Keywords: Earthquake engineering, Steel-concrete composite shear wall, Infill concrete, Steel faceplates, Cyclic test, Bolted-baseplate, connection, In-plane loading ...

New slabs-on-ground crack when tensile stresses from restrained shrinkage exceed the concrete's strength. This type of early-age cracking occurs during the first few days of the slab's life and is ...

It’s often said that what we know about concrete is that it gets hard and it cracks. But this is a meaningless over-simplification because it doesn’t tell us anything about either the hardness in ...