Advances in Engineering Structures, Mechanics & Construction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Plenary Presentations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Forty Years of Engineering Structures, Mechanics and Construction Research at the University of Waterloo

      • Mircea Z. Cohn, Donald E. Grierson

      Pages 3-29

   3. Isospectral Vibrating Systems

      • G. M. L. Gladwell

      Pages 31-38

   4. Cold-formed Steel Research at The University of Waterloo

      • R. M. Schuster

      Pages 39-52

3. Concrete Structures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Sulphide, Sulphate and Sulphuric Acid a Corrosion of Concrete in Laboratory Tests

      • V. Assaad Abdelmseeh, J. C. Jofriet, S. C. Negi, G. Hayward

      Pages 55-65

   3. Summary of Development and Use of CSA 2004 Shear Design Provisions

      • Evan C. Bentz

      Pages 67-80

   4. Damage Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks Using TAM Network

      • Hitoshi Furuta, Hiroshi Hattori, Dan M. Frangopol

      Pages 81-86

   5. An Approximate Damage Model for Concrete Under Finite Deformation

      • S. Khajehpour, G. D. Morandin, R. G. Sauvé

      Pages 87-98

   6. Dynamic Response Analysis for a Large-scale RC Girder Under a Falling-weight Impact Loading

      • N. Kishi, T. Ohno, H. Konno, A. Q. Bhatti

      Pages 99-109

   7. Damage States for Reinforced CMU Masonry Shear Walls

      • Jia Li, Terence A. Weigel

      Pages 111-120

   8. Seismic Behaviour of Precast Column-to-foundation Grouted Sleeve Connections

      • Paolo Riva

      Pages 121-128

   9. Air-void Stability in Fresh Self-consolidating Concretes Incorporating Rice Husk Ash

      • Md. Safiuddin, G. R. FitzGerald, J. S. West, K. A. Soudki

      Pages 129-138

   10. Behavior of Concrete Bridge Decks Reinforced with MMFX Steel

       • Hatem Seliem, Gregory Lucier, Sami Rizkalla, Paul Zia

       Pages 139-152

   11. Evaluation of Shear Design Methods for Large, Lightly-reinforced Concrete Beams

       • E. G. Sherwood, E. C. Bentz, M. P. Collins

       Pages 153-164

   12. FRP Repair of Corrosion-damaged Concrete Beams — Waterloo Experience

       • Khaled A. Soudki

       Pages 165-173

   13. Compressive Strength Testing of Earthen Plasters For Straw Bale Wall Application

       • Brendon Taylor, Stephen Vardy, Colin MacDougall

       Pages 175-183

4. Steel Structures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. GBT-based Structural Analysis of Thin-walled members: Overview, Recent Progress and Future Developments

      • D. Camotim, N. Silvestre, R. Gonçalves, P. B. Dinis

      Pages 187-204

This volume is the proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Engineering Structures,Mechanics& Construction,convenedat the UniversityofWaterloo on May14–17,2006. TheconferencewasheldtocelebratefortyyearsofrelatedresearchachievementattheUniversity of Waterloo. The Solid Mechanics Division (SMD) of the university was founded in 1966 as a research centre of excellence. During the next three decades, SMD hosted many scienti?c visitors from around the world and held more than a dozen international conferences, lecture series and symposia on a diverse range of topics in mechanics and structural engineering. Upon the retirement of many of its founding members in the 1990s, SMD was renamed the Structures, Mechanics & Construction Division (SMCD) to re?ect the changing research interests of its newer members. The conference also celebrated the academic career of Professor Donald E. Grierson as a dist- guished researcher and educator. Professor Grierson has been a faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineering and SMD/SMCD of the University of Waterloo since 1968. He was an early contributor to the Solid Mechanics Division in the 1960s, and was pivotal in the reformation of the Structures, Mechanics & Construction Division in the mid of 1990s. After a productive career of thirty-eight years in research and teaching, Professor Grierson retired from the university at the end of 2005.

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From the reviews:

"It contains 8 sections, with 73 papers in the area of structural engineering, applied mechanics and construction management. Most of the papers present original research results, while some papers review special research areas. … This massive work is recommended to civil engineers, mechanical engineers and applied mathematicians." (Olivian Simionescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1106 (8), 2007)

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