With critical lessons drawn from recent strong earthquakes, the engineering community is
appealing for a fundamental shift of the existing design philosophy for infrastructures in …

The degradation of reinforced concrete (RC) structural components owing to aging
mechanisms and extreme loading events can cause significant performance and safety …

Considerable age of a very high number of bridges conjointly with a steadily increasing
amount of traffic and changes in design philosophy (eg earthquake engineering) have made …

This study presents a new type of Fe-Mn-Si alloy U-shaped dampers (FMS-UDs) that exhibit
extraordinary low cycle fatigue (LCF) performance. The basic material properties of Fe-Mn …

Given the increasing age of our built environment, including concrete structures,
stakeholders in the construction industry require innovative and effective strengthening …

Shape memory alloys (SMAs), as the self-explanatory name indicates, are materials that can
'memorize'or retrieve their pristine shape when exposed to temperature or load due to their …

The study presents a new retrofit solution for strengthening metallic I-girders. The retrofit
system involves two iron-based shape memory alloy (Fe-SMA,'memory-steel') strips (each …

In civil engineering, beam structures such as bridges require reinforcement to increase load-
bearing capacity and extend service life due to damage, aging, and capacity degradation …

Reinforced concrete (RC) bridge columns are expected to undergo large inelastic
displacements during major earthquake events, which in turn can result in residual …

Shape memory alloy is a smart material whose usage in reinforced concrete members has
been increasingly raised in recent years. This paper focuses on applications of different …