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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Wall design"”.
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Application of new observational method on deep excavation retaining wall design in London Clay
… savings can be achieved on embedded retaining wall design for deep excavation in London Clay through the observational method, without compromising safety. Despite the inherent benefits of the method and its acceptance by design codes, the application of the observational method for excavation …
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Silo Analysis and Design.
… Concrete Institute Committee 313 on "Bin Wall Design and Construction" introduced a comprehensive recommended design procedure on silo design in 1968. The Committee recommended using Janssen's formula (1) for static pressure calculations on silo walls. The procedure has been described in …
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Residential building design : comprehensive comparative guidelines for building single-family dwellings in Hawaii
… environmental factors that challenge the home designers of Hawaii. The depletion of renewable natural resources and global warming trends foreshadow energy shortage and the increases of hurricane frequency. Thus, it is essential that future homes in Hawaii be energy efficient, earthquake …
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Effect of Overturning Restraint on the Performance of Fully Sheathed and Perforated Timber Framed Shear Walls
… and cyclic response of light-frame wood shear walls with and without openings. Effects of overturning restraint in the form of tie-down anchors and corner segments on light-frame shear walls with and without door and window openings were quantified. While the results are useful to refine a …
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Reliability-based design of a retaining wall
A retaining wall is subject to various limit states such as sliding, overturning and bearing capacity, and it can fail by anyone of them. Since a great deal of uncertainty is involved in the analysis of the limit states, the use of detenninistic conventional safety factors may produce a misleading …
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Shear Wall Layout Optimization in Coordination with Architectural Floor Plans
… component of the structural system. Shear walls are a prominent lateral system, but they are large and cumbersome components and thus present architects with a challenge when trying to position shear walls in their floor layouts. Optimizing the lateral system of a tall building is critical, …
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On the Effective Stiffness of Slender Concrete Masonry Walls
The slender masonry wall design procedure in the Canadian Standard for Design of Masonry Structures, CSA S304-14, (2014) has been found to be overly conservative. The calculated effective stiffness term, EIeff, which is used to determine the secondary moment due to wall deflection, was noted as a …
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Demonstration and implementation of thermally passive low-income housing : a case study in Bhuj
… This thesis presents recommendations on roof design, wall design, and fan usage based on the results from prototype field work, simulations, and the implementation of pilot homes. With an appropriate building design, measured operative temperatures in pilot homes met the ASHRAE 80% …
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Numerical Study and Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Calibration for Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls
Load and resistance factor design (LRFD) (often called limit states design (LSD)) has been mandated in the AASHTO Bridge Design Specifications and will be adopted in future editions of Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code for all transportation-related structures including reinforced soil retaining …
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Geospatial Assessment of Sustainable Built Infrastructure Assets and Flood Disaster Protection
… include concrete and composite sheet pile flood wall design. Value engineering analysis was implemented to evaluate these flood wall protection alternatives for AIT Campus. Based on comprehensive present worth life cycle cost analysis conducted over 50-year performance period, the least costly …
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Effects of boundary roughness on turbulence in uniform open channel flow
… measurements were possible not only in the near wall region but also within the viscous sublayer. Using the data from both the log law and linear viscous sublayer fits allowed for more reliable computations of shear stresses as well as a better understanding of how turbulence behaves over the …
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Seismic Performance Assessment of Wood-Frame Shear Wall Structures
Wood-frame shear wall structures are widely used for residential and commercial buildings. These buildings are lightweight, have very ductile connections and includes multiple load paths. The main objective of this dissertation is to evaluate the seismic performance of a wide range of wood-frame …
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Response of Pile-Supported T-Walls to Fill Loading and Flood Loading Based on Physical Model Studies and Numerical Analyses
Pile-supported T-walls, which are concrete floodwalls that are shaped like an inverted "T" and supported by batter piles, are commonly used by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to protect low-lying portions of New Orleans and other areas. The design of a T-wall in southern Louisiana …
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On the Evaluation of Common Design Metrics for the Optimization of Non-Axisymmetric Endwall Contours for a 1-stage Turbine Rotor
… flow turbomachines use cylindrically shaped endwalls between the blades on the hub or shroud, non-axisymmetric endwall contouring is a reasonably recent technique which relaxes this constraint, and allows the geometry of the endwalls to depart from that of a plain cylinder. Although a number of …