In recent decades, the considerable number of worldwide earthquakes caused damage and several building collapses, underlining high vulnerability existing buildings designed without seismic provisions. this regard, work analyses performance a reinforced concrete any criteria, characterized by seismically-stronger seismically-weaker direction, such as concrete-framed structures for vertical load ...

Progressive collapse is a chain reaction of failures propagating throughout a portion of the structure disproportionate to the original local failure occurring when a sudden loss of a critical load‐bearing element initiates a structural element failure, eventually resulting in partial or full collapse of the structure. Both General Services Administration (GSA) and United States Department of D...

the objective of this review to be submitted in two independent parts, for steel frames and for rc frames, is to compare their structural performance with respect to the proposed n2-method, and so also of the consequent convenience of using pushover methodology for the seismic analysis of these structures. a preliminary investigation is presented on a pushover analysis used for the seismic perf...

concrete shear walls are the most prevalent structural systems resisting lateral loads due to earthquakes in high-rise buildings. very large in-plane stiffness of shear walls provides an excellent drift control in the structure. however, structural damages and early code shortcomings threaten the efficiency of existing structural walls against earthquake. recently, fiber reinforced polymer (frp...

2014 Statistical properties of sequences of solar radiation data, and RC properties of buildings suggest that, the fraction of the thermal load covered by solar passive elements can be expressed by simple analytical functions, which asymptotic behaviour is determined by the physical properties of the system. We analyse the asymptotic properties of these functions. We, then, determine their expl...

Several studies have looked at the development of hinge models to simulate hysteretic response flexure- and shear-critical reinforced concrete (RC) beam-column components from damage initiation onset gravity collapse. However, few been conducted develop similar for older type bond-critical components. First, using existing experimental data, this paper describes calibration simple efficient ine...