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Ibrahim Baran Karasin
Ensuring the safety and stability of buildings during earthquakes is of utmost importance. This can be achieved by assessing the seismic performance of reinforced concrete structures with consideration of design details. This study focused on the seismic...
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Senad Medic and Mustafa Hrasnica
Low-rise residential and public masonry structures constitute a large portion of the building patrimony, yet they were erected during the massive reconstruction of Southeast Europe after World War II before any design rules existed in the engineering pra...
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Zhaodong Shi, Yan Liang, Yang Cao and Jialei Yan
In this paper, the concrete carbonation and chloride-induced corrosion of bridge structure in the service period under the offshore environment were comprehensively considered. Based on the time-varying degradation effect of mechanical properties of mate...
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Marcin Szczepanski, Wojciech Migda and Robert Jankowski
Wood frame buildings are very popular in regions that are exposed to different dynamic excitations including earthquakes. Therefore, their seismic resistance is really important in order to prevent structural damages and human losses. The aim of the pres...
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Yourong Lin, Zhi Zhou, Maoyu Shen, Jili Liu and Wei Huang
In order to enhance the self-centering capacity of steel frame structures after earthquakes and reduce the tubes of traditional double-tube or triple-tube SC-BRB, an innovative single-tube self-centering buckling restrained brace (ST-SC-BRB) is proposed ...
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Linjie Huang, Jianping Han, Hongwei Wen, Chunyu Li, Haocheng He, Yuxin Luo and Zhendong Qian
This paper presents a mechanism and method for simulating the axial?shear?bending interaction of a reinforced concrete (RC) column. The three-dimensional model of a multi-story infilled RC frame was modeled using the OpenSees software. Static pushover an...
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Andrea Roncari, Filippo Gobbi and Cristiano Loss
Simplified seismic design procedures mostly recommend the adoption of rigid floor diaphragms when forming a building?s lateral force-resisting structural system. While rigid behavior is compatible with many reinforced concrete or composite steel-concrete...
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Zhiliang Sun, Lingwei Kong, Wei Bai and Yong Wang
The seismic performance of stabilizing piles used to reinforce underlying bedrock in a deposit slope is a complex soil?structure interaction problem. Two centrifuge shaking table model testswere conducted to ascertain the dynamic responses of the underly...
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Ilaria Capanna, Angelo Aloisio, Franco Di Fabio and Massimo Fragiacomo
The city of L?Aquila (Italy) includes a significant amount of masonry palaces erected from the middle of the 13th century up to the first half of the 20th century. This paper focuses on the seismic response of a masonry palace built during the first half...
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Can Tang, Xinchao Hou, Yanjie Xu and Feng Jin
A rock-filled concrete (RFC) dam is an original dam construction technology invented in China nearly 20 years ago. The technology has been continuously improved and innovated upon, and the accumulated rich practical experience gradually formed a complete...
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Breno Padovezi Rocha, Isabela Augusto Silveira, Roger Augusto Rodrigues, Paulo Cesar Lodi and Heraldo Luiz Giacheti
Collapsible soils are unsaturated low-density soils that undergo abrupt settlement when flooded without any increase in the in-situ stress level. The first stage of the site characterization is identifying collapsible soils, since these are problematic s...
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Cristhian Ramirez Ortiz, Gilberto Areiza Palma, Albio D. Gutierrez Amador, Jose L. Ramirez Duque, Ruth E. Cano Buitron and Luis F. Gonzales Escobar
This paper investigates the seismic behavior of a steel beam-to-concrete-filled steel tubular column connection with external diaphragms. In addition to the multiple advantages observed for manufacturing and assembly, this type of connection is expected ...
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Awaludin A.,Hayashikawa T.,Oikawa A.,Hirai T.,Sasaki Y.,Leijten A.J.M.
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Improvement of cyclic or dynamic performance of timber connections has been intensively conducted since the overall response of wooden structures is merely a function of joint performance. For a bolted joint, filling the lead-hole clearance with epoxy re...
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Federico Núñez, Edgar Muñoz, Jorge Prieto
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Is work deals with the physic seismic vulnerability of the B module of the San Ignacio medical facility using the structural reliability technique. This studywas based on a dynamic spectral model of the building, by varying actions (moment, shear and axi...
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Chunwei Zhang, Dong An and Limeng Zhu
This paper presents a novel steel-damping-concrete (SDC) composite wall as a vertical element for high-rise buildings and nuclear power plants etc. In an SDC composite wall, a damping layer is sandwiched between the concrete core and steel plates to redu...
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Dimitrios Noitsis, Georgia A. Beletsioti, Anastasios Valkanis, Konstantinos Kantelis, Georgios Papadimitriou and Petros Nicopolitidis
Traffic on backbone communication networks is growing significantly every year. This results in an increase in both energy consumption and the carbon footprint they leave on the environment. As a response, research efforts are focused on reducing energy ...
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Debo Zhao, Bin Chen and Jingming Sun
Dynamic loadings arising from impact, explosive, and seismic disasters impose high requirements on the performance of engineering structures during service periods. Engineered cementitious composite (ECC) exhibits exceptional toughness and crack resistan...
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Esmaeil Mohammadi Dehcheshmeh, Parya Rashed, Vahid Broujerdian, Ayoub Shakouri and Farhad Aslani
This paper summarizes a study focused on evaluating the post-fire performance of steel Intermediate Moment Frames (IMFs) following earthquakes. To this aim, archetypes comprising 3-bay IMFs with three different heights were seismically designed, and thei...
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Qiang Xu, Bo Liu, Jianyun Chen, Jing Li and Mingming Wang
This paper presents experimental and numerical investigations of the seismic failure of the reinforced and unreinforced monoliths of the Huangdeng concrete gravity dam. To verify the scale factors, we use suitable materials (emulation concrete material a...
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