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Imperial College London

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Article title

Blinding struts - Part 1: Buckling response

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.engstruct.2011.05.002

Title of journal

Engineering Structures

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

2563

ISSN of journal

0141-0296

Year of publication

2011

URL

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Additional information

Experimental and numerical research, funded by EPSRC (Grant: EP/D505488/1), develops scientific basis for the design of blinding struts. Relatively thin blinding struts shown to have significantly greater axial resistance than commonly supposed before failing in upheaval buckling, allowing considerable economies to be achieved in design. Validates assumptions on major infrastructure projects engineered by Mott MacDonald, including Channel Tunnel, Limehouse Link and the Heathrow Cofferdam. Used to persuade some clients to sanction blinding struts since behaviour now considered more certain and definitively established (Alan.Powderham@mottmac.com). This work enabled follow-on research to develop a simplified design method (doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2011.05.010).

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

D - Structures

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

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