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The proliferation and evolution of wood construction helped shape the architectural and cultural identity of the nation. For ...
Shear Wall Capacities: “The southernmost reinforced concrete core wall is not code-compliant for one-way shear strength or flexural strength between Levels 1 and 2.
Published in Smart Construction Materials and Design, ... Jin L, Du X. Numerical investigation of seismic performance and size effect in CFRP-reinforced concrete shear walls. Smart Constr. 2025 ...
This study investigates the blast resistance of reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls reinforced with hybrid configurations of traditional steel rebars and advanced fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs), ...
For practical reasons, the axial compression ratio has always been a vital element in light-weight concrete shear wall design relating to its own shear strength and ductility. In this paper, based on ...
Rising from anchors deep underground, a concrete box-like structure called a “shear core” is taking shape in the center of the construction site at 15th and Douglas Streets.
2.1 Shear walls subjected to seismic loads. Currently, the structural analysis and design of reinforced concrete shear walls has become a usual object of scientific research around the world, ...
In the paper “A graph-based method for quantifying crack patterns on reinforced concrete shear walls,” which was recently published in the journal Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, ...