The research presented in this paper investigates the influence of varying load-displacement shape on the computed FEMA P-695 seismic performance metrics including collapse margin ratio (CMR) for a subset of the woodframe ...

At present, methods based on allowable displacements are frequently used in the seismic design of earth retaining structures. However, these procedures ignore both the foundation soil deformability and the seismic amplification ...

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 ...

About 2 % of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings taller than nine stories suffered important structural damage during 2010 Chile earthquake. The typical structural configuration of residential buildings is characterized by ...

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 ...

Muchas ciudades del Perú se encuentran ubicadas en el cinturón de fuego del Pacífico, en consecuencia, existe una mayor probabilidad de ocurrencias de sismos que generen cuantiosas pérdidas de vida y grandes perjuicios ...

The behavior of reinforced concrete walls that exhibit the shear mode of failure is studied, through the results of an experimental program that included the test of 26 full-scale specimens subjected to cyclic horizontal ...

In this dissertation, the capability of different distributed plasticity numerical models to simulate the seismic behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) axial-flexural elements, namely planar walls and square columns, is ...