Dear friend and colleagues,
Four new European standards for testing self compacting concrete mixtures were introduced two months ago:
EN 12350-9:2010 - "Testing fresh concrete. Self-compacting concrete. V-funnel test";
EN 12350-10:2010 - "Testing fresh concrete. Self-compacting concrete. L box test";
EN 12350-11:2010 - "Testing fresh concrete. Self-compacting concrete. Sieve segregation test";
EN 12350-12:2010 - "Testing fresh concrete. Self-compacting concrete. J-ring test".
Earlier this year the technical specification EN 206-9:2010 "Concrete. Additional rules for self-compacting concrete (SCC)" was issued.
If some of you has any of this standards, please share it.
Thanks in advance!
IR

Anyone have the Fabig (Fire and Blast Information Group) Technical Note as shown below.

Could you help to kindly share with me?

Could you please suggest me a software for masonry building analysis.
It would preferable to have the Eurocode6.
I know the Italian 3muri.
Does anyone use it or use something else ;

Partial prestressing, from theory to practice, Volume 1
By M. Z. Cohn,
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division

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Hi All

I hope someone can help me with this journal. Thanks A Lot


Method for Random Vibration of Hysteretic Systems

by Yi-Kwei Wen, M.ASCE, Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division, Vol. 102, No. 2, March/April 1976, pp. 249-263

here is the link i have uploaded it in 4shared.

Hi,

I have created a linear direct integration time history load case, which contains a bridge live load pattern. This load pattern has a time history function associated.

The problem is that when I change the time history function, all the results stay the same...Even if I create a null time history function (all zeros throughout the time), I still get stresses and deformations in the structure, suggesting that the time history function is actually doing nothing!

Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug? I've seen that time history functions work with static load cases...Can't it work with moving load cases?

Any help will be mostly appreciated!

Hello comrades:

I ask you to see if anyone knows if SAP2000 version 10, can operate with multiple processors, ie in a supercomputer that has multiple processors, or on a network of computers to work on a single model.

This is because I have been testing the model for my thesis on my computer (intel core-2-duo, 4GB ram), but the race becomes very slow (I think it would take weeks to complete a single run !!).. I know there is not a problem with my computer, because the analysis is a nonlinear time-history and direct integration, which usually takes longer than other analysis. Also that the structure is very large (57 levels, and 5 x 5 frames) and has many nonlinear elements (defined plastic hinges at the ends of some beams, and many bars with a limit of tension/compression).

I need to speed up the runs to finish my thesis within a reasonable time, because now I have to finish it. I went to ask my university to lend me a supercomputer to make runs, but they told me to check that the program (SAP2000 v10) could work with multiple processors simultaneously, so that the supercomputer would be useful .. But I do not know if the SAP2000 can or not.

Please, if any of you know if SAP2000 can work with multiple processors, or can suggest me how i can speed up the analysis, Please help me..

Dear friends and colleagues,
I am looking for the standard ISO/IEC 80000-4:2006 "Quantities and units - Part 4: Mechanics".
If anybody has it, please share it.
Thanks in advance!
IR