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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 728 Downloads: 554 Vol. 15, No. 57 (2021) June 22, 2021 pp. 50-62

Optimization of High-Performance-Concrete properties containing fine recycled aggregates using mixture design modeling

Tounsia Boudina, Dalila Benamara, Rebih Zaitri

This investigation means to predict and modeling the fresh and hardened concrete behavior containing fine aggregates from concrete and brick wastes, for different recycled aggregates substitution rates. To succeed this, the design of…

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 1,103 Downloads: 692 Vol. 17, No. 64 (2023) March 21, 2023 pp. 77-92

Damage identification in RC bridges by confronting two approaches: visual inspection and numerical analysis

Mohammed Ayad, Nadir Boumechra, Karim Hamdaoui

The present article aims to summarize the research study that was conducted the efficiency of methods and techniques designed for the detection and localization of faults in civil engineering structures, particularly in bridge structures.…

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Structural Integrity and Safety: Experimental and Numerical Perspectives Views: 726 Downloads: 1,164 Vol. 16, No. 61 (2022) June 19, 2022 pp. 308-326

Experimental behavior based on effective slab width acting as a flange with supporting steel beams in composite floors with openings

Magdy Khalaf Khamis, Ashraf El-Shihy, El-Sayed El-Kasaby, Ahmad Youssef

An experimental study with many variables was carried out to investigate the effective width of simply supported composite beams (T&L sec. beams) with & without slab opening. Three full-scale composite slab models with six different…

10.3221/IGF-ESIS.61.21Copy the DOI link

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 1,098 Downloads: 774 Vol. 17, No. 64 (2023) March 21, 2023 pp. 240-249

An assessment of HDPE fillers and Fiber Wrapping on the strength of Reinforced Concrete

Shivakumar Gouda

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) is the most promising technique in the present era to bring sustainability, reliability, and pseudo ductility to concrete structures due to its superior properties. Thermoplastic and thermoset polymers are…

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Miscellanea Views: 1,693 Downloads: 2,117 Vol. 12, No. 43 (2018) December 29, 2017

Experimental tests on slip factor in friction joints: comparison between European and American Standards

Emanuele Maiorana, Paolo Zampieri, Carlo Pellegrino

Friction joints are used in steel structures submitted to cyclic loading such as, for example, in steel and composite bridges, in overhead cranes, and in equipment subjected to fatigue. Slip-critical steel joints with preloaded bolts are…

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 2,782 Downloads: 1,478 Vol. 17, No. 64 (2023) March 21, 2023 pp. 51-76

A review of the application of the simulated annealing algorithm in structural health monitoring (1995-2021)

Parsa Ghannadi, Seyed Sina Kourehli, Seyedali Mirjalili

In recent years, many innovative optimization algorithms have been developed. These algorithms have been employed to solve structural damage detection problems as an inverse solution. However, traditional optimization methods such as…

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SI: Steels and Composites for Engineering Structures Views: 874 Downloads: 571 Vol. 15, No. 58 (2021) September 25, 2021 pp. 308-318

Evaluating structural safety of trusses using Machine Learning

Tran-Hieu Nguyen, Anh-Tuan Vu

In this paper, a machine learning-based framework is developed to quickly evaluate the structural safety of trusses. Three numerical examples of a 10-bar truss, a 25-bar truss, and a 47-bar truss are used to illustrate the proposed…

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 915 Downloads: 667 Vol. 15, No. 58 (2021) September 25, 2021 pp. 33-47

Wavelet-based multiresolution analysis coupled with deep learning to efficiently monitor cracks in concrete

Ahcene Arbaoui, Abdeldjalil Ouahabi, Sebastien Jacques, Madina Hamiane

This paper proposes an efficient methodology to monitor the formation of cracks in concrete after non-destructive ultrasonic testing of a structure. The objective is to be able to automatically detect the initiation of cracks early enough…

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 814 Downloads: 573 Vol. 17, No. 64 (2023) March 21, 2023 pp. 1-10

Degradation of the first frequency of an RC frame with damage levels

Quy Nguyen, Ramazan Livaoğlu

Damage in RC structures causes the degradation of stiffness and frequency parameters. In this study, the relationship between the two coefficients and damage severities is numerically investigated considering a three-dimensional (3D)…

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 1,794 Downloads: 984 Vol. 16, No. 62 (2022) September 22, 2022 pp. 460-489

The Application of PSO in Structural Damage Detection: An Analysis of the Previously Released Publications (2005–2020)

Parsa Ghannadi, Seyed Sina Kourehli, Seyedali Mirjalili

The structural health monitoring (SHM) approach plays a key role not only in structural engineering but also in other various engineering disciplines by evaluating the safety and performance monitoring of the structures. The structural…

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SI: Steels and Composites for Engineering Structures Views: 1,443 Downloads: 971 Vol. 16, No. 59 (2022) December 22, 2021 pp. 172-187

Weight optimization of steel lattice transmission towers based on Differential Evolution and machine learning classification technique

Tran-Hieu Nguyen, Anh-Tuan Vu

Transmission towers are tall structures used to support overhead power lines. They play an important role in the electrical grids. There are several types of transmission towers in which lattice towers are the most common type. Designing…

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Analytical, computational and physical models Views: 595 Downloads: 261 Vol. 19, No. 73 (2025) May 11, 2025 pp. 88-107

A study on the crack presence effect on dynamical behavior of higher-order Quasi-3D composite steel-polymer concrete box section beams via DQFEM

Nassim Laouche, Ahmed Saimi, Ismail Bensaid, Mouloud Dahmane, Hassen Ait Atmane

This paper presents a dynamic and critical buckling analysis of the presence of a crack of steel-polymer concrete composite beams modelled using a refined quasi 3D beam theory. The beam model is a hollow steel box section filled with a…

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Structural Integrity and Durability of Structures Views: 661 Downloads: 401 Vol. 16, No. 60 (2022) March 25, 2022 pp. 363-379

Experimental analysis of short concrete column under hygrothermo-mechanical accelerated aging

Nacera Hassani, Hocine Dehmous

Concrete was considered to be very durable material for a long time. However many constructions have shown degradations during their service life. To ensure safety, stability and serviceability of civil engineering structures…

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Integrity of materials and structures Views: 973 Downloads: 485 Vol. 19, No. 71 (2025) November 7, 2024 pp. 194-210

Investigating the repair of cracks through bacterial self-healing for sustainable concrete in aggressive sulfate attack environments

Seleem Ahmad, Yasmine Elmenshawy, Yasser Osman El Gammal, Hamees Mohamad El-Sheikh, Mohamed Moawad, Ahmed A. Elshami, Mohamed A.R. Elmahdy

Concrete completely submerged in sulfate solutions has been used as the primary study subject for the durability of concrete subjected to sulfates. On the other hand, empirical data from the field indicates that concrete exposed to…

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Miscellanea Views: 811 Downloads: 531 Vol. 12, No. 45 (2018) June 17, 2018 pp. 100-107

Research on anchor service life base on grey prediction model

Xinzheng Wang

With the wide application of anchored structures in various engineering, their durability and service life have become an important issue in the development of anchoring technique. According to the corrosion experiment results on different…

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SI: Modeling in Structural Integrity Views: 514 Downloads: 278 Vol. 20, No. 75 (2026) October 21, 2025 pp. 124-156

Elasto-plastic truss optimization under geometric nonlinearity using a genetic algorithm

Péter Grubits, Pálma Porrogi, Majid Movahedi Rad

This paper presents an advanced optimization methodology for truss structures, addressing both elasto-plastic design cases—where plastic deformations are controlled within predefined limits—and purely elastic scenarios, in which inelastic…

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SI: Russian mechanics contributions for Structural Integrity Views: 470 Downloads: 340 Vol. 19, No. 73 (2025) April 5, 2025 pp. 1-11

The assessment of the severity of local impact on a pro-bionic composite lattice shell by the use of fiber-optic sensors

Sergei Sapozhnikov, Evgeny Dubovikov

The paper considers a pro-bionic lattice shell (PBLS) for civil aviation structures and the problem of getting the parameters of a local low-velocity impact taking the value of residual strain by fiber optic sensors (FOS) installed in…

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SI: Fracture and Damage Detection in Masonry Structures Views: 994 Downloads: 799 Vol. 14, No. 51 (2020) December 12, 2019 pp. 504-516

Micromodels for the in-plane failure analysis of masonry walls: Limit Analysis, FEM and FEM/DEM approaches

Marco Pepe, Marco Pingaro, Patrizia Trovalusci, Emanuele Reccia, Lorenzo Leonetti

In the last decades the modeling of masonry structures has become an argument particularly appealing for many researchers and a large variety of numerical techniques have been formulated with the aim to produce practical applications in…

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Miscellanea Views: 1,059 Downloads: 477 Vol. 12, No. 45 (2018) June 20, 2018 pp. 121-134

Fatigue life assessment for a welded detail: advantages of a local energetic approach and experimental validation

Luigi Viespoli, Filippo Berto, Aurelio Somà

In modern civil buildings, as well as in mechanical and naval constructions, welding is a widely diffused technological process. The fatigue assessment, as design or verification procedure, of a welded joint to evaluate his endurance with…

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SI: Fracture and Structural integrity: ten years of F&IS Views: 932 Downloads: 1,211 Vol. 13, No. 47 (2019) December 3, 2018 pp. 266-276

Mechanical and fracture properties of particleboard

Liviu Marsavina, Ion Octavian POP, Emanoil LINUL

Particleboard (PB) are wood-based composites with fine wood fibers bound together by a small amount of polymeric adhesive, widely used in furniture industry and civil engineering. PB plates can be painted, laminated or veneered, and have…

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Fracture Views: 943 Downloads: 653 Vol. 16, No. 61 (2022) June 19, 2022 pp. 154-175

Hybrid phase-field modeling of multi-level concrete gravity dam notched cracks

Hichem Mazighi, Mustapha Kamel Mihoubi, David Santillan Sanchez

Phase-field models have become a powerful tool to simulate crack propagation. They regularize the fracture discontinuity and smooth the transition between the intact and the damaged regions. Based on the thermodynamic function and a…

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