The 2008 Wenchuan-China earthquake showed the importance of considering the bidirectional seismic action as a cause of failure in column hinge mechanisms. Subsequently, the large 2011 Tohoku-Japan earthquake revealed that ...

The use of Hollow Structural Sections (HSS) provides an alternative for steel buildings in seismic zones, with the advantage over WF columns that the HSS columns have similar resistance along both axes and enhanced performance ...

This paper presents a numerical study on the seismic performance of end-plate moment connection between I-beam to HSS (hollow structural section) column stiffened by outer diaphragms (EP-HSS). In previous experimental ...

Connecting rod joint optimization is a well-known design procedure used for new cranktrains, not only for truck applications, but also for passenger cars. Big end bolted joint is one of the most critical connecting rods ...

A connection in a structure is responsible for the union and transmission of forces or moments from one structural element to another, such as beams and columns. The aim of this work is to study bolted connections in metal ...

The non-linear behavior of the moment-rotation curve of composite beam-to-column connections of cold-formed steel structures is not known still satisfactorily, being the study of these connections still in an incipient ...