With critical lessons drawn from recent strong earthquakes, the engineering community is
appealing for a fundamental shift of the existing design philosophy for infrastructures in …

With critical lessons drawn from past major earthquakes, the engineering community is
appealing for a fundamental shift in the existing design philosophy for structures in seismic …

An innovative self-centring damper equipped with shape memory alloy elements and wedge-
shaped friction plates (ie SMA-VFSD) characterised by multiple energy-dissipation …

As a promising candidate in the construction industry, iron-based shape memory alloy (Fe-
SMA) has attracted lots of attention in the engineering and metallography communities …

This study presents a practical and efficient modelling approach for shape memory alloy
(SMA)-braced steel frames under various temperatures, and examines their probabilistic …

In this paper, the effects of ambient temperature on the tensile response and superelastic
fatigue behavior of the shape memory alloy (SMA) cable are investigated. The tested SMA …

This study presents a novel type of self-centering energy-dissipative restrainers [ie, SMA ring
springs (SMARS) restrainer] incorporating shape memory alloy (SMA) ring springs as the …

A new type of Fe–Mn–Si alloy damper is developed in this study to enable significant
enhancement of the low-cycle fatigue (LCF) resistance compared with conventional metal …

The recent technological advancements achieved in modular construction have accelerated
the trend of building taller self-standing steel modular building systems (MBSs), leading to a …

This study reveals the effect of corrosion on the performance of typical self-centering energy
dissipation devices for seismic resilience enhancement. Two types of SC devices, namely …