Recent Italian earthquakes in L'Aquila (2009) and Emilia-Romagna (2012) revealed an inadequate seismic performance of many cladding panels in precast industrial buildings [...]

Dowel connections are the most common type of the beam to column connection, which are typically used in precast industrial buildings in Europe. Nevertheless, the knowled [...]

Precast buildings represent a considerable part of industrial and commercial infrastructure in Europe. The potential losses in the case of the strong earthquakes are ther [...]

Most of existing experimental investigations of bridges were under slow cyclic loading. Data about the dynamic response of bridge components are relatively rare. The expe [...]

Since the knowledge about the response of dowel connections was quite limited, the adequate numerical models were almost not available. Using the results of experiments, [...]

To analyze the failure mechanism of the typical precast beam-to-column dowel connection, the numerical model in the FEA software ABAQUS [8] was defined and calibrated usi [...]

Seismic shear force magnification in the columns of multi-storey precast structures entering far into inelastic domain is addressed in the paper. Such structures consist [...]

The seismic collapse risk of one-storey precast industrial buildings is discussed. Due to the strong connections, the behaviour of the structures was dominated by columns [...]

A large scale model of two-span two-column bent RC bridge, representing one frame of a continuous bridge typical for the US practice was experimentally tested on three pa [...]

The emerging performance based procedures call for more complex models able to monitor near-collapse behavior. Are macro models, defined as an assemblage of inelastic spr [...]