Monitoring Deformations Of A Wooden Church Tower By Laser Scanning

Churches are part of heritage structures that take an important role in Europe ́s cultural identity. As such, these structures must be protected to prevent catastrophic collapse and any damage must be reported timely to establish planning to maintenance and restoration. This can be achievable when the churches are monitored periodically with...

Quantitative assessment of structural components for construction management using laser scanning data

Defects in a construction site is inevitable and these defects must be inspected and reported timely to minimize extract cost due to repair the defects. However, in practice, quality of structural elements is often inspected by a site supervisor with traditional tools (e.g. measuring tapes, total stations or levelling) at only specific locations...

Deliberate Deformation of Concrete in the Fresh State: Crack Risk and Efficient Production of Curved Precast Elements

The production of double-curved precast concrete elements for cladding or shell structures requires expensive CNC (computer numerical control)-milled formwork. As an alternative method, the innovative flexible mould for economically efficient and sustainable production of such elements is discussed in this paper. This method comprises the use of...

Numerical Simulation of Deformation and Cracking in Maturing Concrete

Some future directions in computational failure mechanics

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