A comparison of displacement-based Timoshenko multi-fiber beams finite element formulations and elasto-plastic applications

I Bitar, S Grange, P Kotronis… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Various formulations of displacement-based Timoshenko multi-fiber beams are compared in
this article. After a short literature review, the presentation of the shape functions leading to …

Seismic performance of a reinforced concrete frame building in China

H Duan, MBD Hueste - Engineering Structures, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the seismic performance of a multi-story reinforced concrete frame
building designed according to the provisions of the current Chinese seismic code …

Seismic response characteristics of high-rise RC wall buildings having different irregularities in lower stories

HS Lee, DW Ko - Engineering structures, 2007 - Elsevier
Three 1: 12 scale 17-story RC wall building models having different types of irregularity at
the bottom two stories were subjected to the same series of simulated earthquake …

Seismic behavior of RC building structures designed according to current codes

A Mosleh, H Rodrigues, H Varum, A Costa, A Arêde - Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
Earthquakes which recently occurred in highly populated regions show that existing
buildings constructed without appropriate seismic resisting characteristics may constitute as …

A multifiber Timoshenko beam with embedded discontinuities

I Bitar, N Benkemoun, P Kotronis, S Grange - Engineering Fracture …, 2019 - Elsevier
An enhanced high order multifiber Timoshenko beam is introduced to simulate structural
behavior up to failure. The beam is displacement based and geometrically linear, its section …

Performance of fiber beam–column elements in the seismic analysis of a lightly reinforced shear wall

L Martinelli, P Martinelli, MG Mulas - Engineering structures, 2013 - Elsevier
This work investigates the capability of two different fiber beam–column finite elements in
simulating the dynamic response of a shear wall tested on a shaking table. The two …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced beams and plates models incorporating the steel-concrete interface behavior for large-scale reinforced concrete structural applications

M Trad, I Bitar, S Grange, B Richard - Finite Elements in Analysis and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Considering the interaction between concrete and steel reinforcement in numerical
simulations of reinforced concrete structures is crucial for accurately capturing the concrete …

Ground motion intensity measures for seismic probabilistic risk analysis

M De Biasio - 2014 - theses.hal.science
A fundamental issue that arises in the framework of Probabilistic Seismic Risk Analysis is the
choice of groundmotion Intensity Measures (IMs). In addition to reducing record-to-record …

A novel shell element for nonlinear pushover analysis of reinforced concrete shear walls

N Valoroso, F Marmo, S Sessa - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2015 - Springer
We present a procedure for the assessment of reinforced concrete structures in terms of
seismic capacity based on the nonlinear pushover method. Structural systems containing …

Shaking table tests of lightly rc walls: Numerical simulations

N Ile, XH Nguyen, P Kotronis, J Mazars… - Journal of Earthquake …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
In the framework of the European consortium ECOLEADER, a seismic research project has
been performed on specimens tested on a shaking table. The specimens were …