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Lateral Resistance of Modular CFS Shear Wall Connected with Rectangular Steel Tubes and Its Contribution to Frame Structures. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Modular lightweight shear walls can not only facilitate easy installation, thereby improving construction efficiency, but also demonstrate potential to enhance the lateral stiffness when applied in frame structures.
Kang Y, Mei J, Wu X, Wang L.
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Fire performance analyses of modular wall panel designs with loadbearing SHS columns
Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2022 Modular Building Systems (MBS) are still in the phase of developing its popularity in the industry, with emerging novel designs. Initially, MBS walls and floors had been highly influenced by the Light-gauge Steel Frame (LSF) designs made of Cold-Formed ...
Dilini Perera +7 more
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Algorithmically aided management of structure modularity at the design and execution stage [PDF]
Archives of Civil Engineering, 2021 The interest in prefabricated building modules is constantly growing due to the increasing possibilities of analysing extensive data sets in computers and the popularity of BIM technology.
Krzysztof Nazar, Jan Słyk
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A hybrid inter-module connection for steel modular building systems
Modular construction has emerged as a promising approach to address challenges in the construction industry, such as reducing construction times, improving quality, and enhancing sustainability.
Corfar, D.
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Buildings, 2023 Residential building construction is resource-intensive and significantly impacts the environment by embodied and operational carbon emissions. This study has adopted a parametric building information modelling (BIM)-based approach for a residential ...
Jielong Gan +8 more
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Sustainable Performance of a Modular Building System Made of Built-Up Cold-Formed Steel Beams
Buildings, 2021 Modular Building Systems (MBS) offer numerous benefits in terms of productivity, sustainability and safety. Therefore, MBSs are considered as a viable option to sort out the housing crisis in Britain as well as to drive Britain towards sustainable ...
Kajaharan Thirunavukkarasu +6 more
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Towards nZEB: modular pre-assembled steel systems for residential buildings [PDF]
WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, 2014 The recent EU Directives 2010/31 and 2012/27 provide for the standard of nearly zero energy buildings for new constructions, aiming at a better quality for the built environment through the adoption of high performance solutions. This challenge creates new opportunities for pre-assembled construction systems, offering high levels of performance, while ...
ANTONINI, ERNESTO +2 more
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Seismic mitigation of steel modular buildings using novel inter-modular connections [PDF]
, 2020 This research proposes novel inter-modular connections to enable the safe and reliable performance of modular building structures under seismic actions. The proposed connections are designed to shift possible failure locations away from critical structural members to provide effective seismic mitigation.
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2018 Modular prefabricated buildings effectively improve the efficiency and quality of building design and construction and represent an important trend in the development of building industrialization. However, there are still many deficiencies in the design
Junjie Li +5 more
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Applied Sciences, 2020 The strength capacity of modular buildings is determined by the weakest part, and connections between modular units are often weaker than the modular units themselves.
Sang-Sup Lee +3 more
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