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Steel Columns under Multi-Axis Seismic Loading: Experimental Findings and Design Recommendations

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady

This paper summarizes the findings of two test programs that investigated the hysteretic behavior of wide-flange columns in steel moment-resisting frames. Both deep and shallow steel columns were examined. The members were subjected to unidirectional and b ...

Trans Tech Publications2018

The mechanics of punching in reinforced concrete slabs and footings without shear reinforcement

João Tiago Ramos Bernardo de Santa Rita Simões

Punching shear failures of structural concrete members have been the focus of attention of numerous works presented over the last decades. Although various rational approaches have been developed to predict these failures, there is still no unanimity on a ...

EPFL2018

Multi-Scale Modeling of the Alkali-Silica Reaction in Concrete

Aurelia Isabel Cuba Ramos

The alkali-silica reaction (ASR) is one of the most common causes of internal concrete degradation. This chemical reaction occurs between the amorphous silica contained inside the aggregates, and the alkalis of the cement pore solution. During the reaction ...

EPFL2017

Effect of End-Restraint Conditions on Energy Pile Behavior

Lyesse Laloui, Melis Sütman

Energy piles are deep foundation elements designed to utilize the relatively constant temperature of the ground for efficient heating and cooling of the buildings while at the same time serve as foundations. The temperature changes during the operation of ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2017

Experimental investigations of the soil-concrete interface: physical mechanisms, cyclic mobilisation and behaviour at different temperatures

Lyesse Laloui, Alessio Ferrari, Alice Di Donna

The behaviour of the pile-soil interface is important for the response of floating piles in terms of displacement and lateral friction. Regarding energy piles, which couple the structural roles of deep foundations with the principle of shallow geothermal e ...

National Research Council Canada2016

Punching shear strength and behaviour of compact reinforced concrete footings

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, João Tiago Ramos Bernardo de Santa Rita Simões

concrete footings with and without transverse reinforcement. Even though that punching shear failures have already been deeply investigated, there is still scanty experimental information on full-scale reinforced concrete footings failing in punching shear ...

11th fib International PhD Symposium in Civil Engineering2016

Punching shear tests on compact footings with uniform soil pressure

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, João Tiago Ramos Bernardo de Santa Rita Simões

Punching shear is usually the governing failure criterion for the select ion of the depth of reinforced concrete footings. Despite the fact that large experimental programmes have been performed in the past aimed at the punching strength of slender flat sl ...

Structural Concrete2016

Strength of reinforced concrete footings without transverse reinforcement according to limit analysis

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, João Tiago Ramos Bernardo de Santa Rita Simões, Duarte Miguel Viúla Faria

Isolated footings are reinforced concrete elements whose flexural and punching shear strengths are usually governing for their design. In this work, both failure modes and their interaction are investigated by means of the kinematical theorem of limit anal ...

Engineering structures2016

Limit Analysis for Punching Shear Design of Compact Slabs and Footings

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, João Tiago Ramos Bernardo de Santa Rita Simões, Duarte Miguel Viúla Faria

In this paper, the kinematical theorem of limit analysis is used to obtain the governing failure mechanisms and the corresponding failure load of reinforced concrete footings without transverse reinforcement. To that purpose, a Mohr-Coulomb yield criterion ...

fib Symposium2015

German Concrete, 1819 - 1877 : The Science of Cement from Trass to Portland

Salvatore Aprea

This dissertation originates from an investigation about the arising of the modern, German building expertise involving the use of concrete, which develops during the first three quarter of the 19th century against the backdrop of a general modernisation p ...

EPFL2015