Xinlai Peng

TL;DR: In this article, an experimental investigation was conducted on the effect of thermal shock during cooling on residual mechanical properties of fiber concrete exposed to elevated temperatures from 200 to 800 ˚ C. The experimental results indicated that, compared with natural cooling, thermal shock induced by water quenching and spraying water caused more severe damage to concrete, in terms of greater losses in compressive strength, tensile splitting strength, and fracture energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present two new translation-based peak pressure coefficient estimation schemes that offer accurate and stable performance for strongly non-Gaussian data, and one of the new methods slightly outperforms the Gumbel method.

TL;DR: The majority of the coastal population lives in buildings prone to hurricanes, which could result in catastrophic losses in the United States as mentioned in this paper, which is estimated to be in the billions of dollars.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the performance of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) systems on combined sewer overflows (CSOs), also known as low impact development (LID) approaches.

TL;DR: In this paper, the aerodynamic effects of roof gutters and eaves structures on alleviating rooftop extreme wind pressure were evaluated via wind tunnel testing on a series of 1/20 gable roof house models, and the results showed that the presence of these gutters or eaves gives a significant reduction of negative peak wind pressures at edges and corners near them.