Conventional design of steel plate shear walls SPSWs assumes that 100% of the story shear is resisted by each infill panel. Following this approach, strength provided by the boundary frame moment resisting action, which provides the SPSW with overstrength, is neglected. While this design assumption has a positive impact on seismic performance of SPSWs, no analytical work has been done to quanti...

This article provides a behaviour analysis of moment resisting joints with curved endplates. is new type connection that can be used for joining steel beams to the circular hollow section (CHS) columns by means bolts. Some researchers apply Eurocode model without considering differences in calculation schemes and assumptions, such as using general an equivalent T-stub tension. Consequently, man...

The present work is aimed at assessing the impact of strong column-weak beam (SCWB) criterion on seismic performance of optimally designed steel moment frames. To this end, different SCWB ratios are considered for steel special moment resisting frame (SMRF) structures and performance-based design optimization process is implemented with the aid of an efficient metaheuristic. The seismic collaps...

The fundamental periods of buildings are essential to calculate the design base shear and lateral forces. Most seismic codes specify empirical formulae to estimate the fundamental vibration period of buildings. These empirical formulae are used for both lowand mediumrise buildings. These formulae depend on the building materials (steel, reinforced concrete etc), building types (frame, shear wal...

Research efforts have been devoted to glue-laminated bamboo (GLB) as an alternative engineered timber. However, some research has shown that GLB exhibits brittle failure at smaller displacement when compared with Glulam. To address this issue and enhance the mechanical performance, we propose use Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) reinforce in moment-resisting connections. A total of 24 conn...