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Oleg Kabantsev and Mikhail Kovalev
The article presents experimental tests carried out to investigate the effect of crack width (0.4, 0.8, 1.5, and 3.0 mm) on the behavior of anchor bolts under static and dynamic loading. Ultimate loads for anchors reached 220 kN depending on the anchor t...
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Mohammadreza Mohammadi, Araliya Mosleh, Mehran S. Razzaghi, Pedro Alves Costa and Rui Calçada
The purpose of this research is to study the seismic performance of railway embankments through a probabilistic approach. Nonlinear response history analyses were conducted utilizing PLAXIS software. Three categories of railway embankments were selected ...
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Zhen Xie and Yongshan Zhang
Metal roof systems are widely used in various landmark buildings. Understanding the natural vibration characteristics and primary influence of the roof system is useful for improving the roof system?s service life and maintaining the project?s safety. In...
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Jishuai Wang, Yazhou Xie, Tong Guo and Zhenyu Du
Most regional seismic damage assessment (RSDA) methods are based on the rigid-base assumption to ensure evaluating efficiency, while these practices introduce factual errors due to neglecting the soil?structure interaction (SSI). Predicting the influence...
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Bok-Gi Lee, Jin-Young Kim, Ju-Seong Jung and Kang-Seok Lee
This study proposed a novel V-bracing system equipped with a laterally layered friction damper (LLFD), which can supplement the shortcomings of conventional vibration control systems and is applicable to existing reinforced concrete (R/C) buildings. A ma...
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Abdelhay El Omari, Mimoun Chourak, El Mehdi Echebba, Seif-Eddine Cherif, Carlos Navarro Ugena, Mohamed Rougui, Fadi Hage Chehade, Francisco Lamas Fernández and Aboubakr Chaaraoui
The last seismic events showed that tunnel lining may suffer extensive damage. Employing numerical modeling has a great importance in predicting the seismic performance of tunnels. This paper tests the tunnel lining of the Zaouit Ait Mellal (ZAM) twin tu...
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Oscar Álvarez, Enrique Muñoz, Nelson Maureira-Carsalade and Ángel Roco-Videla
The most used global sensitivity analysis (GSA) method is based on variance. This is performed using Monte Carlo Sampling (MCS) or Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS). It requires a large sample to obtain accurate estimates. Density-based methods, such as the...
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Fangfang Geng, Youliang Ding, Honglei Wu and Kang Yang
The novel self-centering precast concrete (SCPC) frame with hysteretic dampers has favorable seismic behavior and achieves the desirable demands at the design basis earthquake (DBE) and the maximum considered earthquake (MCE) seismic levels under the nea...
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Stefano Sorace and Gloria Terenzi
A new section of a study on innovative anti-seismic design strategies of precast reinforced concrete structures is presented herein. The solution conceived in this new step of the study consists in seismically isolating the building roof and incorporatin...
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Claudio Bernuzzi and Marco Simoncelli
Since few years ago only one typology of racks was used to store Grana cheese wheels for aging, which was designed focusing on the sole static behavior. Battened steel columns made by vertical tubes welded to horizontal angles were connected by means of ...
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