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Liangkun Liu, Yuze Zheng, Zhaodong Pan and Qing Lyu
Due to aesthetic demands and the necessity for multi-functionality, a unique structure with one or multiple links connecting adjacent buildings has attracted the attention of researchers. In order to improve vibration control, this study investigates the...
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Abide Asikoglu, Graça Vasconcelos and Paulo B. Lourenço
Performance-based design plays a significant role in the structural and earthquake engineering community to ensure both safety and economic feasibility. Its application to masonry building design/assessment is limited and requires straightforward rules c...
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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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Xun Zhang, Qiankun Liu, Weiwei Xiao, Fan Yu, Liming Cai and Lianzhi Song
In this investigation, a U-shaped connection (U-C) was introduced for a prefabricated steel plate shear wall with beam-only connections. This design replaces a portion of shear bolts with tension bolts to enhance bolt efficiency and reduce the overall bo...
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Bin Chi, Yuhu Quan, Fenglai Wang and Xu Yang
Prestressing technology is an effective way to improve the seismic performance of masonry structures such as concrete masonry wall. Therefore, bonded prestressing technology applied to integrated concrete masonry wall (ICMW) was proposed in this study, a...
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Weiwei Wang, Xuetao Lyu, Jun Zheng, Shanchang Yi, Jiehong Li and Yang Yu
Currently, reinforced thin-walled irregular steel tube concrete frame structures have been applied in engineering, but there are few researches on the seismic performance of this type of structures after fire. The seismic performance of structures after ...
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Bowen Zeng and Yong Li
Masonry is among the most widely used construction materials around the world. Contemporary masonry buildings are primarily designed to comply with prescriptive building code regulations. In recent decades, performance-based design (PBD) has gained incre...
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Wenqiang Peng, Wenliang Lu, Sitian Liu, Yong Liu, Linfeng Xu and Fenglin Li
Accelerated bridge construction (ABC) has attracted much attention in China as a new and efficient construction method. However, the seismic performance of the connections between precast piers and other structures limits the application of ABC in medium...
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Qiang Pei, Pengfei Qi, Zhicheng Xue, Jintu Zhong and Yao Zhang
The aim of this study was to further research the mechanical properties of epoxy thick-layer rubber isolation bearings, adopting orthogonal design and efficacy coefficient methods in order to optimize the geometric dimensions and material parameters of t...
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Giuseppe Santarsiero, Antonio D?Angola, Giuseppe Ventura, Angelo Masi, Vincenzo Manfredi, Valentina Picciano and Andrea Digrisolo
There are many existing buildings for which seismic rehabilitation interventions are required, especially in earthquake-prone areas like Italy. At the same time, the deep energy crisis that Europe is facing highlights the need for sustainable techniques ...
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Weijie Huang, Yuanmin Yang, Rui Pang and Mingyuan Jing
Studying the impact of mainshock?aftershock sequences on dam reliability is crucial for effective disaster prevention measures. With this purpose in mind, a new method for stochastic dynamic response analyses and reliability assessments of dams during se...
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Ho-Jin Baek, Ju-Seong Jung, Kang-Seok Lee and Bok-Gi Lee
This study proposes a concrete-filled tube composite strengthening system (CCSS), which is a new concept that can improve and supplement the vulnerability of existing CFT seismic strengthening methods. The CCSS seismic reinforcement method is easy to con...
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Young-Hak Lee, Soichiro Yamakawa, Tetsuo Tobita, Hyuk-Kee Hong, Hyo-Sung Song, Jae-Jung Kim and Dal-Won Lee
This study examines the effectiveness of parapets in preventing overtopping failures of small-scale homogeneous reservoir dams under seismic loads. In this study, a parapet covered the entire width of the dam crest and was designed to ensure its weight i...
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Kaili Wang, Kewei Ding and Tian Yang
This study proposes a new energy dissipation connector (NEDC) to connect an external autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) wall panel with an assembled steel frame. To investigate the seismic performance and working mechanism of the NEDC under seismic action...
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Shixin Wang, Haiqing Liu, Yue Wang, Yizhi Qiao, Liang Wang, Jie Bai, Tim K. T. Tse, Cruz Y. Li and Yunfei Fu
To replace conventional concrete with coal gangue concrete in the construction industry, lateral cyclic loading tests were applied to three shear walls with different coal gangue replacement rates in this study, in which the replacement rate of coal gang...
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Farahnaz Soleimani and Donya Hajializadeh
Optimizing the serviceability of highway bridges is a fundamental prerequisite to provide proper infrastructure safety and emergency responses after natural hazards such as an earthquake. In this regard, fragility and resilience assessment have emerged a...
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Ahmed Elgamal and Nissreen Elfaris
This paper investigates the effects of seismic loads on tunnels in an attempt to provide better protection from earthquake shaking. Dynamic analysis of angular offset tunnels was performed, and the tunnels? behavior under earthquake shaking and their res...
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Lianghui Li, Shaochun Ma, Peng Bao and Hao Wang
Ceramsite concrete, with its advantages such as excellent long-term durability and thermal insulation properties, is suitable to be utilized as precast sandwich wall panels. While the lack of assessment of the seismic performance of such wall panel joint...
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Cheng-Yu Li, Fan Wang and Ai-Zhu Zhu
Based on the concept of structural damage control, a beam-through steel frame system with continuous columns was constructed. Replaceable connectors were set at both ends of an H-shaped steel column to connect the beam with high-strength bolts. In this s...
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Yimin Wang, Xiuxing Sang, Kaiguang Shang, Yushuo Zhang and Jinsan Ju
The steel plate?concrete composite shear wall (SPCSW), having been widely applied to several super high-rise buildings, is currently regarded as a new type of lateral load-resisting structure. The SPCSW design does not consider the connection to the surr...
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