Numerical Assessment of The Robustness of a Corner‐supported Modular Steel Building

SH Heng, D Hyland, M Hough, D McCrum - ce/papers, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the robustness of a 6‐storey corner‐supported Modular Steel
Building (MSB) under notional ground floor corner column removal (ie alternate path …

Robustness of Corner-Supported Modular Steel Buildings with Core Walls

R Hajirezaei, P Sharafi, K Kildashti, M Alembagheri - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper studies the dynamic response of corner-supported modular steel buildings with a
core wall system, under progressive collapse scenarios, associated with corner module …

Robustness of multistory corner‐supported modular steel frames against progressive collapse

M Alembagheri, P Sharafi, Z Tao… - … Structural Design of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In current practice, a relatively wide range of different interconnections and assembly
systems is being used for the design of modular buildings made of volumetric prefabricated …

Classification system for inter-modular connections in non-sway corner-supported steel modular buildings

M Farajian, P Sharafi, H Eslamnia, Y Bai, B Samali - Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The main difference between the structural design of corner-supported modular buildings
with their conventional counterparts lies in the design of their connections. This is because …

Quantification of seismic performance factors for modular corner-supported steel bracing system

M Farajian, K Kildashti, P Sharafi, H Eslamnia - Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Modular construction, using steel corner-supported modular units, is an impressive and
environmentally friendly construction technique. It leverages off-site factory-controlled …

Computational Modelling of Intra-Module Connections and Their Influence on the Robustness of a Steel Corner-Supported Volumetric Module

SH Heng, D Hyland, M Hough, D McCrum - Modelling, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper investigates the robustness of a single 3D volumetric corner-supported module
made of square hollow-section (SHS) columns. Typically, the moment–rotation (M-θ) …

Anti-collapse resistance mechanisms in corner-supported modular steel buildings

M Alembagheri, P Sharafi, R Hajirezaei… - Journal of Constructional …, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to different integration strategies and stability requirements, the robustness analysis of
multi-story modular buildings, made of volumetric units, requires collapse capacity analysis …

Classification of inter-modular connections for stiffness and strength in sway corner-supported steel modular frames

M Farajian, P Sharafi, H Eslamnia, K Kildashti… - Journal of Constructional …, 2022 - Elsevier
Corner-supported modular steel buildings, made of volumetric bespoke prefabricated units,
are one of the most efficient construction systems for the next generation of prefabricated …

Effects of constructional tolerances on lateral resistance of steel–concrete composite modular buildings with various connection rigidity

J Peng, C Hou - Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
This study uses the non-linear static (pushover) analysis to investigate the lateral resistance
of mid-rise and high-rise composite modular buildings with out-of-verticality resulting from …

Numerical analysis of corner-supported composite modular buildings under wind actions

J Peng, C Hou, L Shen - Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel design of a corner-supported steel-concrete composite module
that is suitable for multi-storey modular buildings. The strength and stiffness of the individual …