Static loading test on RC beam-column sub-assemblages with walls

Performance Evaluation and Strengthening of Deficient Beam-Column Sub-assemblages under Cyclic Loading

Behaviour of U-shaped RC walls under quasi-static cyclic diagonal loading

a Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Laboratory (EESD), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), EPFL ENAC IIC EESD, GC B2 515, Station 18, CH – 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland b Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Laboratory (EESD), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), É...

Numerical Simulation with Fibre Beam-column Models of Thin Rc Column Behaviour under Cyclic Tension-compression

Damage to structural walls in the recent earthquakes in Chile (2010) and New Zealand (2011) demonstrated that modern reinforced concrete (RC) wall behaviour can be largely governed by out-of-plane displacements triggered by instability. Thin walls are the most vulnerable to this deformation mechanism, especially if they have a single layer of reinforcement. These wall types can be easily found ...

Fragility Functions for Older Rc Beam-column Joints

A critical step in performance-based seismic design is the prediction and definition of earthquake performance using terms that are meaningful to building owners. Recently, economic impact, defined as the cost of repairing earthquake damage and the building downtime required to complete the repair work, has been adopted as a meaningful measure of building performance. To enable earthquake engin...

Investigation of the Effects of Link Beam Length on the RC Frame Retrofitted with the Linked Column Frame System

This study investigates the effect of different link beam lengths in the Reinforced Concrete (RC) frame retrofitted with the Linked Column Frame (LCF) system. It also investigates the ratio of the link beam length (e) to the span length of the RC frame (L) from 0 to 1.5 for the 9 models of the RC frame retrofitted by the LCF system has been investigated. In addition, it studies the formation of...