{"title":"Study on temperature characteristics of multi-tower cable-stayed bridge","authors":"Chengyuan Liu, Zhuowei Han, Li Wei, Zhao Lin","doi":"10.24425/ace.2023.147675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ace.2023.147675","url":null,"abstract":": Temperatureeffectshaveagreatinfluenceonthemechanicalbehaviorofcable-stayedbridges, especially for long-span bridges, which have significant time-varying and spatial effects. In this paper, the temperature characteristics of multi-tower cable-stayed bridge are obtained by data acquisition with wireless acquisition module. The test results show that: the daily temperature-time curves of atmo-spherictemperatureandstructuraltemperaturearesimilartosinewaveswithobviouspeaksandtroughs; structure temperature and atmospheric temperature have obvious hysteresis; longitudinal displacement, transverse displacement and vertical of mid-span beam are negatively correlated with atmospheric temperature; the temperature distribution of the cable tower is not uniform, and the maximum temperature difference of the section is 23.7 ◦ C considering 98% of the upper limit value; the longitudinal, transverse and vertical displacement of cable tower and the cable force is negatively correlated with atmospheric temperature, and the relationship between cable force and atmospheric temperature is a cubic function rather than linear function.","PeriodicalId":45753,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Civil Engineering","volume":"15 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138950178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of thermal and air efficiency in trombe wall of modular building","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/ace.2023.147682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ace.2023.147682","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45753,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Civil Engineering","volume":"80 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138951338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of concrete life under coupled dry and wet-sulfate erosion based on damage evolution equation","authors":"Nan Nie","doi":"10.24425/ace.2023.147683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ace.2023.147683","url":null,"abstract":": In a corrosive environment with coupled dry-wet-sulfate action, concrete structures are susceptible to erosion by sulfate ions, which seriously affects the safe operating life. To forecast the operational lifetime of concrete below the influence of the dry-wet cycle and sulfate erosion environment, four different admixtures of polypropylene fiber: 0, 0.6, 0.9, and 1.2 kg/m 3 , were incorporated into concrete specimens, and indoor accelerated tests were designed to observe the macroscopic and microscopic deterioration law analysis of concrete specimens; using the precept of damage mechanics, the damage of concrete under solubility cycle was established. The damage evolution equation of concrete under freeze-thaw cycles was established and the operational life of concrete was predicted. The results showed that the overall mass loss rate of concrete specimens increased with the number of tests, and the relative energetic modulo decreased with the number of tests; the pore change pattern, microstructure, and internal material composition of specimens under different working conditions were obtained by using NMR scanning technique, SEM electron microscope scanning technique and XRD physical phase analysistechnique. Thedamageevolutionequationshows thataddingacertainamount ofpolypropylene fiber to concrete can improve the working life of concrete under dry and wet connected sulfate assault.","PeriodicalId":45753,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Civil Engineering","volume":"46 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138951669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characteristic of small-strain stiffness of fine-grained soils based on advanced laboratory tests","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/ace.2023.147648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ace.2023.147648","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45753,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Civil Engineering","volume":"8 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138952088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of the effects of using various backfill materials in the buried pipelines construction","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/ace.2023.147657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ace.2023.147657","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45753,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Civil Engineering","volume":"53 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138952396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of anchoring and bracing system on dynamic characteristics of façade scaffolding","authors":"","doi":"10.24425/ace.2023.147672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ace.2023.147672","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45753,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Civil Engineering","volume":"14 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138949181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Validity and reliability testing of the questionnaire used to finalize criteria for the evaluation of the contractor’s performance","authors":"Sunil Mahadik, Vinay Topkar","doi":"10.24425/ace.2023.147671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ace.2023.147671","url":null,"abstract":": The paper aims to determine the criteria and sub-criteria for evaluating the contractor’s performanceandfinalizeamasterlistofthecriteriaandsub-criteriatobeusedforevaluatingcontractor’s performancewiththeirrespectiveweights.Themethodisincorporatedintheframeworkproposedfortheevaluationofthecontractor’sperformanceduringtheexecutionphase.Anexploratorystudy hasbeenopted,usingastructured,close-endedmultiple-choicequestionnairesurveyapproach.Thequestionnairesurveywasconductedintwophases,i.e.validationsurvey,andreliabilitysurvey.Fifteen expertsrespondedtothevalidationsurvey,andthirtyexpertstothereliabilitysurvey.TheexpertswerefromGovernmentandpublicsectorsinIndia,workingatvariousseniorlevels.Theweightsofcriteria andsub-criteriawerecalculatedfromdatacollectedinthesurvey,relativeimportancewascalculatedthroughtherelativeimportanceindexandcriteriawereranked.Thepaperprovidescriteriaandsub-criteriawhichwerefinalizedthroughaquestionnairesurveybyclassificationofcriteriaidentifiedinliteratureandtenderreview.Therespectiveweightswerefinalized,whichcanbemeasuredwhile evaluatingcontractors’performance.Theweightsassignedtocriteriathroughthesurveyare;healthandsafetyis13.19%,followedbyfinance11.93%,time11.93%,quality13.38%,clientsatisfaction 12.42%, environmental safety 12.32%, productivity 12.51% and regulation 12.32%. The paper provides the criteria and sub-criteria with their weights needed for evaluating the performance of contractors during the project execution phase. This research can lead to a culture of continuous measurement of performance for the satisfactory completion of projects.","PeriodicalId":45753,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Civil Engineering","volume":"56 42","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138949348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation on cracking performance of UHPC overlaid concrete deck at hogging moment zone of steel-concrete composite girders","authors":"Zhiyong Wan, Guohe Guo, Zhiguo Wang, Shaohua He, Juliang Tan, Libo Hou","doi":"10.24425/ace.2023.147669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ace.2023.147669","url":null,"abstract":": The concrete deck at the negative bending moment region of a continuous steel-concrete compositegirderbridgeistheweakestpartofthestructure.Introducingultra-highperformanceconcrete (UHPC) to the hogging region may overcome the shortage and break through the bottleneck. This paper explores the cracking performance of steel-concrete composite girders with concrete slabs topped by athinlayerofUHPCsubjectedtoanegativebendingmoment.Arealcontinuouscompositegirderbridge is briefly introduced as the engineering background, and the cracking characteristic of the concrete deck over the middle piers of the bridge is numerically modeled. Approaches to strengthen the cracking performance of the concrete deck at the hogging region through topping UHPC overlays are proposed. The effectiveness of the approaches is examined by conducting a series of numerical and experimental tests. Numerical results indicate that the normal concrete (NC) deck near the middle forums of the bridge would crack due to the large tensile stress from negative bending moments. Replacing the top concrete withan identical-thick UHPCoverlay can increasethe cracking resistanceof the deckunder the moment. As the thickness of the UHPC overlay increased from 6.0 cm to 12.0 cm, the maximum shear stress at the UHPC overlay-to-NC substrate interface under different load combinations was decreased by 56.3% ∼ 65.3%. Experimental results show that the first-cracking load of the composite beam using","PeriodicalId":45753,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Civil Engineering","volume":"9 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138951923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling the vibratory roller compaction process of road soils","authors":"Dragos Capatina, M. Nițu, Mihaiela Iliescu","doi":"10.24425/ace.2023.147668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24425/ace.2023.147668","url":null,"abstract":": Road infrastructure is aimed to be sustainable construction in today’s condition of heavy traffic. Depending on geotechnical characteristics of soils there are chosen adequate techniques for compaction, meaning: type of compaction, equipment, compaction parameters and, if possible, computer aided acquisition and processing of data. This paper presents research results on the vibratory roller compaction process of road soils, from the point of view of process mathematically modeling and statistically modeling of process parameters interdependence. The obtained regression model is innovative one and fit for further application in optimization (by AI and IoT) of the compaction process. Good correlation of all the results (self-pulsation values) proves the adequate assumptions for both modeling and experimenting. Further development of this research is intended to develop a special software for direct correlation of road geographical position and soil characteristics to the compaction process parameters optimum values.","PeriodicalId":45753,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Civil Engineering","volume":"52 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138952432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}