NingBo-Liansheng International Commercial Plaza is a twin towers with high-connection. It is a complex tall building. The frame-shear wall structure system is used. The connection body is in 21 and 22 layers. The connection system is strong connection and the two storey steel trusses are used. The north and South towers are placed by certain angle, and it designed for the adjustment of plane wi...

Fixed base structures subjected to earthquake forces are prone various issues, such as the attraction of greater structure, amplified accelerations non-structural components, expensive design for better seismic performance, and so forth. Base isolation applied at foundation vulnerable is a radical bypass from conventional approaches utilized by structural engineers. However, practical implement...

This paper presents the identification of both location and magnitude impact forces applied on different positions a multi-storey tower structure using types transducers, i.e., an accelerometer, laser Doppler vibrometer, triangulation displacement sensor. Herein, model-based inverse method is exploited to reconstruct unknown based various recorded dynamic signals. Furthermore, superposition app...

Early, pre-code, reinforced concrete structures present undetermined resistance to earthquakes. This situation is particularly unacceptable in the case of essential facilities, such as healthcare structures. Amongst these, the Santa Maria Hospital – finished in 1953 with a total area of 120,000 m – in Lisbon, was designed without explicit consideration for earthquake loading. Given the crucial ...

Extensive research has been focused on the progressive collapse analysis of buildings and most of them are based on the alternative path method (APM) with sudden removal of one or several columns. However, in this method the damage of adjacent elements of removed columns under blast conditions was ignored and this issue can lead to an incorrect prediction of progressive collapse. Therefore, in ...

The purpose of this paper is to review computational methods in structure-soil-structure interaction. As a result of globalization, buildings are located close to each other. This issue happens especially in big cities, making the study of structure-soil-structure interaction as an essential part of structural design process. The effect of soil medium, on which the building structure stands, es...

Technical solutions for the reconstruction of building Shamovskaya Hospital, an architectural monument built in 1907-1910, are highlighted Kazan. The involves construction a 4- storey underground extension to building. implementation developed revealed number problems associated with ensuring stability foundation when developing deep pit immediate (0.5 m) proximity authors propose technical str...

This study developed an integrated global-local approach for locating damage on building structures. A damage detection approach with a novel embedded frequency response function damage index (NEFDI) was proposed and embedded in the Imote2.NET-based wireless structural health monitoring (SHM) system to locate global damage. Local damage is then identified using an electromechanical impedance- (...

Devising the most appropriate testing strategy and conceiving a mock-up “as simple as possible, but not simpler” is the challenge which has to be taken whenever a research programme does involve experiments. Optimizing the experimental programme reduces the risk of either wasting time and resources or missing some of the fundamental ingredients of the structural behaviour because of oversimplif...