Experimental and numerical investigation on progressive collapse of self-centering precast concrete frame with infill walls

H Wang, S Li, C Zhai - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Two 1/2 scaled self-centering precast concrete (PC) frames with and without infill
walls were experimentally and numerically investigated under quasi-static pushdown …

Pushover analysis of confined masonry walls using a 3D macro-modelling approach

J Yacila, G Camata, J Salsavilca, N Tarque - Engineering Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper shows a novelty way to simulate the nonlinear behaviour of confined masonry
walls subjected to in-plane lateral loading by using a 3D macro-modelling approach. For this …

Influence of prism geometry on the compressive strength of concrete masonry

A Abasi, R Hassanli, T Vincent, A Manalo - Construction and Building …, 2020 - Elsevier
The compressive strength of concrete masonry depends on the dimensions of the test
prisms. The available international masonry codes apply correction factors based on the …

The accumulated stress damage and residual life prediction of unreinforced concrete pavement with electric heating pipes

K Liu, P Xu, F Wang, C Jin, Q Liu, H Pang… - Construction and Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
The unreinforced concrete pavement with electric heating pipes (UCP-EHP) has been
widely used to melt the snow and ice on the pavement because the melting process is easy …

Effect of partial infill walls on collapse behavior of reinforced concrete frames

S Shan, S Li, MM Kose, H Sezen, S Wang - Engineering Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
The main objective of the study is to investigate the effect of partial infill walls on collapse
mechanism of reinforced concrete (RC) frames using finite element models and …

3D mesoscale analysis of concrete containing defect damages during different freeze-thaw cycles

H Miao, C Guo, Z Lu, Z Chen - Construction and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The damage process of concrete containing air pore and aggregate gradation defects under
freeze-thaw (FT) cycles was parametrically studied by an ABAQUS coupled thermo …

[HTML][HTML] Macromechanical failure criteria: Elasticity, plasticity and numerical applications for the non-linear masonry modelling

E Nastri, P Todisco - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sometimes it is difficult to choose the most appropriate failure criterion for the problem
analyzed. For brittle materials, attention must be paid to the availability of experimental data …

On bond-slip response and development length of steel bars in pre-cracked concrete

SS Mousavi, L Guizani… - Construction and Building …, 2019 - Elsevier
Previous research on steel bar-concrete bond behaviour has been concentrated mostly on
the intact concrete without considering initial cracks induced by transverse tensile loading …

Numerical modelling of reinforced concrete frames with masonry infills and rubber joints

PK Dhir, E Tubaldi, H Ahmadi, J Gough - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Masonry infill walls are critical components of reinforced concrete (RC) frames, which may
be damaged even under earthquake events of moderate intensity, thus resulting in …

Analysis of the performance of strut models to simulate the seismic behaviour of masonry infills in partially infilled RC frames

H Mohamed, X Romão - Engineering Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The proposed study analyses the performance of existing approaches to model the
behaviour of partially infilled reinforced concrete (RC) frames for computationally-intense …