Seismic pressures on a reinforced concrete moment-resisting structure are known to create critical and essential regions at the beam-column joints. Beam-column junctions microcosm of whole structure, therefore brittle behavior these points predicts action. Ductile joints ductile Under influence seismic forces, between RC beams columns exposed high shear stresses. Learn more about performance fi...

This paper presents the results of a study on the axial compressive strength of columnsstrengthened with FRP wrap. The experimental part of the study included testing 6 reinforcedconcrete columns in two series. The first series comprised three similar circular reinforced concretecolumns strengthened with FRP wrap. The second series consisted of three similar square columns,two with sharp corner...

Waters’ variant of the Boneh-Boyen IBE scheme is attractive because of its efficency, applications, and security attributes, but suffers from a relatively complex proof with poor concrete security. This is due in part to the proof’s “artificial abort” step, which has then been inherited by numerous derivative works. It has often been asked whether this step is necessary. We show that it is not,...