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Design Of Stick-Framed Wood Roofs Under Extreme Wind Loads, Caspar Bain
Design Of Stick-Framed Wood Roofs Under Extreme Wind Loads, Caspar Bain
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Light-frame wood construction comprises nearly 90% of the housing industry in
Canada and the United States. The roofs of these houses can be constructed either
entirely on site or using prefabricated trusses. Assembling the roof structure on site,
otherwise known as stick-framing, is a framing technique with current code guidelines
that are based on past practice and limited consideration of wind loads. This makes
these roof structures susceptible to failure in high-speed wind events, such as tornadoes. Around 90% of all tornadoes in Canada fall in or below the EF-2 category,
making it a possible target for design of wood-frame …
An Explicit Model For Simplified Flutter Analysis Of Long-Span Bridges, Tibebu Hunegn Birhane
An Explicit Model For Simplified Flutter Analysis Of Long-Span Bridges, Tibebu Hunegn Birhane
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The collapse of the First Tacoma Bridge in 1940 at a wind speed of about 18m/s triggered the need to recognize aerodynamic stability as a design constraint for long-span bridges. The advancement in understanding and modeling of dynamic wind effects has played a significant role in the realization of long-span bridges with a clear span of up to 2 km. However, the need to span longer, the risk of windstorms exceeding the strongest recorded in the past, and consequently, the quest for optimized design solutions continue to evolve.
A rigorous nature of aerodynamic stability analysis techniques poses a challenge to …
Flexural Behaviour Of Concrete Beams With High Strength Reinforcement, Sohaib Akbar
Flexural Behaviour Of Concrete Beams With High Strength Reinforcement, Sohaib Akbar
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Using High Strength Reinforcement (HSR) in concrete construction allows steel volumes to be reduced, and economies to be realized. CSA Standard A23.3:19 “Design of Concrete Structures” limits the maximum yield strength for design to 500 MPa. This thesis investigates the flexural behavior of concrete beams reinforced with HSR to assess whether current code provisions are appropriate. Curvature ductility ratios are calculated for cross-sections with varying concrete compressive strengths, and reinforcement types and quantities. The effects of utilizing HSR on extreme fibre concrete compressive strains at Ultimate Limit State (ULS), moment redistribution at ULS, and deflections at Serviceability Limit States, are …
Simulation Of Non-Homogeneous Wind Processes, Comparison Between Numerical And Experimental Model Of A Bridge, Héctor Hernández Landero
Simulation Of Non-Homogeneous Wind Processes, Comparison Between Numerical And Experimental Model Of A Bridge, Héctor Hernández Landero
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The scaled aerodynamic model of a bridge is often tested in the boundary layer wind tunnel laboratory (BLWTL). In this study a numerical model of the Baluarte Bridge subjected to wind loading is investigated. The scaled full bridge aerodynamic model was previously studied at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. For the numerical model a finite element model (FEM) is implemented, and the characterization of the buffeting forces are considered on the frequency and time domain. In the former case, the so-called pseudo excitation method is used to characterize the wind load, while in the latter the spectral representation method …
Performance And Ultimate Limit State Of Large-Span Soil-Steel Structures, Kareem Embaby
Performance And Ultimate Limit State Of Large-Span Soil-Steel Structures, Kareem Embaby
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This thesis investigates the structural behavior and soil-structure interaction mechanism of large-span soil-steel structures utilizing steel plates with the deepest corrugation profile, 500 mm X 237 mm. The world’s largest-span soil-steel bridge, with a span of 32.40 m, was constructed using 12 mm thick steel plates with the deepest corrugation profile and was instrumented extensively to monitor the displacements and straining actions of the steel structure. Lateral reinforcement steel mesh was attached to the steel structure and the ends of the structure were strengthened by circumferential reinforced concrete collars. Three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear finite element (FE) model was conducted and validated …
Hydration Kinetics, Microstructure, And Mechanical Strength Development Of Cement-Based Composites Incorporating Phase Change Materials, Afshin Marani
Hydration Kinetics, Microstructure, And Mechanical Strength Development Of Cement-Based Composites Incorporating Phase Change Materials, Afshin Marani
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The research conducted in this thesis investigates the effects of phase change materials (PCMs) on the hydration kinetics and strength development of cement-based composites using extensive experimental and numerical analyses. Purposefully, the effect of microencapsulated PCMs (MPCMs) on the strength development of cement-based mortars and concretes was evaluated using powerful machine learning models trained with the largest available experimental data. Furthermore, a novel ternary machine learning approach was proposed to optimize the mixture design of mortars and concretes based on the thermos-physical properties of the MPCMs. The results obtained from machine learning simulations suggest the assessment of the effects of …
A Computational Fluid Dynamics-Based Surrogate Wind Turbine Blade Aerodynamic Model For Hybrid Simulation, Eric Lalonde
A Computational Fluid Dynamics-Based Surrogate Wind Turbine Blade Aerodynamic Model For Hybrid Simulation, Eric Lalonde
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Hybrid simulation (HS) is a promising technique for studying wind turbines due to the presence of scaling errors in wind tunnel testing. However, HS of wind-loaded structures is limited by the current practice of using lower-accuracy, "pre-calculated" aerodynamic loads, which uncouple the aerodynamic loading from the structural response. This thesis presents six stand-alone studies that collectively build towards a novel HS framework that employs a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based surrogate model to generate higher-accuracy aerodynamic loads within the HS loop. An experimentally-validated residential wind turbine model equipped with an external damping system was used to illustrate the proposed framework. …