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Seismic Isolation in Structural Design:
Concepts and Applications

Introducing the concept of seismic isolation design.

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Coulomb's wedge theory
of earth pressure

Explore horizontal earth pressure,
Coulomb's theory, and its applications.
Compare geotechnical results and
understand the trial wedge method's nuances.

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Baltimore bridge collapse:
What structural engineers can do

Explore the technical content on vessel collision
to calculate the annual frequency of bridge component collapse.

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Mastering Unsymmetric Section Analysis in Bridge Design

Unsymmetric Section Analysis

Analyzing Quadrilateral Elements in Structural FEA

Continuing on to the third part of this multi-part blog, another option is a quadrilateral element. As always, let’s start with an example.

Advanced Composite Section Analysis in Structural Design

Composite Section Analysis

 

Finally we came to the composite section analysis. One of the best examples is from Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Ranzi (Example 5.10, Time-dependent behavious of concrete structures, CRC Press, 2010.)