Would RC wide-beam buildings in Spain have survived Lorca earthquake (11-05-2011)? [PDF]
, 2016 Lorca earthquake (11-05-2011) is most destructive event recorded in Spain, causing nine fatalities and other severe consequences. Its important intensity was rather unexpected, and serious concern arose regarding risk of building stock in Spain.
Benavent Climent, Amadeo +2 more
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Applied Sciences, 2017 Resilience-based seismic design of reinforced concrete (RC) tall buildings has become an important trend in earthquake engineering. Seismic isolation technology is an effective and important method to improve the resiliency of RC frame-core tube tall ...
Aiqun Li +4 more
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Regional Seismic Damage Simulation of Corroded RC Frame Structures: A Case Study of Shenzhen City
Applied Sciences, 2020 Buildings in coastal cities are susceptible to chloride ion attack and the seismic performance of these buildings can be impaired due to corrosion of reinforcements.
Chen Xiong +6 more
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Buildings, 2022 Most of the reinforced concrete buildings in Nepal are low-rise construction, as this type of construction is the most dominant structural form adopted to construct residential buildings in urban and semi-urban neighborhoods throughout the country.
Rabindra Adhikari +6 more
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Assessment of seismic vulnerability of RC frames at the end-of-row of buildings with floor-to-floor alignment using multi-strips analysis MSA [PDF]
JES: Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2022 During earthquakes’ excitation, adjacent buildings start vibrating out of phase (in different directions) leading to collisions with each other causing severe damage in a phenomenon known as structural pounding.
Hossameldeen Mohamed, Ghada Elyamany
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Collapse simulation of a typical super-tall RC frame-core tube building exposed to extreme fire [PDF]
, 2015 The previous fire accidents proofed that reinforced concrete (RC) structures may experience progressive collapse subjected to extreme fires. In consequence, the study on the extreme fire-induced progressive collapse of RC structures is important for the ...
Lu, Xin-zheng, Ying, Ming-jian
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Applied Sciences, 2020 The aim of this research is to investigate the energy sustainability of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and straw residential buildings in the Cold and Severe Cold Regions of China.
Haibo Guo +5 more
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Evaluation and considerations about fundamental periods of damaged reinforced concrete buildings [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2013 The aim of this paper is an empirical estimation of the fundamental period of reinforced concrete buildings and its variation due to structural and non-structural damage. The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake has highlighted the mismatch between experimental data
R. Ditommaso +3 more
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Assessment of FEMA356 nonlinear static procedure and modal pushover analysis for seismic evaluation of buildings [PDF]
, 2012 Nonlinear static analysis as an essential part of performance based design is now widely used especially at design offices because of its simplicity and ability to predict seismic demands on inelastic response of buildings.
Khoshnoud, Hamid Reza +1 more
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Seismic Behavior of Tunnel Form Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Mass Irregularity in Elevation [PDF]
Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering, 2019 Non-uniform mass distribution in elevation is one of the main sources of irregularity in buildings that could lead to concentration of nonlinear deformations followed by local or global damage to buildings during earthquake excitation.
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