The present study sets out to integrate the performance-based seismic design approach with the connection topology optimization method. Performance-based connection topology optimization concept aims to simultaneously optimize the size of members and the type of connections with respect to the framework of performance-based seismic design. This new optimization concept is carried out for unbrac...

Conventional design of steel plate shear walls SPSWs assumes that 100% of the story shear is resisted by each infill panel. Following this approach, strength provided by the boundary frame moment resisting action, which provides the SPSW with overstrength, is neglected. While this design assumption has a positive impact on seismic performance of SPSWs, no analytical work has been done to quanti...

Compacted unbound granular materials are extensively used as sub-layer in pavement design. Most pavement design guides assume that they are responsible for the degradation and deformation of the roads and railways that they support. Biaxial tests are usually employed to investigate the elasto-plastic response of these materials to cyclic loading. A particularly interesting question is whether a...

in this paper, the development and optimization of power distribution control strategy (pdcs) have been performed for a hybrid energy storage systems (hess) of a series hybrid electric bus (sheb). a common pdcs is based on the use of ultra-capacitor (uc) pack. a new simple pdcs is developed as a battery based one. for the battery based pdcs, four parameters are introduced for tuning the pdcs pe...

• Definition of tooth surface topologies in plastic-metal helical gear drives. Proposition a FE model for the loaded contact analysis transmission. steady state thermal Performance parametric study to assess impact pattern design. Improvement durability and running performance This article describes an investigation that has been conducted effects design on mechanical behaviors plastic-steel Th...

The paper presents a method to establish performance-based fibre design of high-strength micro steel fibres for ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC). considers effects layout, orientation, and type loading (quasi-static cyclic) expands the current approach using experiences suitability testing results. is based on so-called utilization rate, which determined via pullout tests in UHPC under qu...