Design and Seismic Performance Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Structures
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 1380
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Interests: earthquake performance; masonry structures; r. c. structures; experimental mechanics; computational micromodelling; seismology
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Dear Colleagues,
Since 1903, when the first multi-story reinforced concrete building was built by pioneering techniques (the 16th-story Ingalls Building, in Cincinnati, Ohio), building codes for their design and construction have been developing (with the historical note that it is Leaning Tower of Nevyansk built in 1725 in the town of Nevyansk in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia the first building known to use reinforced concrete as a construction method). Earthquake risk represented special difficulties, but at the same time the biggest incentive for improving building codes. By inspecting the damage to buildings after earthquakes i.e. their earthquake performance (e.g. after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco in California, USA, …, 1999 Kocaeli earthquake in Turkey, 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China, etc.), their key weaknesses in design and construction were observed, if the buildings were built in compliance with building codes. Since the 1980s, when building codes could achieve medium protection of buildings against earthquakes (damage much greater than expected, however a good level of life-safety protection), a new way of thinking has been developing, the so-called performance-based seismic design (i.e. Appendix to the SEAOC 1999 Blue Book). This special issue is focused on such performance, thus to examine the problems and the relationship between the design and construction criteria and seismic hazard exposure, acceptable risk and seismic performance of reinforced concrete structures.
Dr. Davorin Penava
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- structural engineering
- reinforced concrete structures
- structural seismic design
- seismic performance
- seismic response
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