A clear distinction can be made between brittle shear failure, occurring before the flexural strength of the column has been attained, ductile shear failure that occurs a [...]

Unfortunately, most of the interaction models have been formulated for monotonic increments of the actions. Therefore they don't take into account the effect of strength [...]

Two new simplified adaptive load patterns for pushover analyses are proposed, able to provide an accurate and on safe side assessment of the actual non linear dynamic res [...]