Welded Wire Confinement Grids
The invention of a new way to reinforce concrete using high strength welded wire grids, (WWG) increases its earthquake resistance by improved ductility and also opens the way for vast...
Seismic Strengthening of R/C Columns Using Steel Jackets
This paper presents experimental results on the use of steel collars and steel jackets as a retrofitting system to improve the seismic performance of short rectangular reinforced concrete...
Use of Eccentric Steel Bracing for Strengthening of R/C Frames
This paper presents preliminary results of ongoing research investigating the feasibility of steel eccentrically braced frames (EBFs) for seismic retrofit of reinforced concrete frames....
CenterCore Strengthening System for Seismic Hazard Reduction of Unreinforced Masonry Bearing Wall Buildings
The CenterCore technique of reinforcing unreinforced masonry walls was developed with the help of a National Science Foundation grant in 1984. The CenterCore strengthening system consists...
Earthquake Strengthening of a Twelve Story Non-Ductile Concrete Frame Building with Unreinforced Masonry Using Displacement Control Criterion
The structural concern with the Cooper Arms Apartment building when subjected to ground shaking was the in-plane and out-of-plane forces on the infill and consequences of the infill resisting...
Investigation of a Failed Concrete Joist System
The failure and distress of concrete joists contained in the promenade roof deck of a one-story, college, lecture hall building initiated an extensive investigation to determine the cause...
85 Stories in Kuala Lumpur?The 5th and 6th Tallest Buildings in the World
A concrete core and cylindrical concrete tube structure provides a safe, elegant, efficient and constructible solution to the challenge of designing the world's 5th and 6th tallest buildings,...
Seismic Behavior of High Strength Concrete Columns
Information on the ductility of high strength columns in seismic areas has been scarce. The available information is based mainly on small test columns subjected to monotonic concentric...
Seismic Vulnerability and Upgrading of Nonductile Reinforced Concrete Frames Using Passive Supplemental Dampers
The effects of vulnerable details of lightly reinforced concrete frames constructed prior to the 1970s is evaluated from tests conducted of two beam/slab/column subassemblages drawn from...
High-Strength Concrete Joints Under Cyclic Loading
This experimental investigation was undertaken to check the validity for high-strength concrete beam-column joints of recommendations made by ACI-ASCE (American Concrete Institute-American...
Orthotropic Rigidities of Curved Concrete Waffle Slabs
Analytical expressions are derived for predicting the flexural and torsional rigidities during the pre-cracking and post-cracking stages for horizontally- curved waffle slab structures....
Blast-Damaged Concrete Structures in Beirut
This paper describes the effect of blasting loads on structural members. It identifies predominant structural systems in war-damaged zones of Beirut and to explain typical damage mechanisms....
Earthquake Dampers Used for Seismic Retrofit of Building in San Francisco
For the first time ever in the United States, earthquake supplemental damping devices have been installed in a building in San Francisco. The devices used are Added Damping and Stiffness...
Diagnosing Lateral Strength of Existing Concrete or Masonry Buildings
A research prospectus is presented for improving present methods of structural evaluation for concrete and masonry buildings. Specifically, the proposed research plan is limited to strength...
Axial Capacity of Concrete Infilled Steel Box Column with Biaxial Bending
The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using the Bresler reciprocal load method to calculate the axial capacity of a concrete infilled steel box column subjected...
Concrete Arch Bridges for Supporting Steel Conduits of Mingtan Pumped Storage Project
For the Mingtan Pumped Storage Project of an installed capacity of 1600 MW, two parallel waterways have been constructed for conveying flows between the upper reservoir and the lower reservoir...
Design of the Main Bridge of the Huachiang Bridge
The Huachiang Bridge will be reconstructed by erecting the deck structure in two steps to avoid reducing or interfering with the bridge's traffic flow. Both the analysis and the detailed...
Response of Concrete Filled Grid Decks Under Static Loads
This paper briefly discusses the bending strength and stiffness of concrete filled grid decks that are subjected to static loads. The influence of design parameters (traffic flow direction,...
Physical Testing of Two R/C Skewed Slab Bridges with Integral Wall Abutments
Two one-third scale models of an existing reinforced concrete skewed slab bridge with integral wall abutments were tested statically to failure. Typically, these bridges are designed using...
Linear and Nonlinear Finite Element Analyses of RC Skewed Slab Bridges with Integral Wall Abutments
The design of rigid-frame skewed slab bridges is complicated by higher shears and moments near the obtuse corner (see Fig.1). While the finite element method can be used to compute these...
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