A parameter used to carry out the quality control of unbound compacted soil materials is the maximum dry unit weight obtained from a standard or modified Proctor test. However, these tests are far from simulating the field ...

This paper investigates the optimization of concrete aggregate particle size distribution under a dense arrangement of a group of sphere particles with maximum diameter of 25 m. The proposed sphere model reflects the ...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a model for determining the market value of residential properties (apartments) based on their surface. Every residential property can be viewed as consisting of a bundle of attributes, ...

In the increasingly globalized world, the most important goal of the businesses is trying to do activities both in time and with the least cost by managing the resources productively. The businesses attach the importance ...

During the process of structural designing for a building to be developed, as well as during the check-up of the structural integrity for an existing building or for a building that has undergone different interventions, ...

Structural Optimization, in general, can be interpreted as “the point” where the required structural performance meets the minimal usage of resources and other constraints. The limited material resources, which have concerned ...

In the present paper, seismic performance assessment of a typical low-rise unreinforced masonry (URM) building, which has been built in accordance with template designs in Albania, has been performed. For this purpose, one ...

In this paper, we study an innovative class of tensegrity beams, obtained by a suitable assembly of elementary V-Expander tensegrity cells along a longitudinal axis in the three-dimensional space. Tensegrity structures, ...

The Traffic Speed Deflectometer (TSD) is a vehicle incorporating a set of laser Doppler vibrometers on a straight beam to measure the relative velocity between the beam and the pavement surface. This paper describes a ...

Albania is a seismic region so the goal of many earthquake engineers is to ensure the durability of a structure for a given level of ground vibration. There are many uncertainties about magnitude, location and the intensity ...