Collapse of a nonductile concrete frame: Shaking table tests

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 205-224

  Wu, Chiun Lin ^a   Kuo, Wu Wei ^b   Yang, Yuan Sen ^a   Hwang, Shyh Jiann ^a,c   Elwood, Kenneth J ^d   Loh, Chin Hsiung ^c   Moehle, Jack P ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial failure; Flexural failure; Reinforced concrete columns; Shaking table; Shear failure; Structural collapse

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; HYSTERESIS; REINFORCED CONCRETE;

AXIAL FAILURE; FLEXURAL FAILURE; REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS; SHAKING TABLE; SHEAR FAILURE; STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE;

CONCRETE BUILDINGS;

BUILDING; COLLAPSE; COLUMN; CYCLIC LOADING; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; DUCTILITY; FLEXURE; GROUND MOTION; HYSTERESIS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHAKING TABLE TEST; SHEAR; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 66149112167     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: 10969845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.853     Document Type: Article

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