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Athanasios Bakalis, Triantafyllos Makarios and Vassilis Lekidis
The seismic damage in reinforced concrete bridges is identified in this study using the ?M and P? hybrid technique initially developed for planar frames, where M signifies ?Monitoring? and P denotes ?Pushover analysis?. The proposed methodology involves ...
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Han Li, Shengze Tian and Xinzhi Dang
Unbonded steel-mesh-reinforced rubber bearings (USRBs) have been proposed as an alternative isolation bearing for small-to-medium-span highway bridges. It replaces the steel plate reinforcement of common unbonded laminated rubber bearings (ULNR) with spe...
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Yourong Lin, Zhi Zhou, Maoyu Shen, Jili Liu and Wei Huang
In order to enhance the self-centering capacity of steel frame structures after earthquakes and reduce the tubes of traditional double-tube or triple-tube SC-BRB, an innovative single-tube self-centering buckling restrained brace (ST-SC-BRB) is proposed ...
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Runqi Guo, Haiying Zhang, Kezheng Chen, Yang Song, Hongxia Li, Lin Ding and Yanjie Liu
In order to improve the seismic performance of reinforced concrete (RC) columns, a reinforcement technology using prestressed steel wire ropes embedded in polyurethane cement composite material is proposed. Four concrete columns reinforced with different...
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Luigi Sorrentino and Linda Giresini
This paper presents a safety tool to assess the risk of road blockage during and after emergency situations, mainly due to earthquakes. This method can be used by public authorities to calculate the risk of road paths prone to blockage in case of seismic...
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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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Simran Bharti, Adyan Ul Haq, L. T. Sasang Guite, Shruti Kanga, Fayma Mushtaq, Majid Farooq, Suraj Kumar Singh, Pankaj Kumar and Gowhar Meraj
Evaluating inherent vulnerability, an intrinsic characteristic becomes imperative for the formulation of adaptation strategies, particularly in highly complex and vulnerable regions of Himalayas. Jammu City, situated in the north-western Himalayas within...
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Ernesto Ausilio, Maria Giovanna Durante and Paolo Zimmaro
Geosynthetic-reinforced soil structures are often used to support shallow foundations of various infrastructure systems including bridges, railways, and highways. When such infrastructures are located in seismic areas, their performance is linked to the ...
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Bok-Gi Lee, Jin-Young Kim, Ju-Seong Jung and Kang-Seok Lee
This study proposed a novel V-bracing system equipped with a laterally layered friction damper (LLFD), which can supplement the shortcomings of conventional vibration control systems and is applicable to existing reinforced concrete (R/C) buildings. A ma...
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Hao Qi, Shaowei Hu, Xiang Xue, Changxi Shan, Wenhao Li, Yajia Wang and Peiyi Wang
To prevent brittle damage and improve the post-earthquake rapid repair capability of beam-column connections, a precast reduced beam section (PRBS) connection joint that can be rapidly repaired under earthquake action was proposed in this study. Four spe...
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