Abstract: One series of five composite joints with welded connections was tested and the influences of joint type, slab thickness, and number of shear studs were studied. Welded unreinforced flange with bolt web and reduced beam ...

Abstract: The presence of axial restraint and biaxial load eccentricity plays a vital role in the behavior and design of columns under fire conditions. Because there is limited research on these two parameters, an experimental study ...

Abstract: Previous research work has found that catenary action can significantly increase structural resistance in addition to flexural capacity under column removal scenarios. However, whether reinforcements in beams can effectively ...

Abstract: A series of experiments has been conducted to investigate the failure modes and ductility of composite beam-column joints in a middle-column-removal scenario. Composite web cleat and flush end plate connections were studied. ...

Abstract: This paper describes an experimental investigation on the resistance and failure mode of four precast concrete frames. Each frame comprised a middle beam-column joint, a double-span beam, and two side columns. Two parameters, ...

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental program to investigate the progressive collapse resistance of reinforced-concrete (RC) building structures subjected to a loss of a penultimate-external (PE) column that is the exterior ...

Abstract: Boundary conditions of precast concrete frames play a crucial role in their progressive collapse resistance under middle column removal scenarios. Interior and exterior frames behave differently as a result of different ...

Abstract: An efficient numerical approach using the Green’s function solutions of transient heat conduction for predictions of thermal response inside a concrete-filled rectangular hollow section subjected to fire is proposed in ...

Abstract: In this paper, static and dynamic experiments on reinforced concrete beam-column frames under single-column-removal scenario applying a multipoint loading method were conducted. One of the objectives was to investigate ...

Abstract: An analytical approach was developed at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, to predict structural capacities of RC beam-slab structures under the internal column removal scenario, taking into account the contribution ...