author: federico mazzolani

... ASTM A572 Grade 50 mate- rial . Specimen DBBWSPZC had 19 mm ( 0.75 in . ) - thick stiffener plates attached to both sides of the column web in the panel zone . Both beams were W36x150 made with ASTM A572 Grade 50 mate- rial . The beam ...

... design of buildings . However , probably because most telecommunication towers are governed by serviceability , current tower design codes are based on strickly elastic response . This conservative approach appears to have served the ...

... are made with S700 steel grade and connected to studs by four M16 bolts and to the foundation by one HIT RE 500 with M24 HAS adhesive - bonded anchors by HILTI ( HILTI 2008 ) . Finally , steel - to- steel connections are realized by 4.8 ...

... design practice have not been examined either. 1 INTRODUCTION against brittle fracture ; and 3 ) verify that ... AISC Steel Design Guide 1 ( De Wolf , 90 ) and different procedures suggested in various textbooks . The design procedures ...

... Eurocode 8, part 1. However, the design codes are now in a continuous ... code provisions. Owing to the progress in model-based computer simulation ... the Kobe earthquake was located beneath a highly urbanized region, while the ...

... code and state of practices. 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, 1-6 August 2004, Paper 5010 Papazoglou, A.J., Elnashai, A.S. (1996): Analytical and field evidence of the damaging effect of vertical earthquake ...

... their details and effects. In seismic area, plastic design with moment ... types of passive energy dissipation devices are put in practical use. Many of them are incorporated within ... truss-frame structures using energy dissipation devices.

... design criteria 44-5 equivalent seismic force 24-9 method of analysis 11 ... Reduced - beam - section designs 248 Reduction factor 32-3 Redundancy factor ... example 34-6 Seismic hazard , comparison of codes 3-55 Seismic input and ...

... bolts are usually made of the materials given in Fig . 5.5 . In the case of highly stressed connections , standard steel bolts can be used in shear joints ( see Section 5.3 ) and high - strength bolts ( HS ) in friction joints . The ...

STESSA 2009 Federico Mazzolani, James M. Ricles, Richard Sause. ACI 349–01 Code (ACI, 2001), based on Rotz results, generated the B.4.5.2 indication. It states that design compression stress either for concrete or grout, placed on shear ...

... BRBF. A more conventional dual system approach, which combines BRBFs with special moment resisting frames (SMRFs), was also evaluated using numerical studies (Kiggins & Uang 2006). It was shown that the BRBF-SMRF dual system reduced ...

... planks blocks polyst. blocks rubber rubber filler steel sleeve TRANSVERSAL ... (a) Beam-slab connectors, (b) beam floor-vault connection and stiffening ... connected each other by means of bolted connections between the wings. The vertical ...

... (BRBF) and the Steel Plate Shear Wall (SPSW). The BRBF system, was originally developed in Japan, and has recently been used on a number of projects on the West Coast. This system relies on a brace element that is restrained from overall ...

... Technologies – Schaur et al. © 2005 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 04 ... technologies of MBT have been applied very successfully such as slim floors ... cellar – whilst the upper four floors should be continuously used as offices ...

... EE330 SECTION Stessa 2003 , Mazzolani ( ed . ) ©. 500 1000mm 500 Figure 9. Adopted rib configurations -1590 500 1000mm -500- 500 -1590 -1500mm -250- -250- -250-250- -250- -250- 1090 500mm -500- 250 250 250 250 side A Figure 10. Rib ...

... TXfa.w ( limit state method ) T Tadm , w ( allowable stress method ) where Xfa.w Tadm , w ν ( 4.8 ) ( 4.9 ) and x is a coefficient which depends upon the failure criterion assumed . If we consider the Von Mises criterion , we have : x ...