Punching shear failure is a common issue in the connection between flat slabs and reinforced concrete columns. Once failure occurs, a supplementary load-carrying mechanism is necessary to prevent the ...

The Champlain Towers South building began its silent collapse weeks before its 12 floors crumbled in the early hours of June ...

The shear mechanical behavior of joint surfaces is crucial for the safety and stability of rock engineering. Under constant normal load (CNL) conditions, the boundary element method is employed to ...

The offset shear strength is the shear stress endured by a material at the intersection of the shear stress versus the engineering shear strain curve, with a line parallel to a defined modulus and ...

One theory that is used for the prediction of failure in a ductile material is the maximum shear stress theory (MSS). The basis of this theory is that failure will occur when the maximum shear stress ...