Several earthquakes with strong magnitude occurred globally at various locations, especially the unforgettable tsunami disaster caused by the earthquake in Indonesia and Japan. If the characteristics of structures can be well understood to implement new technology, the damages caused by most natural disasters can be significantly alleviated. In this research, dynamic digital image correlation m...

Structural collapse is traditionally associated with the exceedance of a target value of inter-story drift or plastic hinge rotation at structural components. However, such an approach may not accurately estimate the structural collapse potential due to load redistribution and variation of structural damage within the structure. Moreover, collapse prediction may be sensitive to such assumed thr...

Transport and drift-driven plasma flow components in the Alcator C-Mod boundary plasma. The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters.

Abstract—The optimal design procedure of buckling restrained braces (BRBs) in reinforced concrete (RC) building structures can provide the distribution of horizontal stiffness of BRBs at each story, which minimizes story drift response of the structure under the constraint of specified total stiffness of BRBs. In this paper, a simple rule is proposed to convert continuous horizontal stiffness o...

It is now widely recognized that the masonry infill frame used in reinforced concrete structures (RC) greatly enhances both rigidity and strength of surrounding frame. The lateral loading behavior this RC different from without infill, although structural contribution walls discarded many countries, including Algeria. This paper aims to focus on effect openings changing distribution panels glob...

Banda Aceh city is an earthquake-prone area. One the phenomenon that a magnitude 9,3 M w and subsequent tsunami wave occurred in 2004. The incident caused casualties damage to facilities including educational such as school buildings. After 2004 Tsunami, affected was rebuilt same location before, therefore necessary conduct assessment of building ensure safety comfort learning process purpose t...

This paper presents the key design points of buckling-restrained braced frames (BRBFs) by using the performance-based plastic design (PBPD) methodology. This method is based on energy-work balance concept and uses pre-selected target drift and yield mechanism as design criteria. Based on multi-mode pushover and time-history analyses, a simple equation is developed for computing yield drift rati...