Experimental evaluation of out-of-plane capacity of masonry infill walls

A Furtado, H Rodrigues, A Arêde, H Varum - Engineering Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
Infill masonry (IM) walls are considered to be non-structural elements but, when subjected to
earthquakes, they tend to interact with the surrounding RC (reinforced concrete) frames …

Behaviour of reinforced concrete column under biaxial cyclic loading—state of the art

H Rodrigues, H Varum, A Arêde, AG Costa - International Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
The cyclic behaviour of reinforced concrete columns has been object of many experimental
studies in the last years, mostly focused on the unidirectional loading of columns under …

Seismic performance of self-centering precast segmental bridge columns under different lateral loading directions

J Jia, K Zhang, S Wu, Y Guo, X Du, X Wang - Engineering structures, 2020 - Elsevier
Self-centering precast segmental bridge columns (SC-PSBCs) have been intensively
investigated in the past decade as one of prefabricated bridge components to expedite …

Simplified macro‐model for infill masonry walls considering the out‐of‐plane behaviour

A Furtado, H Rodrigues, A Arêde… - … Engineering & Structural …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
One of the main challenges in earthquake risk mitigation is the assessment of existing
buildings not designed according to modern codes and the development of effective …

Response of structures to bidirectional seismic loading: Research progress and future directions

R Roy, A Acharjya, A Roy, A Santra… - Journal of Structural …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Rigorous assessment of structural response to seismic excitation poses challenges for
researchers in their bid to account for the effects of (1) biaxial interaction; and (2) incidence …

Investigation of the characteristics of Portuguese regular moment-frame RC buildings and development of a vulnerability model

V Silva, H Crowley, H Varum, R Pinho… - Bulletin of Earthquake …, 2015 - Springer
A vulnerability model capable of providing the probabilistic distribution of loss ratio for a set
of intensity measure levels is a fundamental tool to perform earthquake loss estimation and …

Effect of shear-span ratio and vertical reinforcement ratio on the failure of geometrical-similar RC shear walls

L Miao, L Jin, D Li, X Du, B Zhang - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to investigate the size effect on reinforcement concrete (RC)
shear walls having different shear span ratios and vertical reinforcement ratios by the two …

[HTML][HTML] Cyclic behaviour of as-built and strengthened existing reinforced concrete columns previously damaged by fire

J Melo, Z Triantafyllidis, D Rush, L Bisby… - Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
A structure, during its life, may be subjected to multiple hazards. These hazards are
sometimes combined over a short period of time, or in some cases occur many years apart …

Behavior of rectangular reinforced-concrete columns under biaxial cyclic loading and variable axial loads

H Rodrigues, A Furtado, A Arêde - Journal of Structural Engineering, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
The behavior of reinforced-concrete (RC) elements subjected to axial loading variation in
conjunction with cyclic biaxial bending is recognized as a very important research topic with …

Fragility analysis of rectangular and circular reinforced concrete columns under bidirectional multiple excitations

MR Salami, EA Dizaj, MM Kashani - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a numerical investigation on seismic performance of reinforced
concrete (RC) cantilever columns under unidirectional and bidirectional excitations. The …