An experimental and analytical research program was undertaken to characterize performance of reinforced concrete beams with high-strength reinforcement subjected to reve [...]

The profession has had very few opportunities to study in detail the response of instrumented buildings subjected to earthquake ground motions that caused severe damage. [...]

In certain common cases, boundaries at the critical section of multistory reinforced concrete shear wall buildings are expected to undergo large compressive strains that [...]

Infill walls in reinforced concrete buildings can strongly affect the strength and deformation capacity of the building when subjected to earthquake loading. Global effec [...]

In the United States, state-of-practice methods for approximating seismic shear in special moment frames (SMRFs) may underestimate the magnitude forces that SMRF columns [...]

The building structures are generally irregular and regularity is only an idealization that rarely occurs. Structural irregularity may be classified as in- plan and in-el [...]

Prior 2010, out-of-plane instability in slender boundary elements subjected to cyclic loading had been observed in some experimental tests conducted on columns and walls [...]

The life safety risk from seismic vulnerabilities of older concrete buildings, particularly frame buildings, is well known. Existing evaluation methods – which are base [...]

Earthquake reconnaissance has reported the substantial damage that can result from inadequate beam-column joints in earthquake shaking. In some cases, failure of oldertyp [...]

In order to observe the interaction of structural elements at the onset of collapse, four frame specimens are planned to be tested at the National Center for Research on [...]