Collapse capacity of modular steel buildings subject to module loss scenarios: The role of inter-module connections

M Alembagheri, P Sharafi, R Hajirezaei, B Samali - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
… collapse due to entire modules loss scenarios. It is concluded that in the design of typical
modular steel buildings such as those considered in this study, the common practice of end …

Seismic economic losses in mid-rise steel buildings with conventional and emerging lateral force resisting systems

S Hu, W Wang, B Qu - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
… RNBF are subjected to many constraints and a preliminary study performed as part of this
study … the axial demands on the exterior columns when the system is subjected to bi-directional …

Performance of steel reinforced concrete columns after exposure to fire: Numerical analysis and application

LH Han, K Zhou, QH Tan, TY Song - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
… Stemming from steel structures [1], SRC columns are … A sensitivity analysis was conducted
to determine the optimal … fire-exposed SRC columns in the aforementioned building and then …

Progressive collapse assessment of gravity-load designed European RC buildings under multi-column loss scenarios

F Parisi, M Scalvenzi - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
… collapse of building structures subjected to notional removal of … (RC) and steel structures
designed according to American and … structure considered in this study, but subjected to single-…

Probabilistic seismic performance and loss evaluation of a multi-story steel building equipped with butterfly-shaped fuses

MZ Esteghamati, A Farzampour - Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2020 - Elsevier
… this study are expected to demonstrate butterfly-shaped shear fuses capabilities to retrofit
multi-story steel buildings, … seismic performance of mid-rise retrofitted steel structural systems. …

Probabilistic seismic fragility and loss analysis of concrete bridge piers with superelastic shape memory alloy-steel coupled reinforcing bars

N Xiang, X Chen, MS Alam - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
… This study proposes a novel SMA-steel coupled reinforcement for concrete bridge piers,
which is intended to achieve the balance between self-centering and energy dissipation …

Probabilistic economic seismic loss estimation of steel braced frames incorporating emerging self-centering technologies

C Fang, Y Ping, Y Zheng, Y Chen - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
… expected loss. A subsequent sensitivity analysis shows that the vulnerability curves of the …
floor acceleration (PFA) responses of the prototype buildings subjected to 20 far-field (FF) and …

Jacketing with steel angle sections and wide battens of RC column and its influence on blast performance

M Shariq, M Alam, A Husain, SM Anas - Asian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2022 - Springer
… in the form of concrete spalling and crushing, RC columns lose … Based on the sensitivity test,
a mesh size of 10 mm is … square exposed compression members of the building structure in …

[HTML][HTML] Sensitivity analysis in probabilistic structural design: A comparison of selected techniques

Z Kala - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
… The term “sensitivity analysis” can be … for structures susceptible to buckling when the subject
of interest is the stability (or potential energy) of structures [35,36] or imperfection sensitivity […

Sensitivities of the seismic response and fragility estimate of a transmission tower to structural and ground motion uncertainties

H Pan, L Tian, X Fu, H Li - Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2020 - Elsevier
… A tornado diagram-based sensitivity analysis is conducted to … in the fragility assessments of
structures subjected to ground motions. … the damage states and limit states used in this study. …