Abstract: Rubber-based seismic isolation has been demonstrated to be one of the most effective measures to protect structural elements from damage during earthquakes and a viable option to retrofit existing structures with poor ...

Abstract: This paper presents an advance in the analytical prediction of the contact interaction between bearing pads and precast beams. Contact problems are typically nonlinear, and until recently, there was no analytical proposition ...

Abstract: Precast prestressed concrete beams present camber after prestressing and early-age imperfections like initial sweep and rotations. Because there have been many reported cases of collapse with this type of element when ...