While all specimens were built with column and in plane beam, one of the tested specimens consists of a transverse beam to demonstrate the applicability of the presented retrofit technique.
The specimens were built with industrialized R-ICF panels in which vertical reinforcements are provided in the panels at the time of fabrication.
However, as the desired range of the imperfection sizes could not be obtained, cast-in-place "pull-out" specimens were built with artificially created voids.
The scaled shiplike specimens were built from metallic thin-walled structures in a reduced scale of 1 100 taken into account shipbuilding processes analogous to that used in real scale marine structures.
In this research two types of mortar were used, namely two specimens were built with hydraulic lime and other two specimens were built with air lime mortar.
The finite element models of the tested specimens were built and analyzed with software ABAQUS.
A total of 18 full-scale composite slab specimens are built and tested in accordance with the Eurocode 4 - Part 1.1 to determine (1) the structural behavior and (2) the load carrying capacity and provide the necessary information to validate the analytical procedures.
The slab-column connection specimens are built and tested under gravity load, and the specimens are inclined with an angle of 20° that give vertical and horizontal loads on the specimens as shown in Fig. 2.
Tissue microarray (TMA) including 313 surgically-resected cases of ESCC specimens was built for immunohistochemical interrogation.
High quality church pipe organs were built in churches from the 17th century; a fine specimen has been preserved in Leżajsk.
