Seismic vulnerability and retrofitting of gravity load designed RC buildings

... achieved by means of a comprehensive damage index 1.4 Seismic Retrofitting of RC GLD Buildings in Singapore Seismic retrofitting refers to wise modification of the structural properties of an existing ... accuracy and robustness of ABAQUS and computational efficiency and wide spread usability of SAP2000 1.3 Seismic Demand and Adequacy Evaluation for Building...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 22:24

... To assess the vulnerability of gravity load designed structure against far- field earthquake, a pushover analysis is conducted on an 18-storey frame building (as an vii example building for illustration), ... Malaysia 1.2.2 Vulnerability of existing RC structures not designed for seismic load 10 1.2.2.1 Seismic performance of gravity load designed structure...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:15

... distribution of internal forces under seismic load Balendra et al (1999) highlighted that three-bay multi-storey RC frames designed to resist gravity loads and wind loads/notional loads according to ... buildings are designed according to non-seismic codes It is necessary therefore, to examine the vulnerability of such gravity load designed (GLD) buildings to far- field...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2015, 10:10

... domain analysis 1.2.4 Retrofit of steel structure using fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) If the seismic adequacy of steel platform is insufficient, seismic retrofitting may be required Seismic retrofitting ... strength in a fixed steel platform designed for wave load to see whether there is sufficient capacity to meet the demand due to low seismic loads and to i...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:02

... demand on the substructure 5.4.4—Methods of analysis for seismic isolation design The basic premise of the seismic isolation design provisions is two-fold: SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CONCRETE ... reinforced -concrete columns, confinement of concrete in the weak direction of walls does SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF CONCRETE BRIDGE SYSTEMS (...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 22:00

... ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam INTRODUCTION Dzao people discussing climate change in Bac Kan Image © CARE Vietnam s ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous region ... of ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam CARE’s work with Ethnic Minorities in the Northern Moun...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 23:30

... as linear networks have a pipelined communication pattern involving (m − 1) links, where m is the number of processors in the system Further, in the case of linear networks, adopting multi-installment ... distribution strategy on linear networks Linear networks consist of set of processors interconnected in a linear daisy chain fashion The network can be c...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 06:10

... MODELLING OF WIND LOAD ON TALL BUILDINGS USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS TON THI TU ANH (B.Eng (Hons)) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING ... buildings to wind loads in general comprises of three components: along -wind, across -wind and torsional response Along -wind response in turn consists of th...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 12:39

... Bureau of Reclamation; Design of gravity dams: Design Manual for Concrete Gravity Dams; Denver, Colorado; 1976 R A MIR and C A TAYLOR An investigation in to base sliding response of rigid gravity dams ... downstream sliding of rigid concrete gravity dams subjected earthquake loads The main menu of DAS program is showed in figure Figure The main menu o...

Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 17:20

... stress of longitudinal reinforcing bars F Internal force vector Fc Force in concrete Fs Force in tensile reinforcing bars Fs' Force in compressive reinforcing bars F* Force of equivalent SDOF system ... unconfined concrete εcu Ultimate strain of concrete εf Effective FRP strain at failure εs Strain of tensile reinforcing bars εs ' Strain of compressive reinforcing bars εy Yiel...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:09

... 4,000 units of office equipment Table Office and Miscellaneous Equipment: Number of Units and Density sorted by Density of Office Equipment (units/1000 ft2) bldg type medium office Number of Units ... Table Office Equipment Turn-off and Power Management Rates _16 List of Figures Figure Comparison of LBNL and CBECS Commercial Building Samples Figure Of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... one of the models under analysis (model 5) at final crack propagation 6.1.3 Calculation of the Stress Intensity Factors When a propagating crack is considered, the stress intensity factors and ... Effect of Crack Increment on SIF, Toe Crack crack) on the stress intensity factor (KI) under a constant load The applied edge stress for the model was based on...

Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2014, 20:40

... article as: Socías et al.: Acute retroviral syndrome and high baseline viral load are predictors of rapid HIV progression among untreated Argentinean seroconverters Journal of the International AIDS ... common mode of HIV transmission [9] Greater awareness regarding acute retroviral syndrome (ARS), the higher frequency of testing among this po...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... V Hassel, M.-S Alouini, G E Øien, and D Gesbert, “Rateoptimal multiuser scheduling with reduced feedback load and analysis of delay effects,” in Proceedings of the 13th European Signal Processing ... robust with regard to time delay ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONCLUSION We have analyzed a scheduling algorithm that has optimal spectral efficiency and reduced feedback comp...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... vertices, and we show that the center of gravity for each of those classes is the center of gravity of the permutahedron In §3, we show that the computation of the center of gravity of any of the realizations ... family of realizations for the cyclohedron, starting with the permutahedron of type B We show in this section that the centers of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:22