Although Polypropylene (PP) fibers have advantageous characteristics, the weak bond with the cement matrix as a result of their smooth surface and chemical inertness remains a large limitation. It has been demonstrated ...

In this study, loss of concrete-steel bond strength of lightweight and ordinary concrete under monotonic and cyclic loading is examined for plain and deformed steel bars. Here, lightweight and ordinary concrete-steel bond ...

This paper studies the stress and displacement distributions of transversely isotropic rectangular plates with continuously varying thickness and simply supported at four edges. On the basis of three-dimensional elasticity ...

In the present research, an explicit dynamic analysis is conducted on a typical multi-storey Steel Plate Shear Wall (SPSW) designed according to AISC requirements. The SPSW model is subjected to a base earthquake acceleration ...

This paper describes a subroutine for estimation of daily and average annual runoff in a computer model for microcatchment design and prediction of rain-fed grape yield in the Bajgah area,Farsprovince, Islamic Republic of ...

Reinforcing soils with biaxial geogrids have been shown to be an effective method for improving the ultimate bearing capacity of granular soils. The pull-out resistance of reinforcing elements is one of the most significant ...

This article deals with the problem of choosing the best possible shipping alternative among a set of transportation modes based on four decision criteria. An Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)-like model was used to solve ...