Amir M. Alani

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the essence of two case studies by the authors on two major bridges in the UK and report on the applications of GPR and associated work carried out on the Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh, Scotland, with the main objective of identifying possible structural defects including damaged rebar and moisture ingress at specific locations of the bridge deck.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present results of an ongoing investigation undertaken by the authors concerning the mechanical and physical properties of fiber reinforced concrete ground slabs at an industrial scale and present results concerning the punching shear failure of a 6.00 m × 6.15 m synthetic fiber reinforced ground supported slab.

TL;DR: In this article, the reliability of non-pressure flexible underground pipes subjected to externally applied loading and material corrosion during the whole service life is estimated with respect to time due to corrosion induced deflection, buckling, wall thrust, bending stress.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the thermal properties of concrete made with glass cullet and found that exposure of concrete to both high (60°C and low (−20°C) temperatures produced, greater temperature stability.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates that, by using a novel sampling strategy based on sampling directions, it is possible to obtain a good approximation of the limit state without high computational complexity.