Civil and Environmental Engineering Commons^™

Optimum Assessment Of Irregular Three-Dimensional Seismic Buildings, Kevin Z. Truman, Franklin Y. Cheng

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A structural optimization algorithm based on an optimality criteria approach is presented for three-dimensional, statically and dynamically loaded steel or reinforced concrete structures. The theoretical work is presented in terms of scaling, sensitivity analyses, optimality criteria, and Lagrange multiplier determination. The structures can be subjected to a combination of static and dynamic displacement and stress, and natural frequency constraints. The dynamic analyses are based upon the ATC-03 provisions for equivalent lateral force and modal analysis procedures, or multicomponent response spectra modal analyses. Using the algorithm presented, a computer program called ODRESB-3D was developed for analysis and design of various building …

Cost Comparison Of Timber, Steel, And Prestressed Concrete Bridges, Richard A. Behr, E. J. Cundy, C. H. Goodspeed

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This study was undertaken to investigate the economics of timber bridge superstructures versus traditional steel/concrete and prestressed concrete alternatives in the short-span range of 20 to 60 ft (6.1-18.3 m). Only superstructure costs were considered because substructure and abutment costs are highly site-specific. A lack of definitive data regarding service lives and maintenance costs precluded a life-cycle cost study; thus, only initial costs were compared. Representative superstructure designs were obtained for timber, steel/concrete, and prestressed concrete bridges at 20-, 40-, and 60-ft spans. Five to six northern New England general contractors performed cost estimates on these designs. Also, nine timber …

Revised Method Of Approximate Structural Analysis, Richard A. Behr, E. J. Grotton, C. A. Dwinal

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Failure Strengths Of Laminated Glass, Joseph E. Minor, Patrick L. Reznik

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Laminated glass used in architectural glazing comprises two layers of glass connected by a thin interlayer of polyvinyl butyral. Previously reported nondestructive experimental stress analyses offer evidence that laminated glass behaves like monolithic glass of the same nominal thickness except when temperatures are high. This evidence has been augmented to include failure behavior by destructive tests of a large number of laminated-glass specimens. Test results reveal that failure strengths of annealed laminated-glass specimens are equal to failure strengths of annealed monolithic glass specimens of the same nominal thickness at room temperature and decrease to about 75% of monolithic-glass strength at …

Lateral Load Behavior Of Pile Group In Sand, Shamsher Prakash

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Knowledge-Based Prototype For Improving Scheduling Productivity, Colin Othniel Benjamin, Daniel L. Babcock, N. B. Yunus, John B. Kincaid

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The development of efficient construction plans and schedules presents continuing challenges to construction schedulers. Knowledge-based systems offer considerable potential as computer-based planning tools to aid the development of realistic project plans and schedules. This paper outlines the development of a knowledge-based prototype system for construction planning and scheduling and evaluates its effectiveness as a tool for improving the productivity of inexperienced construction project schedulers. The prototype, developed using the M.1 knowledge engineering shell, incorporates data bases, algorithm, and heuristics that mimic the decision process of expert construction project schedulers and identifies a work breakdown structure and precedence relationships. Inexperienced schedulers …

Load And Resistance Factor Design Of Cold-Formed Steel Load And Resistance Factor Design Specification For Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members With Commentary, Ling-En Hsiao, Wei-Wen Yu, Theodore V. Galambos

CCFSS Library (1939 - present)

FOREWORD This progress report contains the following two parts: Part I: Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification for Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members (pp. i-107). Part II: Commentary on the Load and Resistance Factor Design Specification for Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members (pp. 109-161). The load and resistance factor design specification proposed herein is the revised version of the design recommendations prepared in February 1988 and submitted to American Iron and Steel Institute as Tenth Progress Report. This document was prepared according to the 1986 edition of the AISI Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members. The selections of ϕ …

Design Of Automotive Structural Components Using High Strength Sheet Steels The Effect Of Strain Rate On Compressive Mechanical Properties Of Sheet Steels, Maher Kassar, Wei-Wen Yu

CCFSS Library (1939 - present)

INTRODUCTION Since May 1988, the research project on automotive components sponsored by American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) at University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) has been concentrated on a study of the effect of strain rate on mechanical properties of sheet steels and the structural behavior and strength of cold-formed steel members subject to impact loads. The results of the tensile dynamic mechanical properties of three selected sheet steels, in the virgin condition as well as for the steels subjected to different amount of cold stretchings, were estabiished in 1988 and early 1989. Details of the tension coupon tests were presented …

Evaluation Of The Base Test Method For Predicting The Flexural Strength Of Standing Seam Roof Systems Under Gravity Loading, Thomas M. Murray, Steven D. Brooks

CCFSS Library (1939 - present)

No abstract provided.

Steel Deck Institute Design Manual For Composite Decks, Form Decks, Roof Decks, And Cellular Deck Floor Systems With Electrical Distribution, Steel Deck Institute

Steel Deck Institute (SDI) Specifications and Manuals (1939 - present)

No abstract provided.

Design Of Automotive Structural Components Using High Strength Sheet Steels The Effect Of Strain Rate On Mechanical Properties Of Sheet Steels, Maher Kassar, Wei-Wen Yu

CCFSS Library (1939 - present)

INTRODUCTION During recent years, automotive manufacturers have produced lighter vehicles for the purpose of achieving fuel economy. To accomplish the construction of such automobiles, high strength sheet steels with various yield strengths up to 190 ksi have been used for auto parts and structural components 1-9. In order to provide some technical assistance for the design of such high strength steels, the first edition of the "Guide for Preliminary Design of Sheet Steel Automotive Structural Components" was issued by American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) in February 1981. 10 The use of the Guide was discussed by Errera at the …

Sludge Digestion By Anaerobic Fluidized Beds. Ii: Kinetic Model, Bill T. Ray, Ju-Chang Huang, Brian A. Dempsey

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A model has been developed to describe the gas production and soluble-COD variations from the digestion of waste-activated sludge in the anaerobic fluidized-bed reactor. It indicates that a substantial rate increase can be attained by prehydrolysis of the biological sludge, external to the reactor. The model indicates that the rate-limiting step is in the sludge hydrolysis. The model is developed from an assumption of first-order kinetics in a set of series and parallel, irreversible reactions. That is, the formation of soluble substrate is first order with respect to the particulate biomass present, and that the production of methane is first …

Sludge Digestion By Anaerobic Fluidized Beds. I: Lab Performance Data, Ju-Chang Huang, Bill T. Ray, Yao Jiang Huang

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This study was undertaken to evaluate the laboratory performance of the anaerobic fluidized bed digesting secondary biological sludge at 35° C with four hydraulic-retention times (HRTs): 1, 2.5, 5, and 10 days. In addition, the effects of both operating temperature (15° C, 25° C and 35° C) and the initial sludge solubilization on the digester performance were also examined. It was found that at 35° C, an adequate degree of sludge digestion was obtainable with an HRT of only 1-2 days if the influent biological sludge was presolubilized by treatment with 17.5 meq/L of sodium hydroxide. If no presolubilization was …

Cyclic Lateral Loading Of A Large-Scale Pile Group, Shamsher Prakash, K. Sreerama, Sally Prakash

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Web-Crippling Strength Of Cold-Formed Steel Beams, C. Santaputra, M. B. Parks, Wei-Wen Yu

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The structural behavior of high-strength cold-formed steel beams subjected primarily to web crippling is investigated analytically and experimentally. Hat sections and I-beams, formed from five different types of high-strength sheet steels, are investigated under various loading conditions. In addition to the test data gathered in this phase of study, the experimental results obtained from the beam tests conducted at various companies are carefully evaluated. The evaluation indicates that the present available design criteria are not suitable for high-strength materials with yield strengths exceeding 80 ksi (552 MPa). New design formulas are derived for different types of loading conditions on the …

Recursive Optimization For Seismic Steel Frames, Franklin Y. Cheng, D. S. Juang

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The theoretical derivations and numerical procedures used in the computer program ODSEWS-2D-II for the analysis and optimum design of two-dimensional regular and irregular steel frames subjected to static, earthquake, and wind forces are presented. The seismic input can be interacting ground motions of actual earthquake records, various response spectra, and different building provisions of the Uniform Building Code (UBC), ATC-03 in the United States, and TJ-11 in China. Included are the mathematical formulation based on the consistent mass and the displacement method with consideration of geometric nonlinearity, three levels of recursive optimization procedures, the objective function of minimum construction and …

Permeability Of Clays Under Organic Permeants, Janardanan O. Uppot, Richard Wesley Stephenson

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A Magnesium Montmorillonite and a Kaolinite Clay Are Subjected to Organic and Inorganic Permeants to Study the Changes in Permeability Caused by the Reaction between Clays and Permeants. the Permeants Are Acetic Acid, Aniline, Methanol, and Xylene. Tests Are Conducted in Specially Designed and Constructed Flexible Wall Permeameters that Provide Precise Measurements of Pressures and Flows. Increases in Clay Permeability Due to Clay-Permeant Chemical Reactions Are Measured to Be on the Order of Two to Three Times the Original Permeability. This is in Contrast to the 100 to 1,000 Times Increases Reported by Others. the Writers Believe that the Large …

Optimal Design Rules Applied To The Design Of High-Speed Mechanisms Under Deflection And Stress Constraints, Frank W. Liou, Jenny Liu

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Presented in this paper are two approaches for the design of flexible mechanisms under stress and deflection constraints. Based on the optimality conditions derived in this paper, two procedures are developed to design the minimum weight of mechanisms subject to stress and deflection limitations. The first procedure is the improvement of Thornton's design process r 17), and the second procedure is based on the interpolation technique. Several design examples are also presented to demonstrate these methods.

Time Characteristics Of Small Watersheds In Response To The Probable Maximum Precipitation, Brian Jay Swenty

Doctoral Dissertations

"The EPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) was used to perform single event simulations of Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) level rainfall events on the Loss Lake watershed in southcentral Missouri. Overland flow was simulated using kinematic wave routing and channel flow was simulated using dynamic wave routing.

Lag time was defined as the time between the centroid of the excess rainfall hyetograph and the centroid of the direct runoff hydrograph.

Rainfall depth, rainfall duration, and the distribution of rainfall intensity were found to be significant predictor variables for lag time. Defined as hydrologic parameters for this study, channel flow roughness, …

Industrialized Housing With Cold-Formed Sheet-Steel Elements, J. O. Bats, J. F. G. Janssen

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.

Evolving Aisi Design Provisions -- An Overview, Albert L. Johnson

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.

New Design Method For Cold-Formed Purlins, Frans Soetens, A. W. Toma

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.

Compression Tests Of Cold-Formed Steel Columns, C. C. Weng, Teoman Peköz

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.

Distortional Buckling Tests Of Cold-Formed Channel Sections, Gregory J. Hancock, Sammy C. W. Lau

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.

Nonlinear Analysis Of Cold-Formed Sections Using The Finite Strip Method, Peter W. Key, Gregory J. Hancock

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.

Warping Restraint, Member Stability And Standards, D. B. Moore, D. M. Currie

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.

Cold-Formed Steel Z-Sections Under Axial Load, Dimos Polyzois, A. Sudharmapal

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.

The Torsional Flexural Buckling Strength Of Cold-Formed Stainless Steel Columns, P. Van Der Merwe, G. J. Van Den Berg

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.

To The Load Carrying Capacity Of Cold-Formed Purlins, Joachim Lidner

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.

Selecting The Optimum Lipped Channel Beam, Nae-Sheng Chang, Duane S. Ellifritt

CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)

No abstract provided.