- America Earthquake Center, Newmark Civil Engineering Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

Tarek Alkhrdaji and Jay Thomas, (2004). Keys to Success: Structural Repair and Strengthening Techniques for Concrete Facilities. Structural Engineer, Available from Structural Group.

Concrete Structures

Sezen H., and Moehle J.P., (2004). Shear Strength Model for Lightly Reinforced Columns. ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering. Vol. 130, No. 11, 1692-1703.

Gilbert R.I., Nejadi S., (2004). An experimental study of flexural cracking in reinforced concrete members under short term loads. UNICIV Report R-434. School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia.

Prestressed Concrete Structures

Cuadros Olave Gladys, (2004). Evaluation of high strength concrete prestressed bridge girder design. MSc Thesis, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University.

Reid W. Castrodale, Christopher D. White, (2004). NCHRP Report 517. Extending Span Ranges of Precast Prestressed Concrete Girders. Transportation Research Board. National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Washington.

Steel Structures

Gupta Mohan, (2006). Additional Sectional Properties of Indian Standard Tapered Flange Sections. Steel in Construction, Technical Journal of Institute for Steel Development and Growth (INSDAG), Vol. 7, No. 1, 2006, pp. 71 - 78.

Nacewicz Rebecca Marie, (2006). Investigation of Fire Impact on Structural Steel through Case Studies. MSc Thesis in Civil & Environmental Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Composite Structures

Ferrario Fabio, (2004). Analysis and Modelling of the Seismic Behaviour of High Ductility Steel-Concrete Composite Structures. PhD Thesis, University of Trento, Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering, Italy.

Minnaugh Patrick Lucien, (2006). The Experimental Behavior of Steel Fiber Reinforced Polymer Retrofit Measures. MSc Thesis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.

Masonry Structures

Kuzik M.D., Elwi A.E., and Cheng J.J.R., (1999). Out-of- Plane Cyclic Behavior of Masonry Walls Reinforced Externally with GFRP. Structural Engineering Report No. 228, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada.

Seismic Design

Rojas H., Pezeshk S., Foley C.M., (2007). Performance- Based Optimization Considering Structural and Nonstructural Components. Earthquake Spectra, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 685-709.

Marino E.M., Nakashima M. and Mosalam K.M., (2005). Comparison of European and Japanese Seismic Design of Steel Building Structures. Engineering Structures, Vol. 27, No. 6, 827-840. Elsevier Ltd.

Earthquake Reports

Fouad Bendimerad, (2004). The 21 May 2003 Boumerdes Earthquake: Lessons Learned and Recommendations. 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Risk Management Solutions, Inc., California.

Wind Effects on Structures

Kijewski-Correa T. and Kochly M. (2007). Monitoring the Wind-Induced Response of Tall Buildings: GPS Performance and the Issue of Multipath Effects. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 95: 1176-1198. Elsevier Ltd.

Soft Computing Applications

Bailey Breanna Michelle Weir, (2006). Incorporating user design preferences into multi-objective roof truss optimization. PhD Thesis in Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University.

Non Destructive Testing

A. Kovalev, Peter Shaw, Stuart Hubbard, (2002). Ultrasonic Examination of Concrete Structures. Proceedings of the 8th ECNDT, European Conference on Nondestructive Testing Barcelona, Spain.

Fatigue

D'Andrea M., Grondin G.Y., and Kulak G.L., (2001). Behaviour and Rehabilitation of Distortion-Induced Fatigue Cracks in Bridge Girders. Structural Engineering Report No. 240, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada.

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Educational Structural Websites

A collection of websites (e.x. reports, abstracts, articles or any other material) that intend to teach/educate students and practitioners on specific subjects of the structural engineering field. (Currently available 56 resources in 11 categories).

New Additions:

General

Wonderful World of Structural Engineering by Dr. Ashok K. Jain, India.

Frequently Asked Questions on Cold Formed Steel. Available from Nordic Structures.

Earthquake Engineering

Lectures and Tutorials in Earthquake Engineering: Manish Shrikhande, Department of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

Bridges

Lucero E. Mesa, Power Point Presentation on Seismic Design of Bridges. Available from United States Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration.

Steel Structures

AISC Web Enhanced Teaching (WET): an Internet- based CD-ROM teaching aid for undergraduate steel design developed at the University of Kansas with the support of the American Institute of Steel Construction.

Teaching Principles of Seismic-Resistant Design of Steel Building Structures (PowerPoint modules). Available from American Institute of Steel Construction.

Structural Analysis

Farzad Naeim. The Ten Commandments Of Push- Over Analysis. Available from John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.

Courses

Computer Methods of Structural Analysis - PowerPoint Notes and Tutorial Material. Course Instructors: Moe M.S. Cheung and Thomas W.C. Hu.

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Structural Software Listing

Programs, spreadsheets and web applications on Structural Engineering (There are currently 31 programs).

New Additions:

Properties of steel sections available in South Africa: Available from The Southern African Institute of Steel Construction.

SAISC Beam-Column Design Aid: The SAISC Beam- Column Design Aid has been produced by the Southern African Institute of Steel Construction to assist design engineers in designing structural elements subjected to combined axial compression and bending in accordance with SANS 10162-1:2005 Edition 2. Available from The Southern African Institute of Steel Construction.

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Structural Engineering History

New Additions:

A Century of Steel Construction, available from The British Constructional Steelwork Association Ltd, London, UK.

W. Bates, (1991). Historical Structural Steelwork Handbook. Properties of UK and European Cast Iron, Wrought Iron, Steel Sections including Design. Load and Stress Data since the Mid 19th Century. Publication No. 11/84. Available from British Constructional Steelwork Association Ltd.

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Structural Engineering Journals

New Additions:

The Structural Engineer: The International Journal of the Institution of Structural Engineers.

International Journal of Space Structures: Published by Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd.

Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures: Published by Taylor and Francis Group.

Construction and Building Materials: Published by Elsevier Science.

Building Research Journal: Published by Academic Electronic Press.

Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami: Published by World Scientific Publishing Company.

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering: Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle Design and Performance. Published by Taylor and Francis Group.

The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings: Published by John Wiley and Sons.

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Structural Engineering Magazines

New Additions:

New Steel Construction (NSC), by The British Constructional Steelwork Association Ltd, London.

STRUCTURE, a Joint Publication of NCSEA, CASE, SEI.

Structural Engineer Magazine, by www.GoStructural.com

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