Reinforced concrete (RC) walls are structural elements widely used to resist lateral forces in highly seismic countries. Design codes provide minimum requirements to ensure an adequate performance of shear walls during ...

A new simplified model for analysis and design of multistorey buildings is developed. The model is based on a single super-element per building storey capable of representing the elastic and inelastic properties of the ...

We present an updated empirical analysis on the ratio of the elastic (integrated) to the total cross section in the c.m. energy interval from 5 GeV to 8 TeV. As in a previous work, we use a suitable analytical parametrization ...

The dynamic interaction of the soil with a superstructure (DSSI) las been the subject of numerous investigations assuming elasticity of both, superstructure and soil foundation behavior. Nevertheless, the effect of DSSI ...

The dynamic interaction of the soil with a superstructure (DSSI) las been the subject of numerous investigations assuming elasticity of both, superstructure and soil foundation behavior. Nevertheless, the effect of DSSI ...

Designing structures that have the capacity to mitigate the effects of earthquakes in areas of high seismic hazard, such as Ecuador, is required to avoid economic losses and human lives, in this sense, several seismic ...

Flange local buckling of sinusoidal web I girders is investigated in this study. As a first step, pre-processors for ANSYS 9.0 are created, using the software parametric design language, for the non-linear numerical analysis ...