Typical highway bridges in Chile consist on two span simply supported structures with prestressed concrete girders connected by a continuous slab. The girders are support [...]

The seismic anchor elements of bridges are vertical steel bars that connect the slab of the superstructure with the bearing seat of the substructure. These bars are curre [...]

The Chilean reinforced concrete (RC) code (decree DS 60) allows the use of ordinary RC walls for structures up to five stories if the structure is designed with a strengt [...]

Due to the taller reinforced concrete (RC) buildings that have been constructed in recent years, shear walls at lower levels are subjected to higher axial loads and bendi [...]

This article describes a methodology used to build detailed exposure models of residential structures in three cities of Chile using remote digital surveys. The models pr [...]

During an earthquake, structures are subjected to both horizontal and vertical shaking. Most structures are rather insensitive to variations in the vertical acceleration [...]

This research aims to obtain envelopes of the ductility and shear demands in reinforced concrete (RC) wall buildings subjected to ground motions. These envelopes could be [...]