Preface
Rajapakse, Nimal; Chau, Kam Tim; Wijeyewickrema, Anil C.; Kanok-Nukulchai, Worsak
2009-02-01 00:00:00
This issue of Advances in Structural Engineering is dedicated to Pisidhi Karasudhi, Professor Emeritus at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. It contains contributions from authors who presented papers at the Tenth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering & Construction, in a symposium entitled Recent Advances in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials, from August 4-5, 2006. The symposium consisted of six technical sessions and a special session on Modern Engineering Education Strategies and Practices. Thirty-two invited papers were included in the technical program. The authors come from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and the United States of America. The format of this issue is such that the papers are ordered alphabetically according to first author. The first paper by Ahmed, Rajapakse and Gadala examines the slippage behavior of bolted joints due to frost-heave in transmission towers using the finite element method. The next two papers are in the area of reinforced concrete structures. Guan discusses the effects of openings on punching shear failure of slab-column connections, while Heo and Kunnath study the prediction of inelastic seismic behavior of RC frame structures using different constitutive models. Pinkaew and Senjuntichai in their paper report on the fatigue damage evaluation of railway bridges using a dynamic strain measuring system. The next two papers discuss seismic pounding between structures where the separation distance is inadequate. Shakya and Wijeyewickrema examine the effects of soil on mid-column pounding of multi- story reinforced concrete buildings while Wang, Chau and Wei investigate nonlinear torsional pounding between structures. In the next paper Warnitchai, Sinthuwong and Poemsantitham report on the series of wind tunnel tests that were carried out on large billboard structures. In the last paper Yamaguchi, Kawamura, Matuso, Matsuki and Naito study the use of bridge-weigh-in-motion to estimate the weight of trucks on a curved bridge. We wish to thank all contributors to this issue and the symposium and the reviewers for their valuable comments. We especially thank Professor J. G. Teng the Chief Editor of Advances in Structural Engineering for agreeing to publish this volume as a special issue and Ms. Peggy Wai for her assistance in editorial coordination. Nimal Rajapakse The University of British Columbia, Canada Kam Tim Chau The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Anil C. Wijeyewickrema Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
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This issue of Advances in Structural Engineering is dedicated to Pisidhi Karasudhi, Professor Emeritus at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. It contains contributions from authors who presented papers at the Tenth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering & Construction, in a symposium entitled Recent Advances in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials, from August 4-5, 2006. The symposium consisted of six technical sessions and a special session on Modern Engineering Education Strategies and Practices. Thirty-two invited papers were included in the technical program. The authors come from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and the United States of America. The format of this issue is such that the papers are ordered alphabetically according to first author. The first paper by Ahmed, Rajapakse and Gadala examines the slippage behavior of bolted joints due to frost-heave in transmission towers using the finite element method. The next two papers are in the area of reinforced concrete structures. Guan discusses the effects of openings on punching shear failure of slab-column connections, while Heo and Kunnath study the prediction of inelastic seismic behavior of RC frame structures using different constitutive models. Pinkaew and Senjuntichai in their paper report on the fatigue damage evaluation of railway bridges using a dynamic strain measuring system. The next two papers discuss seismic pounding between structures where the separation distance is inadequate. Shakya and Wijeyewickrema examine the effects of soil on mid-column pounding of multi- story reinforced concrete buildings while Wang, Chau and Wei investigate nonlinear torsional pounding between structures. In the next paper Warnitchai, Sinthuwong and Poemsantitham report on the series of wind tunnel tests that were carried out on large billboard structures. In the last paper Yamaguchi, Kawamura, Matuso, Matsuki and Naito study the use of bridge-weigh-in-motion to estimate the weight of trucks on a curved bridge. We wish to thank all contributors to this issue and the symposium and the reviewers for their valuable comments. We especially thank Professor J. G. Teng the Chief Editor of Advances in Structural Engineering for agreeing to publish this volume as a special issue and Ms. Peggy Wai for her assistance in editorial coordination. Nimal Rajapakse The University of British Columbia, Canada Kam Tim Chau The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Anil C. Wijeyewickrema Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
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