[EN] Special Truss Moment frame (STMF) is an open web truss moment frame, which dissipates the input seismic energy through a well-defined ductile special segment located near the mid-span of truss while other members of ...
Silva, Antonio; Jiang, Yadong; Macedo, Luis; Castro, Jose Miguel; Monteiro, Ricardo(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-06-05)
[EN] The research reported in this paper focuses on the assessment of the seismic performance of conventional steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) and steel-concrete composite moment-resisting frames employing circular ...
[EN] Hybrid girders with corrugated web are increasingly used in bridge engineering due to its numerous favorable properties. For the web-to-slab connection different layouts have been developed in the past, however, just ...
[EN] When dealing with concrete-filled tube columns and RC slabs, it is usual to interrupt steel tubes in slab-column connections if the column is mainly compressed. Contractors do prefer to solve these connections with ...
Zhang, Qingjie; Schäfer, Markus(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-06-05)
[EN] This paper compares the design of composite columns in steel and concrete based on EN1994-1-1 and Chinese JGJ138-2016. First, the application ranges of the codes are pointed out. Both codes contain the design of fully ...