The shear connection between the steel and the timber slab is one of the keys to designing
steel-timber composite (STC) beams. By three groups of four-point bending tests and finite …

Concrete building structures in cold regions are frequently exposed to low-temperature
environments and inevitably subjected to impact loads during service. This study aimed to …

Deep beams are used in various applications in reinforced concrete (RC) structures. There
have been continuous efforts to enhance and improve the performance of these crucial …

Most of the Italian infrastructures have been built since the mid‐twentieth century.
Prestressed concrete (PC) has been widely used, especially for bridges and viaducts. These …

Unfortunately, most of the previous work studying the fracture toughness of fibrous
composites has deliberately ignored bridging the fiber onto the pre-crack/notch surfaces by …

This paper investigated both experimentally and numerically the flexural performance of two–
span beams after being strengthened with polyparaphenylene benzobisoxazole (PBO) fiber …

The intrinsic brittleness of concrete in tension and shear is the principal reason for the weak
performance of reinforced concrete (RC) connections under seismic loads. A viable way to …

The use of recycled coarse aggregate (RCA) to prepare concrete can reduce the depletion
of natural resources, such as sand and stone, and solve the issue of environmental pollution …

Due to the sharp and corrosion-prone features of steel fibers, there is a demand for ultra-
high-performance concrete (UHPC) reinforced with nonmetallic fibers. In this paper, glass …

To address the meagre use of Topology Optimisation (TO) in the civil engineering industry,
the case of bolted moment connections in steel construction has been investigated …