Structural robustness is a significant property towards improving resilience of buildings, i.e. enhance their ability to withstand and recover from extreme events which often can cause local damage progressive collapse. It widely accepted that depends on the capacity structure activate alternative load paths (ALPs) after failure load-bearing elements, e.g. columns. Early evidence during World W...

This paper investigates the effect of span cantilevered RC wall, in-plane stiffness roof, layout friction damper support on both response control walls in gymnasiums with metal spatial roofs and proposed evaluation method. According to history analysis results, method was proved be available various formula column base moment modified following appropriate diagram.

Abstract Many reinforced concrete (RC) frame buildings in Nepal were significantly damaged by the 7.8 magnitude (M w ) earthquake on April 25, 2015. To contribute to mitigate future disasters, current study focuses two specific characteristics of residential RC capital city Nepal, Kathmandu: application brick masonry infill exterior and partition walls, conventional vertical extension building ...

Unreinforced masonry (URM) structures are known to be rather vulnerable to seismic loading. Modern URM buildings with reinforced concrete (RC) slabs might, however, have an acceptable seismic performance for regions of low to moderate seismicity. In particular in countries of moderate seismicity it is often difficult to demonstrate the seismic safety of modern URM buildings by means of force-ba...

In this study, a practical seismic retrofit method for RC frames was proposed. For purpose, quasi-static loading applied to 8 different type of in finite elements analysis software, Abaqus and were pushed 45mm laterally. High strength fiber reinforced lightweight concrete panels used strengthen infill walls inside the frames. To apply them walls, epoxy binder polyurethane their behaviour compar...