..., and the relatively young age of the technology require caution and a thorough understanding of material performance and the influence of the service environment on the material properties. Often, hydro-thermal and loading factors are inadequately considered in the facade design, construction and maintenance. Also...

... The method of normalization is used in a new inverse way to develop J-R curves from test records that contain only load-versus-crack length values with no measure of displacement. These data may represent a special case where measurement of crack length is easier experimentally than...

... properties. These distributions of pressure and stress are determined by the internal structure of the tire, the inflation, the load, and the operating conditions. The paper describes some of the relationships obtained from experimental studies. These same distributions also serve as clues of mechanical...

... The design of piles to resist lateral loading is an important problem in soil structure interaction. Several methods, based on different theories, have been suggested for analysis of such foundations. Taking into account the nonlinear and inelastic characteristics of soils, the p-y method...

... In this paper, an in-situ experiment under lateral static, cyclic, and dynamic loadings, on a large sized steel pipe pile in soft silty clay on the downstream of the Yangtze River and static and dynamic triaxial tests on soil samples in the laboratory are described, and the pile-soil interaction...

... The construction, instrumentation, and loading procedures used in testing a two-story single bay load bearing brick masonry structure are described. In particular, several difficulties encountered during the test program are presented and discussed to assist future studies dealing...

... corrosion sensitizing electrochemistry strains loads stress corrosion cracking W. L. Clarke,' R. L. Cowan,' and W. L. Walker^ Comparative Methods for Measuring Degree of Sensitization in Stainless Steel REFERENCE: Clarke, W. L., Cowan, R. L., and Walker, W. L., "Comparative Methods for Measuring...

.... concrete pipe soil-structure interaction beams tests conduits economic factors construction lateral pressure soil pressure loads backfilling shear soil pipes T. K. Breitfuss z Evaluating Four Types of Soil-Structure Conduit Systems REFERENCE: Breitfuss, T. K., "Evaluating Four Types of Soil...

... that a material's cyclic properties have little effect on the phenomenology of retardation behavior. For instance, single high load excursions (of different magnitudes and at different baseline Δ K levels) in this cyclic strain softening alloy caused fatigue crack growth rate retardation trends comparable to those...