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Hongmei Zhang, Zizhao Tang, Yuanfeng Duan and Zhiyuan Chen
Shear walls are important vertical and lateral bearing element in structures. While shear walls with openings are fragile due to stress concentration and the quasi-brittle behavior of concrete in tension. Therefore, additional strengthening rebars are re...
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Dario De Domenico, Emanuele Gandelli and Alberto Gioitta
The inelastic response of reinforced concrete (RC) frames under seismic loading is influenced by mechanical and geometrical properties and by the reinforcement arrangement of the beam?column members. In this paper, the seismic response and recentering be...
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Kangyu Wang, Zhenhuan Chen, Zhe Wang, Qianshen Chen and Dihui Ma
Calcareous sand is a special marine soil rich in calcium carbonate minerals, characterized by brittle particles. It is, therefore, widely used as a filling material in the construction of islands and reefs. In this study, a series of cyclic tri-axial tes...
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Chunliang Dong, Chaotao Fan, Xiaoyu Lu, Guangming Zhao, Minjie Qi and Ruipeng Qin
To study the mechanical and energy evolution characteristics of sandstone under true triaxial cyclic loading, a sandstone mechanical test with different intermediate principal stress under true triaxial loading was conducted using the rock true triaxial ...
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Chengyu Li, Cong Luo and Aizhu Zhu
This paper proposes a new type of steel slip-friction column base connections with arc end-plates. Two arc end-plates of the steel column base, which can slide between each other to some extent, were set at the position where the column base is subject t...
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Ying Liu, Zhixuan Liang, Zhiyong Liu and Guiping Nie
In offshore engineering, the sand beneath an embankment may be subjected to traffic loads, resulting in a series of engineering issues. The behaviour of the sand beneath the embankment may change under a long-term traffic load. A series of drained cyclic...
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Rui Guo, Dan Yang, Bin Jia and Deyun Tang
A total of nine specimens were constructed and tested under cyclic loads to investigate the differences in seismic behavior between glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP)-reinforced concrete (RC) joints and RC beam-to-column joints. The experimental param...
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Mingtao Gao, Hongyu Yan, Huiqiang Duan and Si Xiong
The paper represents a test investigation of the mechanical properties and acoustic emission (AE) characteristics of low-strength coal specimens subjected to cyclic loading and unloading. From the lab tests, the following conclusions can be obtained: (1)...
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Hubdar Hussain, Xiangyu Gao and Anqi Shi
In this study, detailed finite element analysis was conducted to examine the seismic performance of square and circular hollow steel braces under axial cyclic loading. Finite element models of braces were constructed using ABAQUS finite element analysis ...
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Jian Feng, Shuo Wang, Marco Meloni, Qian Zhang, Jingwen Yang and Jianguo Cai
This paper presents an experimental investigation of the seismic performance of interior beam?column joints with beams reinforced with Grade 600MPa longitudinal steel bars. Six full-scale reinforcement concrete (RC) interior joints are designed with diff...
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