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