Abstract: This paper presents concepts and methods developed over the past two decades for the rational and practical robustness design of multistory building structures. The consideration of sudden column loss as an event-independent ...

Abstract: Masonry structures constitute an important part of the built environment and architectural heritage in seismic areas. A large number of these old structures showed inadequate performance and suffered substantial damage ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new planar reinforced concrete (RC) formulation capable of modeling geometric and material nonlinearity. A new co-rotational sub-parametric formulation consisting of a four-noded element with quadratic ...

Abstract: A new proposal for describing the hysteretic stress–strain behavior of high-strength concrete (HSC) under reversed cyclic loading is presented. The envelope curve is derived from the results of uniaxial, monotonic, compression ...

Abstract: The research presented in this paper addresses the influence of nonstructural masonry infill on the resistance of multistory buildings to progressive collapse under sudden column loss scenarios. In particular, the structural ...