Prediction of Structural Response to Large Earthquakes by Using Recordings From Smaller Earthquakes
The feasibility of predicting structural response to large earthquakes by using recorded responses from collocated smaller earthquakes is investigated. Records from large earthquakes can...
Gust Speeds in Hurricanes
Based on strip-chart records of wind speeds representing 11 recording stations and four hurricanes, it is concluded that gust factors for hurricanes generally exceed the gust factors proposed...
Impact of Non-Gaussian pdf on Reliability Estimates for Deep Water Platforms
The offshore community has invested a great deal in the analysis and design of compliant deep water platforms such as tension leg platforms (TLPs) and more recently spar platforms. Tension...
Extreme Winds Estimation by `Peaks Over Threshold' and Epochal Methods
With a view to applying the 'peaks over threshold' method to the estimation of extreme wind sped data, we perform Monte Carlo simulations for which the parameters of the population distributions...
Effects of Sea Surface Movement on Offshore Structures
Examinations are made of the effects of the sea surface movement on the fundamental model response of deep-water, Wave-excited offshore structures. These effects are accounted for by using...
Seismic Response of Concrete Tilt-Up Systems
A Summary of the measured dynamic response of a one-story, till-up warehouse located in Hillister, California, is presented. Acceleration and relative displacement histories may be used...
Design and Analysis of the 712 Fifth Avenue Structure
New York City's 712 Fifth Avenue is an extremely-slender concrete tube tower. This text addresses the structure's lateral structural system, wind analysis, computer model, thermal analysis...
A New Way of Teaching Structural Engineering With the `AN/EX' Mini-Laboratory
Students in the AN/EX lab first use a custom-written preprocessor to generate a proper input file to run the professional-level M-STRUDL structural analysis program to predict the load...
Deployable Mesh Reflector
This paper presents a new deployable reflector for space applications, based on a deployable edge frame that deploys and prestresses a 'rigid' cable network. The edge frame consists of...
On some Problems of the Multicriteria Optimization of the Spatial Grid Structures
One can not think contemporary structure designed without consciously complying with optimization methods. Creative activity of engineers have to be optimal or semi-optimal. It is necessary...
Spherical Domes Subjected to Horizontal Earthquakes
The purpose of this paper is to get a powerful tool for response analysis of a spherical dome subjected to dynamic excitation based on mathematical analytic method, i.e., the Galerkin...
Dynamic Analysis of Unstable Structural Systems With Prescribed Velocities
Structural systems that have large inextentional deformation, or in other words, deformation without stain are called 'Unstable Structural Systems.' They include cable structures, membrane...
Response of Truss Structures Subjected to Dynamic Loads During Member Failure
The paper presents a method for and results from an investigation of the response of a truss structure during the chain reaction of its member failure while subjected to external static...
Blast Demolition of Reinforced Concrete Industrial Chimneys
On some of recently demolished chimneys, transient measurements were taken, in the vicinity of the tilting hinge, during the process of falling down. Thus, corresponding dynamic computational...
Continuous Pulse Control of Structures with Material Nonlinearity
A control method is presented for reducing the dynamic response of structures in the inelastic material range using a control force from an active control system. The proposed method of...
Comparison of Two different Models of a Shell Roof
The main purpose of this study is to compare a physical model of a shell roof with a theoretical model of the same shell roof in order to verify the reliability of the Homeostatic Model...
Optimal Design Conception of Grid Domes in Practice
In this paper, the optimal design conception of grid domes in practice is presented. The classical dome shell structures covering some irregular boundaries often seems not to be satisfied...
Simulation Procedure for Buckling Behaviors of a Reticular Dome
Complex behaviors of the ball-joint connection, especially used in steel space structures, are expressed in the numerical model to confirm the estimative ability of such a model by comparing...
Experimental Study on the Strut Type of Cable Net Membrane Structures
In this paper a new type of suspension membrane structure combined with a cable net is proposed, in which the supporting struts are arranged between the membrane surface and the cable...
Combinatary Net-Shell Roofs of Elliptic Paraboloid of Zhaoqing Gymnasium
Zhaoqing Gymnasium is a multi-functional sports building, whose structural modelling takes Zhaoqing City Flower(Lotus) as the main theme; adopts a combinatory ellipic paraboloid net-shell...
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