… method, called corner opening, by replacing the corner of infill … concrete frames with and
without corner openings. Two 1:4 scale masonry infill walls with and without corner openings …

… left corners of the opening as a result of the stress concentration along the compression strut.
By increasing the lateral load, the cracking path extends to the other corners of the opening …

… Based on test observation, diagonal cracks were formed along a line joining the upper
corner of the infill and the lower corner of the opening. Thus, θ can be considered as the angle …

… left corner and exceeds 60% for central openings and openings located at upper-right corner…
reduction occurs when the opening is located at the upper-left corner and the lower value in …

… structural behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) … openings and adequately reinforced chord
members reported failures in form of four plastic hinges developing at the opening corners…

… may be subjected to closing moments, which are subject to tensile stresses at the outer
corner of the corner, or opening moments, which cause tensile stresses at the inner …

… since results of this study clearly indicated that yielding of bars, and cracking of concrete
around opening corners are highly influential in changing the in-plane behavior of slabs. This is …

… were detailed to replicate solid walls with sawn cutouts, ie, no additional reinforcement was
placed around the edges or corners of the openings. When scaling the specimens it would …

… , proper reinforcement detailing around the corner of the openings is lacking. This issue has
… effect of cut-out openings in large elements have shown that these openings are a source of …

… The design of the reinforced concrete frames in this study aims to … bottom corner of the opening
up to the upper corner of the frame. … to the column at the frame corner and causes a shear …