Abstract: The response of a typical steel‐lined reinforced concrete nuclear reactor containment to uniform internal pressure monotonically increasing to failure is analyzed by nonlinear Finite Elements. Emphasis is placed on modeling ...

Abstract: The effectiveness of various seismic‐strengthening techniques of stone masonry buildings is assessed through linear elastic finite element analyses. The strengthening methods examined are: (1) Reinforced concrete tie‐beams ...

Abstract: The behavior of and damage inflicted on stone‐masonry buildings during the Kalamata, Greece, earthquake of 1986 is studied statistically and analytically. Damage is shown to be almost statistically uncorrelated to the ...

Abstract: A large number of experimental curvatures in plastic hinges of concrete members are used alongside analytical moment-curvature relations to backestimate strains in the bars, the extreme concrete fibers of a section, or its ...

Abstract: A large number of experimental curvatures in plastic hinges of concrete members are used alongside analytical moment-curvature relations to backestimate strains in the bars, the extreme concrete fibers of a section, or its ...

Abstract: A distributed inelasticity cyclic model of reinforced concrete (RC) columns is developed, using as a building block the tangent flexibility matrix of a section, which relates the three nondimensional normal stress resultants ...

Abstract: An incremental model is proposed for the nonlinear relationship between the normal action effects

Abstract: The response of a typical steel‐lined reinforced concrete nuclear reactor containment to postulated internal hydrogen detonations is investigated by axisymmetric nonlinear dynamic finite element analyses. Internal wall ...

Abstract: Two types of free‐standing stairs, each having an axis that makes a 180° turn in plan, are considered. In the first, the horizontal projection of the axis consists of a central semicircle and two equal straight parts, and ...

Abstract: The full, 12×12, stiffness matrix of a free‐standing helicoidal stair is constructed in terms of its geometric characteristics. Knowledge of this stiffness matrix allows incorporation of the stair as a single element into ...