This paper presents the development of novel affordable steel-framed modular units for construction with enhanced overall (healthcare, structural, fire, and lightweight) performance, which ideally suits emergency response situation, such as current covid-19 pandemic. The nature quick well-prepared strategies are essential to cope demand quicker structures if similar situation continues or arise...

Braces with intentional eccentricity (BIE) are recently proposed to improve the seismic behaviour of conventional buckling braces (CBBs) by inserting along brace length. Due this and resultant bending moment, BIE bends uniformly from small storey drifts moves smoothly into postbuckling under compression sustains trilinear tension. This delays appearance midlength local which causes unstable ene...

This paper is concerned with determining the minimum stand-off distance required to prevent column failures in reinforced concrete framed buildings. This is of interest because column failures can initiate progressive collapse, resulting in mass casualties. A technique is developed to determine the critical range at which failure will occur for a given weight of explosives and thus provide a sa...

Existing RC framed buildings lack significant ductility, especially when they have been built with pre-code criteria. Improving their ductile capacity can help to prevent them from the brittle collapse mechanism and reduce seismic damage expected. This paper aims investigate enhancement of response behaviour considering different non-invasive retrofitting techniques. To do so, a school located ...

Abstract The UK is experiencing unprecedented housing demand, with traditional provision in suburbanised clusters now known to have negative environmental, economic and social impacts. An alternative this residential densification through vertical extension; generating a more sustainable urban form whilst also serving increase circularity of material flows within the construction industry reduc...

Lightweight steel-framed (LSF) construction, given its advantages, has the potential to reach high standards in energy and environmental performance of buildings, such as nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB). When compared with traditional construction, LSF system offers distinct benefits in such fields as sustainability, cost-effectiveness, constructive process, and safety at work. Despite the ...