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By Sam Fragomeni (ed.), Srikanth Venkatesan (ed.), Nelson T.K. Lam (ed.), Sujeeva Setunge (ed.)

Incorporating Sustainable perform in Mechanics of buildings and fabrics is a suite of peer-reviewed papers provided on the twenty first Australasian convention at the Mechanics of constructions and fabrics (ACMSM21, Victoria, college, Melbourne, Australia, seventh – tenth of December 2010).

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Shape for an object hanging in the air under gravity. Two slots are cut at the top in the initial model to create a stalk, which is fixed at the top end. By gradually removing least stressed material from the surface, we obtain a final shape with uniform stress on the surface. The result reminds us of certain fruits such as apples and cherries. As an extension of ESO, the concept of BESO (Querin et al. 1998) was proposed in late 1990’s. In addition to removing material from the structure, BESO allows material to be added to the most demanding positions.

2 Specimen series 2: double-tube columns The axial-load displacement curves for Series 2 are shown in two groups as Group S2-1 in Figure 7 and Group S2-2 in Figure 8. 3 mm were used for the specimens in Group S2-2. 3 Evaluation of test results Eurocode 4 approach is simply extended to UHSC filled single- and double-tube columns. The predictions are compared with the test results as shown in Table 8 and Table 9. Comparison of test results with EC4 predictions shows that Equation (1), which does not consider the 25 Table 9.

Using the plastic yield line analysis, an upper bound solution for estimating the ultimate load was obtained. This analysis is found to be suitable for predicting the ultimate flexural strength of SCS sandwich slabs. The failure mode of the SCS sandwich slabs for centrally applied patch load can also be predicted. Figure 19. Experimental load-deflection curves (a) sandwich slabs with normal weight concrete core (b) sandwich slabs with light weight concrete core. because push-out tests conducted by Liew & Sohel (2009) showed that the load-slip behavior of J-hook connectors in the lightweight concrete was very ductile with the strength of the connector fluctuating in the region of about 8% to 10% of the maximum load.

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