The cold formed steel section are increasingly used as a structural elements in low rise buildings recent times, due to the advantages like economic production, easy transportation, labor cost and high strength weight ratio. In current work G+3 storied building frame is studied for seismic wind load using Staad-pro software. Light gauge taken beam slab elements. analysis carried out by Equivale...

High-rise buildings subjected to lateral loads such as wind and earthquake loads must be checked not to exceed the limits on the maximum lateral displacement or the maximum inter-story drift ratios. In this paper, a sensing model for deformed shapes of a building structure in motion is presented. The deformed shape sensing model based on a 2D scanner consists of five modules: (1) module for acq...

This work applies 64,765 simulated seismic ground motions to four models each of 6or 20-story, steel special moment-resisting frame buildings. We consider two vector intensity measures and categorize the building response as “collapsed,” “unrepairable,” or “repairable.” We then propose regression models to predict the building responses from the intensity measures. The best models for “collapse...

This paper presents a study on the in-plane shear response of partially-grouted reinforced masonry walls with bond-beam reinforcement. A database 95 tests made concrete hollow blocks was compiled from experimental studies reported in literature to characterize capacity and damageability subjected lateral loading. The has been used evaluate accuracy existing design strength equations for walls. ...

A mainshock is usually accompanied by a group of ground motions. In many design codes, the effects seismic sequences have been neglected or underestimated. Aftershocks can increase structural damage even cause failure. The current study evaluated behavior rehabilitated and as-built reinforced concrete (RC) structure under real scaled mainshock-aftershocks using nonlinear analysis. Verification ...

This paper presents numerical and experimental studies on semi-active seismic response control of structures equipped with variable stiffness damping structural joints. Such adaptive joints, which are comprised a shape memory polymer (SMP) core reinforced by an SMP-aramid composite skin, function as load-transfer components well devices. The SMP material can transition from glassy to rubbery st...

Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) is an important research topic in data mining and information retrieval and has been explored for many years. Most of the studies have approached the problem from the event tracking point of view. We argue that the definition of stories as events is not reflecting the full picture. In this work we propose a story tracking method built on crowd-tagging in socia...