Suppose you are an architect and you have recently completed a challenging project: designing and building a sturdy modern house on a sandy stretch of ground where several previous architects had failed. The shifting ground had cracked their one-piece rigid concrete foundations. You vowed not to repeat their mistakes, so you designed a novel foundational system that avoided the use of concrete ...

In the recent history development of inter-module connection (IMC) systems for steel modular building (MBSs) has gained traction with many researchers and engineers being in pursuit universally performant systems. Even though newly proposed connections are presented as potential disruptors market, it rarely is case a difficult, if not impossible task, to deliver “fit-for-all” design given compl...

A revised procedure for the design of steel plate shear walls is proposed. In this procedure, the thickness of the infill plate is found using equations that are derived from plastic analysis of the strip model, which is widely accepted for the representation of steel plate shear walls. Equations are derived from a basic steel plate shear wall configuration but are shown to be conservative for ...

By: John R. Lanahan Inland Steel Company is the fifth largest steel company in North America and is the largest .producer of steel at one plant. More than 6,000,000 tons/year can be shipped, of which about 60% are flat rolled, products, inland has a series of subsidiaries in warehousing, metal building, and containers which are also steel users. Total corporate sales are in excess of $2 billion...

MIX is an ESPRIT project aimed at developing strategies and tools for integrating symbolic and neural methods in hybrid systems. The project arose from the observation that current hybrid systems are generally small-scale experimental systems which couple one symbolic and one connectionist model, often in an ad hoc fashion. Hence the objective of building a versatile testbed for the design, pro...

In many studies, the alternative load path method (APM) has been used for progressive collapse analysis. In this method, one or several columns of the building are removed and the building response is investigated. This method ignores the initial local failure cause of building and this can affect the structural response. Investigation of ignoring the initial local failure cause of steel braced...

In this paper evaluation of seismic capacity of a historical building is carried out. It had been used as a national library about 40 years ago. Also, before that, it had been constructed as a part of a Royal complex. This building has been constructed by traditional methods using bricks and mortars. The ceilings system of the structure consists of jack arches. Also, the roof of the building ha...

The use of 3D printing in modular building connections is a novel and promising technique. However, the performance printed steel has not been investigated adequately to date. Therefore, this paper presents three-dimensional finite element model (FEM), using multi-purpose software Abaqus, study effect different geometrical material parameters on ultimate behaviour (herein named 3DMBC) wire arc ...

The composite of multi-layer steel structure module and frame, as an important design form in Chinese house construction, is widely used the architectural houses. frame building are different from traditional. This kind mechanism adopts prefabricated type, which has advantages fast construction speed few limiting factors, plays a very guiding role modern construction. Based on this, this articl...