Seismic damage to reinforced concrete (RC) beam-column joints in reinforced concrete
(RC) structures significantly impacts their stability and safety after an earthquake. Cracks …

Although manual crack inspection has been widely used for structural health monitoring
over the last decades, the development of computer vision methods allows continuous …

This study presents an image-assisted method for seismic damage evaluation of RC walls,
integrating image processing, feature ranking, and machine learning. The method utilizes …

Twelve low-aspect-ratio rectangular reinforced concrete (RC) walls were built and tested
under reversed cyclic loading at the University at Buffalo. One of the objectives of the …

Engineers inspecting damaged buildings after an earthquake are tasked with determining
whether the lateral stiffness and strength of the building has been compromised, including …

FEMA P-58 provides engineers with second-generation tools for performance-based
seismic assessment of buildings. Central to the loss calculations enabled by FEMA P-58 are …

Low aspect ratio reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls (walls with a height divided-by length
of less than two) provide the lateral strength and stiffness for all nuclear power plants in the …

Reinforced concrete shear walls are part of the lateral force resisting system for many low-
and medium-rise buildings. Such reinforced concrete walls will likely be damaged in design …