The paper reports the results of a joint project on evolutionary design of reinforced concrete structures in tall buildings. It has been conducted at the Center for Concrete Structures at the Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany and in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University. Its ultimate objective is to revolutionize design of both steel and con...

Adding steel braces to reinforced concrete frames is a common way for seismic rehabilitation of these structures. Due to ease of installation and the possibility of creating openings in the braced bays, this method of rehabilitation has been more preferred than using shear walls. In this paper, three experimental specimens including a reinforced concrete frame, a reinforced concrete frame with ...

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 ...

Capacity spectrum procedures developed for the assessment and strengthening of existing buildings have become the basis of methods for estimating potential post-earthquake losses which are today widely used in the insurance industry, and for urban risk mitigation programmes. The areas to which these methods are applied often contain (or largely consist of) reinforced concrete apartment building...

Title of Thesis: Failure Surface for L-shaped Reinforced Concrete Short Columns Mon-Chen Liu, Master of Science in Civil Engineering, 1983 Thesis directed by: Dr, C.T. Thomas Hsu Assistant Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Combined bending and axial compression for L-shaped reinforced concrete short columns is a common problem. But the present ACI Building Code (ACI 31...