Z. Farook, C. Matthews, M. Skinner, M. Brown
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S. Mastrolembo Ventura , T. Hilfert ,M. Archetti , M. Rizzi , A. Spezia , L.C Tagliabue , E. Oliveri and A.L.C. Ciribini
13 February 2013Floor vibration due to human activity has become increasingly recognised by structural engineers, architects, and building owners as an inherent issue in long-span steel framed floor systems. In the past, attention was primarily focused on strength and deflection serviceability limits. However…
V.N.Patel and R.J.Built
Structural and geotechnical design of a piled raft for a tall building founded on granular soil
17 April 2013The process followed in designing the piled raft foundation of a tall building is discussed. This entails analysing the governing limit states, assessing the geotechnical characterisation of the soil deposit as well as deploying the appropriate modelling tool to study the behaviour of the chosen foundation system at each design phase…
Allievi L., Ferrero S., Mussi A., Persio R., Petrella F.
Efficient sparse matrix multiple-vector multiplication using a bitmapped format
14 February 2013The problem of obtaining high computational throughput from sparse matrix multiple–vector multiplication routines is considered. Current sparse matrix formats and algorithms have high bandwidth requirements and poor reuse of cache and register loaded entries, which restrict…
Ramaseshan Kannan
Detecting the Causes of Ill-Conditioning in Structural Finite Element Models
In 2011, version 8.6 of the finite element-based structural analysis package Oasys GSA was released. A new feature in this release was the estimation of the 1-norm condition number…
Ramaseshan Kannan, Stephen Hendry, Nicholas J. Higham, Francoise Tisseur
Maria Mingallon and Sakthivel Ramaswamy
Structural engineers need to understand the environmental impact of their designs. This paper describes a project undertaken to review the confusing array of data and provide an approach which links data, tools and real-life material specification.
Sarah C. Kaethner, Frances Yan
Prediction and Measurement of Stadia Dynamic Properties
20 January 2012
Paul Reynolds, Aleksandar Pavic and Michael Willford
Union Station is the most important transportation hub serving the Greater Toronto Area. The revitalization of Union Station is intended to improve the delivery of local, regional and national rail passenger services. The revitalization process is being facilitated by the City of Toronto and other parties that have an interest in Union Station…
Jeff Bateman, Tim Laspa, Erin Morrow