Abstract: This paper presents new equations for the design of confinement reinforcement for ductile earthquake-resistant rectangular and circular columns based on performance measured in terms of curvature demand. These equations ...

Abstract: One disadvantage of most available stress–strain models for concrete confined with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites is that they do not take into consideration the interaction between the internal lateral steel ...

Abstract: This paper presents relatively simple, analytically derived curves to model the axial and the lateral stress-strain relations of circular concrete columns. The analytical curves describe the full elastoplastic behavior of ...

Abstract: Reinforced concrete columns usually have a minimum amount of transverse steel reinforcement this transverse reinforcement can have non negligible effects on the response of columns retrofitted with fiber-reinforced polymers ...

Abstract: Specialized computer‐aided education tools are necessary to provide a transition between theoretical formulations of matrix methods of structural dynamic computations and the fully automated analysis procedures found in ...

Abstract: Deficient concrete-bridge columns can be effectively upgraded by bonding on the exterior surface fiber-reinforced polymer composite sheets with the fibers oriented in the columns’ circumferential direction, thus providing ...

Abstract: This paper presents tests that were performed on square large-scale steel-fiber-reinforced high-strength concrete (HSC) columns under concentric compression loading. The experimental program was mainly designed to examine ...