The resistance of materials to mechanical loads is a decisive factor in component safety, such as in aircraft. Working as ...

A single invisible spark can render costly hardware useless. But there are ways to protect electronic designs against ESD and ...

The Structures section offers five MSc programmes designed to provide advanced training in the analysis, design, and assessment of structures under various conditions. These courses are ideally suited ...

The present document presents a review on the use of the finite element software package CODE_BRIGHT to simulate reinforced soil structures (RSS). RSS are composed of longitudinal steel or polymeric ...

This paper deals with the problem of stress concentration at the weld toe of non-load-carrying-type plate cruciform joints under tension, bending, and shear. Theoretical stress concentration factors ...

Civil Engineering College of Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China. Truss is a structure of connected elements forming triangular units, and a bridge whose supporting superstructure is ...

Nowadays, structural “limit state” design is made using characteristic or nominal values of actions, partial safety factors and load combination factors. The actual loading that a structure will be ...

The rapidly growing world population is a great challenge for the building industry. Due to the impending scarcity of resources, it is not possible to provide the growing mankind with sufficient ...