The 2012 Emilia earthquakes caused significant damage to existing precast reinforced concrete (RC) industrial buildings not specifically designed resist seismic actions. main failure mechanisms were related the loss of support beams and roof elements by high relative displacements, mechanical connections consequent fall cladding panels, at base columns collapse RC forks top columns. In all case...

The generated damages in steel structures due to terrorist attack explosion has attracted structural engineering communities, because the effect of blast loading is extremely sever and destructive. behavior Superelastic Nickle Titanium Shape Memory Alloy (NiTi SMA) beam-column connection was infrequently studied under loading. present study develops smart performance proposed configuration eval...

Abstract Construction industry as a whole should transform into designs that enable demountability and direct reuse of structural elements to achieve the circularity in construction. Currently, connections enabling components construction are limited. Column base one main load transfer units steel structure for magnitude forces being transferred from superstructure. This paper presents an inter...