this paper presents an experimental study on seismic repair of damaged square reinforced concrete columns with poor lap splices, 90-degree hooks and widely spaced transverse bars in plastic hinge regions according to aci detailing (pre.1971) and (318-02) using gfrp wraps. three specimens were tested in “as built” condition and retested after they were repaired by glass fiberreinforced plastic s...

Citation: Kojima K and Takewaki I (2017) Critical Steady-State Response of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Bilinear Hysteretic System under Multi Impulse as Substitute of Long-Duration Ground Motion. Front. Built Environ. 3:41. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2017.00041 Critical Steady-State Response of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Bilinear Hysteretic System under Multi Impulse as Substitute of Long-Duration Ground Mo...

The paper deals with the analysis of flux-controlled memristor which is described by its unambiguous charge-flux constitutive relation. The memristor is excited by ideal sinusoidal voltage source in order to sense its typical i – v pinched hysteretic loop. Two equivalent schematics of the transformation of the exciting voltage into the current response are described. The first one is selected f...

Experimental studies were conducted by some researchers to investigate the cyclic performance of CFSretrofitted columns; however there is a need to develop analytical methods which can simulate its hysteretic response. This study presents an analysis of the hysteretic behavior of CFS-retrofitted reinforced concrete circular columns. Fiber element analysis was conducted based on cyclic constitut...

in this research, the effectiveness of multiple tuned mass dampers (mtmds) in mitigating the response of nonlinear hysteretic structures has been studied where the optimal parameters of mtmds have been determined based on minimization of maximum relative displacement (drift) of structure. for solving the optimization problem the genetic algorithm (ga) has been used successfully. for numerical a...

the constitutive relationships of the rubber materials that act as the main spring of a hydraulic engine mount are nonlinear. in addition to material induced nonlinearity, further nonlinearities may be introduced by mount geometry, turbulent fluid behavior, temperature, boundary conditions, decoupler action, and hysteretic behavior. in this research all influence the behavior of the system only...