Seismic behavior of interior connections in existing waffle-flat-plate structures

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2510-2516

  Benavent Climent, A ^a   Cahis X ^b   Catalan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Existing building; Interior connection; Seismic resistance; Waffle flat plate structure

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); REINFORCED CONCRETE; RETROFITTING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMOLOGY; TESTING;

CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES; CYCLIC LOADINGS; EXISTING BUILDING; EXISTING BUILDINGS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLAT PLATES; INTERIOR CONNECTION; LOAD LEVELLING; MEDITERRANEAN AREAS; SEISMIC BEHAVIORS; SEISMIC RESISTANCE; SEISMIC RETROFITTING; SEISMIC VULNERABILITY; TEST MODELING; TEST RESULTS; UNBALANCED MOMENT; WAFFLE-FLAT-PLATE STRUCTURE;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CYCLIC LOADING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLEXURE; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC RETROFIT; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 50149103405     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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