Pshtiwan Shakor^1,2,*, Nadarajah Gowripalan³, Paul Rocker⁴

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.18, No.4, pp. 395-408, 2024, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2024.049366 - 05 June 2024

Abstract Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is the most flowable concrete type that exerts high pressure on formwork. SCC is the most commonly used concrete globally for construction applications due to its cost-effectiveness. However, to make a formwork resist the exerted lateral pressure of SCC, it is required to have a suitable design for formwork. This paper presents a novel approach on how could create and prepare the Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) optics using as a sensor to measure lateral pressure and temperature of SCC. To ensure the FBG sensor works properly a validated methodology is conducted. In More > Graphic Abstract

Yingxue Sang¹, Fengxia Han^1,2,*, Qing Liu^1,2, Liang Qiao³, Shouxi Wang³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.2, pp. 1973-1998, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.026218 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Rapid urbanization has led to a surge in the number of towering structures, and overturning is widely used because it can better accommodate the construction of shaped structures such as variable sections. The complexity of the construction process makes the construction risk have certain randomness, so this paper proposes a cloud-based coupled matter-element model to address the ambiguity and randomness in the safety risk assessment of overturning construction of towering structures. In the pretended model, the digital eigenvalues of the cloud model are used to replace the eigenvalues in the matter–element basic element, and calculate… More >