Download or read book Hyperelastic Structural Fuses for Improved Earthquake Resilience of Steel Concentrically braced Building written by Francys Lopez-Mosquera and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving structural resilience (i.e., reducing service interruptions and improving rapidity of function restoration) following extreme events is one of the primary contemporary challenges in structural engineering. While massive casualties have successfully been avoided through the adoption of modern building codes, the sole codified performance objective has been limited to the life safety/collapse prevention range of response. Christchurch, NZ, highlighted the insufficiency of this approach, with large sections of the city nonfunctional after a major earthquake, and with subsequent collapses induced by significant aftershocks. Engineering advances to improve building and community resilience are necessary to mitigate hazards from becoming disasters. This study explores the influence and potential benefits of introducing a hyperelastic 3D printed fusing component on global performance outcomes, focusing primarily on direct economic loss estimates. This work identifies potentially beneficial combinations of hyperelastic component phenomenological parameters (i.e., stiffness, ductility, resisting force), presenting the results as a performance comparison between the hyperelastic and conventional hysteretic systems. Current 3D printing technologies allow the easy creation of complex geometries, hence it is expected that 3D printed steel fuses can provide a strategically defined multi-linear hyperelastic constitutive response through geometric configuration and small-scale elastic buckling. The hyperelastic component behavior permits shared participation of mechanical and inertial effects at the global structure level, while also achieving self-centering after extreme loading has concluded. Additionally, the lack of residual drift combined with the lack of significant structural damage will permit continued occupation with minimal functional disruption..
Download or read book Seismic Behavior of Active Beam Links in Eccentrically Braced Frames written by Keith D. Hjelmstad and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recent Advances and Applications of Hybrid Simulation written by Wei Song and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ICRRM 2019 System Reliability Quality Control Safety Maintenance and Management written by Vinit Kumar Gunjan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Content of this proceedings discusses emerging trends in structural reliability, safety and disaster management, covering topics like total quality management, risk maintenance and design for reliability. Some papers also address chemical process reliability, reliability analysis and engineering applications in chemical process equipment systems and includes a chapter on reliability evaluation models of chemical systems. Accepted papers from 2019 International Conference on Reliability, Risk Maintenance and Engineering Management (ICRRM 2019) are part of this conference proceeding. It offers useful insights to road safety engineers, disaster management professionals involved in product design and probabilistic methods in manufacturing systems.
Download or read book Advances in Mechanical and Electronic Engineering written by David Jin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes the volume 1 of the proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Mechanical and Electronic Engineering(ICMEE2012), held at June 23-24,2012 in Hefei, China. The conference provided a rare opportunity to bring together worldwide researchers who are working in the fields. This volume 1 is focusing on Mechanical Engineering and Automation as well as Vehicle Engineering and Technology.
Download or read book Seismic Design of Steel Structures written by Victor Gioncu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing real world applications for different structural types and seismic characteristics, Seismic Design of Steel Structures combines knowledge of seismic behavior of steel structures with the principles of earthquake engineering. This book focuses on seismic design, and concentrates specifically on seismic-resistant steel structures. Drawing on experience from the Northridge to the Tohoku earthquakes, it combines understanding of the seismic behavior of steel structures with the principles of earthquake engineering. The book focuses on the global as well as local behavior of steel structures and their effective seismic-resistant design. It recognises different types of earthquakes, takes into account the especial danger of fire after earthquake, and proposes new bracing and connecting systems for new seismic resistant steel structures, and also for upgrading existing reinforced concrete structures. Includes the results of the extensive use of the DUCTROCT M computer program, which is used for the evaluation of the seismic available ductility, both monotonic and cyclic, for different types of earthquakes Demonstrates good design principles by highlighting the behavior of seismic-resistant steel structures in many applications from around the world Provides a methodological approach, making a clear distinction between strong and low-to-moderate seismic regions This book serves as a reference for structural engineers involved in seismic design, as well as researchers and graduate students of seismic structural analysis and design.
Download or read book Dynamic Stability of Structures written by Wei-Chau Xie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the theory of parametric stability of structures under deterministic and stochastic loadings.
Download or read book Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas written by Federico Mazzolani and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 1667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behaviour of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas comprises the latest progress in both theoretical and experimental research on the behaviour of steel structures in seismic areas. The book presents the most recent trends in the field of steel structures in seismic areas, with particular reference to the utilisation of multi-level performance bas
Download or read book LESSLOSS written by Gian Michele Calvi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Structural Motion Control written by Jerome J. Connor and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2003 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the fundamentals of electrical system design commonly found in residential, commercial, and industrial occupancies. The emphasis is on practical, real-world applications, and stresses designing electrical systems in accordance with the National Electrical Code(r) (NEC(r)). This book leads the reader through topics starting with the basics of electrical system design through more advanced subjects such as voltage drop, short circuit, coordination, and harmonics. For electrical designers and electrical engineers.
Download or read book Earthquake Engineering in Europe written by Mihail Garevski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 9 invited keynote and 12 theme lectures presented at the 14th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14ECEE) held in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, from August 30 to September 3, 2010. The conference was organized by the Macedonian Association for Earthquake Engineering (MAEE), under the auspices of European Association for Earthquake Engineering (EAEE). The book is organized in twenty one state-of-the-art papers written by carefully selected very eminent researchers mainly from Europe but also from USA and Japan. The contributions provide a very comprehensive collection of topics on earthquake engineering, as well as interdisciplinary subjects such as engineering seismology and seismic risk assessment and management. Engineering seismology, geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismic performance of buildings, earthquake resistant engineering structures, new techniques and technologies and managing risk in seismic regions are all among the different topics covered in this book. The book also includes the First Ambraseys Distinguished Award Lecture given by Prof. Theo P. Tassios in the honor of Prof. Nicholas N. Ambraseys. The aim is to present the current state of knowledge and engineering practice, addressing recent and ongoing developments while also projecting innovative ideas for future research and development. It is not always possible to have so many selected manuscripts within the broad spectrum of earthquake engineering thus the book is unique in one sense and may serve as a good reference book for researchers in this field. Audience: This book will be of interest to civil engineers in the fields of geotechnical and structural earthquake engineering; scientists and researchers in the fields of seismology, geology and geophysics. Not only scientists, engineers and students, but also those interested in earthquake hazard assessment and mitigation will find in this book the most recent advances.
Download or read book Probabilistic Seismic Demand Analysis of Nonlinear Structures written by Nilesh Shome and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment written by Wblca Guide Special Project Working Group and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report serves as a guide for the project team to define and model the structural system within the reference building design as required by green building standards and rating systems.
Download or read book Design of Blast resistant Buildings in Petrochemical Facilities written by Society of Civil Engineers. Task Committee on Blast Resistant Design and published by Amer Society of Civil Engineers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition provides general guidelines for the structural design of blast-resistant petrochemical facilities. Information is provided for U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements, design objectives, siting considerations, and load determination, and references cite sources of detailed information. Detailed coverage is provided for types of construction, dynamic material strengths, allowable response criteria, analysis methods, and design procedures. Typical details and ancillary considerations, such as doors and windows, are also included. A how-to discussion on the upgrade of existing buildings is provided for older facilities which may not meet current needs. Three example calculations are included to illustrate design procedures.
Download or read book Foundation Vibration Analysis Using Simple Physical Models written by John P. Wolf and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 1994-05-11 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides simple physical models to represent the unbounded soil in time and frequency domain analysis. They do not supplant the more generally applicable rigorous methods, but rather supplement them. The physical models used consists of the following representations: cones based one-dimensional rod theory; lumped-parameter models with frequency-independent springs, dashpots, and masses; and prescribed wave patterns in the horizontal plane. The physical models thus offer a strength-of-materials approach to foundation dynamics.
Download or read book Soil Foundation Structure Interaction written by Rolando P. Orense and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction contains selected papers presented at the International Workshop on Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction held in Auckland, New Zealand from 26-27 November 2009. The workshop was the venue for an international exchange of ideas, disseminating information about experiments, numerical models and practical en
