Advances In Engineering Structures, Mechanics & Construction: Proceedings Of An International Conference On Advances In Engineering Structures, Mechanics ... 2006 (solid Mechanics And Its Applications)

Advances in Engineering Structures, Mechanics & Construction SOLID MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS Volume 140 Series Editor: G.M.L. GLADWELL Department of Civil Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3GI Aims and Scope of the Series The fundamental questions arising in mechanics are: Why?, How?, and How much? The aim of this series is to provide lucid accounts written by authoritative researchers giving vision and insight in answering these questions on the subject of mechanics as it relates to solids. The scope of the series covers the entire spectrum of solid mechanics. Thus it includes the foundation of mechanics; variational formulations; computational mechanics; statics, kinematics and dynamics of rigid and elastic bodies: vibrations of solids and structures; dynamical systems and chaos; the theories of elasticity, plasticity and viscoelasticity; composite materials; rods, beams, shells and membranes; structural control and stability; soils, rocks and geomechanics; fracture; tribology; experimental mechanics; biomechanics and machine design. The median level of presentation is the first year graduate student. Some texts are monographs defining the current state of the field; others are accessible to final year undergraduates; but essentially the emphasis is on readability and clarity. For a list of related mechanics titles, see final pages. Advances in Engineering Structures, Mechanics & Construction Proceedings of an International Conference on Advances in Engineering Structures, Mechanics & Construction, held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 14--17, 2006 Edited by M. PANDEY University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada WEI-CHAU XIE University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and LEI XU University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13 1-4020-4890-4 (HB) 978-1-4020-4890-6 (HB) 1-4020-4891-2 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4891-3 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved © 2006 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in the Netherlands. This volume of research papers is dedicated by the authors to Professor Donald Edward Grierson on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Waterloo TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface xiii Dedication xv P LENARY P RESENTATIONS Forty Years of Engineering Structures, Mechanics and Construction Research at the University of Waterloo Mircea Z. Cohn and Donald E. Grierson 3 Isospectral Vibrating Systems G.M.L. Gladwell 31 Cold-Formed Steel Research at the University of Waterloo R.M. Schuster 39 C ONCRETE S TRUCTURES Sulphide, Sulphate and Sulphuric Acid Corrosion of Concrete in Laboratory Tests V. Assaad Abdelmseeh, J.C. Jofriet, S.