Outrigger and Belt‐Truss System Design for High‐Rise Buildings: A Comprehensive Review Part II—Guideline for Optimum Topology and Size Design

W Alhaddad, Y Halabi, H Xu… - Advances in Civil …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article is the second part of the series of the comprehensive review which is related to
the outrigger and belt‐truss system design for tall buildings. In this part, by presenting and …

Conceptual seismic design in performance‐based earthquake engineering

GJ O'Reilly, GM Calvi - Earthquake engineering & structural …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A principal aspect of seismic design is the verification of performance limit states, which help
ensure satisfactory behaviour within a performance‐based earthquake engineering …

Concentrated plasticity modelling of RC frames in time-history analyses

E Bruschi, PM Calvi, V Quaglini - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
The study aims at giving an insight into the effects of modelling decisions that are adopted in
concentrated plasticity formulations used in time history analyses to model the behavior of …

Extreme response of reinforced concrete buildings through fiber force-based finite element analysis

E Brunesi, R Nascimbene - Engineering Structures, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent events showed that buildings designed according to conventional codes are not
necessarily able to resist man-made extreme events such as impact or explosions. In the …

Evaluation of the shear capacity of precast-prestressed hollow core slabs: numerical and experimental comparisons

E Brunesi, D Bolognini, R Nascimbene - Materials and Structures, 2015 - Springer
Since eighties, 400 and 500 mm thick precast-prestressed concrete hollow core slabs,
characterized by increasingly optimized cross-sections with non-circular voids, became very …

Direct displacement-based seismic design of steel eccentrically braced frame structures

TJ Sullivan - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2013 - Springer
This paper details a direct displacement-based design procedure for steel eccentrically
braced frame (EBF) structures and gauges its performance by examining the non-linear …

Experimental study on hysteretic behavior of aluminum alloy gusset joints

X Guo, S Zhu, X Liu, L Liu - Thin-Walled Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents the hysteretic behavior of aluminum alloy gusset (AAG) joints by means
of experimental study. Eight AAG joint specimens are tested under cyclic load. Initially, the …

Probabilistic bearing capacity assessment for unequal-leg angle cross-bracings in transmission towers

Z Tang, Z Li, T Wang - Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Unequal-leg angle (ULA) cross-bracings in transmission towers could be adopted to provide
more efficient engineering design and save material in some cases, but the buckling …

Development of a hysteretic model for steel members under cyclic axial loading

J Liu, L Tian, R Ma, B Qu - Journal of Building Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Steel members present complex nonlinear behaviors due to the asymmetry of the seismic
responses of steel members in tension and compression. This research proposed a …

Modeling of different bracing configurations in multi-storey concentrically braced frames using a fiber-beam based approach

KK Wijesundara, R Nascimbene, GA Rassati - Journal of Constructional …, 2014 - Elsevier
This study presents a modeling approach for concentrically braced frames to be used in
multi-storey buildings. The model for an inelastic beam-column brace consists of two …