Abstract: To overcome the shortcomings of traditional shear walls, structure systems have been proposed and investigated. One such structure system is a steel-reinforced concrete shear wall, which has certain desirable properties ...

Abstract: A self-centering isolated pier (SIP) with an elliptical rocking interface is proposed to enhance the seismic performance of bridge piers. Pseudostatic tests were conducted on two SIPs (one with and the other without tie ...

Abstract: In this paper, the shaking table tests and finite element analyses were conducted on the traditional thermal power plant main building and the thermal power plant main building with BRBs, respectively. The differences in ...