Previous earthquakes, such as the 2010 Maule earthquake in Chile, have demonstrated the need to establish suitable predictors of compressive or tensile strains in concrete or steel in reinforced concrete shear walls, which ...

Concentrated plasticity (CP) models are frequently used in static and dynamic building analysis and have been implemented in available commercial software. This investigation deals with three different CP-models, a simplified ...

Slender walls with discontinuities at their bases, such as flag walls or walls with door openings or access, are common in Chilean practice because of the architectural requirements at facades, first floors, and underground ...

Background: Obtaining ideal support to maintain the nasal tip has been investigated in several rhinoplasty studies. We aimed to describe a support technique, namely the use of a "hinge strut" (HS) for the nasal tip in ...

Summary In this work the structural dependence of plastic rotation capacity in RC beams is evaluated using the Finite Element Method. The objective is to achieve a better understanding of the non-linear behavior of reinforced ...

Summary In this work the structural dependence of plastic rotation capacity in RC beams is evaluated using the Finite Element Method. The objective is to achieve a better understanding of the non-linear behavior of reinforced ...

In-span hinges (ISHs) are located at the bridge deck of reinforced concrete box-girder bridges and are used to transmit vertical loads between two adjacent parts of the deck. ISHs are disturbed regions because of the complex ...