If the system was upgraded, upgrading of the system application was also carried out during the supportive supervision.
In structural engineering, the maintenance, repair and upgrading of structures is just as important and technical as the design and construction of new structures.
The sensitivities of the probability with respect to the means and standard deviations of uncertain member capacities are estimated for an optimal upgrade of the structural system.
Strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) structures using the near-surface mounted (NSM) fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) method is becoming an attractive technique for upgrading the existing structural elements.
Nanocomposites have emerged in the last two decades as an efficient strategy to upgrade the structural and functional properties of synthetic polymers.
The collapse of the columns in actual changing climate conditions can be eliminated by developing methods of structural upgrading, which has to be efficient from the implementation technology point of view, as well as costs.
Atwell chose to dedicate the entire award – $1m worth – to the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), the nonprofit demonstration school she founded 25 years ago, which she said is in need of structural upgrades, including a new roof and furnaces, and many more books.
Full-scale experimental results confirmed the effectiveness of the FRP composite strengthening systems in upgrading the out-of-plane flexural structural performance of URM walls.
"New gallery space will be created, a wider range of objects displayed, facilities upgraded, and any structural defects, such as the roof, remedied.
An approach by taking the correlation among structural collapses into account in selecting the optimum upgrading level of a group of existing structures is presented and illustrated by a numerical example.
