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  1. In order to study the capacities of a new occurrence of Brazilian clay samples as partial replacements of cement, a bentonite sample was selected for utilization in the natural and modified forms for present s...

    Authors: D. J. Lima-Guerra, I. Mello, R. Resende and R. Silva
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2014 8:66
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  2. In the present paper, a behavioral model is proposed for study of the individual contributions to shear capacity in shear-critical reinforced concrete members. On the basis of the relationship between shear an...

    Authors: Je-Pyong Jeong and Woo Kim
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2014 8:64
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  3. The use of carbon fibers (CF) and glass fibers (GF) were combined to strengthen concrete flexural members. In this study, data of tensile tests of 94 hybrid carbon-glass FRP sheets and 47 carbon and GF rovings...

    Authors: Thomas H.-K. Kang, Woosuk Kim, Sang-Su Ha and Dong-Uk Choi
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2014 8:61
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  4. In this study, portland cement (PC) has been partially replaced with a Class F fly ash (FA) at level of 70 % to produce high-volume FA (HVFA) concrete (F70). F70 was modified by replacing FA at levels of 10 an...

    Authors: Alaa M. Rashad, Hosam El-Din H. Seleem and Amr F. Shaheen
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2014 8:51
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  5. Prestressed concrete cylindrical pipe (PCCP) has been widely used for the distribution of water in communal, industrial, and agricultural systems for a long time. However, as it deteriorates, structural failur...

    Authors: Yongjei Lee and Eun-Taik Lee
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:57
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  6. A major difference between high-strength reinforcing steel and conventional steel in concrete is that the service-load steel stress is expected to be greater. Consequently, the service-load steel strains are g...

    Authors: Amir Soltani, Kent A. Harries and Bahram M. Shahrooz
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:54
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  7. An experimental investigation was conducted to compare the shear strength of full-scale beams constructed with chemically-based, self-consolidating concrete (SCC) with conventional concrete (CC). This experime...

    Authors: Mahdi Arezoumandi and Jeffery S. Volz
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:52
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  8. The purpose of this study was to investigate the design comparison of totally prefabricated bridge substructure system. Prefabricated bridge substructure systems are a relatively new and versatile alternative ...

    Authors: Tae-Hoon Kim
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:50
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  9. Strength and some durability properties of concrete containing rice husk ash (RHA) predominantly composed of amorphous silica at a specific surface of 235 m2/kg produced using a charcoal incinerator were determin...

    Authors: A. E. Abalaka
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:58
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  10. This study evaluates the shear strength of steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) beams from a database, which consists of extensive experimental results of 222 SFRC beams having no stirrups. In order to predi...

    Authors: Mohammad S. Islam and Shahria Alam
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:59
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2014 8:s40069-014-0071-6

  11. This paper deals with the interfacial effects of silica fume (SF) and styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) on compressive strength of concrete. Analyzing the compressive strength results of 32 concrete mixes perform...

    Authors: M. Shafieyzadeh
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:55
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  12. In the present scenario to fulfill the demands of sustainable construction, concrete made with multi-blended cement system of OPC and different mineral admixtures, is the judicious choice for the construction ...

    Authors: Kanchan Mala, A. K. Mullick, K. K. Jain and P. K. Singh
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:49
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  13. Geopolymer mortar compressed blocks were prepared using fly ash, ground granulated blast furnace slag, silica fume and metakaolin as binders and sand/quarry dust/pond ash as fine aggregate. Alkaline solution w...

    Authors: Radhakrishna, Tirupati Venu Madhava, G. S. Manjunath and K. Venugopal
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:48
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  15. This study presents the effect of incorporating metakaolin (MK) on the mechanical and durability properties of high strength concrete for a constant water/binder ratio of 0.3. MK mixtures with cement replaceme...

    Authors: P. Dinakar, Pradosh K. Sahoo and G. Sriram
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:45
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  16. This study investigates quantitative methods for assessment of infrared analysis of concrete admixtures using correlation coefficients by performing IR scans following the ASTM C494/C494M-11 specifications. In...

    Authors: Anthony J. Casale III, Johanna Doukakis, Husam Najm and Kimberly Davis
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:40
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  17. In this study, a two-layer feed-forward neural network was constructed and applied to determine a mapping associating mix design and testing factors of cement–nano silica (NS)–rice husk ash ternary blended con...

    Authors: Alireza Najigivi, Alireza Khaloo, Azam Iraji zad and Suraya Abdul Rashid
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:38
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  18. Prestress losses assumed for bridge girder design and deflection analyses are dependent on the concrete modulus of elasticity (MOE). Most design specifications, such as the American Association of State Highwa...

    Authors: Brahama P. Singh, Nur Yazdani and Guillermo Ramirez
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:37
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  19. The use of sustainable technologies such as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), and/or recycled materials is expected to positively affect the performance of concrete mixtures. However, it is imperati...

    Authors: Enad Mahmoud, Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan El-Chabib and Varun Chowdary Patibandla
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:44
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  20. This study investigates the direct displacement based design (DDBD) approach for different types of reinforced concrete structural systems including single moment-resisting, dual wall-frame and dual steel-brac...

    Authors: Saleh Malekpour and Farhad Dashti
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:43
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  21. Heavy oil fly ash (HOFA) is a byproduct generated by the burning of heavy fuel oil. Chemical analysis showed that HOFA is mainly composed of unburned carbon with a significant amount of heavy metals. Due to to...

    Authors: Abdullah Mofarrah and Tahir Husain
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:42
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  23. Carbonation is a natural ageing process for cement. This study focuses on how the carbonation rate varies with selected hydration times and atmospheric conditions during the early stages of reacting dried ceme...

    Authors: Rikard Ylmén and Ulf Jäglid
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:39
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  24. We report various synchrotron radiation laboratory based techniques used to characterize cement based materials in nanometer scale. High resolution X-ray transmission imaging combined with a rotational axis al...

    Authors: Sejung R. Chae, Juhyuk Moon, Seyoon Yoon, Sungchul Bae, Pierre Levitz, Robert Winarski and Paulo J. M. Monteiro
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:36
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  25. After reviewing the background and motivations for using modern computational methods for the design of reinforced concrete structures, an algorithm making use of the object oriented programming language Pytho...

    Authors: S. M. Shahidul Islam and A. Khennane
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:27
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  28. Prestressed concrete (PC) is the predominant material in highway bridge construction. The use of high-strength concrete has gained wide acceptance in the PC industry. The main target in the highway industry is...

    Authors: Emad L. Labib, Y. L. Mo and Thomas T. C. Hsu
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:33
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  29. This paper discusses the properties of RCA, the effects of RCA use on concrete material properties, and the large scale impact of RCA on structural members. The review study yielded the following findings in r...

    Authors: Katrina McNeil and Thomas H.-K. Kang
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:32
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  30. The use of light-gauge steel framing in low-rise commercial and industrial building construction has experienced a significant increase in recent years. In such construction, the wall framing is an assembly of...

    Authors: Nadim Wehbe, Pouria Bahmani and Alexander Wehbe
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:31
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  31. Rapid and effective repair methods are desired to enable quick reopening of damaged bridges after an earthquake occurs, especially for those bridges that are critical for emergency response and other essential...

    Authors: Ruili He, Lesley H. Sneed and Abdeldjelil Belarbi
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:30
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  32. The most recent report by ACI Committee 440 on externally bonded fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) strengthening systems states that systems designed to mechanically anchor FRP should be studied in detail and sub...

    Authors: Stephen V. Grelle and Lesley H. Sneed
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:29
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  33. Strengthening concrete structures using FRP composites is a commonly considered technology in many practical situations. The success of the strengthening intervention largely depends on adequate bond between F...

    Authors: Sergio F. Breña and Geoffrey N. McGuirk
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2013 7:28
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  34. Post-earthquake fire (PEF) can lead to a rapid collapse of buildings that have been partially damaged as a result of a prior earthquake. Almost all standards and codes for the design of structures against eart...

    Authors: Hamid Reza Ronagh and Behrouz Behnam
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:25
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  36. Composites are somewhat more difficult to model than an isotropic material such as iron or steel due to the fact that each layer may have different orthotropic material properties. In finite element literature...

    Authors: Yousef Zandi and Muhammet Vefa Akpinar
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:21
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  38. Pervious concrete is a tailored-property concrete with high water permeability which allow the passage of water to flow through easily through the existing interconnected large pore structure. This paper repor...

    Authors: Rasiah Sriravindrarajah, Neo Derek Huai Wang and Lai Jian Wen Ervin
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:24
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  41. The temperature distributions of concrete structures strongly depend on the value of thermal conductivity of concrete. However, the thermal conductivity of concrete varies according to the composition of the c...

    Authors: Jong-Han Lee, Jong-Jae Lee and Baik-Soon Cho
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:16
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  42. Concrete is an economical construction material and for that reason it is widely used in buildings and infrastructures. The use of deicing salts, expansion joint failure, and freeze–thaw cycles have led to con...

    Authors: Chris Ramseyer and Thomas H.-K. Kang
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:19
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  43. This article reviews the tailoring of engineered cementitious composites (ECC), a type of high performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites with a theoretical design basis, for special attributes or fu...

    Authors: Victor C. Li
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:18
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 7:s40069-012-0022-z

  44. An experimental investigation was conducted to compare the bond strength of reinforcing steel in self-consolidating concrete (SCC) with conventional concrete (CC). This study investigated two different compres...

    Authors: Trevor J. Looney, Mahdi Arezoumandi, Jeffery S. Volz and John J. Myers
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:17
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  45. The aim of this study is to assess the seismic performance of hollow reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete bridge columns, and to provide data for developing improved seismic design criteria. By using a...

    Authors: Tae-Hoon Kim, Dai-Jeong Seong and Hyun Mock Shin
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:15
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  46. In order to predict the neutralization of concrete which is the reaction of carbonation dioxide from the outside and cement hydration product, such as calcium hydroxide and C–S–H, it was studied the numerical ...

    Authors: Jae-Hong Park, Takuya Hasegawa, Osamu Senbu and Dong-Cheon Park
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:14
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  47. The aim of this study is to explore the possibility of re-cycling a waste material that is now produced in large quantities, while achieving an improvement of the mechanical properties and durability of the mo...

    Authors: Youcef Ghernouti and Bahia Rabehi
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:13
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  49. This paper focuses on the finite element (FE) response sensitivity and reliability analyses considering smooth constitutive material models. A reinforced concrete frame is modeled for FE sensitivity analysis f...

    Authors: Md. Iftekharul Alam and Dookie Kim
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:10
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  50. This paper presents the differences in growth of time-dependent strain values in reinforced cement concrete (RCC) and pre-stressed concrete (PSC) flexural members through experiment. It was observed that at an...

    Authors: Swarup Rn. Debbarma and Showmen Saha
    Citation: International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials 2012 6:8
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