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Fall Safety Perspective Of The Construction Professionals In Miami-Dade And Broward Area, Saurav Pokharel
Fall Safety Perspective Of The Construction Professionals In Miami-Dade And Broward Area, Saurav Pokharel
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The main purpose of this study was to understand the fall safety perspective of the construction professionals by analyzing their attributes, workplace safety knowledge, behavior and conduct, and identifying trends in their fall safety opinions. The study involved analysis of the survey data of the 847 construction professionals who participated in the fall training program conducted in the Miami-Dade and Broward County area. About two-thirds of the participants felt that they had adequate safety knowledge, and about half of them said they encountered fall hazards on a daily or weekly basis. The study also found that vulnerability of fall hazards …
Study On Strut And Node Behavior In Strut-And-Tie Modeling, Nazanin Rezaei
Study On Strut And Node Behavior In Strut-And-Tie Modeling, Nazanin Rezaei
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The strut-and-tie method (STM) is a simple and conservative method for designing concrete structures, especially deep beams. This method expresses complicated stress patterns as a simple truss or kinematic model made up of compression elements (struts), tension elements (ties), and the joints between elements (nodes). STM is based on lowerbound plasticity theorem, so using it properly will lead to a conservative design. Although the concepts of STM have been around in concrete design since the late 19th century, STM was first introduced in AASHTO LRFD in 1994 and ACI 318-02 in 2002. ACI 318 defines two different types of struts …