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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"LATERAL LOAD"”.
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Structural Behavior of the Maxilla Under Lateral Load Application
… maxilla to resist separation when subjected to lateral loads. It was hoped that a structural center of resistance for the maxilla could be determined. Strain gauges were placed in dry skulls and lateral loads were applied in five different anterior-posterior positions. The results show a highly …
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Lateral load capacity of drilled shafts in jointed rock
Large vertical (axial) and lateral loads often act on the heads of drilled shafts in jointed rock. In current design practice, the p-y curve method used in design of laterally loaded drilled shafts in soil is adopted in the design of such shafts in jointed rock. The p-y curve method treats the soil …
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Lateral load distribution for steel beams supporting an FRP panel.
… deterioration. In bridge design, AASHTO provides load distributions to be used when determining how much load a longitudinal beam supporting a bridge deck should be designed to hold. Depending on the deck material along with other variables, a different design distribution will be used. Since FRP …
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Design evaluation of naval combatant secondary structure under hydrostatic lateral load
Thesis (S.M. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2003.
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Full-Scale Lateral Load Test of a 3x5 Pile Group in Sand
… of piles within a pile group influences the lateral load resistance of that group, additional research is needed to better understand trends for large pile groups (greater than three rows) and for groups in sand. A 15-pile group in a 3x5 configuration situated in sand was laterally loaded and …
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A Study of the Resistance of Model Frames to Dynamic Lateral Load
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Statnamic Lateral Load Testing and Analysis of a Drilled Shaft in Liquefied Sand
Three progressively larger statnamic lateral load tests were performed on a 2.59 m diameter drilled shaft foundation after the surrounding soil was liquefied using down-hole explosive charges. An attempt to develop p-y curves from strain data along the pile was made. Due to low quality and lack of …
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Full Scale Static Lateral Load Test of a 9 Pile Group in Sand
… has been done to study the effects of spacing in laterally loaded pile groups and how the pile spacing affects lateral resistance of the piles. In this test a 9-pile group of steel piles was installed in a 3x3 configuration in sand. The piles were spaced from center-to-center at a distance of 5.65 …
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Lateral Load Behavior and Capacity of Structures Composed of Steel-Plate Composite (SC) Walls
… since they are typically designed as the primary lateral force resisting system of the power plant. The objective of this research is to provide insight into the structural behavior from the perspective of the overall structural system. Prior research has studied the mechanical behavior of SC …
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Full-Scale-Lateral-Load Test of a 1.2 m Diameter Drilled Shaft in Sand
… interaction models associated with laterally loaded deep foundations have typically been based on load tests involving relatively small diameter foundations. The lateral soil resistance for larger diameter foundations has been assumed to increase linearly with diameter; however, few, …
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Lateral Load Distribution Factors for Military Vehicles on Multi-Girder Deck Slab Bridge Systems
… Officials (ASHTO) specifications have prescribed lateral load distribution factors to calculate the bending moments and shear forces for the design of highway bridges for civilian highway traffic. The maximum bending moments and shear forces caused by a wheel line load (or the entire vehicle) …
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Full-Scale Lateral-Load Tests of a 3x5 Pile Group in Soft Clays and Silts
<p>A series of static lateral load tests were conducted on a group of fifteen piles arranged in a 3x5 pattern. The piles were placed at a center-to-center spacing of 3.92 pile diameters. A single isolated pile was also tested for comparison to the group response. The subsurface profile consisted of …
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Lateral Load Distribution and Deck Design Recommendations for the Sandwich Plate System (SPS) in Bridge Applications
… SPS. The key issues that will be studied include lateral load distribution, dynamic load allowance and deck design methodologies. With SPS being new to the market, there has only been a single bridge application, limiting the investigations of in-service behavior. The Shenley Bridge was tested …
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Numerical Analysis of Human-Informed Topology Optimized Lateral-Load-Resisting Systems of Tall Buildings under Seismic Excitation
… uses MATLAB to apply HiTop to the design of the lateral-load-resisting systems of tall buildings, comparing results to those of three other designs: a “human” design with standard cross bracing, a optimized design using classical topology optimization, and a previously-developed algorithm which …
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The lateral load carrying capacity of wall ties used in cavity wall construction in the Western Cape : a comparison between the Butterfly-type wire tie and the Crimped-type wire tie
The aim of the testing was to compare the relative positives and negatives of the Butterfly Tie and the Crimped lie as regards to water transfer, tensile and compression strengths based on the Australian Code [AS 2699-l 984] requirements as it is more comprehensive. The reason was because the …
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Behavior of Laterally Loaded Shafts Constructed Behind the Face of a Mechanically Stabilized Earth Block Wall
Current practice for designing laterally loaded columns that pass through an MSE Wall involves isolating the column from the MSE mass and anchoring the column into rock with a rock socket. A sizeable cost and time savings could be realized, while still maintaining reliability, if a method were …
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Development of performance sections for cold-formed steel residential construction
… and joists. For curtain walls the <i>Uniform Lateral Load Capacity Tables</i> and for bearing walls the <i>Axial Load with Specified Lateral Load Tables</i>, the <i>Strong Axis Axial Load Capacity Charts</i>, and the <i>Weak Axis and Torsional Axial Load Capacity Charts</i> were developed. The …
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Integrated seismic assessment and design of plan-irregular structures
… an inelastic stiffness evaluation method for lateral load-resisting members is proposed. By utilizing this method, it is observed that the maximum eccentricities occur when one or a few of the lateral load-resisting members yield. Also, the observed maxima of the temporally-varying distances …
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Sizing of Members in the Fully Stressed Design of Frame Structures
… frame structures. The effect that the ratios of lateral load to gravity load and story height to bay width have on the fully-stressed design process will be investigated. Additionally, the effect that cross-sectional form factor and buckling model have on the fully-stressed design process will be …
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Analysis and Testing of a Ready-to-Assemble Wood Framing System
… for the RTA buildings was presented. The lateral load path for the RTA building includes diaphragms and shear walls. The contribution of the RTA frame can be ignored from the lateral load analysis. This conclusion was validated for the diaphragms with aspect ratios up to 4:1. The finite …
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