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Niki Balkamou and George Papagiannopoulos
Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW) provide significant lateral load capacity and can be utilized in the seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing reinforced concrete (r/c) buildings. In this study, the application of SPSW to retrofit a r/c building designed a...
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Zeqin Tian, Dengfeng Chen and Liang Zhao
Accurate building energy consumption prediction is a crucial condition for the sustainable development of building energy management systems. However, the highly nonlinear nature of data and complex influencing factors in the energy consumption of large ...
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Ru Wang, Qingyu Zheng, Wei Li, Guijun Han, Xuan Wang and Song Hu
The uncertainty in the initial condition seriously affects the forecasting skill of numerical models. Targeted observations play an important role in reducing uncertainty in numerical prediction. The conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation (CNOP) meth...
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Zhen Liu, Qifeng Yang, Anlue Wang and Xingyu Gu
In the process of driving in an underground interchange, drivers are faced with many challenges, such as being in a closed space, visual changes alternating between light and dark conditions, complex road conditions in the confluence section, and dense s...
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Ho-Jin Baek, Ju-Seong Jung, Kang-Seok Lee and Bok-Gi Lee
This study proposes a concrete-filled tube composite strengthening system (CCSS), which is a new concept that can improve and supplement the vulnerability of existing CFT seismic strengthening methods. The CCSS seismic reinforcement method is easy to con...
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Lei Li, Guangfeng Li, Nasim Uddin, Limin Tian, Zhibing Zhu, Chong Bai and Chen Shen
As large-span structures, reticulated shells are widely used in large-scale public building and act as emergency shelters in the event of sudden disasters. However, spatial reticulated shells are dynamic-sensitive structures; the effect of the initial st...
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Yansu Qi, Xuefei Li, Yingjie Liu, Xiujuan He, Weijun Gao and Sheng Miao
Morphological indicators, which are important for urban planning, can be adjusted to effectively mitigate the heat island effect and promote a more comfortable urban environment. Most studies obtain the relationship between morphological indicators and l...
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Ping Lou, Weixiong Huang and Xinde Huang
Research on tunnel excavation has rarely considered the effect of the tunnel excavation on a complete building. Therefore, this paper considered a building with a double basement and piles, and a three-dimensional finite-element model for shield tunnels ...
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Fatemeh Safari Honar, Vahid Broujerdian, Esmaeil Mohammadi Dehcheshmeh and Chiara Bedon
The progressive collapse of structures subjected to a truck collision with ground floor columns is numerically investigated in this paper. For this purpose, a four-story steel building with a dual system (including an intermediate steel moment frame, wit...
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Thanapon Tipsunavee, Goran Arangjelovski and Pornkasem Jongpradist
Nowadays, seismic codes are regularly updated with new knowledge and a better understanding of the earthquake phenomenon. With these updates, existing buildings require a reevaluation of their stability and a process of reinforcement and/or retrofitting....
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