Disciplines / Research questions
Civil engineering
9 research topics · 19 questions
Whether the carbon reduction over the entire lifecycle of ultra-high-performance concrete offsets the high material carbon emissions2 questions
Service-life-integrated whole-life LCA of concrete structures: a unified uncertainty-quantified framework, full life-cycle CO2 uptake, and the generality of green-concrete ranking inversions across deterioration mechanisms
Robust whole-life environmental quantification of strength increase in concrete bridges: durability-driven service life, maintenance-scenario uncertainty, and end-of-life crediting
Prediction differences of reinforced concrete size effects in different fracture models2 questions
Fictitious crack length and effective process-zone size versus aggregate microstructure in size and boundary effect models for concrete fracture
Fracture-mechanics basis for minimum mesh (shrinkage-and-temperature) reinforcement in concrete: closed-form minimum ratio, experimental validation of size-effect suppression, and extension to more complex configurations
Mechanism of the decrease in ductility of high-strength concrete with increasing strength1 questions
Parameter unidentifiability in strength inversion of existing building materials1 questions
Inconsistency of shear failure bearing capacity formulas across codes4 questions
Rational evaluation and mechanism-informed calibration of code shear design provisions for reinforced recycled aggregate concrete beams with stirrups
Recalibration of the IS 456:2000 concrete shear contribution provisions for reinforced concrete beams
Shear strength design formulation for high-strength concrete beams: correcting the partition between concrete and stirrup contributions and the stirrup-yielding failure assumption
A size-effect-inclusive shear strength model and a bond-versus-web-shear failure criterion for full-scale precast prestressed double tees
Temperature effects and confusion with damage signals in structural health monitoring2 questions
Field validation and data-length/sensing requirements of damage detection from temperature-separated quasi-static structural monitoring responses (adaptive bandwidth filter approach)
Deployment readiness of the temperature-based three-dimensional baseline for long-span-bridge structural health monitoring: timing, thermal realism, and generalizability
Amplification mechanism of near-fault pulse seismic motion on high-rise structure response2 questions
Velocity-pulse effects on long-period inelastic response spectra: robustness across record suites, sensitivity to the record-synthesis method, and design-spectrum implications
Predictive design relationships for near-fault pulse amplification of seismic demands in inter-storey-isolated buildings: regression of amplification and displacement-correction factors on bearing period, damping, and substructure flexibility, and the role of pulse arrival timing
Long-tail effect of traffic loads in bridge fatigue life prediction1 questions
When soil-structure interaction reduces rather than increases earthquake risk4 questions
General criteria for the sign of soil–structure interaction effects on the seismic loss risk of buildings
Validating the governing role of the pulse-to-interacting-system period ratio: seismic drift demands of soil–MDOF structure systems under recorded near-fault ground motions and realistic nonlinear soil–foundation models
Quantitative criteria for attenuation versus magnification in structure–soil–structure interaction, and reduced-order models for city-scale seismic risk
Generality, damping mechanisms, and observational validation of inelastic dynamic soil–structure interaction effects on seismic fragility of buildings