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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Reinforced concrete buildings"”.
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Wall-to-Floor Interaction in Reinforced Concrete Buildings
The poor performance of several ductile reinforced concrete (RC) walls in the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes was attributed to an increase in the levels of axial load that the walls sustained during the earthquakes. Among other reasons, it was proposed that that the magnification in the axial …
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Evaluation of Safety of Reinforced Concrete Buildings to Earthquakes
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:31:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709146.pdf: 4272535 bytes, checksum: ad244920d9b0290c934d0d2de1b33520 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Inelastic Seismic Response Of Reinforced Concrete Buildings With Floor Diaphragm Openings
… load resisting systems by diaphragm action. In reinforced concrete buildings, the in-plane flexibility of the floor diaphragms is often ignored for simplicity in practical design: i.e., the floor systems are frequently treated as perfectly rigid diaphragms). In recent building standards: ASCE-7, …
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Drift and Damage Considerations in Earthquake-Resistant Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings
… in earthquake-resistant design of medium-rise reinforced concrete building structures is investigated in this study. Simple (linear) methods used to calculate estimates of actual drift can easily be communicated to engineers and architects responsible for design and detailing of a building.
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Approximate Three-Dimensional Analysis of Tall, Reinforced Concrete Buildings by a Multi-Member Element Method
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T22:21:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317232.pdf: 6946342 bytes, checksum: d483dd1ff4bc7e29b70b83f0ee40789d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Probabilistic capacity and seismic demand models and fragility estimates for reinforced concrete buildings based on three-dimensional analyses
… presents bivariate fragility estimates for reinforced concrete (RC) buildings accounting for their three-dimensional (3D) response to earthquake ground motions conditioning on spectral accelerations in the two planar directions. The fragility estimates are conducted using the demand and …
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Análise de edifícios pelo método das estruturas equivalentes
The equivalent frame method for analysing reinforced concrete buildings which is described in the "ACI Building Code Requirements" (ACI-318-77) is suitable for analysing only the gravity loading. This paper adds the analysis of lateral load to the ACI concept. It also presents a new procedure, …
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Nonlinear Finite Element Modelling of Reinforced Concrete Frames Retrofitted with Shape Memory Alloy Buckling Restrained Braces
Reinforced concrete buildings built prior to the enactment of modern seismic provisions are vulnerable when subjected to high-magnitude earthquakes since they lack the capacity to properly dissipate the energy associated with the ground excitation. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the …
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An investigation into the influence of buildability factors on productivity of <em>in situ</em> reinforced concrete construction
… materials in the construction industry; in situ reinforced concrete.According to the Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA), buildability is defined as "the extent to which the design of a building facilitates ease of construction, subject to the overall requirements …
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Modeling the post shear failure behavior of reinforced concrete columns
Numerous reinforced concrete buildings vulnerable to earthquake induced collapse have been constructed in seismic zones prior to the 1970s. A major contributor to building collapse is the loss of axial load carrying capacity in non-seismically detailed columns. Experimental investigations have …
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Informing Code-Compliant Site-Specific Infrastructure Seismic Evaluations With Physics-Based Simulated Ground Motions
… utilizing two and three-dimensional archetypal reinforced concrete buildings of different heights.
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Innovative accessible sunken floor systems for multi-story steel buildings
… sunken floor systems for multi-story steel buildings with proliferating data cables and mechanical equipment. The terminology of an accessible sunken floor system or a dropped floor system is not new. Sunken floor has been used in reinforced concrete buildings with flat slabs and multi-story …
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Impact of cross section, web reinforcement and load history on the seismic performance of slender concrete walls
Many reinforced concrete buildings in seismic regions employ reinforced concrete shear walls as part of the lateral force resisting system and these walls often have non-planar cross-sectional geometries. To date, the majority of experimental tests on slender concrete walls have been conducted on …
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Experimental Program for Fiber Reinforced Polymer Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Diaphragms
… Strengthening of the diaphragms in older reinforced concrete buildings may be necessary for several reasons, including to enhance seismic performance, address inadequate strength or stiffness, provide missing or incomplete load paths, improve inadequate shear transfer/connection capacity, …