Seismic rehabilitation provides existing buildings with more resistance to seismic activity, ground motion, or geotechnical failure due to earthquakes. Performance-based rehabilitation is a general concept through which ...

Although several studies have investigated the effect of degradation on the behavior of structures, investigations on collapse margin ratios are rare in the literature. In this study, the effect of strength and stiffness ...

In this research the in-plane shear behavior of composite steel-concrete shear walls was investigated by considering the following variables: steel plate thickness, the spacing between shear studs, the shape and type of ...

Buckling restrained braces (BRBs) have a similar behavior under compression and tension loadings. Therefore, they can be applied as a favorable lateral load resisting system for structures. In the performance-based earthquake ...

Enhancement of the response of reinforced concrete (RC) beams using fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcement bars has become a popular structural technique over the past two decades due to the well-known advantages of ...

Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) was extensively employed as external confinement to strengthen the RC structures. Extensive studies were carried out to assess a more exact formula for measuring the strength enhancement ...

Due to the fact that the buckling-restrained brace core yields both in tension and compression, it can absorb energy and exhibit high ductility rendering it proper for tolerating earthquake loads. One of the important ...

This paper presents the effect of geogrid tensile strength by calculating the pullout resistance and the geogrid-soil interaction mechanism. In order to investigate this interface, a series of pullout tests have been ...

Reinforced concrete structures need to be strengthened and retrofitted for various reasons, including errors during design and/or construction, so in most cases strengthening of structural elements is much more economical ...

Recent investigations have shown that the influences of Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) can be detrimental to the seismic behavior of structure, and hence ignoring this phenomenon in analysis and design may result in to ...

Approximately, 50 to 70 percent of hydration products in hydrated cement paste are polymorphisms of C-S-H gel. It is highly influential in the final properties of hardened cement paste. Distinguishing C-S-H nano-structure ...

Progressive collapse is a condition where local failure of a primary structural component leads to the collapse of neighboring members and the whole structure, consequently. In this paper, the progressive collapse potential ...