[PDF] Top 20 Seismic response of Cfs strap-braced stud walls: Experimental investigation

... an experimental investigation carried out for the evaluation of the seismic behaviour of CFS strap-braced ...The experimental campaign aimed to study the global inelastic ... See full document

... flat strap X bracing behaviour include wall specimens realized with strap braces on one or both wall sides, different strap dimensions and steel material properties [4, 23, 25, 27, ...The ... See full document

... Lifetime performance metrics have been calculated using ten NLTHAs at eight intensity levels. While this combination of analyses and intensity levels was shown to give acceptably accurate performance metrics for a ... See full document

... the experimental campaign and to define the configurations of diagonal strap braced walls to be examined, three residential buildings have been designed according to different hypotheses on ... See full document

... structural response in seismic ...are CFS stud walls, that are generally realized with a frame in CFS profiles that can be braced by light gauge steel straps installed in ... See full document

... the seismic response of CFS structures and to support the spreading of these systems, a theoretical and experimental research has been carried out at University of Naples Federico II within ... See full document

... plays a very significant role in the developing societies. Construction is an industry where steel is used to a greater extent, exceeding use of 50% of world’s steel. Steel also offers good architectural view and it ... See full document

... For storage of huge quantity of fluids like water, oil, petroleum, acid and sometime gases also, flasks or tanks are essential. These structures are ready of masonry, steel, steel-clad existing and pre stressed concrete. ... See full document

... shear walls have been used throughout the world as known resisting elements for the lateral wind and earthquake ...shear walls and then they are compared to finite element one; investigating possibilities ... See full document

... in seismic zone-V, the region of highest seismicity as per IS:1893 Part 1 [BIS, ...torsional response under pure lateral forces is avoided, and hence, the present study is focused only on the weak and soft ... See full document

... The specimen is placed in the load frame and the cracks at the bottom of the specimen are opened and kept constant via hydraulic jacks to the desired average crack width.. After that th[r] ... See full document

... For Victoria (western Canada), moderate to large crustal earthquakes of magnitude M6.5 to M7.5 were considered as contributors to hazard evaluation at inter- mediate-to-high frequencies. The selected crustal ensem- ble ... See full document

... under seismic-type loading; the facts are witnessed by the structural failures observed during earthquakes ...the seismic energy introduced into the structure must be dissipated within the ...If ... See full document

... on experimental observations, similar to that developed by Eligehausen et ...on experimental observations made on bars embedded in well-confined concrete, though tensile cracking in the concrete block was ... See full document

... Sohel and Liew [25] studied the behavior of SCS slabs with J-hook connectors by performing tests. In this test program, SCS slabs were studied with lightweight concrete, ordinary concrete and fiber concrete. Dimensions ... See full document

... Four large-size specimens (SC1 through SC4) were built and tested under displacement- controlled cyclic loading. The tests were conducted in the NEES laboratory at the University at Buffalo with support from the Bowen ... See full document

... prior to the failure by means of excessive deformations. The design of structure should be such that it can sustain in seismic load. This paper emphasis on a analysis of nonlinear and static pushover for the G+5 ... See full document

... infill walls are stiffer in nature, thus attract most of the lateral seismic force on building, and therefore demand on the RC frame members gets ...infill walls increases the stiffness by acting as ... See full document

... In general the structural system of building is a complex in assembling of various combinations of structural Elements. The primary function of structural system is to carry dynamic and static loads, wind loads, external ... See full document

... The mechanical behavior of this material is much more complicated than that of the steel due to different response in compression and tension and non-linear stress-strain laws with hardening and softening ... See full document