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Seismic Response of Buildings with Soft Story

Journal of Civil Engineering Inter Disciplinaries, 2020
Extending lifts` reinforced concrete cores to foundations usually restricts services and lobby functions of a building. A core supported on columns at core`s corners is considered a good alternative for sorting out this problem. However, this will cause an abrupt reduction in the lateral stiffness of the building below the cores level i.e.
ElRefaie S, Saif M
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Soft/Weak Story Problems and Solutions for Residential Structures

Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, 2009
Wood-framed residential structures with soft, weak, or open-front walls are common in areas of high seismicity like the west coast of the United States. Parking below the residential portions of the building, or “tuck-under” parking, is particularly problematic in many buildings built in the 1960s through the 1980s, when stucco and gypsum board were ...
Gary R. Searer, Joseph Valancius, Kelly E. Cobeen   +2 more
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Mitigating San Francisco's Soft-Story Building Problem

Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, 2009
San Francisco is in the process of doing something revolutionary: the City is heeding the warning of the moderate damage caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake, and may mandate strong rehabilitation measures for soft-story buildings to prevent catastrophe in future quakes.
Laura Dwelley Samant, Keith Porter, Kelly Cobeen, L. Thomas Tobin, Laurence Kornfield, Hope Seligson, Simon Alejandrino, John Kidd   +7 more
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Investigation of code based criteria for soft-story irregularity

Structures
Özgur Avsar, Ali Bozer, Ahmet Anil Dindar   +2 more
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Soft, strong and long: The story of toilet paper

New Scientist, 2012
If the medical establishment had got its way, we would still be wiping our behinds on ...
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Strengthening of reinforced concrete buildings with soft story irregularity

Materials Testing, 2019
Abstract Turkey is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. The studies on the damaged buildings with reinforced concrete structural systems, especially done after the 1999 Gölcük earthquake and other earthquakes in the past, showed that the negative effects of the structural irregularities in the buildings come to light ...
Mahmud Sami Döndüren, Abdulhamit Nakipoğlu   +1 more
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Soft journalism, politics and environmental risk: An Australian story

Journalism, 2011
Complex environmental science issues are regularly reported by the news media in highly personalized and symbolic terms in order to make the consequences of environmental degradation and risk comprehensible to the public. This article presents a case study showing how the tension between political statements, human-interest narratives and scientific ...
Libby Lester, Brett Hutchins
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Seismic Retrofitting Strategies for Soft-Ground-Storied Building

Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series A, 2020
During seismic events, high-rise buildings with soft ground storey are vulnerable to damage as there is a sudden change of stiffness along its height. In this study, different types of energy dissipation devices, which include lower toggle bracing, double-bracing fluid viscous damper, single-bracing fluid viscous damper and single-bracing friction ...
Johneo Pasi, Avik Samanta
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