Abstract: The effects of the element ductility capacity, the flexibility of beams (in terms of the beam span-to-beam depth ratio), the flexibility of columns (in terms of column slenderness ratio), and the level of gravity loads on ...

Abstract: A method based on nonlinear pushover analysis is proposed to quantify the deterministic and probabilistic effects of redundancy on the strength of structural systems. Two indices, the redundancy strength index and the ...

Abstract: Experiments on commercially-produced composite reinforcements have shown that the transverse coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) of these rebar are 3–5 times higher than the CTE of concrete. In this paper, thermoelastic ...