Is strain softening is important in the nonlinear finite elements of RC elements?

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What is the reason of collapse of water tank shown in the attached you tube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLEkC_JbTsQ

03 April 2017 1,301 2 View

Which type of multiple-cell box girder is better, cells connected by top flanges or cells connected both by top and bottom flanges?

How we can design box girder bridge?

02 March 2017 10,163 3 View

Why do BS8007 specify the allowable crack width of water retaining structure as 0.2mm for severe or very severe exposure?

Why 0.2 mm crack width?

02 March 2017 9,354 3 View

What is the effect of rusting on steel reinforcement?

How does rust affect on the bonding between steel bars and concret?

02 March 2017 3,458 10 View

In “High strength concrete” in buildings, 56 or 91-day compression test results are sometimes adopted instead of 28-day compression test results. Why?

In normal concrete structures, 28-day test results are often adopted.However, in the construction of high-rise buildings using “High strengthconcrete”, compressive strengths based on 56 or 91-day...

02 March 2017 8,839 19 View

What is the difference between working stress approach and limit state approach?

What about difference between those approaches regarding load and material safety factor?

02 March 2017 587 2 View

In carrying out compression test for concrete, should test cubes or test cylinders be adopted?

Relation between cubes and cylinder

02 March 2017 5,836 4 View

If concrete compression test fails, should Schmidt hammer test be adopted as an alternative test to prove the concrete strength?

Non destructive tests

02 March 2017 5,452 31 View

It is not necessary to design nominal reinforcement to piles. Is it true?

Can we use same code provisions of columns for piles?

02 March 2017 7,906 3 View

Can a concrete structure be completely free of expansion joints and contraction joints?

Assume that there is no differential settlement.

02 March 2017 7,651 3 View

How are iso-frequency contours plotted?

Let's say we have a standard, regular hexagonal honeycomb with a 3-arm primitive unit cell (something like the figure attached; the figure is only representative and not drawn to scale). The...

07 August 2024 1,937 1 View

Do you know best conditions for formation of best REE deposits?

I want to know more about REE deposits.

03 August 2024 6,930 2 View

Interested in a SCOPUS collaboration?

Hi RG family. My team and I are working on some SCOPUS publications and we need co-authors who are willing and capable of undertaking both qualitative and quantitative-based studies. The scope...

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Interested in a SCOPUS collaboration?

Hi RG family. My team and I are working on some SCOPUS publications and we need co-authors who are willing and capable of undertaking both qualitative and quantitative-based studies. The scope of...

02 August 2024 8,572 0 View

What is the best conditions for formation of REE ore deposits?

I want to know more about REE deposits.

31 July 2024 7,366 1 View

Has anyone looked into the stability of FEM methods on curved meshed?

Google scholar isn't giving me any results on this

27 July 2024 595 2 View

Anyone working in Model updating technique using FEM?

I am trying to model RCC beam with induced corrosion. How to model this beam using model updating technique.

14 July 2024 3,536 3 View

Does democracy have a nonlinear effect on state capacity?

Some research indicates that the fist steps toward democratization of an authoritarian regime actually lowers state capacity. How strong is the evidence for this hypothesis?

14 July 2024 8,239 3 View

I came across oscillations in a pressure profile for a pipeline flow along the axis of a cylinder, how do I prove that these are not numerical err?

In terms of CFD, we often analyze the stability of the error using Von-Neumann analysis, especially for FDM based problems. Should we follow the same approach for a compressible fluid flow using FVM ?

13 July 2024 6,296 5 View

General Axisymmetric Solid Elements 272 & 273: what is their formulation?

Dear Researchers, Recently, my research group and I have been working on understanding the formulation of axisymmetric elements. We began by studying 4-node and 8-node Axisymmetric-Harmonic...

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