of Earthquake Engineering, results of blind prediction contests of shake table tests document the inability of state-of-the-art models to predict the dynamic response of Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures with a reasonable accuracy, therefore question the validity of seismic design processes [2]. ...
Current legislation, i.e., the Structural Code [19], is based on the European standard "Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures" [38]. The service life of building structures and other common structures is 50 years, which will be directly affected by the corrosion of their reinforcements....
The main purpose of this work was to develop a computational model of reinforced concrete bar elements, which can be used to study the behavior of an element going from purely elastic to elastic-plastic and then to stress the softening and failure of the cross-section. To obtain a solution,...
can be found on the nonlinear analysis of buildings by reinforced concrete (RC), which is within the current field of investigation, mainly involving the typical rigid base assumption as usually considered for the earthquake design of common building structures by the current Eurocode 8 (EC8) [2...
lfb@ubi.pt Received: 27 December 2019; Accepted: 5 March 2020; Published: 7 March 2020 Abstract: The Generalized Softened Variable Angle Truss Model (GSVATM) allows one to compute the global behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beams under torsion, including the pre- and post-cracking stage....
buildings Article Structural Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Areas of Moderate Seismicity and Assessment of Strategies for Structural Improvement David Dominguez-Santos 1, Pablo Ballesteros-Perez 2 ID and Daniel Mora-Melia 1,* ID 1 Departamento de Ingeniería y Gestión de la Construcción...
materials Article Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Externally Mounted Sequentially Activated Iron-Based Shape Memory Alloys Emanuel Strieder 1,* , Christoph Aigner 1, Gabriele Petautschnig 1, Sebastian Horn 2, Marco Marcon 1, Michael Schwenn 1, Oliver Zeman 1, Pablo Castillo 1 , ...
1. Introduction The idea of using non-linear analysis in reinforced concrete structures to promote efficient and economic structural design is not new [1,2], but the restrictions of structural code guidelines [3] prevented the widespread use of non-linear analysis [4]. Although the use of ...
Keywords: high-strength reinforcement; concrete beam; crack width; calculation model 1. Introduction At present, the strength of steel reinforcement used in prestressed concrete structures in China generally ranges from 300 MPa to 500 MPa [1]. Among them, HPB300- and HRB400- grade reinforcements ...