Buckling of longitudinal reinforcement in reinforced concrete (RC) columns or walls is commonly seen with a length equal to the spacing between stirrups (local buckling), but experimental observations have shown that the ...

Low-cycle fatigue life of Grade 300E and 500E reinforcing bars including the effect of buckling is evaluated. Low-cycle fatigue tests are carried out on un-machined specimens subjected to constant axial strain loading with ...

Reinforcing bars removed from structural walls that belonged to a damaged building during the 2010 earthquake in Chile are studied under low-cycle fatigue testing. Damage of such walls was characterized by concrete crushing ...

Global buckling of slender walls, reported only in a few laboratory tests before 2010, became a critical issue in design of reinforced concrete buildings after it was observed following the 2010 Mw 8.8 Chile earthquake and ...

Residential reinforced concrete buildings performed well during the 2010 M,, 8.8 Maule, Chile earthquake. However, brittle damage was observed in reinforced concrete structural walls. The most frequent observed damage in ...

Micro-buckling of unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites is investigated in this paper by means of an explicit representation of a geometrically imperfect fiber within the context of kinematical and material non-linear ...

About 2% of Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings taller than nine stories suffered serious damage in structural walls during the 2010 Chile earthquake. The observed damage involved mostly crushing of concrete, buckling of ...