Experimental tests on the inelastic behavior of RC bridge piers have shown that, due to tension shift effects, the curvature profile above the base section of the structu [...]

Engineers and researchers often use nonlinear beam-column elements to simulate the response of reinforced concrete structures. Namely, distributed plasticity elements are [...]

Reinforced concrete (RC) frames subjected to seismic loading often depict localized member-end deformations due to strain penetration effects between adjacent members, su [...]

Over the last few years the increasing demand of housing for low income population in Colombia and several neighboring countries, associated to the significant increase o [...]

Bond-slip may have significant influence on the assessment, with numerical models, of reinforced concrete structures subjected to cyclic loadings, whether static or dynam [...]

Damage to structural walls in the recent earthquakes in Chile (2010) and New Zealand (2011) demonstrated that modern reinforced concrete (RC) wall behaviour can be largel [...]

A performance-based seismic assessment of unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings requires the use of reliable models, able to predict their nonlinear force-displacement res [...]

Distributed inelasticity force-based elements, widely used in earthquake engineering modeling, lose objectivity at local and global level of response in the softening ran [...]