The ever-increasing need for housing generated the search for new and innovative building
methods to increase speed, efficiency and enhance quality, one direction being the use of …

The main components to provide earthquake performance of a light-gauge steel house are
the shear walls. Understanding shear wall behaviour and finding suitable hysteretic models …

Cold—formed steel structures are usually made with thin—walled sections of class 3 or 4
steel. Traditionally these structures, being slender, are considered non-ductile and plastic …

Most bridge piers were practically designed and constructed with lap spliced longitudinal
reinforcing steels before the 1992 seismic design provisions of Korea Bridge Design …

It has been known that practically unavoidable lap splices of longitudinal reinforcement in
the plastic hinge region have a bad effect on the seismic performance of reinforced concrete …

Thin-walled steel structures are usually made by sections of class 4 or 3 and they can be
obtained either by cold-forming or thin plate welding. Traditionally these structures, being …