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...

This study investigates the seismic losses associated with damage of traditional and innovative partitions housed in code-conforming RC frame buildings. Three-story buildings located low-to-high seismicity sites Italy are considered. Nonlinear multiple-stripe analyses performed according to conditional spectrum approach. The partition capacities evaluated experimental studies, elementary costs ...

Architectural layouts of reinforced concrete buildings often require structural walls, with varying dimensions, to be placed in an asymmetric plan configuration. During seismic excitation the asymmetry induces a torsional component of response, which can impact negatively on the performance of the building by increasing demands on both structural and nonstructural elements. Furthermore, the tor...

Concrete strength evaluated from compression tests on cores is affected by several factors causing differences from the in-situ strength at the location from which the core specimen was extracted. Among the factors, there is the damage possibly occurring during the drilling phase that generally leads to underestimate the actual in-situ strength. In order to quantify this effect, in this study t...

Reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls are widely used in high-rise structures earthquake-prone areas. Damaged by the earthquakes past decades, these buildings need retrofitting order to increase resilience of with shear walls. This study aimed investigate RC wall using energy dissipation devices. To this end, a total four 15, 20, 25, and 30 stories equipped as their lateral load-resisting s...

Abstract The purpose of this research is to specify the differences between performance cross-laminated timber (CLT) and reinforced concrete (RC) walls. study done by using finite element structural analysis design software, StruSoft FEM-Design, in order model, analyse a reference building located city Gävle Sweden. firstly modelled, analysed designed RC walls then are replaced with CLT In both...

The improvement and the capacity assessment of existing buildings has become the main topic of the last years so that different studies can be found devoted to damaged structures or structures not having a capacity compatible with the safety levels of the actual codes. Reinforced concrete framed structure buildings represent a conspicuous rate of the existing constructions so many efforts are a...

The proposal lateral load pattern for pushover analysis is given in two forms for symmetric concrete buildings: 1-(X/H)0.5 for low-rise and mid-rise buildings, 2- Sin(ΠX/H) for high-rise buildings. These two forms give more realistic results as compared to conventional load patterns such as triangular and uniform load patterns. The assumed buildings of 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 30 story concrete bui...

Reinforced concrete frame buildings with Open Ground Story (OGS) are one of the most common building configurations in urban habitat. These configurations are known to be vulnerable to seismic excitations, primarily due to the sudden loss in strength in the ground story and differential stiffness distribution throughout the structure. The differential stiffness distribution is attributed primar...